A Skeleton's Guide to Mundus

[SaintJibblies]

THREAD DEAD.

 

[Syphi]

Bones, bones as far as the eye can see.

Anywhere, good start, like the magic exploration the most but it's all good

 

[SaintJibblies]

Bones, bones as far as the eye can see.

Anywhere, good start, like the magic exploration the most but it's all good

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then you'll like the next 2 chapters even more!

 

[Syphi]

Of course lore console commands don't need to be spoken

 

[ZeroTheFool]

 

[SaintJibblies]

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cheese

 

[Azhidal321]

This has been a delight to read, thank you very much for this. Love the MCs personality. 10/10 would read again.

 

[Blankmask]

This is awesome and cool. Please continue.

 

[Fire_Fox]

Wonder what he thinks he is? And is there a precedent for what he is in the existing lore?

 

[GasperVladi0]

Holy fuck this story has been so hyped for the next chapters.

 

[Pietersielie]

This is a pretty fascinating take, and I enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for sharing, very much looking forward to what the rest of the story holds!

 

[SaintJibblies]

Wonder what he thinks he is? And is there a precedent for what he is in the existing lore?

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Won't say, and yes but I also won't say just yet!

 

[Useless Wizard]

Will he ever explain to Tolfdir the horror that is Modern English?

Imagine teaching the entire college the alphabet!
...I wonder if English script would be useful at all in magical applications? Or if they would assume it's a language used solely by gods (Daedric or otherwise,) and the weight of their belief would thus infuse it with powers ill-understood?

 

[Twigtree]

I absolutely loved this chapter.
This is the type of interlude/different pov that I love .
Wonderful, thanks

 

[SaintJibblies]

Will he ever explain to Tolfdir the horror that is Modern English?

Imagine teaching the entire college the alphabet!
...I wonder if English script would be useful at all in magical applications? Or if they would assume it's a language used solely by gods (Daedric or otherwise,) and the weight of their belief would thus infuse it with powers ill-understood?

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English will play an actual role, though it's more in the way of the latter, as in-people in the college believe that it's a 'holy/unholy tongue' which it technically is in the world of TES if you think about it, they'll share it around, the whole 'walk the walk till they walk like you' situation occurs and boom English is now an Eldritch Language and is now outlawed for many except a brief few haha.

 

[SaintJibblies]

I absolutely loved this chapter.
This is the type of interlude/different pov that I love .
Wonderful, thanks

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Glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully I'll be able to write more like these soon.

 

[SaintJibblies]

For anyone who has suggestions, I can be found in Shiro's Omniverse! find the link yourselves and ping me there if you need me, I go by Father of Giants (Roachlord) or .jiub

 

[Fire_Fox]

English will play an actual role, though it's more in the way of the latter, as in-people in the college believe that it's a 'holy/unholy tongue' which it technically is in the world of TES if you think about it, they'll share it around, the whole 'walk the walk till they walk like you' situation occurs and boom English is now an Eldritch Language and is now outlawed for many except a brief few haha.

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What exactly do you mean by that? Is there some mechanism that would cause the language to become a dark and twisted tongue that causes peoples ears to bleed and their souls to shudder? Something about it that can drive men to madness or alter reality?

 

[Useless Wizard]

What exactly do you mean by that? Is there some mechanism that would cause the language to become a dark and twisted tongue that causes peoples ears to bleed and their souls to shudder? Something about it that can drive men to madness or alter reality?

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The world of the Elder Scrolls is literally the dream of a slumbering god. Every person in Tamriel is technically an infinitesimally small portion of the dreaming god in question, and they only have their individuality because they don't realize their world is a dream.

One of the paths to power is mantling, described as "Walk like them until they must walk like you" - you are "reenacting the mythic patterns established by [the gods] until their power is surrendered to the mantler" - you behave like a given divine being did, following their patterns of behavior, and eventually you become that given divine being.

So it's not too far-fetched of an idea for the sheer weight of Belief to empower things - even never-before-seen languages. They already believe Masky is some sort of ancient being that has practically always existed, and that may or may not have already had an impact. Masky might actually be Lorkhan, might have always been Lorkhan, or might only recently have become "always been" Lorkhan.

TES is a drug trip waiting to happen, just try to enjoy the lizards and cats.

 

[SaintJibblies]

The world of the Elder Scrolls is literally the dream of a slumbering god. Every person in Tamriel is technically an infinitesimally small portion of the dreaming god in question, and they only have their individuality because they don't realize their world is a dream.

One of the paths to power is mantling, described as "Walk like them until they must walk like you" - you are "reenacting the mythic patterns established by [the gods] until their power is surrendered to the mantler" - you behave like a given divine being did, following their patterns of behavior, and eventually you become that given divine being.

So it's not too far-fetched of an idea for the sheer weight of Belief to empower things - even never-before-seen languages. They already believe Masky is some sort of ancient being that has practically always existed, and that may or may not have already had an impact. Masky might actually be Lorkhan, might have always been Lorkhan, or might only recently have become "always been" Lorkhan.

TES is a drug trip waiting to happen, just try to enjoy the lizards and cats.

