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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (8 children)

fun fact! Orcs in TES are elves.

at some point in history a group of aldmer and their leader trinamac did something boethiah (a deadric prince) was not a fan of. So trinemac got eaten, turned into a deadric prince malacath, and all his followers were turned into orsimer (proper names of all elven races all end with -mer, altmer, bosmer, dunmer), that is orcs

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So, basically TES elves are half-uruk-hai then?

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

not really, but they all have the ability to piss off the wrong deadra and get cursed.

Dunmer are also changed elves, they used to be Chimer and have a similar ish skin colour to altmer. But then because their leaders (the tribunal) pissed off Azura she turned their eyes to volcanic red and skin to ash

Bosmer (probably) used to be unwilling shapeshifters until the green pact, though different in-lore historic accounts might disagree

and that leaves Altmer (from the playable races) who are technically the most direct descendants of Aldmer (the first elves). This is also in part why Thalmor exists, some Altmer see themselves as better than every other elf, and obviously better than the men or beast races. Also they want to destroy the world because they think the Aedra (the primordial spirits that used their powers to create the world and then stayed on Nirn [mortal plane] turning into mortal aldmer and men) made a mistake by staying (or were tricked into staying by Lorkhan), they think Altmer have a claim to godhood and will do anything to take it.

[–] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No mention of the Dwemer or Falmer, eh?I know they aren't playable races, but they are pretty important lore-wise.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i avoided mentioning them for my own sanity, i was very close to going over them and also sea elves :)

and also sanity of others, i was already getting into double parenthasies trying to explain the not so well known lore-

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