TES Literature

>>8388377
Lusty Argonian Maid

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You'd probably be better off posting this in /v/

>>8388387
Something I considered. I feel more at home here, and I'm pretty sure /v/ has a higher noise to signal ratio.

>>8388393
You'd have a better time having a conversation with yourself than the /v/ rabble.

They really suck, man

>>8388377
The 36 Lessons are good. The while Morrowind episode was well written. I wish C0da is completed as a graphic novel someday.

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but rly the books in morrowind were comfy as fuck, I spent so much time looking for nice books to add to my collection. Kirkbride's pseudo-religious texts were wank but very nice for worldbuilding, the mythic texts on the dunmer were the most entertaining

>>8388377
Everything in Vivec's lessons is literally true, literally false, symbolically true, and a meaningless ruse all at the same time.

>>8388626
sounds like derrida

>>8388635
Basically, but with more reality-rewriting magical nonsense. And belly-magic.

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>>8388635
Well it's the exact same kind of pap except there's no meat to them, actual or prospective. Aside from the constrained gameplay entries and unlike most other ingame texts the 36 lessons are entertaining to read - but you can safely dismiss anyone who uses the term "metaphysics" in relation to them as an ignorant and self-important fool.

>>8388661
The metaphysics of the Elder Scrolls universe are fascinating, though, and it's a legitimate use of the term given that the metaphysics of a fictional reality need not have anything to do with ours. Most of it is clearly drawn straight from Hindu metaphysics, but the synthesis of that foundation with foreign and original elements is worthy of attention.

>>8388661
>Well it's the exact same kind of pap except there's no meat to them, actual or prospective

literally derrida

Which are the nost important/interesting lessons?

I liked the Skyrim text by that winterhold scholar madman living in an iceberg and fucking around with the god of reason.
The main problem with vidya with books, it's that I go full /lit/ autism collecting and reading every book

>>8389332
this one? I like it

Rumination on the Elder Scrolls - by Septimus Signus, College of Winterhold
Imagine living beneath the waves with a strong-sighted blessing of most excellent fabric. Holding the fabric over your gills, you would begin to breathe-drink its warp and weft. Though the plantmatter fibers imbue your soul, the wretched plankton would pollute the cloth until it stank to heavens of prophecy. This is one manner in which the Scrolls first came to pass, but are we the sea, or the breather, or the fabric? Or are we the breath itself?

Can we flow through the Scrolls as knowledge flow through, being the water, or are we the stuck morass of sea-filth that gathers on the edge?

Imagine, again this time but different. A bird cresting the wind is lifted by a gust and downed by a stone. But the stone can come from above, if the bird is upside down.

Where, then, did the gust come from? And which direction? Did the gods send either, or has the bird decreed their presence by her own mindmaking?

The all-sight of the Scrolls makes a turning of the mind such that relative positions are absolute in their primacy.

I ask you again to imagine for me. This time you are beneath the ground, a tiny acorn planted by some well-meaning elf-maiden of the woodlands for her pleasure. You wish to grow but fear what you may become, so you push off the water, the dirt, the sun, to stay in your hole. But it is in the very pushing that you become a tree, in spite of yourself. How did that happen?

The acorn is a kind of tree-egg in this instance, and the knowledge is water and sun. We are the chicken inside the egg, but also the dirt. The knowledge from the Scrolls is what we push against to become full-sighted ourselves.

One final imagining before your mind closes from the shock of ever-knowing. You are now a flame burning bright blue within a vast emptiness. In time you see your brothers and sisters, burning of their own in the distance and along your side.

A sea of pinpoints, a constellation of memories. Each burns bright, then flickers. Then two more take its place but not forever lest the void fills with rancid light that sucks the thought.

Each of our minds is actually the emptiness, and the learnings of the Scrolls are the pinpoints. Without their stabbing light, my consciousness would be as a vast nothingness, unknowing its emptiness as a void is unknowing of itself. But the burnings are dangerous, and must be carefully tended and minded and brought to themselves and spread to their siblings.

>>8389346
what did he mean by this?

>>8389363
Skooma good, not doing Skooma bad.

Also, anyone know which of Vivec's lessons are considered representative?

it's obviously trying to ape the sound of the Bible, but with more lol-so-random mythology mixed into it and random bits of mumbo jumbo.

>>8389437
>it's obviously trying to ape the sound of the Bible

Nope

>>8389437
You're obviously trying to ape the sound of being smart.

Jackass.

36 lessons of vivec is literature-tier