Skyrim - The COMPLETE Guide to the Altmer - Elder Scrolls Lore
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In our latest Elder Scrolls video we give you a complete guide to the Altmer, the high elves.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.
The game's main story revolves around the player character and their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. The videogame is set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, and takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim. Over the course of the game, the player completes quests and develops the character by improving skills. The game continues the open world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel anywhere in the game world at any time, and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely.
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Elder Scrolls lore just makes me feel all warm inside and I cannot explain why
Artemis Arrow i know more about elder scrolls lore and religion than i do of my own relogion
Josh Van Trip This is my religion now, praise Aurei-El
euphoria
I know more about the elder scrolls 4000 years history then my 2000 years history
@J T it's not a tumah
"a city of scintillating crystals"
ESO: here's some gray stone for ya
Yeah I really feel like they coulda done a lot more with the High Elven architecture in most places. Auridon was the first indicator i guess but it was meant to be a tame cultural barrier, not the real deal...
@@valeclaw1697 I actually think Auridon was a good start; you could see a lot of elements of what was described previously, only less grandiose. While Alinor looked absolutely beautiful and fit some of the descriptions given, I think that they should have made its buildings look a bit more like Auridon on steroids with more elegant curves, roofs that sweep out from the buildings like wings, and glass lining the buttresses and reflecting even more light than before.
THANK YOU
@Hexi At least they had an in-lore explanation for the change that makes a relative amount of sense, even if it's kind of... random? Out of nowhere, a bit?
@Hexi I'm gay for Alduin
Have you heard of the high elves? An Oblivion NPC says to me, who is playing a high elf.
It’s like when Ysolda tells me about the Khajiit and “the way I hear it, Elsweyr ain’t nothin like Skyrim”.. as I role-play a Khajiit merchant😂
Either the npc "doesn't see the world that way" or is on some "they all look the same to me" shit
Have you heard of the High Elves?
Fully expecting this to be top comment.
-Seen any elves? Ahahahaha!
BRAAAAHHHH OOOOHHHHH HMMMPFF
Yup. Still damn skooma addicts.
Well I have now
Eso summerset footage without ppl running around. Impressive
@Nii Lantei Bright-Davies public test server, a server for ppl to test stuff of new patch b4 it goes live
As a High Elf fan, I just live there now. Running around like Don Quixote assailing every sload. Since 2 expansions have passed I missed Dragons and a Vampire plot... But for the Queen. Sloads!
@@joegrimes9232
Yeah, I don't play ESO all that much, but whenever I do, I just camp out on the Summerset Isles, as an Altmer. It's beautiful, and the Elven sophistication we see amongst all Mer is most certainly evident in its wondrous architecture.
Praise be to Queen Ayrenn!
7:04 there's 1 guy lol
@@joegrimes9232 Happy to see another Altmer fan!
My character roster has 4 Altmers in it (and also 1 Bosmer, 2 Dunmer, 1 Imperial (the only human) and 1 Khajiit).
It's strange that the Altmer are so stunningly beautiful and live in such a warm, beautiful land but they themselves are often cold, haughty, and at times even cruel.
The skyrim presets for them mad ugly doe
Like a Japanese :)
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Essentially they fell prey to there hubris and became victims of there success.
I mean, the Altmer we see in Skyrim and Oblivion are probably very angry about being away from their beautiful homeland, and disappointed at everything they see. The summerset altmer themselves probably don't act as cold or haughty.
@@curtiswong7280
True. The average Thalmor Justiciar is certainly cold and haughty, but yeah, given they're in the Empire and dealing with Nords of all people... yeah, I see why they'd be a bit less welcoming 😅
Maybe the real Aldmeris is the friends you make along the way?
i mean like 90% of yokuda got nuked and im pretty sure theres other continents got major fucked up by dem daedra i see no reason as to why it would be impossible for the potentially most magical race to do more of the same shit with their homeland as has happened before probably as a result of their or their corollary species interaction with the world
didnt atmora get shrekt as well?
@@JulianAAYoung It's still there, just dead. I like to believe it's where white walkers live.
