Akavir & The Tsaesci - The Elder Scrolls Lore 

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Maybe it's a variation of vampirism, one without the sun allergy, or perhaps one that, on snake men, would make them not need any kind of sunlight anymore.

Nathan Baker most think it's vampirism like wearbears, except wearsnakes,so they are golden humans that turn into bloodsucking snakes

There is a bloodline of vampires in eso who are the first clan to ever be made by the first vampire who do not have any kind of weekness to sunlight but get stronger when night falls maybe these snake people are like them but who know if these snake guys are vampires all we know is that they drink blood the problem is we don't have enough information about these guys and we have is guesses

Or they simply aren't cold blooded. Sentient species relying on basking to actualy be able to do something wouldn't be able to build any civilization. At least not in the place with the winters like they are described in the video.

I imagine that vampirism makes you a little supernatural and resistant to cold, seeing as even warm-blooded creatures go cold when they die and vampires are technically dead. It would probably be the best thing ever. We also already know that the advanced reptilian races of the TES series are warm-blooded, like the Argonians. I imagine it isn't very different for the Tsaesci.

Yes, this is TES universe, an almost none information is a huge information in this series. And a big information is... Well, I can't describe the length.

Compared to other elder scrolls lore, that's very tiny

Well, only to talk about Vivec, he would have to do hours of videos, so... yeah, not much about akavir.

now compare that with the lore on tamriel

To be fair, 14 minutes of history with a huge continent filled with people that have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years is really small.

Except it seems really ridiculous.

Not in a videogame, which it's entire purpose is fun.

It may be beat by a historian saying: “It all seemed like a good idea at the time.”

Their is also Atmora and Aldmeris, and I think Aldmeris is bigger than Akavir.

Mr Bare Foot Bogan no Aldmeri is a lot smaller then akaviri Akavir I do believe is almost as big as tamriel or half the size of tamriel...its pretty big

Cows Everywhere!! Don't quote me but i think its was mostly written by once guy

Indeed, most of the Elder Scrolls Lore was written by Michael Kirkbride, who, even though he no longer works for Bethesda, still writes lore for the Elder Scrolls universe. His work can be found at the Imperial Library website.

I think the new Bethesda doesn't really care about lore...

There were two Elder Scrolls novels written, albeit poorly and to poor and obscure reception

Hurts me too man🥲 I wouldnt mind playing an akavir game

Evan Sheehan yeah man Nirn actually has 4 continents at the moment. Used to be 5, known as Yokuda, but it sank into the depths. This is one reason I love the Elder Scrolls. The universe is so big, so many possibilities for different races and geography

Michael Peters This shit is going to keep going for a fucking generation man. I mean,this started 1994? That was 22 years ago,albeit,they were different companies but still.

Evan Sheehan and that's the known world There possibly could be more

Dan B yeah I remember reading on one wikia that it's possible the most of Nirn hasn't been discovered yet

There's also a place called "Lyg", which is said to be _one of_ the "adjacent places", it was formed when Tamriel was folded up on itself, leaving an imprint and is said to be accessed by moving sideways in a weird and unspecified manner. Then of course there are all the realms of oblivion of the daedra and the aetherius. The imperials have even had a space program before (the mananauts)

And this would also explain why you find human Akaviri ghosts at the Pale Pass.

Spencer Smith They ate the humans of Akavir. The gnomes are their slaves and stock of food.

DarkHunter Hello me ol chum!

I prefer to think it was something like Boethia eating Trinimac and pooping out Malacath, it's fucked up I know but it would fit the Tsaesci quite well

Like instead of native humans there were native elves that became human after... ingestion

It's very possible they wanted to forget about that part of their history. If you think about it, people only ever really reference events from the first and third eras in the games...

@Strasznik I've been friends with Todd Howard for years now, since we were buddies at the chess club, and he said to me that there are infinite endings to Skyrim and to the Akaviri. He told me a story with sixteen times the detail of what's been told in this video and all about radiant invasions, and to be fair, it all just works. "See that continent over there? You can lie about it" he said, while drinking Skooma and munching on Moonsugar..."Im a snake man", he kept repeating, and then shot an arrow to his own knee.

it would make sense for the imperials to destroy the depictions of the tcaesi because it would hurt their pride to be reminded of them

@@itsbrewsky5519 But why? If the Emperor used them as high ranking officers, there would definitely be history kept to teach of them

2920 books say they were snakes.

Well, half snake, half women existed in Arena, so it's not a stretch to imagine another race of half snake people.

I think ESO has implies tgey are humaniod but do have ssome snakelike fearures like scales and shedding skin.

