you got fucking kings, Torygg, Helseth, living gods of the Tribunal.... under an "Emperor"? who puts some garrisons around but does.... what exactly?
theres an "East Empire Trading Company"? whats that do?
it kinda seems like a holy roman empire, kinda seems like a regular roman empire. they've got knights, dukes, but a Legion...
yes i know the answer is technically "these jackoffs just made it up as they went" and don't care a lick about political theory but this is exactly the kind of excercise that makes fun speculative historiography
In Oblivion, necromancy was still legal in Cyrodiil. However, it was also somehow legal for the Mages Guild to uh, root out and kill necromancers in the countryside because uhh, I don't know because nobody would find out or care either way I guess
heres a lil secret. Necromancy was only illegal becuase undead laborers completely bankrupted liege lords who had to feed & maintain their laborers. so they got with the religious freaks and violently suppressed them
:stuff: i do not have a real opinion on undead labor idk if theyre sentient but if they are :john-brown:
Don't even get me started with how soul gems and enchanting works in the TES franchise. You're literally using people/animals trapped forever in a rock to power your magical shirt that makes you slightly better at smithing.
Not necessarily. Regular soul gems can only capture a normal "soul" which is simply just the vague life force transferred into a shiny rock while the actual consciousness of the (non-sapient) creature passes through Mundus, like Arkay intended. The reason why Black Soul Gems are so taboo is that they trap the whole soul (consciousness and personality and all), including/especially from sapients, and exchange them with a group of eldritch beings in exchange for a more potent enchantment.
how does the soul cairn keep people... forever? but enchantments reduce on use? how do dwemer animonculi still run on a 3 milennia old skeever soul?
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"As the books and other artifacts in Dwemer ruins rarely show signs of wear or age, I believe that the Dwemer knew of a preservative effect, perhaps a device still active which denies or controls the Earth Bones governing time and decay." (Baladas Demnevanni), and also "In their denial of both phenomena and noumena, the Dwemer found comfort in the creation of Animunculi, which in their operation, combined two incompatible principles, thus denying both." (ibid)
I reject the notion that centurions are powered by standard enchantment, and any souls present in the loot tables have been placed there by impish Daedra
The soul gem doesn't directly power the automaton itself at least according to this journal in Skyrim.
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(im covering my ass in case that an only-skyrim feature)