The Merethic Era EXPLAINED! Aldmeris, Atmora, Nedes, Elves & More - Elder Scrolls Lore 

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Mere thicc Mer thicc Thicc mer Thiccmer 👌🏻

But is it _extra_ thicc?

Internet Zen Master what in the _goddamn_ are you tryna say lol

I think bragging about your superior knowledge of Elder Scrolls Lore will impress more women than your knowledge of "Real World History".

@@mynameisveer5823 "allow me to explain the legend of Tibe Septim my lady"

Hey gamer chicks ( as one I should know) dig both ES lore and real world history.

Me playing elderkings 2 a crusader kings 3 mod playing as the Bretons of daggerfall trying to unite all of HighRock in 2nd era

@@Silentwingedone as long as they are interested or you are charming about it I’ve noticed a lot of girls who supposedly liked my nerdy interest didn’t care for it much but just loved how excited ,funny and interestingly presented it only my 2nd most recent girl really got into most of my nerdy interest and it was because she was the only tomboy band geek that got into anime and she showed me anime in exachange so yea lol none were gamer girls besides the band geek but not really until me

Yes! Amazing idea!

@@Yive. you have wares to sell?

@@HELLBENDER77 626374732726262783837336526373738373362536378349383773737384849393837 litres of skooma

I wish they had done this

Something like what kings and general has done with the history of the septim empire videos

Akatosh Dragon God of Time I mean in game. Oops.

Yea, the nords tore them down to use the stone. Buuut if you look at the chantry in the vale, and then look at the palace in windhelm, and keep in mind snow elf slaves built it, they look rather similar. The nords greatest palace is actually low key falmer...

Download the ruined shrine of phynaster mod for a small but very quality dungeon. Available on all platforms Puts a small dilapidated shrine with a few enemies, plus with a mihail mod it’s guarded by some monsters usually. Also really fun to use tundra defense to build a base around it and use it as your main base and place of worship if you’re role playing a snow elf Dragonborn. Build up your own village, even city around the ruins and memories of your kinds past, sounds like a good combo to me

@@guardiancologne9034 Yeah, honestly we all know Bethesda was lazy and just never actually added them into the game (like, even Aylied and Dwemer architecture is still around, thousands of years later) But yeah, some just say that the nords somehow managed to tear down all the Snow Elven architecture, and your guess is also probably a reasonable one. But yeah, funny how the Nords hate the Mer so much, yet their best, most well crafted city was built by enslaved Snow Elves... Man, Ysgramor really was a cruel person, enslaved them and forced them to keep on building the walls of Windhelm higher and higher.

I really feel Skyrim should have included far more snow elf ruins than dwemer ruins. Like a 50-50

Yanks really should explain their lust for lardies, yes.

We already have a video on Nocturnal

I suppose you could say, Nordic Leg Day(the mod) has his origins in the Merithicc era. Lol.

Haha me too

M E R E T H I C C !

Yea and u could be snow elves sea elves and other unplayable races in the other elders scroll

you have played a game from the merethic era

Yes play as tiber septim. An become talos

@@kadenunterfrykte9160 @Bethesda. Make this happen

fallout is the dawn/merethic era

Dawn Era explained would be cool as fuck

Pretty much, yeah

I was always confused about the time frame between Ysgramor's arrival and the height of Skyrim's dragon cult rule.

@@ChristAliveForevermore Given that the the companions arrived in Skyrim 500 years before the start of the 1st era. Then other Atmorans had to come, fully settle Skyrim, the dragoncults power has to increase, the Nords are pushed to far and start the dragonwars, win the wars eventually and then see the dragoncult disappear, all before the 1st era. I'd say it came with the Atmorans, that it was their religion back home in Atmora.

This video didn't really explain when and where the dragons came from, so I'm still a little confused about that

His video explaining the gods and pantheons basically is the Dawn Era video, since the stories of them and creation are all that really happened

if anyone could, it'd be fudge but there's not much to the actual dawn era besides the creation mythos

yea but not a good comparaison with buildings and masonry 4000 years go it would have been perfectly plausable for humanity to have built something like the white gold tower seeing as the great pyramids were built 4500 years ago the ziguraut of uruk 4000 years old gobekli tepe 12000 years old

@@djstona5284 Actually, White-Gold Tower was made by the Aylieds, whether human slaves were used to help it, can't say

Thirded!

Yes

"When there's Daedric princes around who were also around back then. They could easily be persuaded by sorcerers to give up their knowledge" There isn't a single known event of a mortal subjugating a Daedric prince. (No, Jyggalag doesn't count) And they are lying. So if they tell you something, take it with a metric ton of salt.

@@boooster101 They're not really liars, they're cunning perhaps but they tell their worshippers exactl what to do and when. What benefit does lying give them? I wasn't talking about subjugating a daedric prince either, but a worshipper could easily inquire its lord about the merethic era for favors.

