So you Think you Know Lore? : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Sun May 29, 2011 3:10 pm

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well you can use the Numidum to Mantle Lorkhan (what Talos did), and Ascenion and the Walkabout – both meaning transcending Mundas and the cycle of kalpas – have been achieved via the Numidium, by both Talos (tiber, Zurin Arctus, and Wulfheart) AND Mannimarco. Your answer (either "Don't know" or "Mantella") isn't really an answer.

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The Numidium wasn't part of the mantle. The Enantiomorphic relationship is about being a rebel who becomes a king and then gets murdered, no robots necessary. It just happened to be there. Talos (Tiber, Zurin, etc.) ascended/mantled by becoming emperor, rather than by activating Numidium. No one became a god at Rimmen, and 7/8 people did not become gods at the Iliac Bay.

Heres MK on the effect of the Numidium: "It's not the Brass God that wrecks everything so much as it is all the plane(t)s and timelines that orbit it, singing world-refusals."

P.S. MundUUUUUUUUUUUUUs

» Sun May 29, 2011 7:23 pm

sorry. im too fixed in latin; mundas means world.

» Sun May 29, 2011 11:01 am

sorry. im too fixed in latin; mundas means world.

MundUs, with a "u", means world in Latin. It's the nominative singular; second declension noun.

» Sun May 29, 2011 9:13 pm

MundUs, with a "u", means world in Latin. It's the nominative singular; second declension noun.

wow. Im bad at the lingual root of most languages in TWO universes

» Mon May 30, 2011 12:43 am

wow. Im bad at the lingual root of most languages in TWO universes

Well, at least you know your lore. If not how to spell it. :thumbsup:

If given the choice, I'd take a higher score on these quizzes over knowledge of a dead language any day.

» Sun May 29, 2011 7:16 pm

Dragon Breaks- missed 2 & 3.

My answer for 3 was worded very similar to the answers but it wasn't accepted. Number Two I just had a brainfart. I enjoy all the quizzes. Thanks to everybody that keeps making them.

» Sun May 29, 2011 1:51 pm

Oh good, I'm not alone on 3. That question severely bugged me.

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Your Answer: Wrong

Why is the activation of Anumidium always accompanied by a dragon break?

it breaks time.

But I don't really see a good answer here.

I answered No for question 5. Is that acceptable?

» Mon May 30, 2011 1:50 am

If given the choice, I'd take a higher score on these quizzes over knowledge of a dead language any day.

A.) As the official language of the Holy See, Latin is very much alive

B.) I'm good at retaining trivia if it interests me. The sad part is TES knowledge is absolutely useless.

I'd like to sue the devs for taking up too large a portion of my brain, although not nearly as much a part as the real lore buffs.

» Mon May 30, 2011 1:02 am

I would give the average score on the test i made if i could remember my password for that website haha.

» Sun May 29, 2011 11:11 pm

I'd like to sue the devs for taking up too large a portion of my brain, although not nearly as much a part as the real lore buffs.

Oh god, MK is the sole reason I got a 'D' in Hindu Studies.

» Sun May 29, 2011 2:54 pm

They aren't the same, they have different souls and are different Et' ada. However i couldn't think of any Bosmeri name for Kyne, and I remembered the discussion about it a few pages back.

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Q.6) As of the end of Oblivion, is Akatosh or Lorkhan the Rebel?

OMG!

I answered "Shezarr"!

Do you think it's wrong? You should change both of your variants of "Shezzar" which is wrong spelling.

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Q.1) What has the effect of making time seem more linear during a Dragon Break?

o_O CHIM isn't helping?

» Sun May 29, 2011 6:15 pm

OK dudes, lets all try to be a little nicer to each other. This is all for fun.

» Sun May 29, 2011 8:46 pm

OK dudes, lets all try to be a little nicer to each other. This is all for fun.

Done

» Mon May 30, 2011 5:52 am

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o_O CHIM isn't helping?

