#in a funnier universe Bethesda would make it canon

[jag-rat]

Okay hear me out. What if the Falmer were culturally far more similar to the modern day nords rather than the altmer or the ayleids?

Like if the Falmer's culture was a more intense version of what we see of the ancient nords in Skyrim. Because the nords kind of just integrated their own culture into the falmers. Maybe the Falmer were originally far more similar to the vikings and other ancient Scandinavian cultures rather than just being the altmer but pale.

Or maybe even towards the end of their reign they started to shift cultures to a more altmer influenced lifestyle and religion making Auri-el a more prominent God figure in their pantheon. Sort of similar to how Scandinavia got christianised.

It would explain why tensions between the Atmorans and the Falmer suddenly became so high when they were previously living peacefully together.

It would also be fascinating to consider the fact the nords could actually be descendants of both the atmorans and the Falmer. Sort of like the bretons. It's very difficult to completely wipe out an entire country worth of people. And not every Falmer wanted to go underground with most being opposed to the idea. So it would make more sense for those who didn't join the Dwemer for protection to be slowly "integrated" with the atmorans which would explain the entire disappearance of the rest of the Falmer. It also gives the modern day Nords a new context which I really like because its sort of poetic irony the nords themselves would be another small part of what was left of the ancient falmer.

Also there's no way a bunch of people living in freezing cold temperatures aren't going to have beards. Bethesda is lying to me.

Anyways it might not line up with canon but it's an interesting thought. Also brings some funny scenarios to mind.

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[sas-afras]

Okay So. instead of billy peabody having survived in that fridge off of background radiation (??) without becoming feral (???), he’s instead. just a kid working with the gunners to trap poor assholes who wander by on their way to quincy. he’s still a ghoul tho, bcos according to the fallout wiki it’s established in fo1 that kids Can ghoulify

when you let him out of the fridge, he tells you the same spiel about being prewar But when you ask him to lead you back to his old house he just BOOKS it back towards quincy, which is of course infested with gunners. if you try and sneak through, he just makes too much noise himself and triggers combat anyways. during the firefight, he ~conveniently~ disappears inside a pulowski’s or smth

if you end up defeating all of the gunners he’ll peek out and be like “UHH….. NO ONES EVER GOTTEN THRU ALL OF THEM BEFORE….” and u have the option of telling him to scram (evil) or recruiting him to ur settlement (good). maybe there’s a charisma check or something because he’s an Independent Mans. the end

i think it would have been infinitely funnier if in universe a character played on the sole survivors lack of understanding of how the wasteland works more, and if in a meta way the bethesda writers were playing on the Players expectations of constant lore rewrites. gotcha bitch, we were actually canon compliant this time!!!!!!!!!

i’m never gonna get to this point in sas BUT. do y’all wanna hear my rewrite of the kid in a fridge quest