days of week in elder scrolls

[kossai]

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