Elder Scrolls 6 Lore: Redguards

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All right. Um, yeah, we're talking, uh, Elitrol six hot goss. Uh, this is not a lore episode. This is a gossip episode because, uh, as you can tell from the subtitle, this is, uh, about the hammer fell region.

XOXO or board, which is where we assume six takes place, correct? Which is, which is the leading theory on where six things go. From the trailer, we got like, years ago, this way, right? Uh, so it's not from the trailer from one tweet is why we think the camera.

Uh, and the trailer might support it. Might not. People did see the trailer and we're thinking hammer fell, but we got one other piece of info, which is I will say more convincing, I guess. Was the supporting evidence just a tweet of a, a video of a hammer falling?

Yeah. Okay. So that's a great guess. And we'll get into why that's a great guess when we get into the actual lore.

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We talked about it before, but I guess we can start talking about it again. Our kind of experiences, I started my Elder Scrolls love with Oblivion and then played Skyrim. And I'm a huge fan of the quote unquote series, but I've played two of the games essentially. Which I think Jamie has a similar-ish level of experience.

Yeah, I watched you play Oblivion at the farm and I've played Skyrim a lot. So that's it. Yeah. Yeah, I played Oblivion, which is the fourth.

And then I went backwards and played Morrowind, which I still think is my favorite, Head and Shoulders, personally. Even though the gameplay is very difficult to recommend to people with eyes. I recently bought Morrowind. I say recently, probably in the last year or something.

But I have never played it because I'm too scared of the shitty role system. And I tried to get mods for it, but it was just a huge pain to get a bunch of them working. And the mod community for Morrowind is pretty dead. It's a 20 year old game.

Except for horny mods. They're still regularly every day. There's a new big booby-airgonian mod released. New textures on Oregonian nipples is released every single day.

But none of that. So you have to sort through so much NSFW mods to get to make gameplay not terrible. Is it just like one sweaty dude who's like so overworked? Yeah.

You don't need to mod it for the role system because the skill level is 0-100 is your chance to hit. So if you just use a console like player.set skill sword 100, you will skip the role chance. Okay. So you don't need to mod your hit chance.

If you're gonna cheat, you can just open the console basically to set it. That's how I would grind out my armor stats in Morrowind. Is I would like player.set health 1 million, aggro a bunch of enemies, and then leave my house. And just have them hit me constantly.

And then when I got home, I'd level up. And I just told this story before, but to max out sneak, I went into like a mine early in the game. And then there's no toggle, there's no crouch toggle in Morrowind. So I weighed down the control button with a tape measure and I went to a party.

And I was just sneaking behind a guy and then my skill was increasing while I was idling basically leveling up my sneak skive. And that's an easy way to get early levels in the game is to just cheese the very rudimentary AI. You can do the same in Oblivion, but there is an auto run. It was on a clock originally and it was click left, click left, click was auto run.

Or the sneak skill. You can just point your character into a corner, sneak into a shop, point your character into a corner. And the NPC is like, some NPCs just would never move to CU, but they don't be near enough to your experience. And you just like play your troll.

You definitely have to let it start before. And that very much is old school exploits. And I'm sure the last time you told this story, I told this story about playing like the Sims 1. I would leave, you know, enter the Rosebud cheat code, which generates money, but it's like a thousand simoleons at a time.

And you just have to like hold the enter key. So I would leave a CD on the corner, like on the old keywords, the numpad enter on the bottom corner or whatever. And then just leave that and then just like go downstairs and watch a movie and then come back up. And have so many simoleons that the entire computer would lag.

Everything on the computer would be already so slow. I want to tell the story about me and my step brother doing that with Tony Hawk Pro Skater, but I'm sure I did the last time. We're just a bunch of old folks tell the same story. Yeah.

With a console thing, I wanted to say something real quick. It happened to be this week in New Vegas. I opened the console by accident. I didn't know it was the tilde key.

So I'm like, where the fuck? So I'm like trying to press all the buttons. And then I'm like, OK, well, maybe I could just use a console command to get out of the console, right? So I take exit.

The whole game just closes. Fuck. Elder Scrolls 1 and 2 are also free and have been for years. I've played both of those.

