The Battle of Red Mountain was the climactic final battle of the War of the First Council. The war was fought between the Chimer (comprised of the Great Houses as well as the nomadic Ashlanders, united under Indoril Nerevar the Hortator); the secular Dwemer, also known as the Dwarves; and the Nords of Skyrim under High King Wulfharth, intent on reconquering lost territory.
The war started after the discovery by Voryn Dagoth, the leader of the Chimer Great House of Dagoth, that the Dwemer had discovered a powerful artifact called the Heart of Lorkhan underneath Red Mountain. The Heart of Lorkhan is said to be the actual heart or “divine spark” of the god Lorkhan, fired into the sea by Auriel/Akatosh as punishment for creating the mortal plane. High Craftlord and Chief Tonal Architect of the Dwemer Kagrenac had planned to harness the heart and use it to power a giant mechanical god called Numidium. After the discovery of this by the Chimer, Nerevar confronted his friend Dumac, king of the Dwemer, and the two quarreled bitterly. As a result of this, Nerevar led the Chimer to war against the Dwemer in order to stop what was called by the Chimer a “profane” usurpation of godhood.
The battle itself was mostly fought between the Chimer and the Dwemer in the year 1E 700, although many Nords and Orcs were present. Some sources list them as allies of the Dwemer. Accounts of what exactly happened during the battle differ depending on who you ask. The account of Vivec, the close advisor of Nerevar who was present at the battle, covers most of the events, although outside sources are needed to supplement his narrative as several key events are conspicuously missing. The absence of death of Indoril Nerevar in particular is important, as it is one of the most contentious topics in Tamrielic history. Vivec tells us that the battle proceeds thus: Outside of the mountain, the Chimer lured many Dwemer out from their secure strongholds and pinned them down thanks to plans laid out by Nerevar. After this, Nerevar left others to command the assault outside while he took a small party, including Lord Voryn Dagoth, into the chamber in the center of Dumac’s citadel where the Heart was kept. Vivec attributes this to “secret” means, although at least once source claims that an act of treason allowed them entry. Inside the heart chamber, Nerevar’s party met with and fought against Dumac Dwarfking and his guards. According to Vivec, Nerevar and Dumac fought each other directly, and both sustained grievous wounds.
Here sources diverge, but I will use Vivec’s personal account of the battle rather than the orthodoxy of the Tribunal Temple as it is the generally agreed upon series of events. Kagrenac, out of an act of desparation soon after Dumac fell, used his Tools on the heart in an attempt to tap its power. This final gambit of Kagrenac ultimately proved the undoing of the Dwemer, as the act of using the Tools caused the disappearance of every known Dwemer on Nirn (one individual Dwemer was known to have survived, as he was in a plane of Oblivion at the time) and, consequently, the apparent extinction of the Dwemer race.
Henceforth, the most contentious events of the Battle occur. According to Vivec, Lord Dagoth recommended the immediate destruction of the Tools of Kagrenac, but Nerevar wished to consult with his councilors. He entrusted the tools to Dagoth and had himself carried out to the Tribunal (his three most trusted friends, including Vivec) out on the slopes of the mountain. The Tribunal recommended that the tools be preserved in case the Dwemer returned, but on their return to the chamber Dagoth refused to relenquish the tools. Apparently, he behaved irrationally: the Temple would later conclude that he had inexplicably adopted the views of Kagrenac. Nerevar and his guard resorted to force, and after the fight was over, Dagoth was gone, presumed dead, Nerevar was dying, presumably from wounds sustained by Dumac, and the Tribunal was in possession of the tools, which they used to give themselves immortality and elevate themselves to godhood.
Many sources disagree on this account of events. Vivec’s story suggests that Dagoth Ur was nothing but loyal to Nerevar throughout the battle and a few sources even peg Dagoth as the most loyal out of all of Nerevar’s advisors. Other sources, however, treat House Dagoth as having openly aligned with the Dwemer during the battle, citing House Dagoth as a more “secular” organization that did not want to go to war with the Dwemer over the tools. Furthermore, Ashlander sources allege that during the meeting with his advisors, Nerevar was betrayed and murdered by the Tribunal outside of the mountain (FOUL MURDER) before the three then confronted a defiant Dagoth for the heart. When he would not yield, they drove him below the mountain and stole their divinity.
Whatever the case, the battle ultimately ended with the disappearance of the Dwemer, the death of the Hortator Indoril Nerevar, and the ascension to godhood of the Tribunal: Vivec, Almalexia, and Sotha Sil. The Tribunal’s divinity in particular is significant, as it greatly angered the traditional god of the Chimer people, Azura. As a result of her people’s betrayal, Azura cursed the Chimer to have dark skin and red eyes instead of their pale gold appearance as before, turning the Chimer into the race that is today known as the Dunmer.
