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* FancyDinner: ''The Feast of Saint Coellicia'' describes how an emperor famous for his DecadentCourt antics decided to commemorate a saint who died of starvation with a huge feast that lasted a full twenty-four hours and included 40 exotic dishes, such birds drowned in fortified wine and eaten whole while the diner wears a cloth draped over their head (ostensibly to trap wine vapors, but really to prevent all the juices and viscera from spraying everywhere), swans stuffed with so much filling that some ''exploded'', beehives roasted whole, pottage with duck eyes (the emperor is said to have only them about this until ''after'' they were done to invoke IAteWhat), and bread rolls stuffed with some sort of surprise, like huge pearls or a live dove.
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* FancyDinner: ''The Feast of Saint Coellicia'' describes how an emperor famous for his DecadentCourt antics decided to commemorate a saint who died of starvation with a huge feast that lasted a full twenty-four hours and included 40 exotic dishes, such birds drowned in fortified wine and eaten whole while the diner wears a cloth draped over their head (ostensibly to trap wine vapors, but really to prevent all the juices and viscera from spraying everywhere), everywhere)[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_bunting This is based on a real life French dish and the only difference is the name of the bird]][[/note]], swans stuffed with so much filling that some ''exploded'', beehives roasted whole, pottage with duck eyes (the emperor is said to have only them about this until ''after'' they were done to invoke IAteWhat), and bread rolls stuffed with some sort of surprise, like huge pearls or a live dove.
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** ''Vorgrosh Rot-Tusk's Guide to Dirty Fighting'' espouses this trope, sismissing the idea of honor and advocating such tactics as [[AHandfulForAnEye throwing something into your opponent's eye]], going for a GroinAttack, and trashtalking your opponent to provoke them into making a mistake.
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** ''Vorgrosh Rot-Tusk's Guide to Dirty Fighting'' espouses this trope, sismissing dismissing the idea of honor and advocating such tactics as [[AHandfulForAnEye throwing something into your opponent's eye]], going for a GroinAttack, and trashtalking your opponent to provoke them into making a mistake.
* FancyDinner: ''The Feast of Saint Coellicia'' describes how an emperor famous for his DecadentCourt antics decided to commemorate a saint who died of starvation with a huge feast that lasted a full twenty-four hours and included 40 exotic dishes, such birds drowned in fortified wine and eaten whole while the diner wears a cloth draped over their head (ostensibly to trap wine vapors, but really to prevent all the juices and viscera from spraying everywhere), swans stuffed with so much filling that some ''exploded'', beehives roasted whole, pottage with duck eyes (the emperor is said to have only them about this until ''after'' they were done to invoke IAteWhat), and bread rolls stuffed with some sort of surprise, like huge pearls or a live dove.
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* FramingDevice: ''Hallgerd's Tale'' consists of three fighters discussing who the greatest warrior in history was. The title character comes up with the tale of Pasoroth, a man who was more capable while wearing heavy armor than he was out of it.
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**''Hallgerd's Tale'' consists of three fighters discussing who the greatest warrior in history was. The title character comes up with the tale of Pasoroth, a man who was more capable while wearing heavy armor than he was out ofit.it.
**''Vernaccus and Bourlor'' begins with a man grieving over the death of his cousin. This inspires one of his friends to ponder the nature of legacy, as a setup for a tale about a cowardly daedra whose dodging abilities became greatly exaggerated.
**''Bone'' starts with two friends arguing whether great events and innovations happen suddenly through pure chance or gradually through hard work. A third friend offers his own position that they occur through extreme circumstances and tells the story of the invention of [[HumanResources bonemold armor]] as an example.
**''Hallgerd's Tale'' consists of three fighters discussing who the greatest warrior in history was. The title character comes up with the tale of Pasoroth, a man who was more capable while wearing heavy armor than he was out of
**''Vernaccus and Bourlor'' begins with a man grieving over the death of his cousin. This inspires one of his friends to ponder the nature of legacy, as a setup for a tale about a cowardly daedra whose dodging abilities became greatly exaggerated.