And then all of them, including the weird spinoff Red Guard, are all in Game Pass. So I played 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And I'm only finished 3, 4, 5. Because like I was saying before the show, Daggerfall is too hard.

I could not get out of the dungeon. And Arena is too old. I just can't do it. I just realized is there a location for all tools that are falling?

Like you got Hammerfall, we got Daggerfall, we got like 4 falls, Spoonfall, or through Daggerfall. Yeah. Yeah. It's Hammerfall, isn't it?

It's past tense. Oh, so yeah. Yeah. Spoon Willfall.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So Hammerfell responding to your assertion that it's all from that 6-second trailer at E3 2019, I think, 2018, maybe. There are a few people, Paul, E3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 76 trailer, you mean?

Yeah, exactly. Hammerfell as the setting for Elder Scrolls 6 is mostly based on the idea that it is going to be the setting is mostly based on the single tweet which came out on New Year's Eve 2020, where the at Elder Scrolls account tweeted a picture of the map of Skyrim, pans to the southwest, so where the Hammerfall region kind of is, where the candle over the region of Hammerfell and the text transcribe the past and map the future. So essentially, it's like 2-thirds of Skyrim. And then the only other region that you can see is Hammerfell.

And there's like a candle on the map on the Hammerfell region. Okay. So not much to go on, but it'd be like a really like, hey, gotcha kind of tweet if it wasn't in Hammerfell. It'd be like, why the fuck did you tweet this one specific picture, I guess?

I have been in Hammerfall. I think in ESO, I think you can visit it a little bit. You can go, you can go, obviously, doing the research today. Like, there's so many places that exist in games only in ESO.

Like we're going to talk about, or some, or some other scrolls online, the MMO, if anyone's unfamiliar. Oh, sorry. I always wanted to play it. I know, in my heart of hearts, I know I wouldn't like it, but like the fact that there's so much map.

And they just had their most recent season or expansion is like a, is a Breton based one. Breton's being the race native to Hammerfell. Dude, I love it. I would play with two friends and we would just hop on PS4 and run Dungeons together, do like the huge map PVP, like save up all these parts, build a catapult and like storm this fucking dungeon and stuff and like, yeah.

I, there's a lot of cool stuff in ESO, but you have to be okay with MMO stuff. And yeah, they are kind of like a little bit of scummy on the MMO side. Like you can't, your horse can't run as fast as other people unless you have the paid subscription. And like, because you have to get like, what?

Yeah, yeah, stuff like that, which is like, okay, I get it. Like other MMOs have whole ass subscriptions and you don't, and you can just play, but you do have to buy the game at like $80 at the beginning or whatever it was back then. So yeah, the game with any dollars doesn't sustain an MMO. Like you can't release regular content updates, which an MMO needs to stay alive.

You can't really get a content updates with a one time purchase. So like, I think there might be a way around the horse thing, but it takes like months. Like at once per week, you could get a carrot that increases your speed by like one and a half percent, or you can just like pay the six dollars and then just be the fastest right away kind of thing. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't like, Jamie, you say you like ESO, I'll go online. I'm fine with anybody who does like Peter. I'm like, I know I won't.

Yeah. Yeah. I know it'll be too grindy. Too much MMO.

I won't have the time. I won't put the time into it. So like, why don't you see the morsels of lore in there though? Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I've enjoyed it. It was really cool to see like, or seeing them obviously looking it up.

You see pictures in a location in ESO, right? Whereas it's destroyed in the other store and we never really go. You go to high rock in Daggerfall. Obviously because Daggerfall is in high rock, but you never really go to see the capital quote unquote city of the York.

Right. Yeah. Which one do I wanted to play Guild Wars to as well because they gave that away for free. And after I kind of ran out of warframe content, I just wanted a time sink and like a dated girl who fucking loved Guild Wars.

I was always kind of, always kind of tempted by it. Yeah. I mean, I didn't install it. I was just like, damn, I really need a time sink here right now.

And it's just never pulled a trigger. Yeah. But they gave it away for free. So I had it on Steam and just like hadn't looked into it yet.

I don't know why, but I really about to write off of it. I love MMOs, but Guild Wars do I can get into. And I've watched the gameplay. It looks fine.

