#in-game lore

[the-college-of-whispers]

Hi :3 just wanted to say I love this blog, as a witch and ES fan. Also wanted to ask what the equivalent of a sigil stone be in ES witchcraft and how one would use it?

*claws my way out of the realms of Oblivion*

Heyyy so apparently it's been a hot minute since I actually posted anything on this blog, despite the fact that the drafts here are chunky. Gotta go through those one of these days.

Anyway, sigil stones. Lowkey, it gives meteorite energy. I've babbled a bit about meteorites in Elder Scrolls witchcraft but that was in relation to the Welkynd Stones. According the lore, the sigil stones do the following things:

sustain liminal bridges from Oblivion to Mundus and vice-versa

enchanting and creating powerful objects (such as the Arms of Chaos and the Warlock's Mark)

summoning powerful Daedra and items from Oblivion using the Atronach Forge

So what you would be looking at is something made specifically to tap into the powers of otherworlds, afterlives, and liminal spaces. I don't feel like pulling out my correspondences binder and trying to track down my source, but the first thing I would think of would be a sufficiently chunky crystal. The second thing would be...well, a regular stone that you scribble or carve specific symbols and sigils onto in order to achieve the same ends. Of course, I enjoy an element of DIY in my craft, so I'm not sure how feasible that is for everyone...

Thanks for sending this in, anon! Sorry it took me a bit to get to it!

~Jasper

[prokopetz]

Lore-unfriendly companion who forcibly exits the menu screen to complain that they're bored if you spend more than five seconds reading an item description.

[misswifi]

Tag game🎉

Tag your moots and ask them where they got the idea for their tumblr accounts name!

For my name it was a nickname I was giving back in middleschool! One of our teacher had a system where we worked with 'wifi' eachtime we talked in class we lost a bar of the "wifi" (was a weird joke and we never held count on that) All the kids usually joked if they needed 'wifi' , they would borrow mine if they wanted to talk more. (I was incredibly shy in middle school, I only talked to like 3 people at school;^;)

They called me Ms. Wifi because of that. I just thought it would be funny if I put 'miss' instead of 'ms' because of my terrible actual wifi connection I have at home lol.

That's my story! Now moots, only if you guys want to, tell us your story.

Tags-> @slipping-lately @firequeenofficial @noagskryf @twinklstarrrr @halfbakedspuds @polterwasteist @rokushi-san @mygedagtes +anyone that sees this and wants to do this as well

[danidoesathing]

physically sick over the fact that. In the game’s canon Viktor is doing whatever he can to get rid of his emotions and humanity. and it’s what him and Jayce clash over most. its the center of their entire conflict

but in arcane it’s torn away from him against his will because of Jayce. Because Jayce didn’t care what Viktor became as long as he got his partner back. Hello. Can anyone hear me

[justanartistiguess]

Kingerrrrrrrrr 😭😭😭

[quixoticprince]

I don't think the fact that The Administrator is older than the invention of stairs in TF2 is talked about enough

Curse you Shakespearicles

[carpp]

I need Anaxa and Cerces dynamic to be like this

[noodles-and-tea]

I politely ask for more of the vague modern AU art :3 they're so silly I LOVE them

They’re playing sister location, specifically night 4

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael learns of Henry and William’s FNAF lore..

[baratheon]

when your professional frenemy calls you a cradle robber and says that she looks better than you despite being a literal skull.

[companionquest]

good morning to 40 year olds who act 80, bisexual terrorists, autistic empaths, insomniac assassins, and everyone else who’s got the spirit

[the-college-of-whispers]

Hello friend! I hope you're doing well.

I've been working with "Arcana Restored" to make something to charge talismans and amulets and I so far have a basic idea. I also used the whole Ayleid lore where they used starlight as a spiritual energy which means I now need to make a bowl with the constellations on the standing stones but now I have another issue.

What do I use to channel energy from Aetherius? The book mentions gold and that could colloidal gold or an actual piece of it but if I'm working on the Ayleid Praxis, especially with the whole Magnus and the Magna Ge rending holes where allows Magicka to flow into the world, then should I rather use something like a crystal?

Ooo, a thing to ponder! Sorry this took so long to get to, I was not doing well for a while there, but I'm back in business, baby!

You know, I always saw the Welkynd Stones as being analogous to clear quartz for those of us not in Nirn. For me, I've found that clear quartz is helpful for both generating and storing raw magic energy, just like the Welkynd Stones store Magicka. Even the formations of them remind me of quartz points!

In-universe, however, Welkynd Stones are made of meteoric glass. And when a meteorite hits the ground in our world, sometimes they will make things like Libyan desert glass. If you don't have access to meteorite-made glass, perhaps normal glass may also suffice? And as you said, gold is another option thanks to the book mentioning it.

So many possibilities! Thanks to my own experiences with clear quartz, I'd probably lean towards trying that first, but you'll have to let me know how your own experiments go!

~Jasper

[joejhang]

rereading trk and knowing the things happening behind the scenes in the nest gives everything so much more WEIGHT holy shit wdym grayson was neil's backliner mark in the ravens v foxes match wdym jean was playing defence alongside him wdym in less than a year neil would orchestrate grayson's death wdym jean's "ashen ice" smile as he stared kevin down at the banquet wdym kevin's quiet "jean." when they see each other for the first time in almost a year wdym jean got between riko and neil when they had their fistfight at the christmas banquet wdym drake's attack was direct retribution to andrew "claiming" kevin in front of riko wdym jean spent neil's two weeks in evermore whispering to him in french when riko wasn't looking like he did with kevin for years god i feel like that one clip of jennifer lawrence on hot ones rn.

[chocobje]

First (shit)post of 2025 featuring the humans

[kurzler]

in my opinion, many modern greek retellings/stories inspired by greek mythology don't fail because they're inaccurate. they fail because they have nothing new to say.

i don't mind changes to the original myths, as long as they make sense and they have a narrative purpose! i understand that making changes is sometimes necessary to convey a certain narrative, especially to modern audiences.

is epic the musical mythologically accurate? hell no! but the changes serve to tell a specific story and to convey a certain message. also, epic the musical is self aware about its "inaccuracies". and the music just bangs.

is hadestown accurate? no! does it make the change that I always dread, removing the kidnapping from the hades/persephone myth? yeah. but hadestown is barely about them, and it uses greek mythology as a "narrative frame" to tell a certain story. it has a point. it has a message.

what are stories like lore olympus trying to say? what is the messagge of the hundredth persephone/hades retelling? what are we supposed to take from them? "don't listen to your mother she's a bitch"? "mothers are irrational and you should forsake her for a man"? very feminist.

why are we still doing the medusa "feminist" retellings? it's BEEN done. too many times. and they're ALL the same. it's a worse crime than being bad: they are boring.

i'm tired of retellings that are just "what if this very famous story was THE OPPOSITE and the protagonist was an ASSHOLE the whole time and the villain was MISUNDERSTOOD and the real VICTIM" okay but why. why would that be the case. what's the point of the story you want to tell. or do you just want to use shock value.

of course, i dislike retellings that are so different from the myth that they go AGAINST the spirit/message of the original, because in that case what's even the point of retelling the myth? just tell an original story. but i would take stabbed poseidon and capitalist hades any day over the same basic story of medusa being a girlboss or demeter being bad because of... reasons?

tl;dr: stop being unoriginal and tell a good story. or at least an entertaining one. i beg you