**''Bone'' starts with two friends arguing whether great events and innovations happen suddenly through pure chance or gradually through hard work. A third friend offers his own position that they occur through extreme circumstances and tells the story of the invention of [[HumanResources bonemold armor]] as an example.
* HeelRealization: ''The Lure of the Camonna Tong'' is an account of how one Dunmer decided to leave the [[GenericEthnicCrimeGang Camonna Tong]] after an attempt to intimidate an up-and-coming Argonian seamtress goes too far. He urges others to leave too, before they start SlowlySlippingIntoEvil.
-->''So next time you think of the Camonna Tong, of the glamor and the gold? You think of how easy it is for your crooked morals to slip away entirely. How big talk and some drink can lead you down a darker path than you ever realized you were capable of. How easy it is to say nothing, and how much easier to just join along.''
-->''So next time you think of the Camonna Tong, of the glamor and the gold? You think of how easy it is for your crooked morals to slip away entirely. How big talk and some drink can lead you down a darker path than you ever realized you were capable of. How easy it is to say nothing, and how much easier to just join along.''
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-->Thieves got a perfect right to exist in the Empire. People say we're dishonest. Of course, those people are usually either merchants or priests, which really slays me. Sort of the snake calling the worm legless.
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* CombatPragmatist: The [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Renrijra Krin]] are all about this, as described in the ''Ahzirr Traajijazeri'':
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* ElixirOfLife: In ''The Sage'', the titular character manages to create a potion that gives him immortality. Unfortunately, it took him a long time to notice the effects since they were so subtle, so he doesn't know the exact recipe, but it does seem to involve certain plants.
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* ProfessionalGambler: ''Banker's Bet'' features an old lady named Petuva Smethworthy who makes her living off strange bets. She makes one with a banker where she bets twenty-five hundred gold that in 24 hours, his balls will be covered in feathers. [[spoiler: Despite his paranoia, he manages to keep his balls feather-free and proudly allows the old lady to inspect his testicles for any feathers. Ultimately, though, while he has won the bet, she has the last laugh, because she made a even larger one hundred thousand gold bet with her son that she'll have the banker by his balls.]]
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* SlashedThroat: Discussed in ''Three Thieves'' (which is called ''Unnamed Book'' in ''Morrowind''), which features a criminal teaching his two accomplices various techniques for performing this trope. Played fairly realistically in that he warns them that slashing someone's throat will spill out a lot of blood and discusses a couple of methods for dealing with this. [[spoiler:Later, the two accomplices kill him using the very same techniques when [[NoHonorAmongThieves he attempts to betray the two.]] ]]
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: ''The Four Suitors of Benitah'' is about a man who yearns for his childhood crush, whom he once defended from bullies. With the help of a healer, he enhances himself with magic to outperform rival suitors.
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* HonorAmongThieves: ''Confessions of a Thief'' and ''Honor Among Thieves'' both espouse this trope, noting that members of the ThievesGuild help keep other members out of prison, warn them of dangers, provide training and supplies, and otherwise help each other out.
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* HonorAmongThieves: ''Confessions of a Thief'' and ''Honor Among Thieves'' both espouse this trope, noting pointing out that members of the ThievesGuild help keep other members out of prison, warn them of dangers, provide training and supplies, and otherwise help each other out.out. The former book also describes the guild as a crime-regulator, cracking down on thieves who become greedy.
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* PuffOfLogic: In ''The Four Suitors of Benitah'', the protagonist, thanks to his magically-augmented intelligence, makes a rival suitor disappear by writing a formula that proves the suitor does not exist.
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* HonorAmongThieves: ''Confessions of a Thief'' and ''Honor Among Thieves'' both espouse this trope, noting that members of the ThievesGuild help keep other members out of prison, warn them of dangers, provide training and supplies, and otherwise help each other out.
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* InsultToRocks: The author of ''Confessions of a Thief'' argues calling a dishonest merchant or priest a thief is an example of this trope, because thieves (or at least those in the ThievesGuild) at least have sense of honor.