Aldmeris is or was undoubtedly real. It's written about, along with the origins of the Maormer, in the Crystal Tower, and ruins on Summerset only date back so far. It's possible that Tras, current home of the Sload, was once Aldmeris before it was submerged, possibly in the same manner as Yoduka. It's also possible that the Sload were the reason for the Aldmeri exodus, and/or once had feuds with them.
Edit: Also, in ESO, certain antiquities excavated in Summerset make direct reference to Aldmeris, such as the Kinlord's Tree, which traces familial lineage back to the first Aldmer immigrant.
@@OuterRimPride
Yeah, Aldmeris may have been destroyed at the end of the Ehlnofey wars, and perhaps the few Mer who remained on a little bit of the OG continent got kicked by the Sload, but you'd think they'd remember that and record it in history.
Maybe Aldmeris was like Pangae in our world, a big, solid landmass that got sundered, splitting up and killing many Ehlnofey
You'd think a thousand year lifespan would dim their desire to become immortal.
ungrateful bastards
Sandhiren Pillay I think them having long lifespans make them want immortality even more. They know they should be immortal and their extremely long lifespans is a constant reminder that they once were immortal. Even though they have more time on the mortal plane than any other race but you will still die like them all the same. Which should humble them, but again I think they look at it as if they are being cheated out of their immortality.
A being like the mayfly would the same about us humans. Personally I would love to be immortal with friends and family.
NOT ENUFF YEARS!
It doesn't matter how long you live for, when you are close to the end everyone still wants to be immortal. See when we think hundreds of years for them to live, that is something to envy and we think "why would they complain!? they have so long!" but if it was normal for us humans to live the same age we would still want immortality because no one genuinely wants to die.
"Have you heard of the High Elves?"
Me after watching this video: Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well!
As someone who enjoys playing as High Elf in the games, I wish Bethesda hadn't painted the Altmer and elves in general to be the go-to villains of the Elder Scrolls universe with Oblivion and Skyrim. I hope future games can do to them a bit of what Morrowind did to the Dunmer and add more detail and complexity to their mythology and society. (ESO does that to an extent, but I want more!)
Perhaps we may expand our experience with the Direnni High Elves in Tes6
Considering the main villains of three Elder Scrolls games have been elves, yeah. It kind of sucks. I also love playing as Altmer.
The way I look at it is the Altmer are alright, but the Thalmor can get bent.
At least it makes sense WHY they're the villains. They have very good reasons to hate the empire by the 4th era
@@EmmyRae1885 its not rally that of a great reason to be honest
This video makes me really appreciate the nice High Elves in Oblivion since they were probably exiled to the mainland. I guess they learned that everyone is equal in the Arena.
Either exiled or willingly left, remember that during Oblivion, they're a part of the Empire, so many may have moved for business reasons or to build foreign relations to better their lives on Summerset
@@thalmoragent9344 Some are also able to live as aristocracy in the other provinces where they would have been lower on the rung upon the Isles, if they did not leave due to ideological dispute it is through ambitions to better their lives.
@@foulmoodcentral2830
True, an average Altmer mage in Summerset may be a super good asset and treated better in another province given they're a step above most other races in that regard
That, or they were born/raised outside the Isles. Which, now that I think of it, would probably make them targets for purging by the Thalmor.
@@thalmoragent9344c ZZZ 2❤
I love Summerset in ESO. It's one of the most beautiful places I've seen in a video game and the music just adds to it.
Thats a masterpiece
@@LioneltheInquisitor really? Like….. _really?_
@@LioneltheInquisitor not as good as cheese
I would imagine obsession with purity, bloodlines and never leaving Summerset is highly exaggerated description of life among nobility, not everyday altmer
The subplot in ESO of the outcasts is very interesting. I imagine many a Bastard born of a night of indescreet passion ends up casteless and cast adrift in Summerset. They create thier own problems by having such a stifling aristocracy. In ESO, I see Ayrenn trying to air them out and a bitter backlash trying to revert to the staus quo. A pity they ended up reverting to thier former elitest tendancies, but an interesting thread to tug at for future Elder Scrolls.
I think the sad reality might be that by the 4E the only Altmer left in Alinor are for the most part “racially pure” fanatics. Anyone who didn’t step in line with the Thalmor agenda was ruthlessly persecuted and either killed or banished. It took the Nazis a little over a decade from inception to fully taking over the German government. The Thalmor have had hundreds of years to do the same thing, and are working with a much more culturally homogenous population to begin with (also there is no German “race” irl while there is certainly an Altmer “race” in the games, making the job of propagandizing an “us vs. them” narrative even easier).