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Its not a healthy amount of calories. Its close to dangerously low even as a crash diet. You should be doing you’re best in consume around 2000 at least.
The fear of weight gain to the point of limiting calories that low is dangerous. I know there seem to be more to it then just that. But what you are describing is a eating disorder what is a real medical disorder. Maybe you could talk to a doc or even a comrade that has gone through a similar situation ?
It’s the literal bare minimum to just run your brain and body, nevermind any physical activity or learning stuff. You will die from it eventually but slowly (like very very slowly) and like you could get scurvy, osteoporosis, damage in your cardiovascular system. The good news is it’s all reversible especially if it hasn’t been a long term thing for you, bad news is that eating disorders can be quite hard for some people to work through. You should talk to a doctor and/or a therapist about your eating.
join c/fitness comrade. We’ll get you set up right. DM me if you want to talk about TDEE, BMR, etc so you know how to track your calories and how many you want in a healthy diet. If I’m feeling generous, I might just help you with a meal plan. That’s not enough to carry the flag during the revolution.
So, I’d probably start with your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) this is how much energy you’d spend if you sat in bed doing nothing but protein turnover, breathing, firing your brain, and thinking about nothing in particular. If you use a BMR calculator (keep in mind it asks you for a binary gender), then you can get a pretty good reading. Because I have a fair bit of muscle and an often fluctuating amount of fat, I once went to directly measure my BMR via bomb calorimeter and my result was within 200 calories of an online calculator which meant that I effectively used the money for no change in strategy but simply to sate my curiosity. In fact, if you just go to this website, you needn’t know any theory, it spells it out pretty clearly [1]. Your Total Daily Energy Expenditure, or TDEE, however, is how many calories if you spend your day carrying the flag for the revolution instead of simply sitting in bed. This is the interesting number because you get to the big secret of bodybuilding and general fitness: if you eat more calories than you expend, you gain weight, and if you eat less calories than you expend, you lose weight. Nutrition is, of course, more involved than this, because if you eat twinkies and a multivitamin, you’ll lose weight, but your body will slow down because it has to convert slop into building blocks it can actually use to keep your body running and it’ll feel awful, but if you eat complex carbohydrates alongside wholesome whole foods, your bodily functions are going to run like a train on kilometers and kilometers of high speed rail.
Normally, I wouldn’t recommend somebody count their calories as a starting point because it’s annoying and it sucks. I think there’s a lot of gains to be made, at least in losing weight, by simply choosing options that serve your body better so that you can give it the building blocks it needs and less waste that it doesn’t. Then, if you were to plateau one way or the other, that’s when you can get granular and particular about each item of food you put in your body. You, however, seem to already have a fledgling curiosity about calories and display what is, to me, a clear need to keep yourself accountable for the amount that you’re eating. If only for a week, I think you would be well served honestly accounting all the food that you eat. I think you should do it because if you do it for less time, you’ll try to “look good for the camera” and eat healthier than you normally would, but usually, if you go for a week, you’ll catch yourself in a candid moment of binging or withholding food from yourself and those are the days where you’re going to get valuable data to see how you can improve on the days you most need to improve. I see in the sidebar in c/fitness, one of the first URLs is this [2]. Under the diet section I see we recommend Fitday, Cronometer and The Daily Plate as calorie trackers/calorie calculators. I’ve seen the latter two in discussions among knowledgeable people and I have personally used MyFitnessPal which serves the same purpose (and a fuckload of ads which is annoying). If you can make it a week, you’ll be much better suited to being able to stop using it, but have a much better handle on what a healthy amount of calories for a given day looks like. If you want to go longer than that, then your brain works differently than mine, but more power to you. That’s the sort of dedication that gets you anywhere you want to go in life.
If you’re heading that direction, all sorts of stretching, yoga, resistance training, calisthenics, cardio, and martial arts lay beyond the horizon, but that’d be a different discussion.
TL;DR Calculate your TDEE and then track a week of eating on Cronometer so you get a better idea of what a healthy day of eating looks like. Stop using Cronometer afterwards because tracking calories is so annoying it’s unreal.
[1] https://www.calculator.net/bmr-calculator.html [2] https://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
You need add a slice of spam or three slices of tofu to your diet a day. Less than 1 dollar.
Probably better to have your family get you a bag of protein and make yourself a smoothie and eat it with some fruit and stuff. That is low enough that you will probably eventually get very sick from it.
Are you experiencing unuseual body hair growth?