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** Ynir Gorming's ''Fire and Darkness: The Brotherhoods of Death'' proposes that the Night Mother is an aspect of Mephala, Daedric Prince of Strife, who engineered a schism which led to the Brotherhood being founded after the Morag Tong were banned from practising her worship.
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** Ynir Gorming's ''Fire and Darkness: The Brotherhoods of Death'' proposes that the Night Mother is an aspect of Mephala, Daedric Prince of Strife, who engineered a schism which led to the Brotherhood being founded after Strife. When the Morag Tong were banned from practising her worship.worship, she engineered a schism that caused the Tong to split into two, with those still willing to worship to her becoming the Dark Brotherhood.
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* MultipleChoicePast: There are at least three different versions of the Night Mother's back story across three different works:
** Pellarne Assi, author of ''The Brothers of Darkness'', believes the Night Mother to be a LegacyCharacter - there is no one immortal Night Mother from the Brotherhood's origin to the present day, rather it is a title passed from one leader to the next regardless of gender.
** Ynir Gorming's ''Fire and Darkness: The Brotherhoods of Death'' proposes that the Night Mother is an aspect of Mephala, Daedric Prince of Strife, who engineered a schism which led to the Brotherhood being founded after the Morag Tong were banned from practising her worship.
** The author of ''Sacred Witness'', Enric Milres, claimed to have been personally granted an audience with the Night Mother, and by her own accounts, she started out as a low ranking member of the Thieves Guild who strangled her marks to make robbing them easier, and left to found her own guild when she decided that murder was a more profitable than theft. He was found dead shortly after the work revealing this was published.
** Pellarne Assi, author of ''The Brothers of Darkness'', believes the Night Mother to be a LegacyCharacter - there is no one immortal Night Mother from the Brotherhood's origin to the present day, rather it is a title passed from one leader to the next regardless of gender.
** Ynir Gorming's ''Fire and Darkness: The Brotherhoods of Death'' proposes that the Night Mother is an aspect of Mephala, Daedric Prince of Strife, who engineered a schism which led to the Brotherhood being founded after the Morag Tong were banned from practising her worship.
** The author of ''Sacred Witness'', Enric Milres, claimed to have been personally granted an audience with the Night Mother, and by her own accounts, she started out as a low ranking member of the Thieves Guild who strangled her marks to make robbing them easier, and left to found her own guild when she decided that murder was a more profitable than theft. He was found dead shortly after the work revealing this was published.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Sirollus Saccus in ''The Armorer's Challenge'' forges a suit of ebony platemail and a fire-enchanted dai-katana in order to win a bet with another blacksmith. It looks impressive when the gladiator wearing it first puts it on, but when he has to fight in it in an arena that's been partially flooded to resemble swamp terrain, the water extinguishes the fire magic on the blade and the combination of heavy armor and mud makes it almost impossible for him to move, resulting in an easy victory for the opposing gladiator.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Sirollus Saccus in ''The Armorer's Challenge'' forges a suit of ebony platemail and a fire-enchanted dai-katana in order to win a bet with another blacksmith. It looks impressive when the gladiator wearing it first puts it on, but when he has to fight in it in an arena that's been partially flooded to resemble swamp terrain, terrain (because the duel is meant for picking army equipment for a campaign in Argonia), the water extinguishes the fire magic on the blade and the combination of heavy armor and mud makes it almost impossible for him to move, resulting in an easy victory for the opposing gladiator.gladiator, who is wearing chainmail and carrying a spear.
