Weird Elder Scrolls Retcons and Inconsistencies

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  @ZenoDovahkiin · 2 years ago

  &quot;Why&apos;s your wife not with you?&quot; - &quot;She&apos;s in bed with laryngitis.&quot; - &quot;Oh, is that Argonian bastard back in town?&quot;<br><br>-a joke book in Daggerfall

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• FR

  @Fr.O.G. · 2 years ago

  Found an inconsistency? A dragon break did it!

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• FI

  @fingolfin536 · 1 year ago

  Someone has probably mentioned this already, but in Skyrim there&apos;s an old man living in the mountains southeast of Ivarstead. He sends you on a quest that involves hunting various ghostly animals to prove your worth to Kyne. You can ask him about the Divines, and he basically goes on a boomer rant about how modern Nords are all milk drinking wusses who worship Imperial deities. So it&apos;s pretty safe to assume that the original Nordic pantheon had indeed been gradually replaced with an Imperial one, with only a few old timers remembering the old ways.

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• GI

  @Gin-334 · 2 years ago

  Got retconed by a dragon break? You may be eligible for financial compensation!

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  @marshmallow3131 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I&apos;m pretty sure the implication with the lusty Argonian maid is that it&apos;s existence is a time loop, where Crassius&apos;s book getting sent back in time created an oral tradition which predates the book itself and thus inspires Crassius&apos;s book.

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  @moonblade7564 · 2 years ago

  What&apos;s interesting is that the dragon break at the end of Daggerfall changed the course of history not only proactively but also retroactivelly. That means that all the previous lore was wiped and replaced with new one. An example would be the fact that according to new lore Tiber was always a god, even before the events of daggerfall (wich is not the case in the game). Basically Numidium nuked the old world and replaced it with a new one. <br><br>That means that while playing Daggerfall and Arena you&apos;re exploring a world that doesn&apos;t exist anymore.

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  @mafty_ · 2 years ago

  Saw a funny theory that Morihaus’ statue is a man because the empire wanted to hide the fact that Alessia had kids with a mystical sentient bull man lol

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  @jimforehand7571 · 2 years ago

  I don&apos;t know how old of a song &quot;Ragnar the red&quot; is supposed to be but it does mention old Rorikstead

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  @a.v.j5664 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07GivMi5too&amp;t=1314">21:54</a> There are Greybeards who won&apos;t talk, but if you pester them enough they&apos;ll just say iirc &quot;dovahkiin&quot; and make the entirety of High Hrothgar shake because of their Thu&apos;um

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  @bendeguzkocsis · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07GivMi5too&amp;t=280">04:40</a> my headcanon is that my character is so fucking violently racist against dark elves that he literally cannot comprehend a dark elf royal.

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  @Gunnonni · 2 years ago

  Biggest retcon is that Alduin isn&apos;t just how the Nords see Akatosh. <br><br>A god of time being destructive to short lived humans and Alduin eating the world being a metaphor for entropy.

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  @Irisverse · 2 years ago

  Keep in mind that in the main quest of Oblivion, you give a Daedric artifact to Martin so he can use it in the ritual to open the gate to Paradise, and he says that doing this will destroy the artifact. And yet, most of the artifacts you can use in this questline also appear in Skyrim. So there&apos;s clearly some precedent that destroying a Daedric artifact doesn&apos;t mean it&apos;s gone forever. Martin even says something like &quot;We won&apos;t be seeing it&apos;s like for many years&quot; when you give it to him, implying that they do come back eventually.

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