I like to imagine that some of the more chill Altmer we find in Skyrim like Faralda or Ulundil are those that fled persecution in Alinor and are trying to make a new name for their people.
Elves in the elder scrolls are a lot more interesting than in most fantasy settings.
because they are more believable, they have more humanity
In other fantasy setting, there are usually just humans with pointy ears
@@valtontony826
Yeah, the contrast of the Men and Mer makes them more interesting. They're not typical fantasy Elves, they have a motive, they have different origins and aren't just a bunch of tree-hugging hippies... not even the Bosmer are that stereotypical.
The complexity of Elder Scrolls Elves is what makes them so cool
Yeah, the fact that they have an entirely different view on life to humans is really interesting, believing that they were robbed of immortality and are forced to live in the material world, awaiting to be reunited with their kind in another realm, it suits them a lot considering how long their lives can be. Meanwhile humans have much shorter lifespans and consider life to be a gift, not a prison.
*gasps in hobbit* … how DARE you! :o
Im a Nord through and through but have a vast interest in the Altmer. ESO did an amazing job with them. Glad they get a fair swing in ESO as opposed to Skyrim
I despise the Nord. It's the only race I won't play. They have a horrible, brutal history where they literally cause an extinction of a race and attempt to do the same to another.
@@boethia7367 imperials and redguards did the same to Ayleids and Sinistral elves, made them extinct.
And in all 3 cases it was the elves who start the fight with them first.
@@kingclint2382 In the case of the snow elves, it's more like "you kicked my leg so i'll rip off your head and plough it through the ground, sound fair?"
@@erifenesorek5056 imagine your family getting slaughtered overnight and you have the power to do something about it. The Atmorans got theirs. I love snow elves they are my favorite race along with Nords. But they reap what they sow
@@kingclint2382
And yet the Elves have never put humans to Extinction, and only now are they actively planning it. Humans have committed genocide more than the other races on Tamriel...
And we don't know what started the conflict we know as the Night of Tears.... we don't know what happened and the Nords only have their own side of the story to go off of.
Many Ayleids allied with Allesia and her rebellion, and were even vital to her new Empire since much of it was built on Elven principles of civilization, down to (many of) the laws and language.
The Redguards slaughtered Sinestral Elves, as well as each other, as well as all the people in Hammerfell indiscriminately, and blew up their own homeland Continent.... so I mean, who knows, maybe the Sinestral Elves were the good guys trying to stop the Redguards from doing dumb shit, ever thought of that? 🤔
3:35 “Before there was anything, there was one thing, and he was everything-“
*raccoon slowly enters stage right*
This tickled me 😂
OH YES
I dont even get the reference but this got me lmao
@@bootykraken7177 The thing that came to mind was a JPL or NASA person's statement, "We can go to Mars or we can stay here on earth and destroy everything and in a million years or so, the raccoons will go to Mars."
3:26
"In order to understand their origins, we need to go all the way back to the very beginning."
ShoddyCast anyone?
Da Soviet Union i thought the very same
I really miss old ShoddyCast
@@VindensSaga Same
I think the fact that it's a tenet of Altmer culture to sit down a discuss problems before they come to blows is pretty underrated as far as lore goes. Finally a race that doesn't start with throwing axes at each other.
Pelinal: *heavy breathing*
Pelinial, buddy it's alright there are no elves here. Just have a nice colovian brandy and sit by the fire. Everything is just fine
Lol I'm playing a Divine Crusader playthrough right now and I must drench myself in the blood of elves!
>:(((
@@orchid5996 hey loser, he elves killed you
Altmer might have magic, but do they have a genocidal cyborg-god from the future?
My favourite race, though sometimes I feel like I am the only one who likes them.
Rodiacreed highelves are cool though! I like the orcs so I know what you mean!
I like Khajiit
I really like the high elves. An ancient culture with a rich history and powerful magics is absolutely fascinating to me. It's the Thalmor that I hate with a burning passion. they give all elves a bad name. Whenever I play a high elf in skyrim I like to think that my dragonborn is an anti-thalmor political dissident who had to flee his homeland due to thalmor persecution and wound up in skyrim, where our story begins.......
