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
I feel like Elder Scrolls Lore is what you'd get if Tolkien got a massive head injury just prior to writing LOTR and had to explain all of his world and details in a single day to the jedi council from the prequels, they wrote it down and then a bunch of hippies passed it down as oral history for 12 years.
You forgot the part where you make Tolkien a libertarian and feed him A LOT of ketamine.
A good portion of the lore is just Terence McKenna‘s theories and ideas (fractal based time periods, novelty theory, the Dwemer, and argonians are direct references) while the other huge chunk is from Kirkbride‘a theology degree and using weird unique ideas from a lot of religions that he thought would be fun ( the cosmology is based on Roman beliefs for example, CHIM is based on I beleive Jainism, etc)
Thank you so much for introducing me to a new fun crank to research.
I am now being guided by the zero time wave to the point of infinite novelty in which the monad will manifest beyond it's physis reflection.
May you inevitably end up meming that we are in a parallels time phase post 2012 like so many people who read him do lol