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Lore Search: Where´s my source?!

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  • Member
    February 6, 2017

    That's it, just reasonable deduction. But the missing link is what bothers me. There are so many sources and sometimes so damned hard to remember what was read and where. Like, I swear there is a source saying that the bear was once the symbol of the Imperial Legions. Can I find that tusker? Nope. My mind is a crypt of words and useless or badly remembered texts.

  • Member
    February 6, 2017

    Phil said:

    That's it, just reasonable deduction. But the missing link is what bothers me. There are so many sources and sometimes so damned hard to remember what was read and where. Like, I swear there is a source saying that the bear was once the symbol of the Imperial Legions. Can I find that tusker? Nope. My mind is a crypt of words and useless or badly remembered texts.

    I might have read that somewhere as well. Something that pertained to Stendar being the patron god of the legion. Or was it about Stuhn? Regardless I get what you mean, my own lore knowledge is locked behind specific key-words, without the right key word it's quite likely I won't remember a thing.

  • Member
    February 6, 2017

    Phil said:

    That's it, just reasonable deduction. But the missing link is what bothers me. There are so many sources and sometimes so damned hard to remember what was read and where. Like, I swear there is a source saying that the bear was once the symbol of the Imperial Legions. Can I find that tusker? Nope. My mind is a crypt of words and useless or badly remembered texts.

    It also doesn't help that half the sources contradict the other half, and a 3rd half make no mention of it at all. So in the end we have 150% of the lore to search xD Which isn't that strange a number what with the interviews and non game stuff there is...

    Teineeva said:

    I might have read that somewhere as well. Something that pertained to Stendar being the patron god of the legion. Or was it about Stuhn? Regardless I get what you mean, my own lore knowledge is locked behind specific key-words, without the right key word it's quite likely I won't remember a thing.

    That's pretty much how memories work :P

     

  • Member
    February 6, 2017

    Golden Fool said:

    That's pretty much how memories work :P

    I know :P

    It's just that when lore is concerned it's even more specific than usual.

  • Member
    February 6, 2017

    Teineeva said:

    Phil said:

    That's it, just reasonable deduction. But the missing link is what bothers me. There are so many sources and sometimes so damned hard to remember what was read and where. Like, I swear there is a source saying that the bear was once the symbol of the Imperial Legions. Can I find that tusker? Nope. My mind is a crypt of words and useless or badly remembered texts.

    I might have read that somewhere as well. Something that pertained to Stendar being the patron god of the legion. Or was it about Stuhn? Regardless I get what you mean, my own lore knowledge is locked behind specific key-words, without the right key word it's quite likely I won't remember a thing.

    That's right, so we know Stendarr is the patron of the Ruby Ranks and so the connection to Stuhn who could be the bear should be obvious. Yet was that stated overtly in a text which says "the bear was for a long time the symbol of the Legions until such and such" or was it another case of th collective lore unconcious extrapolating upon data? Hard to say and sometimes awkward to find out. Like the Bosmer Wild Hunt an undead connection. Where is it spelled out?

  • February 7, 2017

    Happens to me all the time when I dig deep and find some new lore\new interpretation and I'm like "Yus, some new lore!" and then I mull it over for a while and realise I already knew this, I had just kind of forgot. Either my memory is playing tricks on me or it's the Mandella Effect, either way I should keep a scrap book with all the lore bits that interest me.

  • Member
    February 7, 2017

    This is why we bookmarked our findings, gents.

    Then again, I even sometimes forget to do that. :P