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While Akatosh is being 'fixed' you would have no means of keeping time linear in your dream. seeing all possibilites at once and knowing the consequence of every possible action doesn't help that, and probabl just makes it more confusing.

» Sun May 29, 2011 3:06 pm

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seeing all possibilites at once and knowing the consequence of every possible action

Exactly. This must be helpful. Or at least time would seem more linear, which was the question.
I think only Psijiics may know the answer

Or maybe Vehk told us something about it.

» Mon May 30, 2011 2:22 am

Exactly. This must be helpful. Or at least time would seem more linear, which was the question.
I think only Psijiics may know the answer

Or maybe Vehk told us something about it.

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Dragon breaks don't affect you if your high on Moon Sugar.

» Mon May 30, 2011 1:30 am

Don't forget this knows his narc lore.

» Mon May 30, 2011 5:42 am

OK dudes, lets all try to be a little nicer to each other. This is all for fun.

No, screw you! You all svck and know nothing! MAhahahahahahahaahaha!

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:P

» Sun May 29, 2011 11:08 pm

No, screw you! You all svck and know nothing! MAhahahahahahahaahaha!

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:P

I'm trying my best! :cryvaultboy:

» Sun May 29, 2011 7:13 pm

On quiz three I got 62 percent.

» Mon May 30, 2011 2:30 am

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I think that saying "getting high on moon sugar is what allowed the Khajiit to keep track of time in the Dragon Break" is an overly literal interpretation of the Khajiit section in "Where were you when...".
Why would it have that effect? That seems crazily arbitrary.
It says "the Mane watched the ja-Kha'jay, because the moons were the only constant, and you didn't have the sugar to see it.", and in that I think the reference to sugar just comes from the sugar's link to the moons and its cultural significance in Khajiiti culture. The point of importance is the ja-Kha'jay and the cycles of the moons, that is what allowed the Khajiit to keep track of linear time.
By "you didn't have the sugar to see it", they just mean "you didn't have the wisdom or knowledge or link with the moon cycles to see it."

» Sun May 29, 2011 8:10 pm

Don't forget this knows his narc lore.

Combined with his avatar, this is hilarious.

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I'd say moonsugar making time in the DBs more comprehensible is true. Doesn't it serve to let them control the lunar latice?

I'd say CHIM is also right because an individual with CHIM is outside of time. Since they are no longer bound to the mortal plane, a fracturing of it shouldn't affect them.

» Sun May 29, 2011 10:21 pm

Doesn't it serve to let them control the lunar latice?

I think it does not. The Lunar Lattice is something more... cosmic and unstopable =)

» Sun May 29, 2011 11:54 pm

From words of the Clan Mother:

And Azurah left and spoke the Third Secret to the Lunar Lattice and bound the Khajiit to the Lattice, as is proper for Nirni's secret defenders. Then Azurah spoke the Third Secret again, and the Moons shone down on the marshes and their light became sugar.

From the first PGE (emphasis mine_:

The khajiit also believe that their gods regularly bestow blessings to their chosen people, in the form of the moon-sugar, a substance native to the Tenmar Forest in southern Elsweyr. This sugar has a variety of uses; it is alternately a seasoning and a magical ingredient, a source of communion with the holy moons and a dangerous and addictive drug.

And again from When the Dragon Broke:

it was the Mane that watched the ja-Kha'jay, because the moons were the only constant, and you didn't have the sugar to see it.

So control isn't quite the right word, though they are its guardians and interpreters through the power of sugar.

» Sun May 29, 2011 8:06 pm

it was the Mane that watched the ja-Kha'jay, because the moons were the only constant, and you didn't have the sugar to see it.

When everyone's Dragon breaks, it's the Mane who's left to choreograph the Dance; the ja-Kha'jay is his hallucination.

Edit: The Mane is Elsweyr's guiding star... I just want to remind everyone the Mane's fallen - dead - as of Oblivion(?).