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: ''Songs of Skyrim'' contains the lyrics to the game's theme, "Dragonborn", in both Draconic and English.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: ''Songs of Skyrim'' contains the lyrics to the game's theme, "Dragonborn", in both Draconic and English.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Sirollus Saccus in ''The Armorer's Challenge'' forges a suit of ebony platemail and a fire-enchanted dai-katana in order to win a bet with another blacksmith. It looks impressive when the gladiator wearing it first puts it on, but when he has to fight in it in an arena that's been partially flooded to resemble swamp terrain, the water extinguishes the fire magic on the blade and the combination of heavy armor and mud makes it almost impossible for him to move, resulting in an easy victory for the opposing gladiator.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Sirollus Saccus in ''The Armorer's Challenge'' forges a suit of ebony platemail and a fire-enchanted dai-katana in order to win a bet with another blacksmith. It looks impressive when the gladiator wearing it steps into the arena, but fares poorly because the when he has to fight in it in an arena has that's been partially flooded to resemble swamp terrain terrain, the water extinguishes the fire magic on the blade and impedes his movement.the combination of heavy armor and mud makes it almost impossible for him to move, resulting in an easy victory for the opposing gladiator.
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** In the twelve-parter ''2920: The Last Year of the First Era'', Emperor Reman Cyrodiil III's paranoia that almost everyone he knows is plotting against him (which, frankly, [[ProperlyParanoid isn't necessarily a bad assumption]] if you rule a DeadlyDecadentCourt) [[spoiler:leads him to commit actions that eventually trigger a successful plot to get him assassinated]].
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** In the twelve-parter ''2920: The Last Year of the First Era'', Emperor Reman Cyrodiil III's paranoia that almost everyone he knows is plotting against him (which, frankly, [[ProperlyParanoid isn't necessarily a bad assumption]] if you rule a DeadlyDecadentCourt) DecadentCourt) [[spoiler:leads him to commit actions that eventually trigger a successful plot to get him assassinated]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Well-described sex scenes are rather common. The most notable example might well be "[[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Real_Barenziah_%28Daggerfall%29 The Real Barenziah]]," which originated in ''Daggerfall'' and originally featured Barenziah having sex in public with Therris (a Khajiit member of the Thieves' Guild) in exchange for housing and training. This was removed in later games (apparently because the ESRB was paying closer attention), with the text stating that the passage was banned by order of the Tribunal Temple.
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Well-described sex scenes GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are rather common. The most notable reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example might well be "[[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Real_Barenziah_%28Daggerfall%29 The Real Barenziah]]," which originated in ''Daggerfall'' and originally featured Barenziah having sex in public with Therris (a Khajiit member of fits the Thieves' Guild) in exchange for housing and training. This was removed in later games (apparently because current definition. And also check what the ESRB was paying closer attention), with the text stating that the passage was banned by order of the Tribunal Temple.actual ratings are.
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* AwesomeButImpractical / BoringButPractical: ''The Armorer's Challenge''. A gladiator wearing rusted scale mail and armed with a spear beats another gladiator wearing ebony armor and armed with an enchanted dai-katana, because the arena is flooded to resemble swamp terrain and his gear is more suited to the conditions.
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* AwesomeButImpractical / BoringButPractical: AwesomeButImpractical: Sirollus Saccus in ''The Armorer's Challenge''. A Challenge'' forges a suit of ebony platemail and a fire-enchanted dai-katana in order to win a bet with another blacksmith. It looks impressive when the gladiator wearing rusted scale mail and armed with a spear beats another gladiator wearing ebony armor and armed with an enchanted dai-katana, it steps into the arena, but fares poorly because the arena is has been flooded to resemble swamp terrain and impedes his gear is more suited to the conditions.movement.
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* BoringButPractical: Hazadir from ''The Armorer's Challenge'' forges a rusted suit of scalemail, a simple spear and a soft shield without a metal trim for a gladiator to fight with; nowhere near as fancy as what the opposing gladiator wears, but, as the fight between them demonstrates, very effective in swamp terrain and as a counter to Argonian battle tactics.
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* ImmortalsFearDeath: The Dremora interviewed in ''Spirit of the Daedra'' claims that daedra, being immortal, cannot comprehend mortals for this reason. How can any being be aware that their existence is a finite one and yet not be [[DespairEventHorizon constantly consumed with despair]] by this knowledge?
