#the elder scrolls arena

[sometimesraven]

TES: Arena is officially 30 years old today

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

So y'all know all those theories about M'aiq being a god or a shezzarine or perhaps the various M'aiq's we meet in the games are different people all within the same bloodline

Well I decided to throw my hat into the ring and give my take on M'aiq

To put it simply who or what is M'aiq The Liar?

He's M'aiq

Now that may sound odd like ofc he's M'aiq that's his name or so he says but that's not what I mean

For those of you who might be familiar with LOTR specifically the books not the films you may be familiar with a character named Tom Bombadil who's honestly the most mysterious creature in Tolkien's lore given how he has many numerous unexplainable powers such as not being tempted or affected by The One Ring and being able to hide Frodo from the nazguls while in Tom's presence

This is basically how I see M'aiq he's a being that nobody knows exactly what he is he's just simply is

He's not a god, he's not a shezzarine, he's not a different person in each game, he's M'aiq there's only one M'aiq and that's him

He's the most powerful being in The Elder Scrolls universe and he spends his days trapezing about Tamriel telling lies to anyone he comes across

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

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Reading up on this Jagar Tharn guy and NGL, trapping Emperor Uriel Septim VII in Oblivion and masquerading as him for a decade sounds low key problematic 😬

[delafiseaseses]

Y'know, one thing is certain in this world:

Fire Daemon should be allowed back into Elder Scrolls. Why should they be ignored forever jus' because their last name is 'Daemon'? Jus' look at 'ow cute they am!

[ratartistaradiadeetz]

[trickstarbrave]

what was dagoth ur doing during the events of arena (you canonically go to the citadel of dagoth ur during the msq). wrong answers only.

[jakobos]

A Medusa from The Elder Scrolls Arena

[visterical]

tes arena is the hardest game I have played. drew my favorite creatures from the wiki because I do not know when I will ever see them 💚

[sympateawithsugar]

Trying to continue playing TES: Arena, it's going very dead. Cuz I keep dying. All the time.

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Requested by anon

[the-drunken-huntsman]

PSA TO ALL THE TESBLR GIRLIES

It's a viddy game. Chill tf out.

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

My take on The Godhead, achieving Chim, zero summing and Amaranth

So for starters

Achieving Chim isn't the whole “Oh they're aware that they're in a video game!!” cuz that trope is done to death and I hate it

What my take on achieving Chim is basically it happens when one achieves peak awareness basically becoming aware of everything and everyone

You know every person you know every location you know everything and you see everything, everywhere and everyone all at once you perceive reality all at once

Now ofc not many people can withstand seeing all of existence at once and basically go into nonexistence

You see all of existence and you cease to be you zero sum

Now why does one zero sum? Well basically seeing all of existence all at once and can give one an existential crisis you began to wonder if you are apart of the reality you're seeing or if you even exist at all

If you can affirm that you are apart of all that you currently perceive then you achieved Chim if you can't affirm this and question your existence then you cease to be because if you don't believe you're real while perceiving all that is real you basically become not real anymore but if you believe that perceiving all of reality at once includes perceiving yourself as well then you've achieved Chim

If you perceive yourself as you perceive all of reality then you've achieved Chim if you can't then you zero sum

Well except for Vivec and Tiber Septim

Now what is The Godhead

Well this ain't no H.P Lovecraft shit where everything is just the dream of a greater being instead The Godhead is one god split into three because this god is too powerful when put into one being

This god being Akatosh who is split into three beings

Auri-El, the elven god of time, Akatosh, the mortal god of time and Alduin, The World Eater

If Auri-El, Akatosh and Alduin become one being then it creates The Godhead the true god of time who basically is the god version of achieving Chim as The Godhead perceives all of reality at once

Past, present, future

Mundus, Aetherius, Oblivion

Man, mer, beast

All is one to The Godhead

The Godhead IS time

BUT

The Godhead MUST remain separated

It separated because it was too powerful it literally almost ripped reality apart which nearly caused an event like The Dragon Break to happen which is why Alduin being sent forward in time caused The Dragon Break because a piece of the god of time was sent through time

A piece of the god of time was sent through itself which is why time broke and The Dragon Break happened

As for Amaranth well that's not seeing all of reality it's transcending it you don't see existence you exist beyond it

It's not zero summing and it's not achieving Chim

It's not seeing all of reality and existence and it's not failing to perceive yourself as a part of all you perceive

You don't perceive yourself as a part of existence but you also perceive yourself as existing

You exist outside of existence

You transcend it

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Fire Daemon

Isolated 2d animation from The Elder Scrolls: Arena

Art and animation by Jeff Perryman

[jagar-tharns]

couldn't sleep so i drew My stardew AU jagar who has obtained atrocious drip and has become a master at fishing

[mannimarcoiscool]

Oh fuck oh shit chaos time