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

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Any time altmer show up in a storyline there's like a 90% chance the story is going to be "the dipshit altmer are extremely racist and stupid and are probably trying to cause the apocalypse for explicitly the reasons that they're both very racist and also just the biggest dipshits in existence."

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      17 days ago

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      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        The topic of "Thalmor" is weird because they were basically just a racist country club which was inexplicably elevated by Ayrenn into being Summerset's FBI despite their storylines all being "so yeah looks like those dumbfuck Thalmor agents are conspiring to commit treason again lmao" and their organizational mission openly being at odds with Ayrenn's policies, then a few hundred years later another, different organization was created to be a colonial puppet government in Valenwood, and then finally around the Oblivion Crisis a virulently racist militia started calling themselves the Thalmor for nationalist reasons.

        I guess it would like fascists in Europe naming themselves after Sparta, the Praetorian Guard, the Templars, or whatever.

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          17 days ago

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        • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Probably misremembering here but, aren't Thalmor elevated by Ayrenn during ESO because they're loyal to her instead of her brother?

          They end up filling the spaces they do because most of the spy masters and shit defected to Veiled Heritance and the Aldmeri military is busy fighting a war so she needed a pool of loyalists to help end an ongoing coup.

          • Red_Left_Hand [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            It appears to be class-based, big name mer wizards seem to live forever, nobles age but live for as long as the plot requires, and commoners just keel over before their 200th birthday

            So any overlap would be minimal