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* ImmortalsFearDeath: The Dremora interviewed in ''Spirit of the Daedra'' claims that daedra, being immortal, even though daedra just resurrect in Oblivion every time their physical body is killed, the process of resurrection is apparently quite horrifying to go through and so they would prefer to avoid it as much as possible. He also claims that daedra simply cannot comprehend how it's possible for mortals for this reason. How can any being to be aware that their existence is a finite one deaths are both inevitable and yet permanent but not be [[DespairEventHorizon constantly consumed with be in despair]] by this knowledge?because of it.
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* HumanResources: ''Bone'' is a gruesome account of the invention of bonemold armor, by a smith who was trapped in a besieged fort with his lord and a gang of slaves. At first he has to forge iron armor from anything metal in the fort not holding it together, then leather armor from the rotting carcasses of livestock, then bonemold armor from the hunks of muscle, fat, blood, and bone not used in the leatherworking. When the lord demands still more armor, the smith resorts to dismembering the slaves and using their bones and organs to create more bonemold.
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* CleanFoodPoisonedFork: The famously paranoid Prince Helseth invites [[FlockOfWolves everyone he suspects of being a spy]] to a banquet. [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow Suspecting that he might suspect them]], and aware that the prince had recently met with a renowned alchemist, several invitees (including the narrator) choose to feign eating the food. Unfortunately for them, Helseth anticipated that, and poisoned the spies' cups and cutlery instead. [[spoiler:Except [[SubvertedTrope that was a lie]] -- the whole thing was a bluff, and the poison was actually in the "antidote" he offered to anyone who would confess their treachery.]]
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: ''A Game at Dinner'' ends with the narrator informing their employer that, whatever horrors they may have already seen in their long existence, the manner in which Burgess died is something they ''do not want to know''.
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* {{Irony}}: ''The Dragon Break Re-Examined'' by scholarly skeptic Fal Droon argues that the 1008-year TimeCrash known as the Middle Dawn is nothing more than a fanciful legend created by ignorant scholars who misinterpreted the dates on documents from the relevant periods, and that any "temporal anomalies" in history are just the result of scholarly errors. The problem? ''His book is proof that temporal anomalies exist'' -- its first appearance is in ''Morrowind'', during the 3rd Era and the rule of the Septim Dynasty, yet it refers to both of those things as being a part of a distant, primitive past.
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** In ''[[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Jokes Jokes]]'', when asked by the judge why he killed his unfaithful wife, the Dunmer in question replies, "I considered it better to kill one woman than a different m2an every week."
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** In ''[[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Jokes Jokes]]'', when asked by the judge why he killed his unfaithful wife, the Dunmer in question replies, "I considered it better to kill one woman than a different m2an man every week."
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* BlessedWithSuck: When Weedle begged at the feet of Namira for 33 days in a row, Namira "rewarded Weedle with the ability to manifest diseases with visible symptoms, to invoke pity in others and to make them disregard Weedle's presence.
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* BlessedWithSuck: When Weedle begged at the feet of Namira for 33 days in a row, Namira "rewarded 'rewarded' Weedle with the ability to manifest diseases with visible symptoms, to invoke pity in others and to make them disregard Weedle's presence.
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Although Weedle hated the [[BlessedWithSuck "gift"]] granted by Namira, they still figured out how to use them to learn the important secrets of others, and eventually became a semi-legendary figure, "The Beggar Prince".
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** In ''The Three Thieves'', an assassin teaches his two partners how to slice someone's throat without giving them chance to scream or covering yourself in bloodstains. When he tries to scam them out of their shares following a heist, they use one of his own techniques to murder him in his bed.
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** In ''The Three ''Three Thieves'', an assassin teaches his two partners how with two thieves in order to slice someone's throat heist a vault with them. To gain their trust, he teaches them some of his favorite methods for killing someone without giving them chance to scream or covering yourself in incriminating bloodstains. When he tries to scam them out of their shares following a heist, after the heist is over, they use one of his own techniques to murder him in his bed.
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* ShieldsAreUseless: Discussed by Potentate Versidue-Shaie in''2920, vol 1 - Morning Star''. His people the Tsaesci value mobility over protection when fighting, and are confused by humans who use a "sword and board" fighting style.
