I've taken a look at a lot of TES lore. Tamriel has the 10 races we are very famliar with; Akavir has the 4 half-men races, Atmora now has nothing but once had the ancestors of humans, Pyandonea has the tropical elves, and Thras possibly just might contain the remnants of the sloads. But what lives in Yokuda?

The Redguard used to live there before the continent was large destroyed and they fled to Hammerfell.

Yokuda was the land inhabited by Redguards, who engaged in a civil war. Due to their ancient sword-mastery, single strokes created enormous explosions which pocked Yokuda's surface with craters. Finally, in a dashing move, the Redguards unleashed the Pankratosword (Yes/no? My knowledge of this subject is rusty) which destroyed Yokuda almost completely.

I say 'almost' completely because a lighthouse keeper in Anvil insinuates that he receives ships from Yokuda every now and then. This leads way to belief that a small isle or achipelago exists that is still habitable, possibly having a few settlements.

Maybe there are other new races too... or at least new creatures.

yokuda is an http://www.imperial-library.info/maps/tamriel_westmap.bmp and http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/viveccyrus.shtml.

How did the Imperials beat the Redguards, if they had nuclear-swords?

The Redguards (properly the Yoku) are deeply divided. Opposition to the empire comes from the hereditary aristocracy (the Crowns, or Na-Totambu); the republican Forebears successfully sided with the Empire against the Crowns.

Proliferation treaties.

Also, I can't get out of my skull the idea that the Left-Handed elves live(d) on Yokuda and it was their conflict with the Redguards that sunk the continent.

Pankrataosword is forbidden and forgotten.

Some ansei still survive on Yokuda's fragments.

So far, the person closest to resurrecting that terrible sword technique was Cyrus the Restless. However, he only knows how to hold it in the position, but not actually how to use it, and that was back at the beginning of the 3rd area.

The devs came up with the nuke-a-swordo idea after Redguard came out of the closet. The idea that Cyrus would know crap about pankratomatoswordorama is unlikely, he barely beat the fat little guv'nor in the game highlighting his talents.

I think he is referring to the part where Cyrus http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/viveccyrus.shtml in position in this story, which lady nerevar provided. It mentions he didn't know how to do it, but held the sword in the stance as a bluff.

Thanks a lot lady neverar, that story was a great read!

And yet he defeated a dragon didn't he. I take it you haven't actually read the Sword-Meeting, as it is clearly stated in such that he did not come by this information on his own (it was actually rather against his will)...

To my dear friend and esteemed muthsera, Shades,

We must remember, serjo, that the events detailed in http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/viveccyrus.shtml, in which Cyrus-who-is-the-Hoon-Ding pretended to be capable of utilizing the "pankratomatoswordorama", happened well after http://www.imperial-library.info/tsorg/.

Therefore, we cannot compare Cyrus' skill during his duel with Lord Richton to that which he may have had during the Sword-Meeting, not only because there is a temporal and narrative gap between the events, but also due to the "Memory Stone" and its influence upon Cyrus not being fully understood.

I hope that your lands are treating you well, muthsera, and we look forward to seeing you again in Skingrad. The Count mentioned just the other night that you are man of good taste.

He seems to like you. Shall I arrange a visit?


Yours in the Scrolls,


___The Word Merchant of Julianos

What lives on Hammerfall?

The ghosts of pain...and more than likely the Elder Scrolls equivalent of Super Mutants.

Don't go near that place, for Talos' sake!

lolwut?

And Redguards, naked ones, don't forget about them - near Rihad last I heard...

Thus, have no fear, for Bethesda never will go near such a place.

For our fair maidens will be lost forever in such a place.

Sutch is our fate.

Jungles.

Am I doing it right?

Anyhoo, thanks for that story Lady Nerevar. Quite an intriguing read.

The continent sank for unknown reasons. Probably the same things that cause continents to change form in our world.

No, it's been explained already on the first page. Due to a terrible civil war, a group of Reguards felt that the land had been corrupted (or something like that) to the point of no return. So they unleashed a sword technique known as the Pankratosword, which allowed a user to slice an atom in two, and cause a nuclear explosion. This act sunk most of the continent.

Bah, foolish Redguards! They're pride and honor runs so deep they would rather destroy their home the concede defeat, yet at the same time they have so little will of their own and easily melded into the Empire.

...um no. Do a check on their history at the imperial library before you talk and you'll see that the red guards had in fact caused the only rout the Imperial legion ever faced, causing Tiber septim himself to broker a treaty with the Redguards on their terms.