Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13446185-20130817052727/@comment-2602:30A:C0F4:E610:38C3:9F7F:559D:D50A-20170903192632

I'm super late, but I don't care.

I picked up on that pretty quickly... what blew my mind was how much there is in common with Talos and other deities in the Elder Scrolls, as the real world Norse Gods.

Elder Scrolls has Pagan Gods...

Talos = Thor

Thor, not the comic, but the actual Norse Heathen God, is said to fight and kill the World Serpent, Jormungan in the events of Ragnarok.

Mara = Freya

Freya is the Norse Heathen God of Marriage, Birth, Fertility, Love, Beauty and other lovey dovey stuff like that. You literally could not get married in Old Scandinavia without Freya being somehow involved.

You can tie just about every ES Pagan God to a Norse Heathen God.

You can even see history retold though the Elder Scrolls: Skyrim.

In Skyrim, the Imperials move in to Skyrim and outlaw worship of Talos and other "Pagan" Gods. This causes the events of ESV and the Civil War.

In the real world, About a thousand years ago, Christians forced their way into Scandinavian territories and outlawed the worship of Heathen Gods such as Odin, Thor, Freya, etc. This caused somewhat of a civil war in Scandinavian territories, as some wanted to keep their old ways and remain Vikings, while others bent the knee and became the Christian Crusaders.

With that said... I'm sure many have already caught on to all this as well.