But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I went through a period where I tried a few.

But we're not talking about this is the MMO. This is the ESO. I guess. So I guess to start, we're going to talk about the history.

We're going to talk about the first year and the second year primarily. If you guys want to hear about the third and fourth year in Hammerfell, let us know. You can join the discord. Let me know there or you can tweet at us or DMS on Twitter at loreboys.

If you guys are interested and I'll look at doing a part three and a part four. I found not a part three and a part four. Excuse me. I have a third year or fourth year episode.

You're doing those two. I mean, through the timeline, a lot of it seems like it's more modern history in the game. So a lot of it is like sourced from in game books, like a lot of Elder Scrolls lore is. Whereas most of I'm going to say 95% of what we're going to talk about today is from two books, the Pocket Guide to the Empire, first edition and third edition.

The first edition was released with Daggerfall. It was like a physical book that was released with Daggerfall. The third edition was released with Oblivion. Again, a physical book that was released with Oblivion.

That said, there seems to be no second edition. Like it seems like it's a reference to second edition at time, but there seems to be no existing second edition, which is the second edition. We are. We are the second edition.

Yeah. So most of this content comes from those books, which is really fleshed out, whereas a lot of the third and fourth year stuff comes from in-game books, which aren't super fleshed out. There's a ton of them, and there's a ton of lore you can get. Kind of like Dark Souls lore, whereas you can piece together a larger story based on these pieces of information rather than one concentrated input down.

But what that ends up with the third and fourth era that I found was it's a lot of this battle took place on this date, and this battle took place on this date, and then this person was born on this date. So I think the first and second age are the more interesting ones, but if you guys again want to hear more about Hammerfall specifically, then crunch at us on Discord or Twitter. If you love birthdays, we'll tell you about them. Sure.

Sure. If you want to hear birthdays and deathdays when battles take place, when you're real born, you're real septum. I don't know. Seriously?

I'm not sure. So to start, before we get into the first era, we'll talk about what Hammerfell, what the fuck Hammerfell is for fans of the series who don't really know. Skyward, Skyward, Skyward, Cold, Hammerfall, Hot. Yeah.

I mean, they share a border, right? Which is funny. It's funny when you think about Hammerfell being situated where it is on a map of Tamriel because it's clearly that latitude lines just don't exist in Tamriel, right? That's not how climate works there, which is fine and fair.

It's a fantasy world. Maybe it's not a sphere. Maybe it is actually a flat Earth. Do we have like deserts that like neighbor frosty temp?

Like is there like a desert, a cold desert? Desert in British Columbia, in Canada. Really? Yeah.

There's the Eldorf Badlands. It's because the Rocky Mountains trap a lot of moisture, I think. So there's the kind of rock and rock and rock and rock and rock and rock. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, the world's largest desert is Antarctica, right? Yeah. It's a measure of dryness, not temperature at all.

That is a combination, yeah. Typically, you know, the typical desert, typical deserts, all right? Or typically warm, and I think it's probably something that is hot, make water evaporate. Yeah.

But I don't know that. Another weird thing about between like dryness and temperature, did you know when you're like touching water, you're not feeling the wet, you're like feeling the temperature difference from your skin, so it's like feels like cold? Do we have to get into it as water wet? I didn't.

I didn't. That's not what I meant. It was, yeah. Okay.

I mean, it would depend on the mountain lines, so like a change in climate would make sense. Because I'm looking at a map of Nern right now. The thing with Hyrock is it's like super fucking coastal. Like most of the province appears to be...

Well, it's against the low, this Hyrock. Yeah, exactly. Like most of the province, yeah, sorry, Hammerfell and Hyrock, I got mixed up there earlier. But like, Hyrock is mostly coastline.

So it would probably be quite humid in comparison, but it is like parallel with Skyrim, which is a icy wasteland, right? Right. And Hammerfell, I just said it was hot, but it is like straight up desert area, right? It's the...

Elder Scrolls version of not quite North Africa, I think. It's like Algeria and Morocco. Yeah. Well, we'll talk about it.

It does have a couple of different biomes, which we'll get into. So first off, it's inhabited by Red Guards, which is a playable race, or when you're doing your character creation and the Elder Scrolls games, you can play as a Red Guard. They're a race of humans who hail from a different continent. They don't hail from Tamriel.

