Elder Scrolls is literally the least “fash” fantasy out there. Yes, I am a huge fucking nerd, no I am not white, I’ll see you in the comments mother fucker, I KNOW THE LORE! FIGHT ME!
Skyrim was cool and Oblivion was also cool (probably cooler tbh)
What the fuck is CHIM.
CHIM, is In my humble, conjecture based option, is kirkbride’s way of synthesizing eastern and western philosophy. To understand you are nothing and to believe that you are everything. To know that you are a personality construct in an uncaring god-head, while also having the ego to believe your identity is worth asserting. To see the wheel on its side and see the tower and to see the tower spells “I”. To hold these two contradictory beliefs is to achieve CHIM. Comprehension of the godhead without ego is to zero-sum (Kagranak), ego all encompasing is to be a Sharmat, a false dreamer (DagothUr). Hope that clears it up! Make sure to buy Skyrim !
Thats really cool but how does this make people be able to bend reality, is it a pure force of ego and will that is able to bend the dream once you fully grasp your place in it?
Yeah basically. Once you realize, once you know, that you are in a dream, in real life, you wake up (zero sum), but if you somehow maintain your dream identity with this knowledge you become a lucid dreamer in a sense.
Weren’t the elves turned black as punishment for their sins? That’s pretty fucked up writing if you ask me
No, the dunmer’s skin was turned to ash (blueish-gray, and thier original skin color was gold-brown) for the tribunal’s betrayal of Azura at red Mountain (a volcano). Azura’s actions are not good (she is known for being venguful when slighted), the deities of TES are not the arbiters of morality in this universe, this is not in anyway an association of black skin with evil.
