What exactly is an elder scroll?

Plot device.

>>385796145
A repository of objective truth about the nature of the universe.

>>385796145
A miserable little pile of secrets.

>>385796145
It's an old fucking parchment wrapped around a stick.

>>385796145
It contains all the information about the truths of the universe. So basically an advanced physics textbook.

>>385796228
FPBP

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list of all the men your mom fucked in both the past, present and future. its a very long list

>>385796145
A scroll which details the ways in which today's youth are in the wrong and contains a detailed breakdown on why children shouldn't be allowed to play on your lawn.

It's like a middle-aged scroll but a couple years more.

>>385796515
>both
>lists 3 things

>>385796760
Bottles the mind doesn't it

>>385796760
yeah she fucked so many people you can't even use conventional english describe it

p sure its effectively a in-world console access port 2 the "source code" of the game if CHIM has nethin 2 say about it

It's like the Internet during the days of magic and steel, except you go blind when you get used to reading it.

>>385796934
According to my pastor, the Internet is going to make me blind as well, at least the way I use it.

>>385796145
thats a skateboard truck

>>385796145
Good way to make your armor indestructible when you attach them like purity seals.

>>385796475
suck my fucking dick you fucking faggot

>>385796145
No one knows. Not a soul has actually played the main quest long enough to find out.

It's the Elder Scrolls Wikia in-universe.

You know... Skyrim, for all its faults, had more interactions with the Elder Scrolls than Oblivion did.

>>385796852
this is pretty spot on, it's a metaphysical truth of the universe that once observed and understood is implemented on reality

>>385796852
Reading this hurt my eyes end soul.

>>385797507
and Morrowind had none, whats your point?

>>385796145
Why is the series called elder scroll when it has little to do with the actual games' story itself?

>>385798603
It's a video game. With magic and dragons. It doesn't matter so shut the fuck up.

>>385797361
I love this meme.

>>385796145
It's a small scrap of the fabric of reality itself. It knows everything that was, is, or ever will be.

Well according to Dawnguard it's just some thing any fucking schmuck can find.

>>385797176
It's not explained in a main quest

>>385796145
A metaphysical node around which the universe of the Elder Scrolls is explained. It explains all events past, present and future as well as events which could occur. The number of scrolls is constantly changing as they both exist and do not exist simultaneously. Imagine that the world of CHIM is a stage. To read an elder scroll is to peer behind the stage curtain and see everything which goes on behind the scenes to make the show function - at least for a brief moment and depending on what exactly one is looking for.

>>385798603
It sounds cool. The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. How cool does that sound? Then you play the game and you are surrounded by potato-faced retards and it kinda breaks that aura of mystique.

Don't they have the entire history of everything past and present on them? But you can't read them because it makes your screen blurry.

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>it takes people years upon years of training to even gaze upon an elder scroll and even the best go insane
>but you, the player, can just go ahead and read one with no consequences

>>385796145
Things we know about elder scrolls

>There isn't a set number of them, when scrolls are not trapped or stabilized they can teleport and divide randomly
>Scrolls contain information about all of the existence but at the same time certain scrolls seem to contain specific information, this might be just the mortal perspective though
>They can be used to fuck with time through tonal manipulation, like shouts, they are probably tonal in nature
>Kirkbride has teased that there are only three scrolls and all others scrolls are their echos, but Todd also joked that these scrolls are in Bethesdas basement and that's how they make games
>Reading an Elder scroll is more effective the more trained you are in reading it, but it's damaging effects can become greater. A person who doesn't understand them can just open the scroll and see strange lines, a moth priest could see future but he would be left blind, possibly permanently.

>>385798603
Originally it was literally just because TES was a converted DnD setting and "The Elder Scrolls" sounded cool. With the iterative development of the lore, it could now be explained as the Elder Scrolls being transcendental, abstract meta-descriptions of what transpired, is transpiring, and will transpire in each game and across every individual player session, so that each game is literally also the Elder Scrolls (in the setting, that is).

>>385799483
You, the player, are canonically a Hero, an agent of Akatosh. You are part of the Event, without you, none of the plot would be happening. No Hero, no Event.

So yes you can read the thing because you're not just any faggot, you're a manifestation of history itself.