They hail from the continent known as Yokuda, also known as the Lost continent. Red guards are considered fierce warriors with a hardy physique. They are natural born warriors, whose name comes from a corruption of the Yokudan term Raghadda, meaning warrior wave. I thought Red Guard came from all the sunscreen that they needed in Hammerfell.

They guard the Red Sun. They're the Black race, though. Oh, are they? Yeah.

Yeah. That makes sense. That's why they're the North African country, basically, right? Yeah.

They're definitely African in design, I guess. Actually, I have a paragraph here. I'll skip one to go to that. They're Black.

Michael Kirkread, who worked on writing Lord's Sign from Daggerfall through oblivion, including the action of the Elder Scrolls Adventures, Red Guard claims he was inspired by the Black Panthers when creating Red Guards, or writing by the Red Guards, any idea of Black imperialism, which makes me think he didn't know the Black Panthers. Very well, because they were explicitly anti-imperialist, and they heavily protested the Vietnam War. He may have been more inspired by the richest king in history, who was some sort of North African king who had all the gold somewhere, right? Yeah, he's one of the leaders in DIV, I think.

I kind of remember his name. But yeah, adjusted for inflation, he's like a by far, like $400 trillion or something like that. Worth everything. But yeah, so on some moosa.

On some moosa, yeah. Yeah. Also a periphery, which is good. But yeah, so just very much like a white guy writing Black characters in the 90s, right?

Like just like, yeah, it was inspired by the Black Panthers. What if they were just like white people? Like, okay. I don't know why you went that way with it, that's true.

At least he put Black people in looking at you, Tolkien. Maybe he was more inspired by Wakanda, which is like a weird isolationist kingdom. From a Panther, right? Yeah, I'm good, good, good.

It's right there, dude. And you wrote the Lord behind this crunch at us. Crunch at us. So the Red Guard or Yokanan culture is pre-martial.

Not everyone, not just the men, but the women and children too, is schooled in cysticuffs from a young age. So basically, part of PE is fancy, I guess. Okay, cool. If the kids were wearing pads and stuff, that'd be fun to watch.

Like as long as I know there's no kids getting hurt, watching two kids just trying to knock each other on the ass. It's pretty funny. Yeah, absolutely. There's no equilibrium.

I love watching the kids fall down every now. Yeah, exactly. Small joints. So it might be hard on people to live your whole life, being kind of having that training combat doctrine drilled into you.

But it has led to Hammerfell never being conquered by an invading force since the Yokan d'Anth arrived. Like never being conquered, there's an asterisk there, which we'll get to later. Until the first time. Except the first time.

Yeah, pretty much. And then why never happened after that? Well, we'll get into it later. Okay.

But there were people who tried. Tiber stepped and tried. The Alberie Dominion tried. What about all these demons and angels we have in this world too?

And they tried. Oblivion definitely tried. Oblivion would have tried. Oblivion technically tried everywhere though.

So they failed everywhere. And they concentrated on Serdil because they wanted to get Martins happened. Yeah. Which they did in the end, I guess.

But also failed in the other stuff. So the Red Guards, hailing from that distant continent, bring their own religion to the table. They worship the Yokudan Pantheon instead of the traditional gods of Tandriel. Though they are.

Sorry. Yeah. Nine of mine is the traditional one, right? Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. Though there are plenty of parallels. So the Saketal, for example, is the Yokudan god of everything. He merges the concepts of Anu and Padame.

The two executive gods who created the beings like Anuiel and Sifu. So those are, let's listen to our, I think, very first ever Elder Scrolls episode that Creation myth. Yeah. I talk a lot about Anu and Padame and it's the forces of light and dark in the universe.

That was cool. In my apartment, how long ago was that? Holy, for sure. I don't know if we had three mics at the time.

We might have been still in Rockin' Two mics right here. Yeah. Hey, look, if you're going to go back and play Elder Scrolls games, which you should, there's a warning. It's just like, hey, the quality might not be what you're used to.

Same if you're going to listen to one of our episodes. Yeah. We need the modding community to step up to fix our old. Yeah.

