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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 11:20 pm

I'm allergic to cats, so I don't see myself visiting the mane anytime soon.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 11:50 pm

There is a hidden "Did The Mane also disappear?" in my other post. I, too, can't see it.

Without their (spiritual leader?) and the devices that determine their form, I imagine that the Khajiit might buy any explanation for the return of these items.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 7:54 pm

How exciting! I've never witnessed an active dev forum RP before. So I'm guessing the IGS got in deep, deep trouble for reporting that the Secunda was colonized and that space travel (or even leaving Nirn) was possible? The Mane tells the IGS reporter that the Elder Council won't like such reports in a widely circulated book. Also what was the exchange between Hatta and the Elder Council about? Peli-NULL? Zero-Star? And Hatta is killed by motion of committee? And a new version of him is created? Odd. And "The Hasphat"? Also odd. Son of Aleshut? Referring to who? the Manbull? Pelinal? Reman? Also also odd.

Cyrodiil is quite the odd land after all.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 3:59 pm

After the khajiit had scaled heaven, however, such hindrances fell away and the practice was again extended to all of his two hundred million subjects. In his commonest guise, the Mane is a cilicious sphere of vast dimensions, a third moon among the stars of his Greater Palace.

Is the Lunar Furball passed down from Mane to Mane, or are the khajiit expected to build a new one for each Mane? If the former, and the khajiit are continually adding to its mass, will its sheer silliness eventually cause Mundus to implode?

Mane + Jone + Jode = ?
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 4:15 pm

I don't want to be that guy... but the T0 spelled "Elsweyr" wrong.

How embarrassing.
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 12:06 am

Lunar Elsweyr is one of my favorite concepts. It blew my mind the first time, then I forgot about it, and then it blew my mind again. Hats off.

Leyawiin was captured by Cyrodiil from Elsweyr. Did we visit the recently discovered Lunar Colony all the way back in 2006?
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 7:45 pm

Khajiits in space! :biggrin:
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 6:49 pm

Khajiits in space! :biggrin:

See: Jews in Space!
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 4:46 pm

See: Jews in Space!

Sounds like a Mel Brooks film :) .
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 6:43 pm

>>:INCOMING EXTERNAL TRANSMISSION #09086872HEXMOTH

VISUALISATION REQUEST SENT TO LLESWER HOST-NET. BINDING AUTHORISATION REACHED. NIBEN-AGRA CONCORD TATTOOS EXCHANGED. VISUALISATION COMMENCE. http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8271/intercept3900007th01.jpg. PLEASE HOLD. CRYSTALS ATTUNED. VISUALISATION COMPLETE. http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1039/intercept3900007th.jpg
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 9:45 pm

Oh man it has its own catmosphere.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 8:57 pm

Ha! Great! Awesome stuff! When is this happening? Did the Mane just reenter orbit, or was this a late transmission?

I don't want to be that guy... but the T0 spelled "Elsweyr" wrong.

How embarrassing.
Same as saying, "no offense". You are that guy, and you bloody well know it.

Be forewarned that transmission will be fractured at best and may contain inaccuracies introduced by unreliable relays.
Oops! Forget to read that one?

How embarrassing.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 4:13 pm

Oh man it has it's own catmosphere.
Like
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 3:20 pm

Sublime.

Kudos to the beast in the shabby elk disguise.
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 1:03 am

I love it! I love it so much! This is the magnificent, fantastic, crazy look into Khajiit culture I've always wanted.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 11:56 am

How high up is that fuzzball?
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 3:47 am

Did i just get this right? The Mane became the third moon by strapping the manes of ALL the kahjit onto himself.
There must have been alot of Moon Suggar involved in writing this. But i am intrigued. I like where this all is going.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 2:17 pm

Holy hells.

And is it just me, or does the non-attuned crystal image look like a giant cat's head and paws with the ears and everything
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 6:00 pm

This sorry reputation is engendered largely by the fact that any cartographic expedition into Khajiit territory requires either meticulous metamundal vectors to travel by brute force, or the rare Imperial disposition to submit to a deep and prolonged sugar trance.