>>385796145
doujins, its why people cling onto it

>>385798603
Because in a meta way you are playing through an Elder Scroll.
Prophecies are forged by heroes, hero is a metaphysical character in universe that makes uncertain events certain, so on every game you are basically doing that.

>>385799496
>Kirkbride has teased that there are only three scrolls and all others scrolls are their echos, but Todd also joked that these scrolls are in Bethesdas basement and that's how they make games
Source.

>>385799582
Except for the fact that there are several Dragonborns so within that context you're not even that special, and in the span of both vanilla and the final DLC you encounter two additional Dragonborns.

>>385799483
Only hero that can read an Elder Scroll is Dragonborn, and he is literally an aspect of Akatosh
In oblivion your character sees the same as any uninitiated person would, just strange runes n shit.

>>385796145
they're aedric prophecies and there's a fuckload of them. you have to be a super special monk who dedicates his life to training yourself to read them.

or you can just be the main character, go to a cave, take some bark off a tree, and then magic moths come out and do the rest

>>385799647
You are the Last Dragonborn, a Hero. The only people that are your peers are the other Heroes of the other games. You're completely different to other established characters in the canon.

>>385799721
There are scrolls in Skyrim?

>>385799842
Yeah, Dawnguard throws them at you like they're trash and they sit in your inventory for the rest of the game. Unable to be removed.

>>385799629
Literally Google elder scrolls Bethesda basement, I'm toilet posting with a phone
>>385799739
They are not Aedric
People need to realize that aedra and daedric princes are same creatures biologically, lesser daedra are different but difference between all Et'Ada is ideological and conceptual

>>385799795
It's a good thing the MC was a God because they were probably the most stupid fucking character in Elder Scrolls history. So many times they get caught with their pants down and mumble their way out of it

>3 hours into the game, you become a hero from nordic legends
>you don't actually have to be a nord

>>385800035
>Pick redguard
>WE WAZ NORDIC HERO AN SHIEETTT

>>385800035
Dragonblood isn't race specific. Saying that though, I'm baffled how an argonian could become Dragonborn, because as far as I'm aware humans who were blessed with said Dragonblood have like a 0.000001% chance of successfully breeding with an argonian and that's how it's passed down.

>>385796452
tfw to intelligent

>>385800124
Akatosh fucked with history to guarantee you were born

>>385796145
Something that looks like a spider web with random circles on it.

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>>385800208
>Akatosh fiddled with the chance of an argonian girl getting knocked up by her human master

>>385799897
This is important. Aedra and Daedra are not good vs evil.

From what i've gathered the only difference between the two is that the aedra were the ones who agreed to help lorkhan build the world, and the daedra were the ones who couldn' t bothered.

Daedra arguably made the right choice too because it turned out the world was a trap that fed on them and the ones that didn't GTFO with magnus (leaving holes in the universe which became the sun and stars) got fucked out of most of their powers.

>>385799892
You can sell one to the Urag at the mages college, and Dexion (moth priest at the dawn guard fort) buys the other two if you sided with the dawnguard

>>385800124
Dragonborn is not an Alessian descendant.
Tiber Septim was not an Alessian descendant and Septim line ended midway through once with Tibers cousin continuing the bloodline.
Dragonblood is a hoax, Akatosh just blesses necessary people, it's clear as fuck.

>>385800124
you are in no way related to talos same way miraak just was born that way
alessia is also not the same kind of dragonborn that you, talos, martin or miraak are, she is blessed with dragonblood, you are literally a dragon/part of akatosh in a mortal shell

>>385800358
>Kissanime
>Low quality gif
Holy cancer

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>>385798603

Because each event is preceded by prophecy. But without the hero, there is no event.

>>385799647
It ain't got shit to do with being dragonborn dipshit.

>>385799647
What two additonal dragonborns? What the fuck are you talking about.
You only encounter Miraak, he is the only other Dragonborn alive.

>>385796145
magical problem solver, the cheap exit of every TES game

>>385803379
They don't even appear in most tes games,.

>>385796145
A scroll that holds the harsh truth that your waifu will never be real and will never love you the way you love her.
It takes some serious training to be able to accept this without going mad, but even those trained will eventually go blind to escape from this harsh truth.

>>385796145
Just a codex

>>385799842
>>385799892
in vanilla you can also get 1 in a dwemer ruin.