Are the Ayleids Still Alive? Starlight Technology & the Wild Elves | The Elder Scrolls Podcast #3 

Not gonna lie I watched a bunch of Fudgemuppet before I realized there were three of them 🤣

I'm a man of many personalities. But I'll tell you what? They are all very fond of you three.

“They burn children alive for hedonistic pleasure.” We may enjoy different things Scott

"I can't think of any other towers that changed the landscape dramatically." the areas of Morrowind around the Red Mountain: Am I a joke to you?

I usually need podcast highlight clips to save time, but these are pure gold in my opinion, since there's nothing in the tes lore I don't care about and you guys really do it justice.

7:45am here. What a great way to start the day. Or shall I say “I love the smell of Fudgemuppet in the morning”

Maybe the next one should be about the dragon cult... They're interesting.

Voices so smooth perfect for elder scrolls lore and stories

*reads first sentence of the title* Pelinal: *PULLS OUT MACE WITH RELIGIOUS INTENT*

Michael: And you could say that the Ayleids were going to- Ad: GO BIG WITH TACO BELL

Hey, have you ever thought about inviting Camelworks into your podcast? Maybe as a one-time guest or even as a permanent addition to your podcast.

I think we need a podcast about Glarthir from Oblivion lol

This was great, I love the Ayleids! I’d really enjoy one of the next ones being about the Falmer/Snow elves. I adore their culture!

Theoretically if the Varla or Welkynd stones can store memories, then possibly that's the way to grant everyone "immortality" like Umeril had. Capacity more like overpopulation. You could just be brought back every time the body dies. Imagine if they did overuse them... The Ayleids would have created their own type of numidium. Thank you all for tearing the topic apart💪

Did anyone else think "why is my instant pot/pressure cooker beeping right now?" while listening to this, and then realize it was from the video? :P (ex 51:53)

Maybe the next one can cover the strange life of Uriel Septim VII? The guy did achieve CHIM and become Patrick Stewart over here

"The foulest of a foul race. A thousand curses upon his unholy name! I thought I'd won. But I should have known. The Slavemasters are a cunning breed." Pelinal Whitestrake opinion on this race.

A Pelinal Whitestrake discussion would be amazing, he’s easily the most interesting individual in the Elder Scrolls in my eyes.

I wish we could see what the “bird people” looked like. I’d love to have a fine feathered race in Elder Scrolls, no matter how unlikely that is.

I would think the Snow Elf being around in Dawnguard means some Ayleids have been alive the whole time.

Id like to see a podcast covering either The Thrassian Plague or The Knahaten Flu

I love how this isn’t just the “Skyrim” podcast, and I think this is what I love about this channel, do not get me wrong Skyrim is one of my all time favorite games but as a whole the elder scrolls series is one of my all time favorite series, they not only cover Skyrim but MANY topics regarding the elder scrolls, keep it up guys💯

I was thinking about alternate Elder Scrolls history and continuing with my current idea of what if there was no empire? Led me to have to consider what if the Ayleids never died?

What a sweet and intoxicating innocence

Either eye of magnus and snow elves, a discussion/ debate of the tribunal, multiple discussions/theories of subjects like the Deep ones and ideal masters, or talk about your thoughts on Akivir! (I love the podcast and wish to see more of you guys!!)

THANK YOU for mentioning Xarxes. That's more than he normally gets

I really like Ayleid lore so this is great.