More daring pioneers, however, report a fascinating landscape of silver sands, bathing in a plethora of colors our own atmosphere cannot permit.
The oases that dot the prairies in the center of the land are rumored to be among the most splendorous on the lunar surface and curiously retain the same indigo hue in the bright solar seasons, the fleeting shadow of Jode's monthly passing or the cool slumber of the four month's night. A remarkable phenomenon can be witnessed in these plains on certain blessed nights, when streams of aetheric refuse spontaneously combust in the pale nirnshine to form phantasms instructing the cats in the meanings of stars.

Together, just this once, Khajiit will stand tall as Alkosh, cat upon cat upon cat. And in doing so, it will climb to the moon as it has been told so many times."

Khajiit saw reason in these words and so it climbed and climbed, cat upon cat, for a hundred days. Much sugar was brought there to support the climbers and in the end Khajiit climbed high, so very high that it was in fact closer to Jo'Segunda than to Nirni below. At that moment, little Alfiq fell upwards and from there on Khajiit helped Khajiit up, which was down, until all were gathered there. This is where Khajiit intends to stay from now on, for who could know strife when walking sugar and not sand?


A popular tall tale in countless skooma dens holds that the only sizable band of Imperial visitors to the city was a delegation of diplomats in the early years of Septim Supreme's reign. If this account holds even the smallest kernel of truth, it may well have been this event which provided Talos with the dangerous idea of recolonizing the carmine moon.

Torval covers one of the largest crater lagoons on Lleswer's southern coast. Extending far into the shallow waters of the bay, the city is the focal point of the khajiiti sugar magics. As the dance of the two moons brings in the tide, slow molasses-like waves deposit sugar of a quality unknown or unknowable to our earth on the beach.

The steep crater walls that cradle Torval on all sides merge into the sacchranite walls of the Lesser Palace.

After the khajiit had scaled heaven, however, such hindrances fell away and the practice was again extended to all of his two hundred million subjects.

I think that upon my third reading of this I realized the significance of these lines, and what Lleswer is, other than brilliantly awesome.
Anyone care to share what they get out of this?
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 1:42 pm

I think that upon my third reading of this I realized the significance of these lines, and what Lleswer is, other than brilliantly awesome.
Anyone care to share what they get out of this?
I'd read those same lines the first time thinking I was misinterpreting them, but do you also think that Llesweyr is a moon? How could that be possible if it's part of Tamriel and Nirn?
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 9:09 pm

I'd read those same lines the first time thinking I was misinterpreting them, but do you also think that Llesweyr is a moon? How could that be possible if it's part of Tamriel and Nirn?
Apparently it's not part of Tamriel and Nirn. The language is suggestive, and they "scaled the heavens".
It certainly seems to me that Llesweyr is Secunda.

Plus, Lady N's comment at the top of this page.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 12:48 pm

I think that upon my third reading of this I realized the significance of these lines, and what Lleswer is, other than brilliantly awesome.
Anyone care to share what they get out of this?
Heck, I'll bite. Warning: Length!
I'm seeing a country on Secunda, a heaven for the Khajiit that was discussed previously (or later) in the 3rd edition PGE: "Llesw'er, a paradise promised to the Khajiit by the Riddle'Thar".
And for the sake of completeness, from the varieties of faith: "Riddle'Thar (Two-Moons Dance): The cosmic order deity of the Khajiiti, the Riddle'Thar was revealed to Elsweyr by the prophet Rid-Thar-ri'Datta, the Mane. The Riddle'Thar is more a set of guidelines by which to live than a single entity, but some of his avatars like to appear as humble messengers of the gods. Also known as the Sugar God."