@@tannerblack4498 that's almost my exact mental backstory everytime I start a new high elf character xD
Me too
Roleplaying a Thalmor Assassin who despises all Imperials in Oblivion. Needed to get some understanding of the character and her background lol, great vid
I'm roleplaying as a former Thalmor who despises them now and helps the people of Skyrim ❤
Altmer are so underrated. A lot of people probably see them as generic Tolkien ripoffs, but I want more.
The High Elves are so cool. They are the most fun to play as. Their ability to naturally harness the Arcane. Also pack a wallop with their martial skills. Really like their unique lore and would appreciate more of it in part 6.
High elves are by far my favorite Elder Scrolls race, I see many similarities with Tolkiens Noldor elves and the blood elves from wow(in terms of elitist character, artistic elegance, affiliation to magic, martial prowess, etc)
They have so much RP potential , from being a divine protector of Tamriel to becoming an elven supremacist or a ruthless lord.
Dark elves are probably my second favorite race but something doesn't feel right about them being allies with the Argonians and fighting their elven brethren.
I’m surprised we don’t see more high elves becoming vampires when near death...or even at the peak of their lifespan to capture their bodily and mental perfection for eternity.
The altmer is the race that despise the daedra the most this is why there are few altmer vampires
I get that, but nevertheless, when you crave immortality and that closeness to their former Demi-Godliness...they might be inclined to look away from their disdain for the daedra to possibly become more powerful than they. No? It’s just one perspective. Not saying it’s the correct one.
@@infra_r3d133 they crave divinity, not immortality itself. Vampires go to coldharbour, where unsurprisingly divinity is not an option
@@Walsinats4 Divinity would also mean becoming something more close to the "source force" that is Auri-El, Anui'el and Anu. if anything their goal is to become formless and endless, impossible in possibility. not a permanent trapped fleshsack that craves constant blood. Molag Bal offers much but not to an Altmer who understands the point of his creation and origins.
There are some High Elves that would agree. The Order of the Virtuous Blood was led by an Altmer named Seridur in the Imperial City, he was a vampire right in the Temple District no less.
Clan Aundae was made up entirely of High Elves in Morrowind.
So, the answer is yes, some would allow themselves to become vampires.
They believe they are the most intelligent and physically gifted of all beings because they are not just high elves they are very high elves!
They also love their lists
@@ktc1875 ah yes them and the Imperials. Do you have something to confess?
High from smoking what thoe, that's the question XD
They ARE the most intelligent and physically gifted of all beings though.
@@ozmul5810 I imagine it would be a drug infused with magic. It would have to be better than skooma and have magic boosting effects. Like a cross between Sleeping tree sap, skooma, balmora blue, elder cheese and maybe felldew.
You can talk inaccuracies with architecture all you want, but to me the flora of ESO’s Summerset is astonishing! The colorful maples and cherry tress, the unique coral structures and sea grapes lining the shores, and the greens! I did not know that many shades of green existed in the rainbow before the Summerset chapter of ESO.
Gonna fall asleep to this. Love it so much!
Drew. This is for you. FudgeMuppet is an enjoyable and informative channel for any Elder Scrolls fan. To me, regardless of how much I enjoy the complete channel, you are my favorite. You are a poet Drew. You don't just share information and lore, you poetically inform me of lore I didn't know I must definitively needed to know.
I love it. But slow down your pace. Just a little, just a tad. I don't mind if your 33 minute videos are 41 minutes instead.
Love the great work. Love the channel as a whole. I thank you.
You can slow down playback lmao
At 0:57 even their chickens are in order. The Altmer sure are masters of their land lol.
I appreciate your correct pronunciation of “cuirasses”
Yeah yeah, Alinor is fancy, but do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don’t.
WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE NAZEEM?
I just killed you the other night with a Soul Tear shout after Soul Trapping you
30:50 "The notion of an ascended human being worshipped as a god"
If in the beliefs of the Altmer humans are simply further descended elves, then wouldn't a human ascending those same steps in a single leap simply prove their ideas? That it reveals a method outside of simply retracing their descent to rejoin the ranks of the gods?
Yes, but they are far too racist to admit it.