4:20 not gonna lie I fangirled a little when scott mentioned my twitter comment about the timeline thing right in the beginning 😂😭 and yeah it is a super loaded question (which is why I need y’all to explain it to me before I drive myself crazy working it out lmao). I feel like the idea of Nirn being an amalgamation of many partially-destroyed previous worlds has something to do with the timeline of all the different species/races/whatever either being indigenous to or colonizing Tamriel...........but idk how lmfao I’m picturing it as if big chunks of Lyg/super ancient Nirn/whatever were chopped up and rearranged like puzzle pieces during the creation of the world. Like if all the oceans and continents of Earth being picked up and placed back down in a random order so prehistoric Asia is suddenly next to prehistoric America which is suddenly next to Atlantis, etc. 👀 That would be the messy ass creation of mundus during the dawn era, and the Elnofey Wars that “””reshaped Tamriel””” or whatever could be a mythologized version of normal science and evolution adapting Nirn to its new shape post-shattering-of-the-12-previous-worlds or whatever. But that’s just my crack theory 🤷 anyway tho I’m fkn obsessed with this podcast, I love the scripted videos but it’s fun to see y’all bounce ideas off each other too. Some random episode ideas: -Lyg, the dreughs, the eventual creation of Nirn instead of Lyg, and how Molag Bal and Mehrunes Dagon fit into all that sht in the lore. -A “family tree” of the Aedra and Daedra and how if at all they’re related. yknow how all the Greek gods are weirdly related in complicated ways? like that. -this is probably boring as fuck to everyone but me but I would fuckin LOVE to see a breakdown of the staple crops, main building materials, and primary trade goods of each Tamrielic culture. Yes I recognize this is a ridiculous request and a genuinely absurd thing to be interested in. But I would watch the fuck out of that anyway 🤓 but yeah keep up the good work lads

34:30 I think that is it, the races that end in mer are races, the Ayleids and Drireni were cultures within the Aldmer.

Glad you guys had the idea to do these

Boys this isn’t fair. It’s 12am so I can’t listen to this all in 1 sitting

What sorcery is this! He has split himself in to three people!? Scott, what's that on your upper lip?

Loved this one. Enjoy these because i can do some cleaning or something while listening to you guys. Can't wait for the next

The feather people could explain the Sky Forge.

I can't get used to seeing your faces besides hearing your voices, so surreal :D

In 31 of the book Second Seed 2920, the writer describes an altercation with a woman named Turala with an Ayleid who is told to have been naked and living in the forest. He struggled with her, causing her to lose consciousness. Afterwards he had vanished having apparently helped her birth her child. It’s very interesting to think about this interaction so late in the timeline and their connection to the term “Wild Elves”.

Going back through all the podcast episodes but keep up the good work y’all, thank you for all the enriching knowledge and good vibes ❤🙏🏼🏴‍☠️

Damn, I love listening to you guys talk elder scrolls! Made me appreciate the lore in ways id never thought about

Been enjoying these podcasts so far keep up the good work. The next one could be about the dragons and the dragon cult maybe 👍

Keep posting these amazing podcast!

These podcasts fulfill a need I didn't even know existed.

It’s odd how much ayleids are different from one another yet they all come together for a common goal.

Honestly Bethesda need to make a game set during the Slave Queen's rebellion.

Going back and watching all the ones I missed

Nice one been loving these

I love you guys. Can't wait for elder scrolls 6. Y'all are gonna have a lot of work to do when it comes out.

I literally work and listen to this all day at work lol

I listen to your Es lore videos to fall asleep. I mean that as the highest compliment. Something I want to end my night with and dream about later.

Not gon lie y'all don't look how I imagined when I listened to y'all silky smooth voices helping me sleep all these years xx

Are you implying Pelinal Whitestrake didn’t skewer them all? Heresy!

THANK YOU FOR CARING AND LOVING THIS GAME AS MUCH AS WE ALL DO. IT IS AMAZING THAT THIS GAME STILL HAS ME GETTING BACK INTO IT AND PLAYING IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IT IS AN AMAZING PIECE OF WORK AND IT HAS A SPECIAL PLACE IN HISTORY. IT TRULY IS A SPECIAL AND BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF WORK. THANK YOU, FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR THIS GAME.

Love this video!!

Something that may be cool is discusing if other gods had avatars throughout history like Lorkan does with the Shezars

Always kinda thought that Vastarie the Altmer Necromancer in ESO was an Ayleid

i really like this discussion style of video

I love scott so much!

Please do a full episode on the Direnni, they're so endlessly fascinating to me

Oh damn drew is purdy 😍

Never been so early love your videos

Dragon Breaks would be a great topic for another podcast!

i was up til 4am est just woke up at 12 pm perfect thing to wake up and smell the coffee with

I love that intro music.

I would like to see you guys break down and talk about the Sermons of Vivec . Another topic I want to know more about is the history and achievements of the Yokudans .

