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profanetools · 5 months ago

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the worst part of mostly making up your own fanon is that if something doesn't exist you just have to make it up yourself.

by which i mean, i'm trying to think what shape dwemeri spycraft and intelligence takes (especially in the late first council era), what those organisations (if any) look like, how centralised they are, how observant and privacy-impeding they are, all off the cuff just to make a very stupid joke

#the dwemer obviously have spies #and they obviously impede any modern notion of civil liberties #but i think they might be the sort of hypocrites to claim they actually respect said rights.#more and more i think my dwemer are really modern in an insidious way that i find interesting #'oh we reject divine right of kings in literally every sense of the word. here's some dystopian modern statecraft surveillance instead.'#i think the complicating factor is the clan system. we're talking about a recent coalition of disparate city states who did not #necessarily cooperate prior to the first council

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