Project Cyrodiil’s update released a few days ago, and I’ve enjoyed it a lot. I especially liked the province’s religious faction the “itinerant priests”, who get to explore the religious fractures in the western pantheon from the perspective of sort of low-class friars who nobody really takes all that seriously. Oblivion didn’t really delve into religious lore much other than the Pelinal DLC, so getting a whole Cyrodiilic priestly faction is a lot of fun.
I also used the opportunity to test something from a mod I made myself–my character was a “wretch” from a character backgrounds mod I made
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/55570
which basically means I had no skills in anything and couldn’t use trainers. It was refreshing to be so weak and vulnerable in a game I know so well, especially since it was in a totally new area I knew nothing about. Luckily the Project Cyrodiil devs have provided mercenary characters to hire, because my poor wretch certainly needed the help of the Nord meatshield for hire in Charach to survive those goblin lairs and emu attacks.
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Honestly, I’m more surprised the High Elves aren’t breaking chairs and keyboards over another Human ‘becoming’ a God.
They started a civil war over Talos, yet don’t say a damn thing about Martin becoming the mortal avatar of Akatosh, and then ascended to the Heavens afterwards.
Akatosh, Dragon God of Time, God of Gods amongst the Imperial Pantheon, regardless of if you’re Man or Mer, chose a Man as his Avatar. And the Thalmor, being the racist bastiges they are, didn’t freak out about a Man being more worthy than a Mer, again, to be chosen and anointed by the Divines?
Then again, the Thalmor teach that they are the ones that ended the Oblivion Crisis and everything else is heresy and the Races of Men trying to steal the glory of the Thalmor, so maybe they try to teach that Martin never existed? It has been a fair while since I did anything with the Thalmore except turn them into mulch…
I’m a little rusty on my 4th Era TES Lore, but as I understand it…
The Thalmor acknowledge Martin became an avatar of Akatosh, but the Thalmor spin it as Akatosh breaking the “chain” that the Septims had held over Tamriel for an entire era by deliberately removing the Septim bloodline from existence (Which isn’t entirely true, as simply being Dragonborn in Skyrim suggests there’s Septim blood somewhere in our ancestry unless we accept we’re Shor in mortal form given his absence from Sovengarde).
Basically Martin didn’t so much become Akatosh as Akatosh used Martin as a means to enter into baseline reality.
The fact there’s potential Dragonborn amongst Orcs, Khajiit and even Argonians confirms that the Septim bloodline got freaky often enough that there’s potential heirs amongst every major race on the continent.
All hail Empress Lifts-her-Tail, first of her line, and the Royal Consort, Crantius Colto?
Or did some Emperor get splinters in an awkward location while investigating a most unusual knothole, and that is how we got Argonian Dragonborn?
Antiochus Septim, the Seventh Emperor. Brief History of the Empire and the Wolf Queen series of in-universe books cover him.
100% Antiochus is the ancestor.
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https://youtu.be/oOZBU257ERE?si=xYPjChzUDbGfFsBf&t=62
You know why
In all seriousness, I felt a pang in my heart watching this. So much has changed. So much is lost. We’ve gained so much and come so far.
I don’t know what everyone else has said here but since my last posts that I remember, I’ve gotten into houseplants. More specifically carnivorous plants.
I’ve got a few that are outdoor only (sarracenia, venus fly traps) but I’ve had fun watching my nepenthes slowly blow up their pitchers. And I keep successfully propagating my pinguicula, somehow.
I did like seeing the sarracenia in Hallowfall, even if they’re magical sarracenia that also happen to glow and grow in caves.
I think most of it stems from having to put down both of my childhood cats within a few months of each other, whoof. That was rough and I still miss my kitties 
So a friend of mine just finished Ratshaker and is now incensed that there’s no Rat offhand item in the game.
I explained to them that, because shaking the Rat actually causes things, it would be better as a main-hand item, like a dagger or a wand.
And now we’re both in hysterics imagining if it was a dagger and you just have Rogues running around shanking people with a deranged-looking rat in each hand, and the unexpected tragedy of a shorter race trying to stab a taller race twixt the cheeks and losing their grip on the rat.
“ARH’MAH’GEDDON!” indeed …
Things I didn’t expect to read today.
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It is the Elder Scrolls setting. Everything is canon, and nothing is, and we just gloss over temporal paradoxes because the whole setting is a self-aware story that knows the writers are insane and is just trying to keep things coherent.
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Replaying Rogue Trader with the new DLC, which introduces a new archetype and companion the Bladedancer.
It is stupid. Utterly breaks the balance of the early game and I do not care in the slightest. Bouncing around the battlefield cutting up fools. I’ve never had so much fun in an RPG before.
Might not be so bad if you just ignore the whole anima system.
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Bout to start a minicut bc my abs are starting to fade away like the cake, ice cream, hamburgers and brownies that used to be in my kitchen since the holidays started.
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It actually isn’t bad so far. The panda had started Rivendreth before I took a vacation. So he already had some renown. And that is going up fairly quickly. I’m also getting prompts to skip some quests because "I am familiar with … " so that’s cool. It’s a little weird taking a level 15 into it though. Can’t use anything the merchants sell because my level is too low. But, I’ve already gained nearly 10 levels in a couple of hours, so it’s not bad.
Both characters already have done a couple of the starter quests for Dragon Flight, so I’m ready bounce if things start to feel too grindy. But over all things seem better than when Kina went through it since I’m not having to follow their narrative.
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You know an expansion is bad when Blizzard themselves implement skip mechanics into it.
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Wishing you all a wonderful new year.
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Happy New Year! Starting this new year off with some new business cards and a customized domain for my own business email address. bye bye gmail.
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I spent yesterday getting all the mogs I could from Torghast. Should be able to unlock the rest on Tuesday.
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A snow plow racing down my street woke me up and scared the ever-loving crap out of me. Now I’m awake much earlier than planned and the cats are convinced I should feel them.
Snow days when you work from home aren’t quite as magical than when I was a kid.
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I’ll take typing in my home office over being trapped in a cubicle with a sportsball obsessed normie any old day.
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