thaliendir/sheogorath & haskill ~ how to live

something which back and forth write and get help , so as to be technically proper words - still hesitate to write stories with full narration and dialogue otherwise , those things get way too messy ...

thaliendir-sheogorath stuck between selves , midway through 4e 1c . very much also vent of feelings from near death .
about 600 words .

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days of week in elder scrolls

crosspost from tumblr .

morndas , tirdas , fredas - for player sake , can understand why these would be mostly pretty familiar , easier to get sense of passage of time . but actually really wonder about lore here . after all , in real life many of these day names - across many languages - descend from names of gods , whether direct or indirect . and tons of gods to work from here !

of course , fair to argue for imperial standardisation which might then seep into other languages as imperial religion spread , especially since most of main series take place during reign of one single emperor where unlikely to drift and change , but still ! there is opportunity here to name these after divines , no ?

yet with nine divines and seven days , not everyone can be happy - maybe worshippers of divines left out use unofficial names anyway and subsume someone else's day . maybe some people even still use original names from language - hypothetical bosmeri yfdir and nordic kynedas might both be fourth day of week . and , even if people use entirely secular names , would be really cool to see explanation behind those names !
even further , imagine consequence in skyrim if one of these days take name of talos . thalmor surely would push back , make demands to rename this day - and mess up schedules of people everywhere .

of course , maybe miss some lore somewhere as to these day names - and just as much , understand player perspective of why these end up so familiar , even if there is no lore to explain . just think this is fun little detail to wonder about . :3

thaliendir ~ tarot reading

the-elder-polls / salemelas on tumblr offer up little tarot readings for elder scrolls characters , so of course would get thaliendir in on this ! really love this little analysis , so get permission to repost here on dreamwidth :)

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you can never go home. you can bleed and weep and scream and you can never go home. you lost yourself to yourself. even you dont know where you went. you didnt go with you when you went. it all went wrong. maybe if you had yourself you could mourn that, but its too late for that now

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and so , so very true . of course , thaliendir draw from feelings of near death experience - loss of grasp on selfhood , where one belong , whether alive or dead , and so on . what is ascent to godhood if not another kind of death - especially to god as unstable as sheogorath ? 
4th era sheogorath do not lose memories of thaliendir , and not even necessarily core of personality , though instability obviously complicate expressions . but that mortal man that thaliendir was ? that man die as soon as jyggalag was gone . maybe even before then , but most certainly by that point . thaliendir was desperate to hold on , no doubt , desperate to live and love in cyrodiil for as long as possible .
one hundred years - and crises start long before that was up .

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