@@Xo-3130 So Asian humans but with some snake features?

I feel like they're probably just a subspecies of warrior argonians that are all vampires and over generations they just kind of evolved to be more snakelike due to vampirism being in their DNA, so they're like buff argonians with the facial features of the serpentine dragons from Skyrim.

@@thalmoragent9344 Right, I think the best depiction of them can actually be seen in the mod Elder Kings 2 (for CK3), which shows them as Asian-looking humanoids with golden scale-like skin. Very eastern in inspiration, which makes sense considering the relics we do see in the official games.

lmfao is your pic a character from Morowind called "Fargoth" ?

jake nikolia we should have explored all of Tamriel first

Dan B yeah I agree, I can't wait for Bethesda to make a game so that you can travel all tamriel

ESO has nearly all of Tamriel m8

dasco597 yeah but since eso takes place so long ago it’s a bit lame

@@danb6742 its called ESO

That was way after this, blades started in talos area I believe

But Talos was the first Septim emperor, so this takes place after his death?

They have no association with them other then their armour and weapons

@@justarandomaccount8330 Of course they have, the main quest of skyrim explain this.

@@dreamz2134 this is in the third era long after Tiber septim died.

Derek Neese The Admeri Dom. would need to be defeated first, but if they could work in both the downfall of the AD and an invasion from Akavir, and do it well, it would definitely explain why Bethesda needs a much better engine before they work on TES:VI

Nah, return of the Dwemer. They were catapulted through time by dabbling with the heart of Lorkhan, and now Kagrenac returns, using his own lifeforce to power a brass god. They march across Morrowind and Skyrim, laying waste to all dunmer in their path but surprisingly leaving the Nords alone (they were allies at the time of the battle of Red Mountain), until they reach Hammerfell, where they have come to destroy the dissident Rourken clan. The game will be set in Hammerfell, which is simultaneously invaded by the Dominion which leads to noble houses plunging into civil war over whether to fight alone or allow the legions to step in. The player is caught in the middle of this, and ends up unraveling the mysteries of the Dwemer and halting the path of Numidium/Akulakhan by killing Kagrenac. Meanwhile, black ships appear in Black Marsh, where the An Xileel have established a brutal, xenophobic Orwellian dictatorship in the increasingly secretive Black Marsh, containing refugee Tsaesci who spread across Tamriel, telling stories of impending doom. Tosh Raka (who had mysteriously vanished since the disappearance of the Nerevarine) had awoken after 200 years of being reclusive (presumed dead by the Tsaesci and thought to have left the mortal plane by the Ka'Po'Tun) and rallied his people and their human slaves to bring destruction upon the Tsaesci, and were now setting course for Tamriel. Maybe in a DLC or sequel the player can travel to Black Marsh, liberate it from the An Xileel and, travelling to the Eastern coast, see a rising red mist on the horizon...

depends what place the next elder scroll is set in a akavire invasion would be fun in the black marsh reptile against reptile race elder scroll online would have been perfect for akavire

***** Well, based on Oblivion/Skyrim standards of writing yes, but with good writing you can still unravel a mystery and leave more questions than there were before. Supposedly, in Morrowind, you "solve" the Mystery of the Dwarves as part of a quest for the Mages guild (or House Telvanni if you go at it a roundabout way) and it still leaves so many unanswered questions. I mean, you could speak in person to a living dwarf and still understand less about what was going on than you did before. The return of the dwemer doesn't necessarily explain why they disappeared. If anything, it just opens up the questions of how and why they came back, at least momentarily, which a well written story alludes to, but does not simply bluntly explain.

Or just anything to do with the continent. It would be nice to have them take a "risk" instead of playing it safe like they did with skyrim and f4.

Thats what i thot the whole time , these storms were most likely unnatural.

Sultan I thought the storms were magical aswell

It sounds like they took this from Japanese legend. An invading force being stopped by convenient storm multiple times. And they thought the gods were behind the storms, so maybe the same is for akavir. Maybe the Tsaesci are destined to stay. Maybe they're the ones keeping the perhaps more aggressive and dangerous snow demons at bay.

I think so too. Their swords are Katanas and the guards are in shape of snakes wrapped around the sword

I'd like them to be actual snake people, we already have WAAAY too many Human/elf races to work with.

@@owo8996 no us asians need a race its not fair lol

@@habibcicero3833 asian power!

@@habibcicero3833 Akavir is definitely Asian. It just sounds like in inspiration: Tsaesci are Japanese/Korean, Tang Mo are Chinese/Vietnamese, Po Tun are Indian, Snow Demons are Mongolian.

