The Selectives Lorecast

Bosmer. Small elves. They don't eat plants. Is there any more to know about these folk? Turns out, yes!

Originally recorded in July 2018.

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The Selectives gather to discuss what we can learn from the E3 TES 6 trailer.

Originally recorded in July 2018.

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Let's talk about all the truly excellent stuff we're learning from Zenimax Online Studios in the new Summerset Isles expansion for Elder Scrolls Online! Hope you like Sloads!

Originally recorded in June 2018.

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Today we're talking about Hamerfell, and the culture of the Redguards!

Originally recorded in May 2018.

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Sources mentioned in the cast.

List of sources referenced in this cast: 

Possible correction - Was stated that Leki brings orichalc weapons to the Yokudans. Varienties of Faith states that it was Diagna that did this. https://www.imperial-library.info/content/varieties-faith-crown-redguards

Redguards: Their History and Their Heroes - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/redguards-their-heroes-and-history 

Cyrus' Sword-Meeting with Vivec - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/lord-vivecs-sword-meeting-cyrus-restless

The Redguard creation myth - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/monomyth-yokudan-satakal-worldskin 

Encounters with the Ash'abah, and a lot of other cultural nuggets - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/hammerfell

Crowns vs Forebears, referenced in both PGEs - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-first-edition-hammerfell

Divad the Singer - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/divad-singer

Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi - https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/A-book-of-five-rings.pdf

The Memory Stone, talking about memory ins stones this is a concrete example - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/memory-stone

The Emperor's Guide to Tamriel, which talks about the religious differences between the Crowns and the Forebears - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/hammerfell

Tu'whacca, Arkay, Xarxes, a book that goes into detail about Arkay and the Yokudans - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/tuwhacca-arkay-xarxes

The Annotated Anuad - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/annotated-anuad

Some notes on Carl Jung's "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious". If you want to get it yourself, search for your own favourite book retailer, or a library - http://www.butler-bowdon.com/carl-jung---the-archetypes-and-the-collective-unconscious.html

An outline of the Music of the Ainur from Middle-earth, outlined more fully in the Silmarillion - http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Music_of_the_Ainur

Felix's AR1A, a Reduard C0DA - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D_MW3HmqUZu5dwIB4PoII3U53O3RZZmNmzN_ls0VCTI/view

Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition, which mentions that Crown youths must sail to Dwemer Ruins on Stros M'kai and "wrestle its mechanical men back into shape" in order to join the Knights of the Scarab - https://www.imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-first-edition-hammerfell

The Land of Song, Felix's apocrypha page, which contains among other things The Maker of the Multiplier, mentioned in the cast - https://www.facebook.com/LandOfSong/

The second part of our tour of the cultures of Tamriel deals with the Imperials, the Empire, and the Heart of Tamriel (figuratively, or geographically maybe).

Originally recorded in May 2018.

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The Selectives Lorecast, a casual Elder Scrolls Podcast.  Today we're kicking off our whirlwind tour of Tamrielic Culture with the Nords! Were they REALLY the first race of Men? Where did they come from? What's the deal with those giants, anyway?

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Originally recorded April 2018.

By the time Skyrim happens, the Thalmor are the religious police of the Aldmeri Dominion, and a constant thorn in the sides of Men. But how did they start? Are they right? Will they win...?

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Originally recorded April 2018.

In this episode, we discuss the very complex concept of the Observer in the Enantiomorph, also called the Mage.

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Originally recorded in March 2018

An unexpectedly rapid turnaround. Unexpected, like finding out the thief you locked up in your dungeon is suddenly stabbing you in the back! Am I right? Who saw THAT coming?

Originally recorded in March 2018.

Today we talked about one third of the Enantiomorph, the Prisoner. And, you know, a lot of other things. Because ramblecast. This was also our first time simulcasting to the House of We at https://www.twitch.tv/rottendeadite so we had real-time audience interaction!

Originally recorded in February 2018.