And then he master boobs. Yeah, exactly. Big. There's just one guy that keeps releasing like every six months.

It's a big, big, steady Ethan mod. I'm not complaining, but I don't know why. So, Saccatoal also mimics the very well-known in popular culture, Alduin, world leader. Saccatoal is said to devour the world at the end of time before birthing at a new and restarting the cycle, which is a pretty common concept in Elder Scrolls.

Mythos, especially with the- It's still a lot of Skyrim is to stop that from happening, right? Yeah. You know, like, it's happened forever for all eternity and we'll still happen. You don't stop it from happening.

You delay it from happening. Yeah, I love that ending. Yeah. Take the cam on the road is the moral of Skyrim, I guess.

Yeah. Yeah. Skyrim, you basically just play Al Gore and the entire thing is like fantasy, inconvenient truth. It's just like, I don't know, don't fix anything, but maybe just give me a bit of delay to the bit.

Don't you go back in time and then realize that you are like, they just kick the can to you basically? Yeah. Yeah. That's where you get the shout that you need to make Dragon's Land, I think.

Right. Watch the ground. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's you go back in time to confront a previous Al Gore who had a different- the exact same warning. Oh man. And then when you do the dragon, I remember I was playing in VR and you have to go up into like, there's a balcony area in one of the like, things back in the back of their castle or whatever.

Yeah. Yeah. Yarl, White Run. Ball, yeah.

Yeah. And I had to call down a dragon that's flying by. And for whatever, he like came down and he grabbed a dude and like flipped him into the air. And in VR, I just saw the guy next to me like, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo.

Like going to the air and then come down and smash it. It's so funny. Amazing. So yeah, if you want to hear more about, I guess, the the gods specifically we have in episode on them, but just know that the Red Guards, they worship their own pantheon, it's not a one to one.

There is some crossover, but they do seem to have a unique system of worship. A lot of classical mythology has that. Like there's a lot of parallels between Christianity and Egypt and Greek and Roman, and just despite the like some differences between all of them. Yeah.

I mean, I have a book on the, it's like all the constellations or a lot of the more popular constellations, and it tells you the classic like myths that are tied to those constellations. Cool. Okay. And there's one that that talks about in Iraq, in ancient Iraq, mess up with Tania basically.

There was this myth of the gods were hanging out in the city and they knew they decided to epically prank the mortals and bring a massive flood. But one of the gods like like one of the mortals and tipped him off. And so he built a big arc and like brought everybody from the city onto the arc. And it's like, oh yeah, this sounds like a fucking familiar story.

Huh? But like totally unique to Christianity. Like when they modded the stars to have the big titty Ethan, the big nipper. Yeah.

I was going to say I was like, I like the big titty Noah mod, but that's better. Can we get a big titty Noah as episode art this week? Can I beat? All right.

Yeah. With a bunch of big titty animals. Big titty animals. I don't think we have any big titty things.

So we need at least one for the emotes, right? We need a booboo boob. I mean, yeah, but like it's because when I draw like some of the female characters like Lilliana and whatnot from like magic primarily is I try to be respectful. Of course.

Where are you? I'm pretty sure. But you don't have to be respectful with Noah, dude. Yeah, you're right.

The guy lived over a thousand years. Like he's seen it all. All right. So Hammerfell itself ranges from tropical to arid and features a wide range of Minecraft biomes like Jungle, Desert, Mountain, Grassland.

One of the most notable locations that Jamie called out in Hammerfell is the desert known as the Alikir Desert. It takes up a huge swath of the country's western edge and is one of the most hostile and in-hospital places in all of Tamriel. I'm posting a picture in the boys. It looks fucking badass.

There's like castles and like big swooping rock arches and vultures and people wearing like stuff over their heads to protect themselves from the sun on horse's ears. Yeah. Yeah. I love like Arab fantasy.

I love that style. I love the headgear like the Red Guards in Skyrim. You often see them wearing not turban, but it's like a white hood with a black belt around the top there. Yeah.

Love that shit. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Like style.

Like you called up here. It's very North African like very Sahara. Yeah. Very like these people who are driven to surviving in the desert.

They call all the white guys my friend, obviously, right? Yeah. Exactly. So we could dive into the history.

