I Still Really Hate Ppl Saying Vivec Is A Liar Or A Historical Revisionist Bc The 36 Sermons Aren't 100%

i still really hate ppl saying vivec is a liar or a historical revisionist bc the 36 sermons aren't 100% factual historical accounts. its extremely obvious they are not supposed to be. they are not called "the life of the god vivec" they are SERMONS. they are meant to teach religious and moral lessons, not give you an accurate, objectively correct, factual account of real historical events. his parents are not named. he was an 'egg' in the womb and then when he was 'born' he was a fully grown being. its cloaked in poetic language because what you are supposed to take from them is not a historical lesson but a religious or spiritual one.

like. lets say you wanna communicate how a traumatic event has impacted you. and that you have only two options to do so: one that is as factually accurate as you can make it with a limited perspective told unbiasedly, or a creative project like a poem or novel that is designed to evoke an emotional reaction in the reader. the first one will give an accurate account of the event but not how it impacted you. by nature of how its being told you are giving only the cold hard facts because your emotional state might involve leaving out important factual details to get an accurate view of what happened. the other one is not telling someone exactly what happened to you, but is communicating something that might be much more important: how it impacting you emotionally, mentally, and physically by making your audience relate to, sympathize with, or even empathize with those feelings. it is also not a 100% factual historical account and cannot be used to paint an accurate picture of the events that effected you, though someone could infer many details.

the 36 sermons are about trauma and achieving divinity and what that divinity even means. vivec is a person who was deeply traumatized. abusive family, ran away, ended up joining a gang selling both his body and hard drugs. he was then picked up off the streets by nerevar (a mer significantly older than him), and learned a lot from him, before likely killing him in at least one timeline, breaking his oath to not use the tools in all others. those are the details about vivec's life we can infer from the sermons or from other lore texts or in game dialogue. there are reasons why he made nerevar HIS student in the sermons and why he never names his parents (at least in the in game ones) and why he describes seht and ayem as both his siblings and parents simultaneously. but if you go "this isn't factually correct, vivec is a liar" you are straight up not going to understand the sermons or vivec or take away any important lessons from them.

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dangertiefling

3 years ago

How unfortunate

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dangertiefling

1 year ago

And so he did

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i would have used my eso character insted of my nereverine, but bros to nice to yell at people lol

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dangertiefling

2 years ago

On a border between two States Someone has written, “Fuck your nationalism. We are all Earthlings.”

And on the Mexican border, Someone has ripped through a fence Of reinforced chicken wire With bolt cutters, And erected a hammock By suspending it Between two of the fence’s Concrete pillars.

After swinging gently back and forth, From Texas to Mexico and then From Mexico back to Texas, They doze off; contemptuous Of the security guards Patrolling this artificial demarcation – For, once upon a time, Texas was Mexico And Texas didn’t exist.

When Eugene Debs was imprisoned For conscientious objection in World War One He said, on September 11th 1915, “I have no country to fight for My country is the earth I’m a citizen of the world.”

– Heathcote Williams, “No Borders”

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dangertiefling

5 years ago

As a language nut, that would be amazing!

for requests, I have a Concept: Portia tries to teach an enthusiastic MC Nivenese/Nevivonian/her native language (I just think this would be adorable). potential bonus round: they have a baby, and want to raise it bilingual (I can just imagine MC quietly swooning over the sound of Portia speaking/singing to the baby in Nivenese, it'd be so so soft)

i have a hard rule that i dont do anything abt having kids, BUT! i can get u some headcanons of:

Portia Teaching MC Nevivonian/Her Native Language

Portia patiently sitting down with MC and teaching them different words and pronunciations.

Finding it equal parts endearing and hilarious when they give their best attempt to tell her something sweet in it and absolutely butcher it.

“Ermmmmmm, you know that means anus right? “

Trying to teach MC how to roll their R’s and ending up giving them That Face when they accidentally spit on her in their attempt.

She puts little pieces of paper all over Every item in their home with the Nevivion language word for it, which helps MC recognize objects until Pepi rolls around on them and moves them.

Teaching MC her favorite shanties and songs in Nevivonian and they sing them together while gardening.

She starts with the curse words, she knows they’re the most important words of any language to know.

MC trying to flirt with Portia in Nevivionian just leads to her breaking down in uncontrollable laughter.

She’s always patient though, and she gives MC as many lessons as it takes and is always looking for teachable moments to tell MC new words or to speak to them in it.

“Mercedes DROP THE POMEGRANATE- MC, in Nevivonic, Pomegranate is___”

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dangertiefling

1 year ago

Like/Reblog you miss jungle Cyrodiil

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dangertiefling

4 years ago