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* ShieldsAreUseless: Discussed by Potentate Versidue-Shaie in''2920, in ''2920, vol 1 - Morning Star''. His people people, the Tsaesci Tsaesci, value mobility over protection when fighting, and are confused by humans who use a "sword and board" fighting style.
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** In ''[[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Jokes Jokes]]'', when asked by the judge why he killed his unfaithful wife, the Dunmer in question replies, "I considered it better to kill one woman than a different man every week."
* BlessedWithSuck: The Beggar Prince...
** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: ... Until Weedle learns how to properly utilize the "gifts" given.
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* TheWisePrince: Prince Juilek, son of Reman III. He's a great warrior and intelligent statesman whose diplomacy skills earn him the respect of the Tribunal. His assassination is the first nail in the Reman Dynasty's coffin, with his father spiraling even further into paranoia as a result.
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* BlackComedy: Essentially the entire point of the seven-volume story ''A Dance In Fire''. A clerk from Imperial City is fired and, desperate, heads to Valenwood to sell building contracts to the Bosmer so they can fix their infrastructure after a war with the Khajiit. While he's there, horrible things happen to him and everyone around him on a regular basis. Among other things; he loses all his money very quickly, the war starts up again so he's constantly narrowly dodging bands of rampaging Khajiit, he encounters an ex-pirate who's miserable about the war having driven him into ''honest work'', various things try to eat him (and there's a RunningGag about the cannibalistic Bosmer), and he's accosted by [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a poet unjustifiably convinced that he's found a fellow scholar of Bosmer verse and won't shut up about it]]. (Said poet is the source of the title.) Even when he survives and gets home safely with a new and more lucrative job in hand, the story has [[TwistEnding one more thing]] in store. After ''that'', there is a four-volume sequel, ''The Argonian Account'', where the clerk gets sent to Black Marsh.
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** Essentially the entire point of the seven-volume story ''A Dance In Fire''. A clerk from Imperial City is fired and, desperate, heads to Valenwood to sell building contracts to the Bosmer so they can fix their infrastructure after a war with the Khajiit. While he's there, horrible things happen to him and everyone around him on a regular basis. Among other things; he loses all his money very quickly, the war starts up again so he's constantly narrowly dodging bands of rampaging Khajiit, he encounters an ex-pirate who's miserable about the war having driven him into ''honest work'', various things try to eat him (and there's a RunningGag about the cannibalistic Bosmer), and he's accosted by [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a poet unjustifiably convinced that he's found a fellow scholar of Bosmer verse and won't shut up about it]]. (Said poet is the source of the title.) Even when he survives and gets home safely with a new and more lucrative job in hand, the story has [[TwistEnding one more thing]] in store. After ''that'', there is a four-volume sequel, ''The Argonian Account'', where the clerk gets sent to BlackMarsh.Marsh.
** In ''[[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Jokes Jokes]]'', when asked by the judge why he killed his unfaithful wife, the Dunmer in question replies, "I considered it better to kill one woman than a different man every week."
** Essentially the entire point of the seven-volume story ''A Dance In Fire''. A clerk from Imperial City is fired and, desperate, heads to Valenwood to sell building contracts to the Bosmer so they can fix their infrastructure after a war with the Khajiit. While he's there, horrible things happen to him and everyone around him on a regular basis. Among other things; he loses all his money very quickly, the war starts up again so he's constantly narrowly dodging bands of rampaging Khajiit, he encounters an ex-pirate who's miserable about the war having driven him into ''honest work'', various things try to eat him (and there's a RunningGag about the cannibalistic Bosmer), and he's accosted by [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a poet unjustifiably convinced that he's found a fellow scholar of Bosmer verse and won't shut up about it]]. (Said poet is the source of the title.) Even when he survives and gets home safely with a new and more lucrative job in hand, the story has [[TwistEnding one more thing]] in store. After ''that'', there is a four-volume sequel, ''The Argonian Account'', where the clerk gets sent to Black
** In ''[[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Jokes Jokes]]'', when asked by the judge why he killed his unfaithful wife, the Dunmer in question replies, "I considered it better to kill one woman than a different man every week."