So the furthest point of Hammerfell at the end of the Alikir Desert was originally known as Helgoth or Deathlands for its unforgiving climate and also once upon a time the variety of deadly monsters known to wander the waste. So at the start of time, basically nobody lived there other than monsters in beastmen. So the first to settle these so-called deathlands were of course the Dwemer. Do I wear cool?

What's a fantasy monster that doesn't exist? You just make up. On the top of my head, I was like, what kind of monster? I was like, what about Crocodile?

Instead of legs, he's got race car wheels on the side and he goes real fast. I don't know. It's like a Digimon basically. They're like, okay, what is the Mon and Digimon standing there?

I know. I'm like, did you mind more? Can't come soon enough. Yeah.

Yeah. Somebody's got a clearly fixed my fucking perception of it, right? Jamie. Yeah.

Go-gater Mon. What would it be? I don't know. I'm going to say a giraffe with like a spring for a neck so that it could get around.

It would skate predators by flipping onto its face and then like springing away from the men high velocity. I like that. I like that a lot. Yeah.

Can that be? Can we have a big boobia, big boobia spring giraffe on the- Yeah. Yeah. Of course.

Don't look at that picture to be like Elder Scrolls lore. What the fuck am I looking at? Okay. So these all exist out of the deathlands, of course.

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

Gary's basically his hostile big titty monsters. Yeah, exactly. The first is set of these big titty wheel crocodiles in spring giraffe. The first is set of these so it got that one is where the Dwemer.

Listen to our Morrowind episode. If you want to learn a lot about the Dwemer, we talk about them. Yeah. It's one of my favorite artworks too.

And one of my favorite episodes to put together was the one on the Dwemer. Yep. Yep. Yep.

It was specifically the Dwemer of the Workin clan. They left their home in Morrowind after their kin formed the first council and allied themselves with the Kimmer. Okay. So again, we talked all about that.

The war of the first council, the battle of the year 700, I would read Mountain. I believe it is when they disappear. Because we talk about the Narrow Bar who was pivotal in that, the tribunal, like the acting on the next issue. Yeah.

There's a link in the description of this episode. So check it out if you're interested. As legend has it in the west, however, the leader of the Workin half did his hammer, Volindrung, which is a hammer you can get in all of the games. Yep.

Tossed it across the continent, over Skyrim and Seridil. You guys see where I'm going? Oh, yeah. Hammer of the Workin followed it to its destination and where they found it crashing the earth, built Volinfell with Translate food, the city of the hammer, and would eventually become Hammerfell.

Good job, because I was like, Hammer throw? Oh, no. No. No.

Why don't I, because you met, you had mentioned it earlier. Like everything in the other places where everything's dropping or everything. You're the one who said Spoomill. Sorry.

I was just still stuck on the crockamobile. I was just trying to get it right. Yeah. I am a fan of the name.

Should we call it crockamobile though? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So that's the legend Volindrung throws it. They build Volinfell, whereas Hammer apparently landed. I like to think they walked across the continent. He got that up through his hammer, 16 feet ahead of him, and said like, yeah, there.

That's a nice chunk, basically. It's just like the shittiest. Like Kilgrum. So settlement was first completed in the first era, circa 420 baby.

Became the city of Volinfell, and sorry, and the city of Volinfell became the capital of what were known as the Western Dwemer. So Dwemer, who didn't live in Morrowind essentially. When the Battle of Red Mountain took place in the year 700, the first era, the Dwemer vanished, and was more on the episode, including the Western Dwemer. So what happened there in the Battle of Red Mountain, even being across the continent, seems did not spare you the fate of the rest of the Dwemer, and they all, like with a click of the fingers, disappeared.

The entire race, except one guy, because he was outside of the universe. Exactly. That episode is fucking crazy. I love it.

That's a great one. So Fulmer, the ravages of nature, the Savage Beast held a bay by the Dwemer, slowly began to recapture the rotting settlements. Because they made like a satisfying like cartoon like pop when they... Discord cuts it out, but I'll do it for the audacity.

Thank you. Thank you. Something like that. Like you've got a guy fighting a crocodile with wheels with like a dwarven hammer, and then just like swings up and then just like out of existence.