Khajiit saw reason in these words and so it climbed and climbed, cat upon cat, for a hundred days. Much sugar was brought there to support the climbers and in the end Khajiit climbed high, so very high that it was in fact closer to Jo'Segunda than to Nirni below. At that moment, little Alfiq fell upwards and from there on Khajiit helped Khajiit up, which was down, until all were gathered there. This is where Khajiit intends to stay from now on, for who could know strife when walking sugar and not sand?
As Fadomai said, according to Clan Mother Ahnissi, "The Khajiit must be the best climbers" indeed.
On a side note, this reminded me of a (in hindsight, very racist) joke I heard as a kid about chinese space travel. And on a further side note, it got me thinking of how accepted casual racism was in children's jokes and stories and such as late as the late 80s and early 90s. I doubt I'd wanna repeat those anecdotes even in a closed room. Stuff truly svcked in the past.

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This section indicates that we're not talking about a mere colony here, but rather that the entire province was i) copied or ii) moved. The earlier part about "meticulous metamundal vectors to travel by brute force, or the rare Imperial disposition to submit to a deep and prolonged sugar trance" indicates that, yeah, you either go there by spaceship or by getting stoned which would mean that it moved. Same for "This is where Khajiit intends to stay from now on". The Khajiit pulled a Dwemer and ascended as a race. The prolix tower comes to mind, quite literally.

Instead, traffic between Lleswer and other provinces is primarily managed through the nirnstrand terminus at the very tip of the peninsula. Though sugar-fibril transport is an affordable and safe mode of transportation, non-khajiiti incoming passengers are exceptionally scarce.
A space elevator of space cocaine between earth and god is a safe mode of transportation? Yeah, I'd be scarce there as well.

Central in the Palace is the Mane's private residence, a secluded retreat where he may occasionally dock to shed into a more manageable mortal form and indulge in nourishment or companionship.
Then we have this... mortal form?

The Mane
By ancient tradition, all khajiit would shave off their own manes to tie them into the voluminous crest of their spiritual leader. By the late centuries of the Potentates, this custom had been reduced to a fraction of its original intent as increasing population raised obvious practical problems. After the khajiit had scaled heaven, however, such hindrances fell away and the practice was again extended to all of his two hundred million subjects. In his commonest guise, the Mane is a cilicious sphere of vast dimensions, a third moon among the stars of his Greater Palace. The location of the Satellite Lord changes constantly, orbiting Lleswer along a set but complex and indecipherable trajectory.
Ah-ha! Reach heaven by collaboration! The Mane is a planet, and a planet is a god. Again, parallell to the dwemer, their souls hair became the golden skin of Anumidium's metal the Mane's hairball body.
Two hundred million? That's one big pounce.

... glossobremia ...
Final thought: Tounge-mildew?
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 2:20 am

So we're building up to giant technoarcane moths fighting giant oversoul hairballs on Secunda? Or maybe they don't fight at all. Or maybe they fight the craters Nerevar once fought.

What are the physics of going to Llesweyr? In the 2nd Era did Elsweyr even exist in Tamriel? Or by crossing the border were you truly stepping past some magical barrier onto Secunda? In this case did Llesweyr ever crash down to Tamriel to become a formal part of it?
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 5:05 pm

So we're building up to giant technoarcane moths fighting giant oversoul hairballs on Secunda? Or maybe they don't fight at all. Or maybe they fight the craters Nerevar once fought.

What are the physics of going to Llesweyr? In the 2nd Era did Elsweyr even exist in Tamriel? Or by crossing the border were you truly stepping past some magical barrier onto Secunda? In this case did Llesweyr ever crash down to Tamriel to become a formal part of it?

I think Llesweyr was the name of the land as a whole before it became a unified Elsweyr in the 2nd Era. Or there could be more to it than that.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 12:29 pm

I think Llesweyr was the name of the land as a whole before it became a unified Elsweyr in the 2nd Era. Or there could be more to it than that.
Before it was Elsweyr, the country was two kingdoms: Pallaquin and Anequina.
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