@@grefsteel3989 just mentioning that Melphala is literally the prince of lies Also, daedric princes are always deceptive, maybe with the exception for malakith and hircine Think of how Vile grants wishes like a djinn, always with an awful outcome Or haermaeus moras knowledge corrupting you Long story short, daedric prince are if anything the epitomy of the unreliable narrator and you won't get any amount of accuracy when/if they tell you about the past. At best askewed and twisted mythology Rather have a moth priest decipher the past from elder scrolls or find some ancient bound spirits, like in the soul khairn

Nice!

In bird culture that is considered a dick move.

Well, Topal made them friends of the Mer, and in a foreign place like Cyrodiil, wouldn't the arriving Aldmer/Altmer have made peace with the natives given they were gifted places for the Elves to stay in their return?

@@thalmoragent9344 It's possible that's how they were wiped out so easily--They trusted the elves and the elves likely enslaved or just straight up murdered them for being there.

@@wybub Well, if Topal told the other Aldmer that they made friends in Cyrodiil, then I feel keeping the Natives around would be beneficial, no? To learn more of the land? Plus, we have to remember that the Khajit of the time were a bit more animalistic, so who knows, maybe they warred with them, and so with the Aylieds taking more land and loosing population to the Khajit, it could've been a natural and slow Extinction. Either way, given the way Aylieds take the Bird/Avian motifs to 11/10, even more than the Altmer, maybe they had a peace and liked the whole bird imagery since it reminds them of Auriel, but I guess we'll never know for sure. Could've been all manner of things.

@@barkasz6066 😂😂😂 underrated

You should try out Lady of Elder Scrolls and Imperial Knowledge. Fudgemuppet is known for butchering quite a lot of the lore. Especially Lady of Elder Scrolls is a good channel; she lists all of her sources to the public via a Google Doc.

Fuck😂😂☠ would be shooketh to me timbers to get THAT notification from FM LMAO but now that I'm thinking about it Scott an Seth from TheDrugClassroom would compliment each other's narration, technical explanations and articulacy very well

I’d like to see Tiber Septims conquest of Tamriel. I know this is 2 years old but whatever

@@Afrancis16 Yeah, it would also be interesting to see how the High Elves responded and felt about their homeland being decimated by the Numidium, and perhaps we follow an Altmer child character that looses his family to the Attack, and then he grows up to join the Thalmor as one of its more senior, prominent members

So like lotr?

FireFox64000000 well most fantasy games are based off Lotr so yes. Though its more funny to refer to it as Medieval Fallout.

@@FireFox64000000 I wanted to comment this as well xD But Bethesda is unique in its own way. It's actually one of the few high fantasy (including books) universes that's really unique and doesn't just copy off of Tolkien or Lewis.

@@Siegmernes It's nice to see that they at least partly care. Or at the very least the storytelling team cares.

@@FireFox64000000 Definetly. There's few fantasy worlds with really compelling and expansive lore.

Wouldn't it be crazy that after defeating him, you could find him later in Sovngarde

@@theRealTyanStrategy try exploring Sovngarde

@@theRealTyanStrategy Yeah he is there

Sucks too. Tamriel belonged to the Mer, and of course Humans from literally 3 other Continents show up and screw around with them. Now we have Mer that have gone all but extinct on Tamriel, meanwhile all humans still live to the present day (save for maybe the Akivir Humans, which may or may not be Extinct, but not due to Mer)

The best timing I can think of would be during the Succession Crisis that torn the Nordic Empire apart, Harkon could have been one of the people who disputed the succession and ultimately brought down the Empire he wished to rule. If this is right it would also explain why Serana was surprised Cyrodiil was the seat of it's own empire. I could also be completely wrong but hey I'm no loremaster just a weirdo debating the timeline of a mythical world instead of going outside.

Weren't the Ayleids an empire in Cyrodil before allessia

@@i20coyote85 Entirely to early though, Harkon is Nord.

@@insaincaldo yes but didnt the first from Atmore come before the ayleids fell to whitestrake

@@i20coyote85 Yes it seems they were established as Nords before then. That said, someone dealing with daedra in that time would probably be enough of a scholar to know of the Ayleid Empire. Her surprise must come from there having been a gap with no clear succession. The Ayleids were pretty certain to be replaced at their fall. It seems Serana was buried later and my original post was pretty baseless.

I doubt that. They killed EVERYTHING that wasn't Youkudan.

osyrys what race is from hammerfell?