I honestly hope that it wasn't that sudden. Like I hope it was almost that sudden in that Dwemer of Swingses raises Warhammer to swing it and then pauses and has the understanding, like the very mortal understanding that something's about to happen. And there's just like white noise like fading in and then the pop. You know what I mean?

They all have this moment of realization where they know something's wrong, and then they disappear. So it's over a century later after the Dwemer just vanished, that the Ra Gaddat would arrive from distant. Yokka-da in 808 of the first era. Their fleeing destruction was taking place in their homeland.

The Ra Gaddat make quick work of conquering the Brettons, Imperials, and the Bespoke who had tried to stake claim in the province up to that point. So the last century, you know, people kind of moving in where the Dwemer once lived, trying to claim that land and the Ra Gaddat being warriors that they are, you know, kind of drained from childhood to be fighters. They do a really good job of just like kind of sweeping and taking over the place. Who are the Ra Gaddat?

I just pictured people dressed like Lady Gaga because it sounds like the beginning of that song. Ra Gaddat. Had he mentioned before, Redgard is a corruption of the Yokka-dent term Ra Gaddat. Oh, it's a Redgard.

Oh, it's an early Redgard. I got you guys. Yeah, exactly. And it's basically the Ra Gaddat literally means warrior wave, and it's because these first Yokka-dans to arrive on the continent were that warrior wave.

So they proceeded and we'll get into it a little bit later about, because not all of the Redguards, the ancient Redguards were Ra Gaddat, even though the term Ra Gaddat has now come to encompass all modern Redguards. Oh, okay. Okay. They were kind of fractured, which we'll get into towards the end of this.

I wonder if that's kind of like the historical basis of that would be like the sea people. Like, because like the Bronze Age in human history, there was like this wild collapse from multiple civilizations all kind of went down at the same time in the Mediterranean. And all again, shared legends of the sea people, which was like some sort of like gigantic multi-racial army of people who just like swept through Mesopotamia and Persian shit like that and set technology back like a thousand years or something. Yeah, the sea people wild.

I think it's also like Plato, the sea people are like part of the basis of like the Atlantis myth, right? Because Plato is the guy who first wrote about, he like wrote about a fake guy who told him a fake story about Atlantis, and then there was a sea people and then yeah, I had to read a lot of Plato in school and a lot of what he writes is just a dialogue between him and someone who doesn't exist. Yeah. Guys, I was playing with Plato when I was like fucking four years old.

If you leave Plato out of dries. Well, that conversation actually didn't take place with the real human being. I reset that. So it's fake news.

Yeah, Plato's fake news. So the ragged out or red guards built new cities upon the ruins, they conquered and the neighboring Brettons and perils and nords would long hold a grudge against their claims. Scrimps just continued along the border for decades until a threat so dire could unify them at least temporarily. Aliens.

No. Orcs. So yeah, they like sweep in. They conquer the Brettons and perils and nords.

Like I said, imperials being of Ciridil, like the center of the continent. They don't have like a reasonable ethnic name. It's just called, it's just the whites, I guess. Yeah, they're the Romans.

Yeah, right. We talked a bit about so yeah, the imperials. Most of the human races in in in in Elitrails are white, right? The nords are the nords are the Brettons are Frenchmen, basically.

Yeah, and then the imperials who are like Rome. The Brettons are cooler than that. So we can talk briefly about the other races, we're having done many specific research on them, but we know a bit about them collectively. We did not own the episode.

They're French white people and Bretton's also the name for a cracker. Yeah. We got always a place in France too. It's where Britain gets its name from.

It's where the white crackers come from. That's true, it's true. Yeah, so I guess the imperials are the Romans slash eventually kind of like get these English vibes. Nords are very Scandinavian or Northern European.

The Brettons based on French, but they also are mixed blood, so they're like half elves. They're descended from the Almeri mixing with humans. They're my favorite. When I if I ever play a human in an Elitrails game, I always play a Bretton because they're the magically inclined ones.

I find them very interesting. And it's the Elflet in them. Like you say, whenever you play a human, they're not really human, they're half elf. They're me too.

