In our latest Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video we discuss Akatosh, Alduin, Auriel, Ruptga, Satakal and all gods that could be seen as a version of the time god. Is the Time God Insane?
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series and was released worldwide on November 11, 2011. The gameβs main story revolves around the player character and their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. The videogame is set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, and takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim.
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Clearly Auriel, Akatosh, and Alduin are the same entity, as they share all the same traits, and all appear as dragons. Dragons are seen in the Elswyr DLC for ESO, so that just goes to show that across the board, he is a dragon in his natural form. Dragons are massively important in TES, and that's likely because of the fact that the God of Gods is a dragon.
a stick of adamantine, the adamantine tower….could they be the same?
Yep, it's big concept organ time
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If the time god is insane, does that put him under the influence of the God of Madness? Frankly I'm seeing a lot of parallels between Akatosh (+) and Sheogorath/Jiggalag. Order to chaos, endless recycling, consistent inconsistency, etc.
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Truly the worst fate is to become a god of order/structure….
I've always seen Auriel as the first iteration of 'Aka' and, because of that, can't help but revere and look into the past (like the Altmer that worship him). Whereas Akatosh emerged as a later aspect, looking to the future of a world left behind by Lorkhan's death. I suppose in this respect Akatosh is what was created when 'Aka' had to step into the absent role Lorkhan was meant to fill, and perhaps it holds some regret for what its 'Auriel aspect' did. Maybe this is why Akatosh 'gifted' the blood of Lorkhan (the Amulet of Kings) to Alessia, handing that responsibility over to mortals in the hope that one day a wielder of the Amulet would be able to mantle the absent throne of Lorkhan (i.e. what Tiber Septim achieved becoming Talos).
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18:55 Tosh has a pretty funny meaning in English slang. xD
Edit: I think Sheo would be good friends with Akatosh considering the Time God's situation.
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This is a really good video, but as it was ending I couldn't help but fill this would be what Bethesda would use to reboot the series with the time god restarting from the beginning. Granted I don't actually think bethesda would Reboot The Elder scrolls franchise, but they've done a lot of things lately I didn't think they would do.
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I know alot of people hate the Thalmor, but there has to be a good side to them. The question is, what is it?
These videos are interesting, but ultimately do little to further our understanding of the gods in TES lore. I think that is primarily because you are presenting a mix of contradicting myths to define one supposedly unified entity that has existed 'from the beginning' to the times we see in the games. Instead of saying Akatosh is insane, it is more accurate in my opinion to say the cultures of Tamriel have all come into contact with Akatosh at some point in their distant past, and made up contradictory myths (and names) about the same entity. And this is all assuming that Akatosh as a character even exists. To date, we have only one single act that is objectively tied to Akatosh: his appearance at the end of the Oblivion Crisis to defeat Mehrunes Dagon. Everything else from the TES universe is speculative in nature, not objective.
Given that one objective incident, we learn a lot about Akatosh definitively. The being prefers to be represented by a giant flaming dragon. It is hostile to the invading forces of Oblivion. It answered the call of a dragon-blooded human in his moment of greatest need. It is powerful enough to defeat a Daedric Prince in single combat. It finally created a permanent Dragonfire barrier, forever protecting the world from any future attempted Daedric invasion.
From this, we see that Akatosh, regardless of the myths around him, ultimately wants to protect mortal civilization from Oblivion and the entities that dwell there. He is thus empathic and honorable, not abandoning the civilization he had a hand in forming. He champions the cause of freedom from oppression. He endeavors to intervene in mortal affairs only when absolutely necessary. And whatever his motivations, he has an affinity for mortals and wants them to flourish.
Man, this made me genuinely feel bad for a fictional god and almost tear up too. Being torn apart into different deties and entities by others and by simply existing, getting more fractured and losing yourself more as time passes, what an tortures and painful existance must that be? It kinda reminds me a bit of Dementia and Alzheimer, which occur more often in old age and is preatty tragic for not only the person suffering it, but also all their loved ones. I'm not an expert in the matter and I'm not taking that illness lightly, but I see parallels between the fragmentation and insanity ofAkatosh/Auriel/Alduin/Aka/etc. with dementia. I might be completly wrong or not, but I just wanted to throw out my thoughts on this.
Drew, you are a storytelling BEAST. I find it fascinating that Alduin invades Sovngarde to devour souls if he is also Akatosh. Is he weakening Shorβs army? Can Akatosh come into Sovngarde?
"Alduin is real, and he ent Akatosh!". Neither is Satakal. And Ruptga ain't Akatosh.
Alduin, as he is known in the Nordic pantheon, has little to do with Akatosh of the Imperial pantheon.
Akatosh, the "two-headed king" of the Imperial Nine Divines, is Auri-el who had been infused with Human aspects of Lorkhan, creating a Time God who favours mortality and humanity. He is closely linked to Alessia of the First Empire.
Alduin has a history of screwing Nords over via Orkey. Both happen to be time-shards (or "sons") of Bormahu (Aka oversoul), as all dragons are. Alduin just happens to be more Padomaic (death/no time), according to Nords, and Auri-El more Anuic (endless life/time), according to Elves.
