So..do you any of you actually read the books?
If you think about it the devs literally wrote thousands of page to fill out the lore that maybe only a hundred people actually read
When I think about that, it makes me want to read it just to find out if it's complete shit or if the writings are actually good.
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which books?
take an autism pill and rethink your thread.
Most of the books are actually just unimportant "funny" stories and disguised dick jokes.
>thousands
you're such a retard
Yes, all of them.
No, most books unironically are actually just lore.
i used to enjoy visiting the library in vivec and reading the books. these days they're all online though so you dont need to be in game.
There are like two and a half thousand "books" in TES lore, but they are obviously small.
That being said TES lore in general not counting actual novels is around 1.5 million words, which is more than a lot of mid tier, even popular, fantasy settings. All of that just with ingame content.
Yes, I heard there is a physical release of Skyrim books. I don't care much about nord lore but if there is some dunmer shit innit it could be great
That's one big fucking book breh. A 500 page novel in 12pt is like 150k.
Some of them are actually really good. I ended up reading most of the books on the wiki rather than trying to collect them in-game. You know you've run out of shit to do when you're roaming around to build a library. That or it's your roleplay.
I remember hearing that a lot of the Daggerfall books were written by forum people and shiet
Other than that, it is in fact true that writers also worked on these games, and many other games for that matter
Not really all that amazing that they wrote a couple of in-game books for every new game between writing dialogue
>mfw the first lore book i try to read is the Sermons of Vivec
It would take pure autism to decipher that shit
The fuck are you talking about? I told you, bigger than a lot of mid tier fantasy serieses and even some popular ones.
LOTR mainline trilogy is like 600k words total. Silmarilion is another 140k or some shit.
Only shit like Wheel of Time is bigger than mil words usually.
I always wanted a comfy morrowind mod that had a giant library filled with actual books that you could explore, maybe ripped from project gutenberg or something
I can explain sermons
Here is very outdated pic, it's not really a couple of books
TES also has three novelizations and in-universe "Pocket Guide to the Empire" where each version essentially serves as a basic biased description of general lore of Nirn.
TES is probably the biggest videogame fantasy setting, obviously not counting settings born outside of videogames like DnD stuff that have dozens of novelizations.
I believe you breh, chill. I was just surprised someine wrote THAT much trash.
>only place with a ton of books in skyrim is the winterhold college
the absolute fucking state of nords
I know everyone says they play Morrowind "for the lore" but I never cared too much about that. I'm one of the 5 people on earth who actually like the leveling system and actually enjoy fighting things and shit.
Often I'll collect a ton of books and store them in my house with the intent of reading them later, but I just never get around to it.
I've read a few. The interesting thing is that some of them have world locations that correspond to them.
From memory, there was the spy who wrote about a banquet some noble was putting on, who said he knew one of them was a spy and poisoned their meal, but if they confessed, he'd give them the antidote. The spy mentions he was just about to break down and confess when someone else did, who greedily gobbled down the potion only to find out it was actually the poison.
Another one was about a guy who was trying to claim a priceless treasure aboard a sunken ship, who trained for quite a while to maintain his waterbreathing spell so that he could dive long enough to loot it. He came across a chest with the supposed loot, spent quite a while trying to pick the lock, only to realize after he opened the chest finding nothing but a few potions inside, he didn't have the strength to renew his water breathing spell, panicked, and drowned before he could reach the surface. It turned out that the potions were actually three potions of water breathing. I believe the wreck and the corpse are in the south-west coast, about a half a day's trip along the coast from Seydra Neen.
The last one I remember was about a thief raiding a tomb who recruited some dumb muscle from the fighters' guild, a man who was insane and didn't understand the risks. He just kept muttering to himself, "Three and back, rock, door!" or something similar. When they arrived at the master chamber with the richest burial things, the thief picked the lock, but the door closed behind the thief, revealing nothing but another wall with no way out, and the fighter on the other side. He returned three days later and looted the entire trove, using a rock to prop open the door. There's actually a tomb you can explore with a non-interactable door that's propped open by a lock with a skeleton corpse off to the side.
Sermons are basically a poetic retelling of life of Vivec with various practical and metaphysical lessons tied to teach sermon. It serves a triple function
>To re-tell and possibly lie about past of Vivec to reforge him as this new mythical character
>To reveal some of the hidden secrets of the universe to those who are curious enough
>To secretly admit that he and the ALMSIVI killed Nerevar
For the last part, you can collect the word that is the number of the sermon or something along those lines, or one of the sermons had a number key which you can use to assemble a new sentence that said something like
>He was not born a god. His destiny did not lead him to this crime. He chose this path of his own free will. He stole the godhood and murdered the Hortator. Vivec wrote this.
There is a project to create an annotated version of Sermons of Vivec
>newwhirlingschool.com
Using all of the lore terminology in TES with explanations and shit. 20 out of 36 are done so far.
