Let me know what you think of the less edited format for lore lectures. I personally like it as it creates a more podcasty feeling, but if you guys dislike it I will do future lectures once again in normal style!

Really impressive how you manage to do these while doing your university degree.

On the Redguard pantheon differences: - the first Redguards arrived on Tamriel from 1E 792. - it's possible that the Redguards came from another kalpa. We know that the roles of et'ada can shift between kalpas, so it's possible that the Redguards are remembering previous versions of the et'ada. - there are several that map directly onto other pantheons. For example, Sep is a direct analogue to Lorkhan, and Tu'wacca maps to Arkay really well. However, there are others that don't (Tall Pappa/Ruptga being the best example here). On Lorkhan & physical et'ada - I'm not sure that the Dwemer put the Hear into a device in order to make it physical, but the Five Songs of King Wulfharth notes that "The Heart had been made solid by Sunder's tuning blow and Keening could now cut it out." This means that the Tonal Architecture used by the Dwemer changed the nature of the Heart itself. - I don't think we can say that the et'ada (despite being called spirits) were immaterial at this point. The Heart's landing created Red Mountain, and in most myths Akatosh created Ada-Mantia (if you read some developer texts, it's actually called his "vessel", or even a spaceship). These are very physical things, so I don't think that we can say that the things that created them weren't physical as well.

Lecture starts at 8:45. Skip to that

I believe the main differences between the Wandering and Old Ehlnofey was, according to The Anuad Paraphrased, the Wandering were more numerous and physically stronger than the Old, but the Old were more intelligent and more powerful individually. Both characteristics are carried down to the respective races we see now. Old Ehlnofey becoming Mer, and they are known to be more powerful and intelligent mages, like the Altmer and Dunmer. While the Wandering Ehlnofey becoming the races of Man, and are known to be buffer and more numerous than Mer.

I absolutely love this channel.

As someone who studied anthropology and archaeology in college, I am pleased with how you compared social and technological development between Nirn and real prehistory/history.

I really love this lecture format, so glad you made these, intently listening at work

The heart of Lorkhan is literally the molten core of Nirn. Hence it did create Red Mountain, and all other volcanoes for that matter. I agree that the artifact known as the "Heart of Lorkhan" is merely dwemer construction meant to serve as vessel or control interface for the real Heart of Lorkhan... aka the heart of Nirn. At least, that's how I've always interpreted the artifact itself.

Thank you so much for the content. Just discovered this two years later. I really like this format.

Thank you for putting these vids together 👌

A timeless environment is just an environment with no entropy so there are no physical reactions or moving parts. In higher dimensions though, they could have dynamic consciousness which partly exists inside the dimensions in which Nirn eventually exists. The start of "time" could just be considered a "spark" which starts entropy. Some areas suddenly have more energy than others creating gradients which allows reactions to happen. Sounds like Akatosh is more like "chaos" or randomness than time exactly. Before Akatosh, everything in that reality was static. After everything is set into motion chaotically.

I like this format

Unedited is good. I enjoyed this. Even though I feel silly watching a lecture on a game (with volatile lore to add to it). Looking forward to future ones.

Oh this is just beautiful! Love this format, very spontaneous!

Wonderful channel!!! Great job as always brother!!! You are my go to guy for TES lore!!!

Just got into the Elder Scrolls games with Skyrim, and I love your videos. They're a great way to easily understand the greater cosmos behind the game, if you haven't been there for all the games and read all the in game books. Thank you!

It's so cool to see other people who like this lore as much as I dom

Love the idea! Keep up the good work!

Great video And the end meme couldn't have been more relatable for me, given that's exactly what happened 1st time I played morrowind specially the part of running into a cave and losing all my fatigue

Great lecture, thank you!

Holy shit, the auto-captioning of KZfaq thinks he's speaking Dutch, that's hilarious Thanks for the video

I watch 50% for your heavy accent and 50% for the content. Good job, keep it up!

Great stuff!

I would listen to this 4 times gladly, but won't listen to my physics lecture

It's great I would like To have this as a college class.

for feed back maybe start within the first 10 minutes keep your questions, apologies and extra thematic infos(like your life and behind the scenes shit) to the end of the video

On the Ehlnofey that were on Akavir were most likely the ancestors of the Tsaesci since they are known from multiple sources to be able to interbreed with men

When they said learning can be fun... This is what they meant

Dude you are amazing

Your channel reminds me alot of MisterShizno who completly dissapeared off youtube, he had a series of elder scrolls lore vids but i watched those over 10 years ago

I can't wait for the day when Tamreiel history becomes an official topic in intellectual circles lol

I found your channel today and I'm surprised I've never watched any video of yours until now. I like the way you talk about these things, and considering that my graphics card died, at least something I can do while I'm unable to play Skyrim is watch Lore videos. Greetings from Chile! Not too sure where you're from though.

