• Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    they made a different continent Akavir the ‘east asian fantasy tropes’ place but i don’t recall whether they have humanoid people or just snake people.

    but also the Imperial Empire in the setting is in my head-canon the basically the chinese empire, so clearly ‘imperials’ should be chinese very-smart with roman names. it makes perfect sense. i actually replaced all the imperial military with ming dynasty soldiers in the elder scrolls total war mod lol

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      Akavir has dragons (including a tiger dragon, Tosh Raka), snow demons (Kamal), tiger-like cat folk (Ka Po’ Tun), monkey people (Tang Mo), snake people (Tsaesci), and then there are unconfirmed rumors of rat people and dog people.

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        The Tsaesci were awesome snake people in the in-game book 2920: Last Year of the First Era, but then Oblivion decided they were just regular humanoids. Very lame.

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      It’s debatable whether or not there are humans in Akavir, Mysterious Akavir says the Tsaesci consumed them but humans are present on Alduin’s wall and in an excerpt from a journal written during the Akaviri invasion of Tamriel. Both of which are supposed to have been created after the alleged consuming.

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          That makes sense.

          It’s the only source of any info about the Tsaesci that’s not just, like: they look like snakes and invaded Tamriel a couple of times.

          So ironically, it does the same thing IRL orientalist art did to misinform westerner scholars about the “East”.