@@TheSuperRatt Either that or they refuse to admit that Lorkkan could be right. The idea that these great limits was actually the keys to Godhood with greater understanding or even something greater then Godhood is probably to much for them. Its admitting everything believed in is wrong.
Came back to this. Just wanna say, master race.
All know that the Altmer are the fairest and most beautiful of all the races on Tamriel. The Elder race of elves will guide the Younger races of men and ensure that all on Tamriel prosper. I'm sorry if I sound like a snob, the high elves are my favourite race in tes and I love their lore the most.
I love the high elves
LOL Guide the other races? Mer don't have a good track record of stewarding the races they view as lesser than themselves, let alone leading well at the best of times.
Being around so many other Altmer fans makes me happy. The ES community generally dislikes the High Elves of Summerset so it’s nice to be amongst friends. Long live the Dominion!
Long live the AD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
High Elf master race
Race is cool
Dominion is what's lame ASF
I always play the same Altmer warrior, who relies very heavily on magic (usually spells).
Same. Spellsword who recks the Thalmor in cathartic fashion
Old high elves: "We need to preserve our values and culture"
Young high elves: "Ok boomer"
"Ok Bosmer"
Altmer: the High Elves that make me run screaming back to the Elven folk of Middle-earth. (Well, the Thalmor do, anyway.)
Hail the Altmer!!! My people!!!
Our people!
@@BelleroseQC "soviet anthem starts"
@@ukkothedwarf1259 hehe, but it's God Save the Queen. Dry, boring Aristocratic, sits on an island believing in it's once dominion over the world.
joe grimes we elves will conquer the world again! After that, we’ll probably blow it and lose control pretty quickly. oh well at least we will have something new to brag about and look back on fondly for another thousand years.
@@joegrimes9232 RULE ALINOR, ALINOR RULES THE WAVES! ALTMER NE'ER NE'ER SHALL BE SLAVES!
I just want to say thank you everyone at Fudgemuppet. You guys make it fun to replay the same game with different builds. Never stop doing this and I can't wait to see what you guys have in store for Valenwood.
Whole year later and this series still hits 💯
My favorite race the high elves, great elven and glass armors and weapons.
This is what I have been waiting for! I am so so glad I've found this amazing channel!!
*wasn't watching, but was listening to the end, the thank you at the end was heard*
Your videos are so nice to listen to when I'm writing up stuff for my TTRPG world, or writing lesson plans, or working on house chores.
These videos help me unwind at night, your voice is great, and your storytelling, data collection, its all great dude
I love the way Drew explains lore in The Elder Scrolls, it kinda sounds like a book or novel, I love it!
He sounds like he’s reading the Bible
CZcams subtitles: Awsomer
Sounds like an awsome race.
Law of the universe.
Elf came first. But steadily dying.
Dwarf came second. Dig too deep and unleashed trouble.
Humans came last. We conquer the stars.
Khajiit came sometime then. And stole from the humans everything they had. They were left with One Sweet Roll. And it was stolen.
@@henrytownshed5304 And the faction of humans called Furries decided to show them their "love" in turn~~
When the Elves are the technically the second to come to Tamriel though, and they have formidable supremacy states too.
The khajiit we're once Elves... Just saying.
Pretty much in Warhammer Fantasy as well and LOTR
my favourite race, so civilized, cultured, disciplined,... They fought off the Sloads and are now taking their revenge for what humans did to them.
Hey perfect! I was just looking for this info yesterday. Thnks can’t get enough of these during replay after years
Woke up to see this beautiful video on my feed. What joy!
Great explanation. Thanks for posting. It would be great if you guys could do something about the “The Path to Alaxon”, the high elf belief system. That would be a good video:).
I roleplay as a High Elve in my current run and I was suprised that when they tried to execute me that man asked “are you from the thalmor?”
I think it's very.... sad that Bethesda chose to throw away that gorgeous (and incredibly creative) take on Summerset which Zeninimax wrote (check Alinor and Queen Ayerenn in TES library) and instead opted for a much more mundane interpretation. The Altmer are still interesting, but nowhere near as cool as they were depicted in the initial Zenimax concepts. Sadly, as Todd put it, Tamriel is not about magic. If you imagined magic never existed on Tamriel it would still be an enticing place, he said. I disagree. I think the setting suffered creatively.