Thank you! Subscribed!🙂

I love these

Holy crap! It like a Great Courses series but for TES lore. Such a cool combo of two things I love. :)

I tried to imagine a place without time and I couldn’t do it

I tbink the divines ripped out the physical heart. If the creation of nirn was weakening them and turning them mortal it world make sense that lorkan the main architect would become a physical being first among them all. I believe the dwemer built the containment vessel for the heart but that the physical heart already existed. They say if I'm not mistaken that ebony is lorkans blood so he would have had to beat least partially physical to bleed

Perhaps a little video on the knights of the white stallion?

I realize im late to the party, but i appreciate the way you make your info concise, rather than trying to tell 100 different stories at once. Lol.

I really liked your talking point about the difference in technological development between our species and the races of nirn. What time do you generally do the live lectures? I'm interested in attending, but I work a night job, so I sleep most of the day.

Is that a Dutch accent? Fantastic videos btw, so glad I found your channel!

Is there a possibility to upload these lectures as actual podcasts to Spotify? That would be really cool

So we assume the akaviri races and bird people of tamriel are also descendants of the elnofey?

Ralof giving us lectures.

Ha! Ha ha ha! Loved the meme!

Time exists whenever events occur. That is what time is...a way to describe the space between events. To be without time is to be in perfect stasis, without events. In this context, I think what is meant by "without time" is simply that there is no intuitive relationship between cause and effect. "Time" exists, but is not linear or predictable in the way it is in the real world. Effects could precede causes before "time" existed.

Don't let this long and well researched video make you forget that Lydia is best waifu

six minutes in, and you didn't even start yet. good fucking lord

What about the lore that the Yokudans are from a previous kalpa

When will the merethic era one come out

While the Altmer are most definitely correct about there being a relation between the races of men and mer, I have doubts about much of the rest of their accounts as the chronology of it doesn't account well for the Dwemer and Khajit, and possibly the Bosmer. However it could be meshed better if we accept that much of it may be more metaphorical than some Altmer tend to insist, and some may be a bit inaccurate (possibly even intentionally altered, in the ways oppressive cultures tend to do). The Bosmer and Khajit origins already mesh pretty well, where they both speak of a time when the "people" of Nirn where confused about their form, constantly shifting between man and beast, and one god took some of these people, tied their forms to the moons, and taught them secrets, according to the Khajit, while another taught the rest of these people not to take the forms of beasts, among other rules, according to the Bosmer. I believe the Altmer also had some stage of their mythology in which the forms of the beings in Mundus had yet to stabilize, I forget most of the details of how they took form but eventually, iirc, they become "the first ones", and then the Aldmer when they (somehow) lost Aldmeris, but importantly claim the whole time to be the "original lineage of the gods" (or however they'd phrase it). Meanwhile the Bosmer claim to still be in their homeland, in the presence of the god that taught them to take form, and not to descend from the Aldmer. Also, from the earliest Aldmeri explorers' own admissions, Khajit and Dwemer were definitely already on Tamriel, and they seemed pretty confused about how well established the Bosmer already seemed to be upon contact 🤔 If we accept that Tamriel is (at least part of) what the Altmer call "Aldmeris", and that the Bosmer may be the "original lineage" of Elves while the Aldmer originate as a splinter group that set sail to the south, either before or after the Dwemer splintered off and burrowed underground (possibly even from the Dwemer some time early on, with all their talk of ancient cities, which the Dwemer had but Bosmer don't seem to), things may mesh together a bit better. At least it seems to so far in my head with what scattered info I know, haven't really thoroughly researched this yet 😂

So thats why the daedra seem to take so much joy on meddling in human affairs. Its almost like a middle finger to the aedra.

Just a tad bit of editing as your intro explaining what this would become was 7 min long.

Didnt the dreugh rule mundus during the dawn era

Anuad is pronouced ANN-YOO-ADD, as Esbern in Skyrim says it this way, giving us an ingame pronunciation.

Okay on one hand it isn't the First or Second Era BUT on the other hand it's even further back in time I approve Zork. 👍

How about giants where did they come from?

Aren't the Nords explicitly not descended from the Nedes though?

What's the music I the beginning

There was a point in our universe in which there was no time. Before the big bang happened. So you could draw some parallels between akatosh and that of the big bang theory.

Where did the Dwemer come from?

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Lorkhan = Prometheus

You should edit the video to cut out the live speaking. I just want a long 3 hour video because its hard to put it all together. All videos are scattered and put into channels. Every video says "im not gonna cover that here, watch my other video" no. I just want a huge binge worthy info dump that i can listen to over and over until it makes sense to me

Time is a form of measurement created by human kind using the sun moon and other relative astrological bodies, we perceive time to such a degree that it is for most impossible to perceive anything without time, but there are humans with no time measurement still alive abd they likely dont perceive time.

y did u take so long to actually start talkin about the dawn era, i had no idea where to skip to to start learning about the dawn era

Btw if you don't have to never reveal how big or small you're audience is

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Massive intro lost interest