I'm loving the podcast so far.it's fantastic to see you three delve deep into lore together. Great work!

as a suggestion for the next topic: perhaps you could discuss the mananauts and other "space" exploration programmes that the empire and the aldmeri use? its the most "sci fi" part of the setting and is really cool as it sets it apart from other standard high fantasy tropes

Good discussion! I'm thinking about the transformational power of the White-Gold Tower, maybe it's some form of advanced Alteration? It was allegedly built by the Ayleids, who were the founders (and probably Masters) of Alteration. As plausible as the Talos theory is, I think there's definitely a possibility that the Ayleids built the tower specifically for transformational purposes, and it would explain why ONLY that Tower does it while none of the others do. Interesting stuff! Speaking of which, maybe you guys can do an episode talking about how magic works, and why the different schools of magic are divided in specific ways, and how that's changed over time.

What about the flying crafts that were mentioned in Shadow Key and the older lore? Or is there just not enough info on them.

I think the concept of language with writing included is a pretty sweet deal for an island in a lake in a jungle

Pyandonea, Atmora and Akavir would make for good topics...maybe a TES VI one because why not too

In addition to AllinAll’s animated opera, people should check out ‘A Song for Pelinal’ by the band GoldenGod. It rocks. Hard.

The Tiber Septim Oversoul- the concept of a dragon break in the form of a person who's also 3 people and yet 1.

The dungeons in Morrowind had places to sleep. Even the dwemer ruins had bedrooms and bed frames sometimes, so it's not a dungeon design issue, it's just an issue.

32:50 Leaving this for myself

I agree but would like to point out that there’s a possibility of the heartland high elves kicking around alive somewhere, there’s still a snow elf alive and well in Skyrim, and before the dB dlc we all thought they were literally killed off or turned into the blinded and betrayed, and we also meet Falion who says to us that he’s spoken with the dwemer who we also believed to have disappeared, not saying they are still around but I feel they could make a return someday, honestly if any of the lost races returned I’d want it to be the snow elves, they really did get royally screwed

28:47 What in oblivion was that?! Scott: "we woo wuh wih wo"

ofcourse they're still alive. Clearly the ayleids are aliens, this is easily backed up by the lore, and they just went home.

This is amazing

Epic podcast🤘🤜🤛🤘

Great podcast

Love watching the channel and work keep it up 😁👍🏼

i would love a deep dive discussion on the towers!! all the histories and theories behind them would be really cool

I'm getting strapped in for a whole load of geek-ness

Drew-"There are not other examples of towers changing the landscape dramatically" *laughs in ash from red mountain

Love all the content guys! Keep it up.

Love these podcasts! My favourite time of the week.

Really cool episode anyone else wanna see a play by play of the Great War/who will win the next one

Scott looks like an old western villain in his early years before he could twirl his mustache! 😂😂😂

Well, there goes my theory about FudgeMuppet actually being one tripersoned omnipotent being ☹️

Drew became the ultimate mood to me as soon as he mentioned his distaste for the Witcher Netflix show 😅 Thank you for this guys, you make learning TES lore extremely entertaining!

Tan Elves are my favorite subrace of elves!

Ive been in through plenty of Ayleid ruins and have never once seen a single bathroom. Caves have shit buckets all over the place. "Ayleid well? no problem! Indoor plumbing? no go my dude!"

My personal theory is that Alyeids had mostly blue eyes which is why only certain Altmer still have this trait. There's not really any confirmation for this, I just noticed most Alyeids portrayed in ESO seem to have blue eyes and Alyeids interbred with other mer.

I've been watching you guys for years but just the other day I discovered these podcasts and I can't get enough of them. Good shit.

Best intro ever.

Just wanted to say I love the content and a little sad this video got less views than the other podcasts

epic podcast, ancient nords next?

Loving these podcast episodes, all three of you are very good at getting information across in an enjoyable and digestible way. Keep it up!

Pelinal has become my favorite Elder Scrolls character

Love these podcasts just wish you did 2 every week but I'm still coming here every Sunday

There are so many RPGs that use the Lost Ancient Knowledge / World Regression trope .. The *Fallout* Series is the most "in your face" with it but there are SO many other games too .. From *Shining Force* to *Legend of the Dragoon* to *Elder Scrolls* , it's pretty crazy how often it's really used