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** The ''Dawnguard'' DLC to ''Skyrim'' adds ''The Sultry Argonian Bard''. It takes the same concept, flips the genders so the argonian paramour is male. And it's even more of a SelfInsertFic than the original.
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** The ''Dawnguard'' DLC to ''Skyrim'' adds ''The Sultry Argonian Bard''. It takes the same concept, flips the genders so the argonian Argonian paramour is male. And it's even more of a SelfInsertFic than the original.
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* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: InUniverse example. By some accounts Barenziah herself enjoyed ''The Real Barenziah'' and is friends with the author (both of them are {{NPC}}s in ''Tribunal'' and you can ask him about the book).
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* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: InUniverse example. By some accounts Barenziah herself enjoyed example with ''The Real Barenziah'' Barenziah'':
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', Barenziah calls the book "cruel andis friends with defamatory," says she suppressed its publication and had the author (both of them are {{NPC}}s in ''Tribunal'' executed, and you can ask has attempted ever since to prevent its reemergence.
** In ''Tribunal,'' however, a character with the alias Plitinius Mero claims to be the author, and that Barenziah herself protected himabout from the book).Imperial family's retribution by reporting him dead while secretly offering him sanctuary. He suspects this was because she not only knew his account was true but found it enjoyable and amusing.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', Barenziah calls the book "cruel and
** In ''Tribunal,'' however, a character with the alias Plitinius Mero claims to be the author, and that Barenziah herself protected him
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* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: Some of the ''Sixteen Accords of Madness'' and ''Myths of Sheogorath'' portray Sheogorath as being capable of driving his victims to madness or defeating his rivals by simply [[BatmanGambit letting them follow their own natures]] without him needing to lift a finger.
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** Some of the ''Sixteen Accords of Madness'' and ''Myths of Sheogorath'' portray Sheogorath as being capable of driving his victims to madness or defeating his rivals by simply [[BatmanGambit letting them follow their own natures]] without him needing to lift afinger.finger.
** In "The Argonian Account", Decumus Scotti is hired to overhaul the infrastructure of a trade network in Black Marsh, but his survey of the area shows him that Black Marsh is unsuited to his Imperial backers' ideas of modernisation. So he quietly embezzles the stakeholder's investment for himself and leaves the network to collapse, and the Argonians return to their traditional methods of transporting goods which are more efficient and suited to Black Marsh.
** Some of the ''Sixteen Accords of Madness'' and ''Myths of Sheogorath'' portray Sheogorath as being capable of driving his victims to madness or defeating his rivals by simply [[BatmanGambit letting them follow their own natures]] without him needing to lift a
** In "The Argonian Account", Decumus Scotti is hired to overhaul the infrastructure of a trade network in Black Marsh, but his survey of the area shows him that Black Marsh is unsuited to his Imperial backers' ideas of modernisation. So he quietly embezzles the stakeholder's investment for himself and leaves the network to collapse, and the Argonians return to their traditional methods of transporting goods which are more efficient and suited to Black Marsh.
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* [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Dunmer]]: Vivec's second mother, which was built by Dwemer.
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* [[ArtificialHuman ArtificialHuman: Well, Artificial Dunmer]]: Dunmer: Vivec's second mother, which was built by Dwemer.
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* IAmWho: ''The Mystery of Talara'' is a whole 5 volume series of this. [[spoiler: The ending pulls a fast one on the reader and reveals JYLLIA is Talara, not Gyna. Gyna is actually the real ''Jyllia'']].
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* IAmWho: ''The Mystery of Talara'' is a whole 5 volume series of this. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The ending pulls a fast one on the reader and reveals JYLLIA is Talara, not Gyna. Gyna is actually the real ''Jyllia'']].
* TheLegendOfX: ''The Legend of Haman Forgefire''
* OneWordTitle: ''Feyfolken''.