That could have just been Todd lying again. The guy is about as honest as Mephala after all. Cause seriously, saying TES isn't about magic is as dumb as saying Fallout isn't about nuclear war.
@@zixx844 Could he be mephala?
@@sirwaylonthe1st239 the plot thickens...
At long last, love the Altmer, keep up the great work guys.
I would love a series playlist of you guys making your ideal fallout in depth like 30 min episodes each on something about you ideal fallout
I generally have a pretty big disdain for the High Elves, mostly due to the Thalmor and the Aldmeri Dominion, but this video helped me see the cool and interesting things about the race, their culture, and history. I'll admit, they're more diverse and less one note than I gave them credit for.
The First Aldmeri Dominion under Queen Ayrenn was pretty cool, and I totally understood their sentiment. I don't like the Thalmor either but I totally understand why they and the current Dominion would be pissed about what Tiber Septum did to them with the Numidium.
I’m 1 minute into the video and these words that I’m hearing are magnificent 👍🏾
Allow me to give a "short" description of the home of the altmer.
"Pretty island with crystal buildings"
I hope the next episode is on my favorite race, the Imperials
FrodoSaggins what about the lusty argonian maids?!
I like the name lol. My friend had a similar name only instead of Bilbo it was dildo saggins lol
Skyrim. You are my childhood. I love you.
I'm watching this for lore research on my altmer dragonborn
Champion of Auri-El
Always appreciate the work you put into your writing. Love it.
Please make this a series exploring all of the races of Nirn!
Really appreciate you are still making elder scrolls videos, don’t know when we can get a glimpse of next game
Whenever I make a High Elf character, i always make them a humble person and not snooty.
EDIT: I also like to think o my High Elves are born outside of the Summerset Isles or they left them to avoid conforming with other elves and basically losing their identity.
I've been watching your guys channel since the skyrim build you made and i hope that with skywind and skyblivion coming out soon that you guys will continue to make amazing builds for them even if they aren't technically stand alone games as well as continue making skyrim builds
I was still watching! Splendid video!
Funny you make this vid now. I just made an altmer-nord hybrid. Altmer but the appearance of a nord. Battlemage stormcloak
19:53 "My fellow Altmer, if we do not embrace the culturally vibrant Orcs and Tree fuckers, the Dominion will not survive!"
Damn, this is a hell of a job!
I am constantly blown away with how well you do this, even years after thousands of hours playing Skyrim.
Sunday breakfast viewing sorted!! Thank you Fudgemuppet!!
I wish Elder Scrolls lore was a major at my uni.
they call the high elves but I never see them getting high
That's because they were born high! High born it's literal. They are high on power! They love high society! Not the magazine... Well maybe.
Khajiit Has Goods if they have coin.
@@henrytownshed5304 High times and the best skooma on Nirn!
In Oblivion there is a High Elf skooma junkie in a Dark Brotherhood quest, you have to murder him of course.
@@geraldchurchill5576 Sh honest high elf. Murdered without any apples.
Shout out to my favorite fictional culture and people in one of my favorite fictional worlds.
Thank you for this lore video! Initially my favorite race were the Bretons, but recently I've transitioned to the Altmer, so having this much background really makes the experience more immersive.
Altmer: they get the 1.05 multiplier to speed, range, jump height and few others thanks to their heights. The end.
If the Nord creation story is correct as well as the high elves that would mean that the Nord's were never elnafey (no idea how to spell that) it might explain why they seem to hate the elves more than the other races of man, since they aren't cut from the same cloth so to speak.
Summerset sounds like a paradise to me, with all the time in the world to hone one's interests, talents and crafts and chase them towards their zenith, then to surpass them again and again past even that, all the while a solid and staunch tradition and quality aimed culture is kept, naturally. to the utmost standards possible and not ever allowed to devolve into something as base, ugly and crude as "the norm." Bah....
the Bosmeri could not give up their love for the wild lands and it's chaotic splendour, the Orsimer could not look away at the state their beloved champion had regressed to, unwilling to forsake him.... likewise the Dunmer have given themselves utterly to the whims and whiles of Daedric ambitions and teachings, whereas the Dwemer abandoned belief and creation before it abandoned them. and the Falmer regressed into absolute mongrelism through deceit and tragedy. truly, it falls to the Altmeri people to set things right.