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TES is basically a clusterfuck of dreams held together by ducktape, glue and belief.

I will not comment on Maskie, whom I already have coined SEVERAL names for but I cannot decide on which...

I'm histing my catfolk ifykwIm

 

[Zentari2238]

Not really liking the latest chapter, even though I like its contents if that makes sense. We just saw them massively wild-guessing, it would have been better to stretch out the story some more before going for another round IMO.

 

[SaintJibblies]

Not really liking the latest chapter, even though I like its contents if that makes sense. We just saw them massively wild-guessing, it would have been better to stretch out the story some more before going for another round IMO.

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The thing is, they're a college, especially one made specifically to study magic and history-if they don't understand something they will try to understand it even if it means that they have to shoot in the dark and see if it hit anything, I wanted to focus on that aspect a bit, and also the aspect of them being...human? I like genuine interactions between people so I tried to make this chapter as genuine as possible, highs, lows, differing opinions and theories

Though having said all that, if you didn't like the chapter I am sorry but this is the direction I want to take the story in before I make it go balls to the walls, hope to see you around for future chapters but I also understand if you don't want to keep reading, hope this message finds you well and I hope you have a great day.

 

[Kristoff Umber]

Did our MC talking about lore things as if he was there retcon the universe into believing this was actually true? I know that there's an infinite number of possible worlds in TES which is why we're able to 'save' the game to go back and make different decisions, so did the MC shift the world into one of these possibilities where the nonsense he was spewing is actually true?

 

[SaintJibblies]

Did our MC talking about lore things as if he was there retcon the universe into believing this was actually true? I know that there's an infinite number of possible worlds in TES which is why we're able to 'save' the game to go back and make different decisions, so did the MC shift the world into one of these possibilities where the nonsense he was spewing is actually true?

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mmmmaybe Guess you'll have to see in the next few chapters

 

[Fire_Fox]

TES is basically a clusterfuck of dreams held together by ducktape, glue and belief.

I will not comment on Maskie, whom I already have coined SEVERAL names for but I cannot decide on which...

I'm histing my catfolk ifykwIm

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Okay, I do get that, I understand CHIM, The God Head, mantling Gods, Pelinal Whitestrake being a time traveling War Fractal cyborg from the future and avatar of Shor, the fact that the Eye of Magnus is actually a robot, and Michael Kirkbride's use of LSD when designing lore.

My big question is, how would using English cause these things to happen? I understand the idea, I just don't see how the English Language would cause so much chaos. Sure its a fucked up mess of a language, that beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary. But why would it start altering reality, as opposed to being just a new way of reading words or potentially speaking (If they aren't already speaking it)?

Is it because our Protagonist is some kind of Godlike being, and they would start mantling him?

 

[SaintJibblies]

Okay, I do get that, I understand CHIM, The God Head, mantling Gods, Pelinal Whitestrake being a time traveling War Fractal cyborg from the future and avatar of Shor, the fact that the Eye of Magnus is actually a robot, and Michael Kirkbride's use of LSD when designing lore.

My big question is, how would using English cause these things to happen? I understand the idea, I just don't see how the English Language would cause so much chaos. Sure its a fucked up mess of a language, that beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary. But why would it start altering reality, as opposed to being just a new way of reading words or potentially speaking (If they aren't already speaking it)?

Is it because our Protagonist is some kind of Godlike being, and they would start mantling him?

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It's mostly the whole "Belief = Power" thing that's sometimes shown in TES, people see the MC writing in English about magic, he mentions it's probably beyond their understanding, he tries explaining it, it goes over their heads, they believe it to be a higher form of literatural architecture and then things snowball until English is basically used by really top tier mages to wreak havoc which further solidifies the fact that English is the language of higher beings.

I have this whole arc planned out about it.

 

[Fire_Fox]

It's mostly the whole "Belief = Power" thing that's sometimes shown in TES, people see the MC writing in English about magic, he mentions it's probably beyond their understanding, he tries explaining it, it goes over their heads, they believe it to be a higher form of literatural architecture and then things snowball until English is basically used by really top tier mages to wreak havoc which further solidifies the fact that English is the language of higher beings.

I have this whole arc planned out about it.

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Wow that sounds amazing and I totally believe it. Sheogorath is going to be having a BALL. And Hermaeus Mora is going to have a fucking aneurism.

 

[CreepyUncleLuke]

It felt like a life I'd read about, not one I'd lived. And honestly? In a world full of talking lizards, dragon words, magic and mushroom trees—being a regular guy again just sounded kind of boring.

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Damn, this is so refreshing. Dude gets a warning from the system, feels like he's good as is and doesn't poke that problem anymore. This skeleton has more wisdom than almost every Gamer protag ever.

 

[Fire_Fox]

Okay, so he is either the embodiment of the God Head, stole Dagoth Ur's idea and became the NEW God Head, or he is doing some kind of CHIM related nonsense. Although the last part is basically a catch all term, since whatever he is doing is absolutely CHIM nonsense no matter how you look at it.

 

[Pietersielie]

I greatly enjoyed the chapter, thanks for sharing!