How exactly does Magic work in Elder Scrolls? Watching ESO Elsweyr trailer and rogue guy shoots magic and changes into Skeleton. What fucking spell is that? Can anyone do magic? How OP is it?
Elder scrolls thread I guess
How exactly does Magic work in Elder Scrolls...
Robert Baker
Jose Smith
PRAISE THE ALMSIVI
Nathaniel Lopez
If you don't play female orc in elder scrolls games ur a fucking faggot
Aaron Williams
Some dude literally said “fuck this world” and tore a hole in that plane and thats where magic comes from.
Brayden Cox
I want a khajiit wife.
Julian Richardson
>Can anyone do magic
Doi. That’s why every character has a fire and healing spell.
Jeremiah Richardson
Everyone can learn magic but it takes more effort for a Nord to learn it than it does an Elf
Bentley Martin
>Can anyone do magic?
In lore yes, races are born in innate magic, but theirs is to choose whether to use it or not, and if they want to go further and beyond, thus becoming mages.
No one frowns on a Nord for using his innate healing to heal after a fight, they frown when a Nord uses magic over steel.
Chase Williams
My hard drive died leaving me on one 225gb ssd. I can't even install this game now. This sucks.
Oliver Perez
Based
Isaiah Cox
Yes, anyone can "do magic."
Magic in TES comes from the stars iirc, and someone's talent in magic depends on their arcane knowledge and ability to pull that magic source from the stars.
It isn't OP, because most people rarely progress past a certain point, it just isn't practical to learn. Most people aren't like the protag and can't master skills in a year.
Plus, with all this magic knowledge out in the open, insane artifacts are all over and can even be created by half decent mages which can totally counter other magic. Basically TES is just a battleground of higher beings shitting on each other anyway so average mages are pretty low tier.
Mason Foster
>Wanting to play as the literal walking shits of a god.
Ryan Brown
For a game that has Gods and demons ( aedra and deadra) why are there so few paladins in Elder scrolls? Paladin is such an archetypal class yet there are almost none throughout the franchise
Vigilantes of Stendarr are closest things to a Paladin faction and they don't even have quests and you can't join them
Owen Martin
Because Paladins are boring in Elder Scrolls. Being friends with Daedra is like being friends with Greek gods, and more fun.
Thomas Foster
The dawnguard are set up to be paladins they have those unique sun spells
Isaac Mitchell
Because the aedra do jack shit in the world, why worship them when you can worship a deadra and see proof of their works happen before your very eyes?
Brody Allen
How can one man be so based?
Carter Sullivan
Not sure what ur talkin about user, that aint the lore you fucking incel, the god is the shit, the orcs became shit when he did, get it right poo poo pee pee face
Ethan Scott
QUICK
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ASPECT OF THE LORE
Hunter Bailey
This
Mason Anderson
>why no paladins
Being a warrior who also worships the gods is not unique or different. By and large most people seem to venerate the gods and most soldiers would be no different. The gods just don't seem to often grant warriors special divine powers that make them into what you'd call a paladin. So basically they just remain as warriors who also know how to pray at a shrine to gain a blessing or healing.
Jonathan Fisher
>Can anyone do magic?
nearly everyone can do basic magic like starting small fires (represented in game by almost every character having a basic fireball and heal spell).
>How OP is it?
pretty OP. the whole lore is defined by stupidly OP magicians who figured out various hax into godhood. magic canonically gets very complex and difficult beyond the most basic destruction spells, though (that isn't mechanically represented in the games).