Not gonna lie, I wouldnt be mad if ES6 isnt in akavir. If it's still in tamriel, but another province. I wouldnt mind

Things in Tamriel haven't been settled yet, why leave so soon?

From a leak, it will take place in high rock and hammerfel, but take that with a grain of salt

Master Austin Maybe. But Akatosh appears in Skyrim(Alduin) and his body doesn't have the same aspect of Tosh Raka. And Tosh Raka was the first to become a Tiger-Dragon a long time ago. Remember, Skyrim occurs in the 4th Era.

DarkHunter alduin and akatosh are different beings

Alduin is Akatosh first born, but not the same person/god/dragon/creature

Auriel, Akatosh, and Alduin are all aspect of the original spirit of time, called Aka. Auriel symbolises the beginning of time, Akatosh the body of time and Alduin the end of time. Alduin calling himself "firstborn of Akatosh" is merely him taunting The Last Dragonborn.

Quite possibly. Maybe he was a Demi-god from the start, of the blood of Akatosh, similar to the Dragonborn

How come ! Al Mualim was a dunmer !

sickofitall89 and ezio was a redguard

@@xananymous431 Madrigal is Bethesda and we are in the animus

damn, most ES didn't reveal history just like you said, Akaviri people running away from Tsaesci

My idea for an es game would be set on Akavir where the men of Akavir defeat the snow demons and Tsaesci and you help conquer Akavir .

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It's more like he united the human nations. Most of the Elven and beastfolk nations were never really touched and I don't think he ever conquered Summerset.

Cows Everywhere!! It’ll take absolute years.

Exonaut Productions that's wierd according to parthunax alduan had 1 job, one fucking job n I that was to eat the world n since he didn't n tried to enslave it it left him weak n able to die, if the world eater created by the God of time fled from something...doesn't that throw a wrench in all of the 9 God's presumed power, if an aspect of the one God akatosh (alduin =death/rebirth of culpas) is a wuss and xanthine do his job on any content doesn't that mean the akiri people are the true gods? all hail tscexi

Yeah. I think that Alduin's superiority complex comes from them fleeing form Akavir. lol

chocoman45 When?

By the time of Oblivion there were still Tsaesci living in Cyrodiil. But along with the supposed Roman/Imperial Japan/South East Asian motif of the empire and the jungles of Cyrodiil they were gone cause they were too cool. And during the Interregnum when ESO was set the Tsaesci Potentate is supposed to be still standing and the defacto head of the Empire.

Adam ESO is canon, but the Tsaesci were not many anyway so.

they were made humans

ALfutbol ESO is canon

+ownageforkilz Premier Pro, mainly. The animation and effect tools aren't as sophisticated as something like After Effects, but it gets the job done.

Watch the beginning of the video again, he briefly mentions it. The reason it is only a brief mention is because the video is mainly about the Tsaesci (its in the title, and again the beginning of the video). If you didn't know, the Akaviri invasion that led to the formation of the Ebonheart Pact was the Kamal invasion led by Ada'Soom Dir-Kamal, which was indeed driven back by the Dunmer and the Tribunal, plus the Nords and the Underking, as well as some Argonians

I was wondering about this as well, so thank you , Moongirl, for the explanation. I caught that about the invasion, yet the narrator really said nothing about it hitting Morrowind or how it was repelled by the Pact.

To my knowledge he actually got a few things wrong, he does mention the Akaviri, but he says they were foot soldiers to the Tsaesci, the Tsaesci never invaded Tamriel; what actually happened was the Tsaesci attacked and nearly wiped out the Akaviri men and they fled to Tamriel and in the process attacked the nords and imperials. It was the Akaviri men who recognized Reman as Dragonborn, not the Tsaesci who surrendered to and bestowed the title upon him. Reman also didn't actually defeat the Akaviri; the Akaviri were kicking the shit out of the imperials and the nords until they recognized Reman as Dragonborn. I may be wrong on a few things here, but I've done a pretty large amount of research unto the subject and to my knowledge this is what occurred; he didn't provide any sources so I don't know where he got his information to corroborate or refute any of it

Maybe slanted eyes resembled snake-like appearance to the inhabitants of Tamriel, as well as Tsaeci armor, which resembles samurai armor from Japanese culture, with a fantasy touch that makes it look like a snake scale armor.

Both did.

tuxxcat those are akaviri

Technically the race from Yokuda was the Yokudans. They became the Redguards at a later time on Tamriel

well, it could be a case of, yes they're snake men but they're snake MEN, they may have counted as Human rather than Mer in the eyes of Tamrial scholars

@@chaoticreaper0575 No they're men, idk why people cling to the "snake men" thing, they were just men. Very aggressive men.

