As a dumbass 14 yo, adding the layers of "you're half man, half machine" PLUS the Illuminati PLUS the Templars PLUS but WAIT THERE'S MORE LOOK ALIENS was cool as fuck.
Now, as a slightly less dumb adult, those layers are painfully obvious anti-semitic tropes (among other things), and just can't be ignored.
Dangit, don't ruin TES for me. Look, it's a fantasy world, magic is real and so are eternally genuinely benevolent imperial reigns. THAT'S MY HEADCANON GET OUT MY HEAD.
how much of that is TES specifically rather than a genre convention at large? i feel like most fantasy comes set in a semi-static world unless they're explicitly themed around wars and that isn't even a good sign as far as politics go. other common direction is protagonists remaking the setting by becoming the ruler and i don't much prefer that to serving some dusty despot.
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I still play through the Mass Effect and Deus Ex games without much intrusion of critical thought.
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That's how I feel about Deus Ex.
As a dumbass 14 yo, adding the layers of "you're half man, half machine" PLUS the Illuminati PLUS the Templars PLUS but WAIT THERE'S MORE LOOK ALIENS was cool as fuck.
Now, as a slightly less dumb adult, those layers are painfully obvious anti-semitic tropes (among other things), and just can't be ignored.
Dangit, don't ruin TES for me. Look, it's a fantasy world, magic is real and so are eternally genuinely benevolent imperial reigns. THAT'S MY HEADCANON GET OUT MY HEAD.
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how much of that is TES specifically rather than a genre convention at large? i feel like most fantasy comes set in a semi-static world unless they're explicitly themed around wars and that isn't even a good sign as far as politics go. other common direction is protagonists remaking the setting by becoming the ruler and i don't much prefer that to serving some dusty despot.
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