@Alexander Mains it has been confirmed that it won't be

@Alexander Mains it has boiled down to 4 possibilities. Valenwood, Hammerfell, High Rock, or both High Rock and Hammerfell combined

@@kuleguy2010 we never had an elder scroll game specifically set in valenwood before plus we get to see what life is like under the rule of the thalmor aldmeri dominion the only info on what it was like was from that diplomatic immunity quest in skyrim where they do there annual purges and malborn family is one of the victims in these purges but other then this there not much else

By Azura, by Azura, by Azura! The champion, standing here, next to me! (Or something like that)

A beautifully awful example of what you’ve just said is the Disappearance of the Dwemer. For about 50 to maybe a maximum of 100 years, the Nords started waging war against the Dwemer. One day, the Dwemer just kind of… vanished from all of existence. The Nords began writing stories and false tales about how their mighty King “Led the Nord armies so vigorously that he decimated the legions of the Chimer and the Dwemer.” In reality, we as outside readers know that the Dwemer actually tampered with the Heart of Lorkan during the Battle of Red Mountain, and either teleported themselves straight into Oblivion, or threw themselves thousands of years into the future. . We as readers actually understand that what really happened was the Nords were lured by the Chimer into a dual sided Ambush with the help of the Dwemer. During this final conflict when the Dwemer and Chimer believed the Nords defeated, the scholars argue that perhaps **((Its just pure speculation in reality…. But PERHAPS))** a combined forced of Orsimeri and Khajiti warriors arrived in the aid of the Nords, and **This** is why the Dwemer ended up tampering with the Heart of Lorkan. Right as they were about to wipe the Nords from the face of Mundus and Nirn combined, Khajit assassins popped out of the shadows and began slaughtering the Chimer, while the Orsimer berserker rushed the Dwemer. Suddenly the Dwemer and the Chimer began losing the fight, so Dumac Dwarfking called for their ultimate Hail Mary: Use prototype technology to alter the Heart of Lorkan in an act of pure desperation in order to win this abrupt and extreme turn of the tides.

The reason for such a long post though is say that the Nords have always been known to alter history in their favor. The disappearance of the Dwemer was by no means an achievement of the Nords, but the rewrote history to say it was specifically because of the Nords and the Nords alone that the Dwemer were wiped to extinction. In reality, it could simply have been the fact that the Orsimer hated the Dwemer and the Chimer and wanted to destroy them, so they saw the Nordic ambush as a means to an end. Let the Nords die out which is a Win-Win for the Orsimer to conquer them afterward, let the Dwemer and Chimer turn their backs and blind themselves in their Pride of false victory; then jump from the shadows and decimate them all.

They weren't Nords at the time. Atmorans are a predecessor race to Nords.

Toddhead? :)

Who needs technology, if you have magic?

It probably has to do with the existence of magic. People who in our world would be scientists are alchemists, enchanters or scholars of magic in TES. Aside from the Dwemer, the only other people that somewhat contributed to technology were the ones who were making clocks, farming/milling equipment, and other similar things. It's not that they wouldn't benefit from technology, or that magic does everything that technology could. But rather, magic _seems_ like it can solve any problem. It's the go-to answer for any complicated question because it's the most advanced and versatile field of study they know. And, if you think of it, the ones with the most amount of knowledge, the ones that have refined and perfected many crafts and could possibly develop technology further... are the altmer. But the altmer love magic, they wouldn't even think of something that could rival it because it's their strongest connection with the aedra, with magnus, with what they're "meant to be". But of course, the dwemer existed in spite of that, but weren't well liked because of their atheism (from what I gathered). And then they zero-summed. So, following the path of the dwemers is not something that most men or mer would be inclined to do, I guess. And most of the ones that are interested in dwemer technology are pretty hell-bent in it being _dwemer_ technology and don't try a different approach, and with dwemer tech being so complicated, little to no progress is made

Maybe after TES6. Just maybe...

@@jacrispy3275 That would be amazing. It would basically be like what New Vegas was to Fallout 3. A game to create more lore/expand on some of the obscure lore of the Elder Scrolls series. So much could be done with a Merethic Era game because it wouldn't have to abide by the rules that any of the other games do. There will always be mysteries in the Elder Scrolls universe, but what better way to create more mysteries than by demystifying some of the other ones? There is almost an infinite amount of possibilities for Elder Scrolls games. I'm sure if we request a Merethic Era game enough from Bethesda, they will deliver. I just hope there won't be any microtransactions

@@walrusmcgee - yeah. It'd be cool to play as a Chimer, Falmer, or Dwemer. It'd be cool if campaigns would vary depending on race. Like, if your an Atmoran, you assist Ysgramor in wiping out the elves. Or if you're a mer, you get to band together with the other races of mer, and help combat the Atmorans. Lots of possibilities.

@@jacrispy3275 I would want a game that takes place before the men and elves went to war. There was a time when the Nedes/Ayleids and Nords/Snow elves coexisted. Or maybe a game set during events unbeknownst to us occurred so we can have new lore. I really want to see Pyandonea, Thras, Esroniet, Akavir, Yokuda, or Atmora

@@jacrispy3275 A game set in Atmora would be amazing because they could literally write up books and books worth of new lore

Since Nords and the Snow Elves were enemies, I would think the Nords utterly crushed them. Not to mention there is a Snow Elf statue, and some people think the College of Winterholds architecture is akin to snow elves

I Deniz I wish you could like pick a religion or narrow down more specific things about your race.

@@baronofbahlingen9662 yeah

That's not how genetics work in Elder scrolls. You have the racial traits if your father, and the physical appearance of your mother.

@@noxflo897 I know what you mean but that is stupid, because look at Mankar Camoran

Same

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@@jasminrennings same 4 u ^¬^

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