ESO’s art direction, while decent, doesn’t do justice to what the Summerset Isles should looks like.
The sad thing is, the original concept art did have a bit more faithful interpretation of Summerset pbs.twimg.com/media/DY7cZhVXkAE1eu7.jpg:large It seems as though one year was nowhere near enough time to do proper justice to the rest of the province
watched this while doing my homework :)
My favorite race of the Elder Scrolls universe
This guy is the best hands down
i always play as high elves or bretons.
Lëlikovna same
That makes two of us. My problem is that I cannot play as a character in which I cannot make them look like myself.
Altmer architecture seems so much more civilised than any other race
Ethan K. I mean it’s cause we are
That's because it is.
I like dunmer's best. Like the Mournhold palace.
Probably because it's Aldmer. It's not thiers. Like the other races, they appropriated earlier architecture as thier own and as they are supposed direct descendence just claim it's culture as thiers. The Altmer are frauds, but well spoken enough to pull off the facade. But ahem as an Altmer. Glory to the Dominion.
@@joegrimes9232 I mean there kinda the same thing right , aldmer and altmer
Just like Russians and Soviets
Sure we don’t call Russians Soviets anymore after the fall of the ussr but they are still the same people, just government and certain aspects of the culture have changed
I may be wrong tho lol
Could you guys pleas cover the Maomer?
I think they have, brb gonna go check
czcams.com/video/Wf-KU0i4OM8/video.html this covers A maormer, gonna look back, im sure they have one about all maormer
czcams.com/video/KdSUQmSSk_g/video.html
@@youstolemyhandleyoutwat thanks very much!
@@rhysgarland9295 np bud, i hope those cover the info you were looking for!
Not sure if this was on purpose, but the high elf in your thumbnail definitely reminds me of Princess Zelda.
She's the Queen's cousin as far as I remember, and she's extremely beautiful to my taste. A very smart one too.
You should make videos like this about real historical civilizations. These are amazing.
I always regard hochelaga as the real world Fudgemuppet Drew or vaatividya.
Thxz for the video I love the high elfs
I LOVE your videos!!! Please, please PLEASE do Dunmer.
High Elf for life! The dragon born is and always will be a High Elf
Except the whole septim dinasty
GREAT VID GUYS!!!! Keep up the good work👍🏻
Dislikes are Ulfric's alt accounts
My modded Maormer character in Skyrim: "Maormer are the actual Aldmer!!"
next lore video:FudgeMuppet is actually Hermaus Mora teaching us mortals
I hear Daedra worship has become increasingly prevalent in the Summerset Isle.
Dear Drew, your voice is soothing... a true virtue to listen to when lying down eyes closed, like when we were little kids listening to a bedtime story (but then so much much better) :) Scott is ok too, but Michael... goddamned dude every video you narrate fucks up the peace: can't you just calmely start your bid? like drew and scot, without the screaming/raising of your voice each time? You guys make such nice lore....
😔I wanna see the ancient falmer, maybe the next dragon break will bring them back
Maybe able to find one in greymore chapter of eso.
That’s... not how a dragon break works... when it happens, time is warped as in nothing is really recorded except what happens afterwards. It’s when concurrent time lines meld together. It’s what’s used to do away with lore inconsistencies and make Bethesda have an excuse to say everyone’s choice in a main story is cannon. It does not warp time backwards.
Races I play as:
Breton
Imperial
Dunmer
Altmer
Races I rarely play as:
Khajiit
Bosmer
Races I NEVER play as:
Nords
Redguards
Argonians
Orcs
Dunmer, altmer, orsimer, bosmer supremacist here elves rule if only the Falmer and dwemer were playable
@@mads-Riley-Art Not really, Put basically any race against one of the elves (Excluding the Orismer trash) They win easy, While you might say "Morrowind lost to the argonians" Mhm because red mountain errupted, The tribunal fell, And chaos errupted everywhere. Altmer annhilated the Imperials in the great war (Pretty much hate the thalmor myself)
Dang, this description of a cold, uniform Altmer society really gives alot of room for an Altmer outlander RP to hate their stagnant ways and be a pariah amongst them.