Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.118.67.131-20140922181150/@comment-29458028-20140924145322

Kadilkhajiit wrote: No, you do have to learn from grey beards, you can't just learn a dead language with no translations without help. Besides we're talking about a war that takes place in the time of TLDB. There are four people who can shout and no one else, and we know that even knowing the language it takes years to learn to shout. We also know that with the excepption of the dragonborns non-Nords can't shout.

And a you don't need touse bullets to kill the citizens of Tamriel, they're are always chemical, biologicall, and nuclear weapons. And there are several limits to restoration, both in game and in lore. Hell, just go in to the Temple of Kynareth and there are people dying of something that restoration can't help them with. Wars in Tamriel would never end if restoration could heal an wound.

And your arguments about the flamecloak only work if the flamecloak is hot enough, nothing in lore says it is,plus that wouldn't do anything to protect them from a tank shell. Your argument about flesh spells is also moot, there is no flesh spell that protects against diseasesor chemicals, and none of them are as strong as tank armor. Again wars in tamriel would never end otherwise.

Besides you are suggesting this fight is equal, it's not, we wouldbe on the otherside of the Planet pounding them with drones, or out in the ocean using missles and heavy artillery, or in subs nuking them, or way out of their sight with sniper rifles. Or on sitting in bunkerswaiting for weaponized anthrax and/or smallpox and/or any of the countless other diseases mankind has learned to weaponize. Hell, they couldn't even hit us if we were just using airstrike, too high for arrows, to fast for spells.

Your point about them beingable to reconstruct our tech is just plain stupid. You either lack all common sense or you know damn well they can't, they cannot reverse engineer planes and robots when they're best achievment is dwarven crossbows. Even the dwarves wouldn't have a chance at reverse engineering 90% of our war tech. 1. Nope, you don't have to learn it from the greybeards. Yes, it would be harder without a teacher, but it can still be done. You can try self learning a new language, it can be done, I have a friend who self learnt 3 languages IRL.

2.Chemical and Biological weapons? You very well know humanity will never use those, because of our dumb notion of cruelty. Nuclear? this is the only thing

3. It never said in lore such cannot be done. Your point is completely irrelevant since you can't back it up.

4. Are you sure a whole lot won't just use magic, teleport in your face and kill you? Or pehaps your chemicals and diseases don't work on vampire soldiers? Magic is a game breaker

5. And we got from nothing to a fighter plane in 50 years with our puny mortal minds, but lorewise, there are people way more intelligent in Tamriel, like the Dwemer blah blah. Reverse engineering is a way faster than creating from scratch. Read the MK lore and you'll be surprised, they got stuff better than ours already.