The Mundus is existence compassing Nirn, the planets and Magnus.
The Daedric Realms are not planes of existence people are sent to for punishment.
Aetherius is a seperate plane of existence.
Europe does not posses any deserts or jungles.
Aldmeris is not a physical location.
Pyandonea is a jungle.
Atmora used to be temperate until it froze over. It's also at the north pole of Nirn.
Thras is not a volcano.
Yokuda before it's destruction by swordsingers is comparable in shape and location to the IRL Americas.
Mars does not orbit Earth. Both Masser and Secunda orbit Nirn.
The important thing to understand is that we have to, as a community, let go. There is no point in leaving her an office which she hasn't used for such a long amount of time - yes, we know the reason for it, but ultimately enough time has passed that we have to sincerely question what happened to her. There is no way to contact her by ourselves, so we will have to decide this by our own, and I believe that the only rational decision would be to remove her position just like we would with any other moderator or similar person in a situation of extended absence.
Please remember that removing her from her position would not, in any way or shape, diminish her meaning for us and our community and her memory; we know of her fight, and we hope she has won it or will win it. This is the only thing she needs - our collective hope. Not an office she cannot use.
You're missing the quite important fact that the TES Universe isn't even nearly related to the IRL Universe. Whatever you study has no relevance to the TES universe unless Bethesda specifically states it, and as far as I know, Bethesda has never stated that Dragon lore in TES equals the '6000 years of historical, written and pictorial descriptions' in our world.
I agree, everyone treasts MK as if he is the father of all ES lore and was one of the original Devs. He only worked on Morrowind and a little but on Oblivion. A LOT of the lore was created in Daggerfall, it's not like it all started in Morrowind.
And I really hope Bethesda never includes any of his writings about Vehkships and mining robots. As for all the sex associated with Vivec, it seemed very unnecessary. As The Rim of the Sky said, MK just wrote whatever the hell he wanted just because of the fact that he could.
Please, inform yourself before stating something like this. MK worked on Morrowind, Redguard, Oblivion's main quest, Knights of the Nine and his work still influences TES games. Barely anything was created in Daggerfall. While there was, indeed, far more original stuff in it than it was the case in TES I: Arena - Daggerfall was still merely a polished D&D game made into a PC game. The current lore, which is also featured within Skyrim, was created in Morrowind and Redugard. Kurt Kuhlmann and Michael Kirkbride created substantial parts of it, and that includes the Daedric Princes, the Aedra, pretty much anything about the Dunmer, the Tribunal, and so on; a quite hefty example would be the Daedric Princes, as Sheogorath wasn't even counted as one of them in Daggerfall and lived in Aetherius, more specifically the Mantellan Crux. Want prove? Sheogorath directly tells the player in Shivering Isles that he will mantle him - who made the Mantling concept along with all the other Walking Ways? Michael Kirkbride. The Commentaries on the Mysterium of Xarxes and pretty much anything involving the Amulet of Kings in Oblivion? Michael Kirkbride. Dragonborn people? Michael Kirkbride. Any modern lore in the TES series is atleast indirectly connected to MK and Kurt Kuhlmann, and there is no way to go around that, as even Bethesda still actively looks for their advice and takes what they write into the series.
You'd also probably be quite surprised at the amount of sexual, including same-sex and orgies, religious literature existing IRL. The Sermons are really nothing compared to some, for example, egyptian and asian mythological/religious texts.
If you look just a few posts above mine, you can see pretty quickly and clearly that this deteriorated into a discussion about Alduin's nature and the prophecy.
So?
My neutral vote is due to Donuts.
Because why the hell not?
I'm fairly sure that the concept of Consensus Threads being more than simple polls, and instead actual discussions in which the ideas and opinions of the community could be brought in, was introduced sometime after the previous government of this wiki left in January. But no, what happens instead is a bland poll in which people can give the absurdest reasons for a vote - hell, I could probably just give "Donut" as a reason for a support or oppose vote and it'd be fully okay and miraculously ignored by the policy-writers unless my decision somehow goes against the campaign or 'fan'base of a sysop, as seen multiple times with Spey.
We see Meridia hold off Molag Bal in Coldharbour in ESO.
So yeah, possibly.
What?
Actually, people were relatively fast agreeing to what I stated before. It was only the new people joining the Forums who kept arguing against it.
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Not sure what you mean with the first line there, are you asking if the Nerevarine is a Dragonborn? If so, no. He's a reincarnation of Nerevar.
I know Bud, but back when i played Morrowind, i was very sure that some person... or is it a book.... stated that Nerevarine is a Dragon-Born (with litteral stripe in teh middle) and as i searched it again the book actually existed in Morrowind. I'm not sure if that means Nerevarine is a DB my friend, but like i said what bothers me is that this is not made clear enough.
The "Dragon-Born" part has been discussed to death in the Bethesda Forums. It's fairly sure that it simply means the Nerevarine was born in the Septim Empire, and as the Septim Empire's insignial is a stylized dragon, the Nerevarine was "dragon-born".
As the Dwemer were pretty much atheist (i.e not worshipping the standard Aedric or Daedric deities), I am inclined to believe that what the loading screen says is true - but in the sense that their 'gods' were literally Reason and Logic.
Rigid Generic wrote: On the contrary, I hated how Bethesda twisted the whole "First Dragonborn" lore in the Dragonborn DLC. First it was clear that the Nedic woman St. Alessia was the first existing Dragonborn. But then out of nowhere, they change that and said Miraak was the first dragonborn, just so they could squeeze in another god forsaken DLC. Worse yet, they hardly even explain how Miraak became the first Dragonborn. Atleast Alessia's backstory was more solid, with how her people were oppressed by the Daedra worshipping Elves, and so Akatosh lit the Dragonfires and established a barrier between Oblivion and Nirn. But with Dragonborn dlc, so little or nothing is explained.
He actually had some dialogue which was inexplicably removed from the game hinting at a very interesting development in Dragonborn's storyline.
Not just because of Serana. The entire lore of the Dawnguard faction itself felt really generic. The fact they even kept the actual past of the Dawnguard more or less shrouded made it even worse, as it gave the look of a "pick your most favourite" mentality. The Volkihar were a letdown as well. Instead of seeing the interesting nordic Vampires described in a book I am unable to recall, we see generic Vampires in a generic castle led by a generic, Dracula-esque dude with basically no background.
Bethesda definetly let the ball down when they worked on Dawnguard DLC lore.
The Rim of the Sky wrote: Didn't Zluchs leave for military service in Norway? I'll need some more context on his case, but if he isn't editing for that reason I'd say it's fair to give him the title.
The template of Honoured Editor should be purely for editors who have had no choice but to leave, such as death or health issues. Users who willingly leave for any reason should not be treated in this way.
I highly believe that this user deserves to become a Honored editor.
I've researched a bit, and the user in question is NOTATHALMORSPY. This is the earlier mentioned blog. Though, judging from the contributions, he still seems to be active.
I think the difference between joining the military of a nation in peace and joining the military of a nation in war with a terrorist organization is self explanatory.