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:''Of Fjori and Holgeir''. Holgeir is bitten by a snake, and his lover Fjori journeys to Akavir to find a cure. As she brings the cure to Holgeir, ''she gets bitten by the same snake'', and the combination of venom and exhaustion kills her as she uses the antidote to save him. Holgeir orders the construction of a tomb for his lover, and [[DrivenToSuicide takes his own life]] in the deepest chamber so he can join her in the afterlife.]] And then, in ''Skyrim'', [[spoiler:their corpses are turned into Draugrs by an insane necromancer.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:''Of ''Of Fjori and Holgeir''. Holgeir [[spoiler:Holgeir is bitten by a snake, and his lover Fjori journeys to Akavir to find a cure. As she brings the cure to Holgeir, ''she gets bitten by the same snake'', and the combination of venom and exhaustion kills her as she uses the antidote to save him. Holgeir orders the construction of a tomb for his lover, and [[DrivenToSuicide takes his own life]] in the deepest chamber so he can join her in the afterlife.]] And then, in ''Skyrim'', [[spoiler:their corpses are turned into Draugrs by an insane necromancer.]]
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* SurpriseIncest: Almost occurred in the fourth book of "The Mystery of Talara". [[spoiler: Gyna, believing to be Princess Talara, is set to seduce the Prince who has a not-exactly-consensual BDSM fetish. He's all set to have at her before the paralysis spell does its work. Except that Gyna isn't actually Talara, but the identical cousin, Jylla, who would be the Prince's half-sister.]]
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* SurpriseIncest: Almost occurred in the fourth book of "The Mystery of Talara". [[spoiler: Gyna, [[spoiler:Gyna, believing to be Princess Talara, is set to seduce the Prince who has a not-exactly-consensual BDSM fetish. He's all set to have at her before the paralysis spell does its work. Except that Gyna isn't actually Talara, but the identical cousin, Jylla, who would be the Prince's half-sister.]]
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* TigerByTheTail: The author of ''[[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Sacred_Witness Sacred Witness]]''sets out to learn more about the Night Mother, but she conscripts him into joining the Dark Brotherhood and forces him to assist them in committing unspeakable crimes. The book ends with the author admitting that the Night Mother will see the book's publication as him breaking his promise to her and that he fears for his life, followed by an editor's note stating the author was found dead with his corpse bearing the Night Mother's CallingCard.
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* TigerByTheTail: The author of ''[[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Sacred_Witness Sacred Witness]]''sets Witness]]'' sets out to learn more about the Night Mother, but she conscripts him into joining the Dark Brotherhood and forces him to assist them in committing unspeakable crimes. The book ends with the author admitting that the Night Mother will see the book's publication as him breaking his promise to her and that he fears for his life, followed by an editor's note stating the author was found dead with his corpse bearing the Night Mother's CallingCard.
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* TheXOfY: Multiple books, such as:
** ''Sixteen Accords of Madness''
** ''36 Lessons of Vivec''
** ''Confessions of a Khajiit Fur Trader''
** ''The Horror of Castle Xyr''
** ''The Mystery of Talara''
** ''Myths of Sheogorath''
** ''The Posting of the Hunt''
** ''Songs of Skyrim''
** ''Spirit of the Daedra''
** ''Sixteen Accords of Madness''
** ''36 Lessons of Vivec''
** ''Confessions of a Khajiit Fur Trader''
** ''The Horror of Castle Xyr''
** ''The Mystery of Talara''
** ''Myths of Sheogorath''
** ''The Posting of the Hunt''
** ''Songs of Skyrim''
** ''Spirit of the Daedra''
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** Honorable mention goes to ''2920, Last Year of the First Era'' (12 volumes), ''The Real Barenziah'' (12 volumes) and ''King Edward'' (12 volumes, incomplete).
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** Honorable mention goes to ''2920, Last Year of the First Era'' (12 volumes), ''The Real Barenziah'' (12 volumes) (10 volumes, later cut down to 5) and ''King Edward'' (12 volumes, incomplete).