18:33 – 18:55 is there lore on which dragon that giant skeleton was?
Mortal: "Is the time god insane? "
Sheo: "Don't worry your pretty little head. No really, don't."
So Akatosth That is the extent of my problem, what do You think I should do?
Akatosh: "Give it some Time"
Facepalm.
I love how Drew is slowly starting to voice most videos cause everyone thinks his voice is sweeter than the mead Vilod used to make with Juniper Berries mixed in
I love how you start these kind of videos with a History of Skyrim
Akatosh isnt skyrim's god…but yeah love the video. Also Alduin is the eldest son of akatosh and Auriel and Akatosh are the same god but different versions. Similar to how the Islamic god and the jewdaic god and the Christian god are literally all the same god but different versions of them. Different cultures interpret them differently. It just depends on which race just like our own here in the real world. Jews and Christians and Islamists argue day and night over which version of the Dead Sea scrollls and which sacres texts are true despite all 3 being basically the same thing but different cultures interpret it differently and wrote different texts which all stem from the same source. All 3 will say they're god is the right one and the others are wrong.
It's crazy how elder scrolls mirrors our own world. Even Christians argue over which bible and which translations are accurate. There are different sects of christianity and they also argue on which sect is right and wrong just like the aedra from elder scrolls.
lorkhan is not a tyrant and his act of creation was not a scheme nor a prison, he created so billions and billions could live and experience the wonders of being alive.
i see the inner Nietzschean in Kirkbride or whomever wrote Lorkhan in the lore
If Akatosh is insane because he is a paradox, then what does that make all of us?
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A video about Talos is long overdue.
Good stuff
with all this a question grows – does not the daedric prince sheogorath embody much of the same spheres? could sheogorath not be an aspect or even the archetype of the time god? Ultimately, to me, it feels like once you start picking at the threads between the aedra and daedra, you realise they all collapse into each other, so in actuality it's probable that There is only the godhead, and all in the elder scrolls universe are just the godhead experiencing it's own mind, witnessing it's own insanity. Mantling, the unification of fragments; chim, the awakening of fragments to a lucid state; amaranth, the mantling of a fragment to the whole.
Alduin gets more confusing with Paarthurnax's statement, "zeymahi lost ont du'ul bormahu", which translates to meaning that his brother Alduin was once Akatosh, suggesting that he somehow split off from the main section of Akatosh or whatever you want to call the big oversoul, at a later point than other variants, and that he was at one point synonymous with Akatosh, but became what he currently is.
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Auri-el: "Mortality was a mistake"
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"O, Aka for our shared madness I do this! I watch you watching me watching back! Umaril dares call us out, for that is how we made him!" – Pelinal Whitestrake
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Having played the Vigilant mod made all these 1st era lore so much interesting.
Hello people of Fudgemuppet, I have a question/speculation and I hope you see this!
My husband and I were talking about races in Skyrim and were wondering about how the game differs for race perspective on playthroughs, and it occurred to me that I haven't tried playing high elf. I started wondering if the Nords of Skyrim would be opposed to a high elf Dragonborn because of their tensions with the Thalmor, and would the Thalmor actually have seized the opportunity of having a Dragonborn high elf? It feels like to me there should have been more ending options explored from this point of view depending on race and it's not a matter of Stormcloaks versus Empire at that point. There's the third option of the Thalmor takeover from the high elf race playthrough imo, I'd like to see other opinions on it.
And in that same lane of thought, as an Argonian could you make Skyrim vulnerable to a Hist takeover? There's that one Hist-like tree hidden away and people have been drinking liquor made from its sap, as the Argonian Dragonborn what would stop you from connecting to that tree and carrying out orders?
Just a thought, hope you at least see this!
Thank you for the awesome videos, I feel like I've been able to enjoy the game in it's entirety because I've learned so much and the depth makes it better.
No offense @FudgeMuppet but gotta ask, how much more left is there to talk about? Sorry I can't help but feel things are nearing an end
Also please do a podcast on Akatosh and his connections to Lorkhan because I have theory that both the Time God(s) and Lorkhan (Space) are not really opposed to each other and are only enacting the each Kalpa's events only letting the Kalpa being reset and that both will always make sure there is an avatar or representative of their influence to help keep the cycle going. For Akatosh/Auriel it could be seen through the Covenant with Alessia, the Avatar of Akatosh (Martin Septim), and even the Last Dragonborn as though he/she may be Shezzarine they also prevented Auriel's Bow from falling into Vampiric hands, Stopped Alduin and even defeated Miraak for his betrayal of Akatosh's purpose for him, ( to stop Alduin though the dragonblood may have corrupted him). With Lorkhan, his representatives could be seen through figures such as Talos (Hjalti,Ysmir,and Zurin Arctus), again the Dovahkiin, and even through figures such as Wulf who was seen in Morrowind. And what did all figures do, they kept the kalpic cycle ongoing despite the apocalyptic events occuring which we dealt with literally.
Nice video can you guys do a lore video on rats and skeevers plz
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