Obvious one
>CHIM:
In the most basic sense, CHIM is a word in Ehlnofex, the language of the et'Ada. When written, it appears to shift and twist, never still, threatening to disappear at any moment. Its pronunciation is, among lore nerds, a matter of debate and hilarity. Personally, I encourage everyone to pronounce it as badly as possible.
CHIM is also the name given to a state of consciousness. Those in the Godhead's dream who become aware of their true nature as minuscule non-existent fragments of imagination frequently Zero-Sum, or disappear from the Aurbis without a trace. But some individuals, through either knowledge, power, sheer force of ego or total insanity, are capable of maintaining their own existence, insisting that they are real despite the undeniable logic to the contrary. In this state, called "CHIM," they gain a perspective of the reality of the Aurbis, of its wheel-like structure and operation. Like becoming lucid in your own dream, these individuals can alter the very structure of reality with their will alone. But, like lucid dreaming and the sigil of CHIM itself, this state threatens to collapse at any moment, and is difficult (if not impossible) to maintain for any length of time.
To date, only two individual characters in the Elder Scrolls universe are known to have achieved CHIM at any given point: Vivec and the Imperial emperor Tiber Septim.
Deepest lore indeed
What was the book with the dude holding that castle all by himself against an entire army, then claiming squatters rights?
is this a lore thread? where are my cyborg bros at?
If he drowned, then how did he write the book?
Don't forget, using the console is justified as your character achieving CHIM :^)
>the devs literally wrote thousands of pages
Meh, that's not all that impressive.
Yeah bro CHIM lmao
>Elder Scrolls Online came out in 1995
Hiroshimoot ate my image.
Boo
Hiss
I have no clue, it's been too long since I read it.
>I can explain sermons
Cool, can you do it here and now? At least some of the more interesting parts?
I rather drink Mazte than read abunch of nerdy books lmao
Most of them, yes. Some are legit good stories, The Locked Room, or Purloined Shadows.
That's maybe 10%. Most of the books are lore based, or theories about the lore in-game.
Based time-traveler or Seer killing the shit out of elves.
Isn't there a book about how the dunmer queen gets fucked by a Khajit and passes out due to the spiked cat dick?
I'm pretty sure it's in The Real Barenziah v. III
>"Ah," Therris said. "Payment first, sweet thing." He put an arm around her, leaned over and kissed her, thrusting his tongue deep into her mouth and his free hand into her shirt.
>"Nice," he said presently, withdrawing his tongue, but not his hand. His other hand slid down inside her waistband and fondled her buttocks.
>"Let's go upstairs. We can use my room," Barenziah felt both embarassed and excited by his boldness.
>Therris grinned insolently. "Why bother? You want me, don't you? I'll bet you'd pay me, wouldn't you?"
>"No," Barenziah said. She did want him, but not that badly.
>"No? Well, a bargain's a bargain and Therris keeps his word. But here. Now." He hiked her skirt up and pulled her onto his lap so she sat astride, facing him. He opened her shirt and pulled it down on her shoulders so that her breasts were exposed.
>"Nice pair, kid." She was facing the wall but she could feel the stares of the other patrons. A hush had fallen over the place. Even the bard had stilled. She felt both nausea and a hot burning desire. Her hands released his turgid penis and then it was inside her and she was screaming in both pain and ecstasy. Then everything went black.
>When she came to herself again she was sitting beside Therris, who was buttoning her shirt. "That hurt!" she said indignantly.
>"Always does, kid. Didn't anyone ever tell you about Khajiit men? It hurts good though, now doesn't it?" Barenziah scowled at him. She was still smarting. His penis had tiny little barbs on it.
In Oblivion and Skyrim this whole part was replaced with
>[This passage has been censored by order of the Temple.]
Based.
back then i did. when i played skyrim i didn't because i kept running into ones i read already and just stopped paying attention.
>nuclear sword strikes your girlfriends ass
>hated elves so much they fucking destroyed their home
Y-You're right...I wasn't subtle enough
i forgot, was Pelinal naked when he rocked up in Alessia's camp covered in blood?
hot
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POST YOUR FAVORITE ASPECTS OF THE LORE TO APPEASE ADOLESCENT DOVAHKIIN FROM ENRAGING TO MURDER HIS PARENTS, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD
>Elder Scrolls Online
And the old lorefags are actually accepting this? TIL accepts this? T0 accepts this? If so, absolutely disgusting.
TIL accepts it.
r/teslore accepts it.
Rest of the community is still split. Some who reject it don't count anything beyond Morrowind. Some people who slurped Todd's rod accept everything that oozes out his ass as long as the tramp stamp reads "TES".
>TIL accepts it.
Disgusting traitorous whores. I'm glad I left the community after TESO's announcement. Memospore was truly our twilight.
elder scrolls online lore is fine and only retards such as yourself who don't even fucking read it complain about it destroying the lore.
I like The Mirror and the one about the poisoned dinner party.
Yeah, I read a lot of them as I find them. The short stories have been enjoyable. The lore info dump ones are okay but I prefer the stories or ones that posit theories.
The book is actually in third person, it is probably a safety PSA for novice wizards.
>tfw never get a qt dunmer gf to sit on my face.