#alfidia lupus

[daggerfall]

I'm still thinking about the story in the base game crafting books in ESO and have some Thoughts

(to catch anyone up, the crafting books tell the story about a disasterous love triangle between an imperial ethnographer for the last Potentate, Morian Zenas, and Divayth Fyr)

Our chances of ever seeing Dr. Lupus ever again are extremely small give the fact we have already done Apocrypha as a DLC, got Morian Zenas as a character with a quest, and had no acknowledgement of the love triangle. Other than another lore book by Zenas (post-Known Thing) that says Fyr is untrustworthy. In all 3 appearances of Fyr in game, we've never once been able to bring this story up, so I feel like we won't be able to without Dr. Lupus entering the story. She could have ended up in another daedric realm while looking for Zenas, if she got really lost

Also she was originally from Skingrad and I never saw a single mention of her in Gold Road, so they've really lost all possible easter egg opportunities. Maybe an Apocrypha event with her as the questgiver?

Alternatively, it would be extremely funny if the crafting books story was entirely made up by some weirdo hack author (COUGH COUGH ARABELLE DAVAUX) who wanted to insert herself into the story of how Zenas went missing at the hands of a somewhat infamous celebrity of Tamriel. Name dropping two well-known people would be a great way to sell a story, plus throwing in a romance? Brilliant. And we don't know when the books were published beyond that the events happened over 100 years ago.

(Davaux writes RPF people, of course she would write a self insert who gets the attention of two older, powerful wizard men at once)

I really hope we get another character Q&A with Fyr someday where we can grill him about Dr. Lupus and Zenas. I want to see him squirm or entirely deny it.

[uesp]

"What price had the Lord of Apocrypha named to Divayth Fyr? What price for the entrancement, the captivity of Morian Zenas?"

--Doctor Alfidia Lupus writing down her suspicions that Divayth Fyr had deliberately sold Morian Zenas to Hermaeus Mora. She would disappear herself shortly afterwards.

[sleepymarmot]

Morian Zenas will appear for the first time and Sotha Sil will return as NPCs in Necrom.

Now I understand why the loremaster Q&A was narrated by Divayth Fyr.

I’m 99.99% sure he’s back as a major NPC and we’re finally getting a sequel to the Unfortunate Love Triangle.

I can only hope that Dr. Alfidia Lupus shows up in person as well. 

[skymagpie]

@ doctor alfidia lupus please love yourself. 

[daggerfall]

Okay having reread the books again for old times sake:

He did not do it to get rid of the competition. He did it purely because he's a hater and she picked Morian, and Divayth was mad as hell about it but in the direction of Morian. So he did it as revenge during their expected work with trying to enter Oblivion, and didn't even try to get with Doctor Alfidia Lupus after (gotta put respect to her name after last post).

Also: all this happens at about 150 years before ESO, give or take (Dr. Lupus worked for the Potentate Savirien-Chorak from 2E 418 to 431).

Divayth and Morian's messy love triangle from a century ago lives on every time a Vestige needs to learn to craft bosmer or redguard motif.

Annoying pet peeve of endgame is how many people misspell Zenas' Empowering Disc (I can tolerate Zenas but I will not stand for people calling it Zena), but only partly for the typo reason.

The real reason is they don't even know who Morian Zenas is. Like hey that's my niche lore character whose only appearance for years was in lore books and, of all things, the crafting motif books from the base game that also tell an insane story about a love triangle between him and Divayth Fyr of all people competing for the attentions of a woman, until Fyr trapped Zenas in a apocrypha to get rid of the competition.

Put some RESPECT to his name! And his disc!

[uesp]

"The Daedra, as the Professor has so often remarked, are creatures of chaos, entities of great energy and force but entirely lacking in originality. They can imitate, they can exaggerate, and they can corrupt, but they cannot create anything new. That is a capability inherent only in the Aedra, and in we mortals of Nirn, to whom they gave it as a gift. (In Black Marsh we see such things differently, of course, but these are the beliefs of the Professor and Lady Alfidia.)

"Thus the armor and weapons of such Daedra as the Dremora, Xivilai, and Golden Saints—what Doctor Lupus calls the "humanoid" Daedra—consist of familiar Tamriel-style cuisses, breastplates, and pauldrons, swords, spears, and bows. They may to our eyes be ornamented with outlandish spikes and melodramatic flourishes, but look inside a suit of Daedric armor and you'll find the familiar padding and straps that enable it to be worn by anyone of conventional shape. Pick up a Daedric sword, and despite its bizarre shape you will find the grip comfortable, the heft well-balanced. Indeed, it is said that the famous Artifacts of the Daedric Princes, such as the Mace of Molag Bal, were mostly made by mortal artisans who were enticed or forced to create them."

--Seif-ij Hidja, explaining the similarities between Daedric gear and its mortal counterparts.