Two Lores that are puzzling

Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:50 am

In Skyrim, there are two objects that are puzzling.

This is the Shrine of Hircine right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xLpstX0c50

According to the text, it is related to Hircine. But what in the Lore of Elder Scrolls makes that stone Hircine?
Is there markings on it that indicates Hircine? Isn't Hircine supposed to be a deer? I don't see any deer on that stone.
So maybe someone who is an expert in lore comment on why that thing is related to Hircine.


As a bonus question...

This is a Greybeards right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrORRiwKvt0

Anyone know where it is in game?
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Victor Oropeza
 
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Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:25 am

This is a Greybeards right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrORRiwKvt0

Anyone know where it is in game?

That's never made perfectly clear. It could easily be a depiction of Shor, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Georg_von_Rosen_-_Oden_som_vandringsman,_1886_(Odin,_the_Wanderer).jpg/220px-Georg_von_Rosen_-_Oden_som_vandringsman,_1886_(Odin,_the_Wanderer).jpg.
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Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:17 am

That shrine is actually Dagon's if I'm not mistaken, it just accompanies any Daedric related tidbits during the loading screen. As for the giant statue, it makes its appearance in Sovngarde.

EDIT: Well stick a foot in my my mouth, its not actually Dagons. It looks to me like a generic shrine table found in various Nordic tombs. Not Hircines though, for certain.
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Post » Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:22 pm

No. It is not Dagon's shrine. Dagon's shrine is totally flat, gray. While this shrine is golden with a hump in the middle.

I do see that statue in Sovngarde. So that statue is never shown in the "learning the first shout" in that temple on top of the throat of the world?
Aren't everyone in Sovngarde able to shout? Because they are nords, and used dragonrend to force dragons to the ground. Are you sure it is Shor?

Edit:
Are you able to provide a pic or video showing that golden shrine thing in Skyrim?
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Post » Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:21 pm

There is like a weird table in Glenmoril Coven. That's probably the closest thing to a shrine Hircine's got in Skyrim... oh, and the totems in the underforge.
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Post » Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:08 pm

There is like a weird table in Glenmoril Coven. That's probably the closest thing to a shrine Hircine's got in Skyrim... oh, and the totems in the underforge.

Yes, that is that table! So is that a Hircine Shrine? He is god of the Man Beasts, so maybe only the Haegraven warships him. My question is, is that table ONLY in Glenmoril Coven?

Does the underforge contain that stone shrine too?
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Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:42 am

The hagravens of Glenmoril Coven worship Hircine (although IIRC they had other connections too, back in Daggerfall), but that doesn't necessarily mean that every hagraven does. The Glenmoril Coven were human devotees up until at least Morrowind's time. I don't think the altar in the cave constitutes a shrine all by itself, at least no more so than all of the other minor personal altars/etc scattered across the countryside.

The Underforge seems to be the closest thing to a proper shrine to Hircine in Skyrim.
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