To go with the French thing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

So yeah, that's just the quick spark notes on the different. They're all playable classes in the Elitrails game for anybody who doesn't know. And these are all people trying to make pushes into Hammerfell whenever the Dwemer were vanished until the Red Guards showed up and drove them back. So there's some bad blood between them for sure.

There's still some talk in Skyrim. You'll hear about because they share a border with Hammerfell. That's this range of mountains. And there's this like, oh, this is actually ours, which also happens a lot with Orcs.

We're at Orcs. We'll say like, oh, Rothgar on the Western edge of Skyrim. It should belong to York's because it's actually Rothgar and stuff. By the way, just a funny note, Sossy posted in memes, like Joe Biden fixes Skyrim video while we're recording the Elder Scrolls.

So you know Biden brings democracy to Skyrim. I've seen a lot of these clips on like Instagram reels and stuff. And it's just Joe Biden, like in different places, like, well, why would you want to steal the thing when he's got the bucket on his head or whatever? Like, it's just Joe Biden impressions in Skyrim.

Joe. It's awesome. It's awesome. So yeah, so the Red Guard said, conquer these cities.

They're sending up home. They're battling on the borders with these different factions. Until in the province of Hyrock, on the other threatens, there was a festering problem that kind of came to a head. So once one time, there was an old Mary leader known as Trina Mac, who I'm sure we talked about, but I could not find what we talked about it on.

It would have been, I think, definitely the still the dwarf one because, oh, no, it's Kaggrenak. Nevermind, excuse me, Kaggrenak's most is to use is for the heart. Nevermind. You've had a community crackers, but I want to say it was the Gajra episode, but I can find it.

You've had a community crackers, but why don't you step this up to Trina Mac, the first holy trinity Mac and cheese? You get a little scoop right from the fester. You don't use milk, you use holy water. Of course.

Yeah. So there's this old Mary leader, the old Mary were like ancient elves, of which all elves descended and the old Mary eventually become the high elves, but all the elf races, including the dark elves, the orcs are also considered Mer. Yeah, exactly. So they all descend from this one race of elf.

The old Mary are the high elves that descended from them. We're probably originally like closest in bloodline, I guess. Mer like, I remember the like the racial purity bad guy else or the old Mary dominion, right? Yeah, exactly.

And they're they're bad guys throughout the series, the old Mary dominion. Like they're always persistently like very Genix, very, you know, racial superiority, all this stuff. Yeah, the guy who led the mythic Don I think is a high elf as well, and oblivion, whatever his name is. I can't remember that.

Yeah, I remember. Yeah. Yeah. They are consistently bad guys, the old Mary dominion.

So one of this old Mary leader, not necessarily of the old Mary dominion of this like racial purity group known as trimack gets devoured by the Daedric Prince Boethia. Cool. It corrupts them into a new Daedric Prince Malekath. Right.

Yeah. You could have an episode about the Daedric. The Daedric definitely talked about that. And I just control F and I couldn't find it in that episode.

I don't know. I don't know where we talked about it. We talked about it somewhere. But anyway, just yeah, corrupted into the new Daedric Prince Malekath.

Peter, you may know Jamie, you know what Malekath's deal is. I do. Yeah. I know it's valid.

He's the leader of the orcs. He's like the Daedric Prince, worship by the orcs because the followers of Turnamak were likewise corrupted and became known as Orsimer. Doesn't he get the two-handed mace that we just talked about in Hammerfell? I thought that's Skyrim.

Vollandrung's not the mace. The mace is from Oleg Bell. Oleg Bell. What's the weapon that you get from Malekath in Skyrim?

Because that would be the one. It is Vollandrung. It's the hammer. It's the hammer.

It's a hammer that fell. Yeah. Okay. The hammer that fell.

It just comes from Malekath. Yeah. Malekath gets a hold of it eventually. I don't know.

I can tell you. But I want to say like you go to like an orc stronghold for his thing is right. And you talk to him like in a cave or something and you get a... I do remember going to the stronghold because I did that part on stream during our extra life thing like years ago when you were still living in Montreal.

Yeah. I pulled him up. He has a shrine in Falos Stone Cave as well as Alters and various orcs stronghold in Skyrim. It's Malekath the day to Prince.