Greetings my lore buff friends. Recently I have been looking for a good idea for a short story, and, as I usually do, I turned to lore for something to write about. I considered the War of the Isle, the ever interesting formation of the Dark Brotherhood, and several other bits of lore that I could expand, but decided against them all for various reasons. As such, I began wondering, "What is the most interesting tidbit of lore in Tes?"

Now I pose the same question to you, what is your favorite part of lore? It can be for its creativity, awesomeness, or anything, so long as you can justify it.

I think my personal favorite would be a tie between the evolution of the Nine Divines (from the original elven dieties to the current Alessian ones) and the mystery of the Night Mother. A few others I like include: Pelinal :wub:, Hist, Valenwood's moving cities, the Warp in the West, and the Ansei.

C'mon, I'm sure you've got something you always like to talk about

Any lore on Lord Indoril Nerevar and Lord Voryn Dagoth, the Tribunal, daedra, or Divayth Fyr is my favorite

Sixth-house related lore and Tribunal lore, namely Vivec and Sotha Sil, Almalexia is boring.

Amen Burninate! May the Almsivi Intervention and Corprous be with you!

I really think Almalexia gets the short end of the stick sometimes. Vivec has a solid chunk of lore in his favor, we know alot about him and he's cool, so people either love or hate him. Sotha Sil is just an awesome super-mage and so is naturally liked, and he gets the benefit of his obscurity adding to his coolness. This is were Almalexia gets screwed. Being mysterious isn't her forte, so that we don't know alot about her works against her unlike with Sil. The only side we see of her is the manipulative [censored] side, so that rubs most people the wrong way. And that she lacks the inherit cool factor associated with being a 'warrior-poet' or a clockwork-mage she ends up also lacking the intricacies which make the others so fascinating. Personally, I think the problem is that she just wasn't fleshed out enough (no pun intended) and so comes off as a boring fighter-class female.

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anything to do with the [Threat! To! Empire!] and Uriel VII's reign

that covers nearly everything... I'll think it over some later, maybe.

Myths and events related to Shor, and the 6th house

Personally, I think it would be interesting if there was more information on the interaction of the Et'Ada before they became the Aedra and the Daedra. That is to say, any kind of mingling the various entities would have had before they became irrevocably divided. Assuming they all had distinct personalities like we know the Daedric Princes do, I'd love to see what the Aedra were like before the Convention.

I'm actually sorta working on something vaguely related to that...

I really like stuff about the Nords and the gods... Aedric or Daedric.. history of the empire and civil wars are also nice lore... and major things like the Oblivion crisis (and how it hit Ald'Ruhn) also the mysteries about the Ayleids (including Umaril and his hate towards the gods) are really cool....
What I find boring is mostly the sixth house and lore specifically for guilds (like the rise of Mannimarco and the Blackwood Company)... also the Tribunal are pretty cool... but mostly on how they went ill in their mind and got destroyed by each other and the Nerevarine....

Any lore from a Daedric or Oblivion-originating perspective. Myths may shape Tamriel and the Aedra to a degree, but a mortal, Tamrielocentric viewpoint can only reliably explain so much. One of the things I loved about Shivering Isles.

I agree with Luagar. Ayem does get the wrong end of the shtick sometimes, but she does the best warrior corps in Tamriel to chip in with. I fell in love with High Ordinators the moment I saw them.

Tribunal lore is my favorite, naturally. That and most things Dunmer.

Anything related to the Dragonbreak. There is no other topic that can captivate me that much.

Not even tonal architecture

One of the high points of the series for me was seeing the Failed Incarnates in the cavern. It was moving to hear their stories, however brief, and realize they are passing the torch to you.

The Tribunal are understandably among the most interesting aspects of TES, of course. We should remember that we're seeing them at the end of their lives, burned out and reclusive. They were once big-hearted adventurers.

The Sermons are fascinating both for their poetic language and for the implications. When I first started in TES by playing "Morrowind", I thought they were all false and made up by anonymous priests, but I came to realize that in the mythic world of TES they're meant to be taken as literal truth.

I've always liked stuff like the Allessians and the early Cyrodiil stuff. Tribunal Lore just frightens me. :cold:

I love most things.
But lore about the Psijic Order, et'Ada, Sixth House, Tribunal, Nine Divines, Artaeum, Summurset... Akavir, and so on and so on.

Anything that has to do with the occurence of different races.

The Dunmer are always an interesting topic, more so than other elves like the Altmer IMO. Think what it would be like to live for centuries -- you'd probably subsconsciously feel as if you had all the time in the world to explore Tamriel, to learn, and so on. It's a disservice to the elves to think they would be the same as humans in their values and assumptions.

For me, it's the Elder Scrolls. I'm not joking. Anything related to ancestor moths and moth priests and the concept of time - be it convergence, divergence or curling.

It's more a tidbit, really, but I was always fascinated with the number of the Aedra (3^3) and the Daedra (4^4). So whenever something in lore mentions the numbers 3 and 4, I perk up my ears.

Also, yet another reason why I'm more and more favoring the CoC went insane theory, as 17 kinda ruins that symmetry.

Anything related to Hist or argonians, i find anything related to Black Marsh fascinating

I don't think the CoC ever became a Daedric prince, just the Prince of Madness.

Yeah. The Daedric Prince of Madness.

:D

I loved reading about the history of vardenfall and morrowind, and seeing the evidence of the different eras in the abandoned cantons and remaining ashlander tribes.