@@wj287 If you read my comment carefully, you would have seen I was saying that regardless of what people considered them, they were men nonetheless in the eyes of the people of Tamrial instead of another breed of elf kind. Also how are they not snake men, they're obviously part snake in some aspect, the long slender and legless bodies that slither along the ground, like a snake would do.

Crimson Archer20 Tsaesci being snakes is superstion. i already explained the many factors that cause the people of Tamriel calling them "vampiric snakes". The only thing about them that might actually be true is they have really strong magic that is able to manipulate the wheather. It is recorded that Uriel Septim V won several battles against them and they used human classic military tactics with infantry, heavy cavalry etc... and probably it was Tsaesci light cavalry that caused the many ambushes on the road between Septimia and Ionith. The most interesting matter is that many on Tamriel make superstions about their phisical aspect but basically very very few survived for actually tell what happened. Most part Uriel's army already left Septimia when the final battle started and even when the main force arrived in the Tsaesci Empire none of soldiers saw a single Tsaesci or any kind of resistence. Only two legionnaires managed to escape the battlefield of Ionith and immagine how scared they were after seeing thousands of their comrades being slaughtered like fools. They probably said everyone that the Emperor died heroically against "the snakes" and that those "snakes" were coming for all of them, if they wouldn't escape immediately. Probably from that day on everyone stated the Akavir is not conquerable baecause of the fucking "snakes". And the most ignorant people of Tamriel started to believe that Akavir is a Hell with demons. The same thing of our world: for example before discovering America Continent, Europeans believed that on the other side of the sea there was the Purgatory of the Catholic Religion and so a sort of forbidden and mithycal land populated by angels.

Frank -97 the emperor of the Snake people was emperor for hundreds of years A human couldn't have lived that long

@Dan B: Being long lived don't imply a snakelike appearance however. The elves are proof enough of that. It's potential evidence only that they aren't human, not that they aren't humanoids. It's important to remember that in the Elderscrolls universe, being "Human" isn't such a simple and unified thing. Various regional "races of man" (as opposed to Mer) literally have distinct innate magical and arguably trans-human powers, specific to their bloodline.

Thijs Tharn It's peasants's superstion, do you really believe they are like that ?!? Ahahahahaha. I tell you a secret then, Tosh Raka wants to defeat the Imperial Legion using a spell that invokes a rain full of yellow tomatoes!!! And the Snow Demons of Kamal are the Polaretti Ice-Cream Penguins in reality

Frank -97 That's just speculation and not proven. Your theory is shit.

Why exactly...?

Redname This might be because of the "From Dusk Til Dawn" series, where they made snake-vampires, instead of classical bat-vampires. But the aztecs had warriors who dressed as eagles/jaguars(this was to confuse people, making them believe that they are those predators). They brutally ruled over other tribes and had human-sacrifices. Maybe the imperial invasion needed some good old gunpowder and diseases.

Erik Münso Rather ironic, considering these guys were probably inspired by Yuan-Ti, a monster race from DnD who have a lot of Aztec and Mayan influences

The Tribunal repelled the invadors, not the currently (by Argonians) conquered Dunmer.

+Ferdinand Francis Not quite conquered, but the Argonians did take a sizeable chunk of territory from the Dunmer. The eruption of Red Mountain did far worse. Plus, 2/3 of the Tribunal are dead now. Morrowind is not in the position to repel an invading army.

Bat Man Are Snow Elves and Snow Demons the same?

Fheroah No.

Fheroah -Snow Elves are Falmers. How? Well... When Nords came from Atmora to Skyrim it was colonized with Dwemers and Snow Elves with Dwemers usually being underground. Nords were fighting against Snow Elves and they succeed with Snow Elves escaping Skyrim. Few got in Morrowind where they later became Dark Elves. They also got into Valenwood becoming Wood Elves but few got captured by Dwemers. They made them their slaves. Later when Dwemers disappeared. Snow Elves stayed in the Dwemers dungeons getting used to the dark areas eventually getting blind. There is more but I am lazy to type it.

you got a continent of snow demons that want to destroy everything(and even tried to destroy tamriel at one point too), an group of tiger people who want to conquer tamriel, and the Tsaesci who were said to eat their humans and dragons. no cultural exchange would ever happen

@@flamethekid got some chill monkey dudes too tho

Back in the CK2 version of the Mod, Tsaesci were seemingly humanoid (who live roughly for 200 to 300 hundred years, who have a unique trait that allows them to extract blood from prisoners to boost their piety and had a generally Japanese aesthetic which fits with what we know from the gear and architecture they left behind.

I would like to see the Maormer invasions