Elder Scrolls Ores: Real Life Counterparts

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  @owlsthirdeye6174 · 4 years ago · pinned

  This rocks

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  @Snowshift · 4 years ago

  Took me until I was 15 years old to learn that ebony was, in fact, both <i>real,</i> and <i>not</i> a metal. Thanks, Todd.

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• SE

  @seravault · 4 years ago

  Completely unrelated to ores, but my headcannon for how bonemold is made is that the word &apos;bonemold&apos; is both a portmantaeu and a pun that also describes how it&apos;s made. They make a cast for the shape of the armor they want to make, take some powderized bone, add some liquid fungal culture, and fill &apos;er up. Leave them to mature in a controlle climate for a few weeks, and voilà: somehow the mushroom they use does something to strengthen and stablize the bone into a lightweight form. Like weird cross between kevlar and those mushroom bricks that are still being tested for realworld construction.

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• AW

  @awesomeatronik · 4 years ago

  I would guess that because the world of nirn is 100% a magical creation, then the ore would probably be more pure than the real world ore.

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  @OskarRycckuu · 4 years ago (edited)

  Actually, ESO expands a little on malachite and glass. Buoyant Armiger style (the one that looks like Morrowind glass armor) uses Volcanic Viridian as a style material, even if the crafting motif book for this style is surprisingly useless in terms of describing how this armor is made. Viridian is what the game Morrowind referred to as &quot;Raw Glass&quot;, although I don&apos;t know what it is in real life. Meanwhile ESO&apos;s Glass style, which is described as (in the crafting motif book) being of Summerset style (similar to Skyrim glass armor), uses malachite as a style material. <br>Also, interestingly, even though ebony in ESO is a regular ore you can make leveling armor out of, there is also ebony style, which uses night pumice (kinda like obsidian I guess?) as a style material

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• DR

  @drobobrandegee7731 · 2 years ago

  My god, this channel is a pure goldmine for worldbuilding inspiration and info

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• NE

  @nessesaryschoolthing · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-76HMXGd4c&amp;t=350">5:50</a> love seeing those Runescape ore models. Runescape was the only RPG I ever played before I tried Skyrim and really got into the whole genre.

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• RA

  @RahamaLaham · 4 years ago

  Mithril is a light, silver-coloured metal stronger than steel, that is very difficult to obtain and to melt...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Mithril is Aluminium.

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• SE

  @SenneWMichiels · 4 years ago

  Oohohohh, looking forward to this

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• DA

  @davidfrancisco3502 · 4 years ago

  The ebony of The Elder Scrolls Is Lorkhan&apos;s solidified blood.

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• DI

  @dika2506 · 4 years ago

  I found this video on Hank Schrader&apos;s liked videos.

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• OL

  @OliverCovfefe · 4 years ago

  hell yeah Manganese gang rise tf up

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