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THLMR tells a story about the illegitimate child of a Thalmor Emissary ambassador Elenwen and leader of the Stormcloak rebellion, Ulfric. The child was conceived when Ulfric had been Thalmor's prisoner of war and possible collaborator. After extremely messy Parental Neglect on Ulfric's part, traumatised child was groomed by Thalmor to help them accomplish their plans.

[[caption-width-right:350:And yet the wheel keeps turning.\\
''[[DeadlyEuphemism For now]]'' ''[[SentientCosmicForce The Wheel]]'' ''[[ApocalypseHow keeps turning.]]'']]

* AChildShallLeadThem: Played with, but ultimately {{downplayed|Trope}} if not {{subverted|Trope}}. The Child is a youngish (even by human standards) person, but grown-up nevertheless. They hold high position in Thalmor, but it's strongly implied that they're being manipulated by another Thalmor officer.

* SoreLoser: Tu'whacca, after Cyrus wins his ChessWithDeath against the Yokudan God of Souls, who is...''very deeply in denial'' he's lost. Having his familiars ''thoroughly'' check the board, the pieces, and ''Cyrus himself'' to make ''certain'' he actually won, all while insisting that there is absolutely no way he could lose and even tries pulling a "we're playing again" in refusal of defeat. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] however, as when Cyrus reiterates ''firmly'' that ''he has won the game'', and Tu'whacca silently checks the board ''one last time'', he finally admits defeat, and allows him to return to the living world as was promised. He even becomes a GracefulLoser by [[spoiler: resurrecting a Sunbird of Alinor]] and offering it to him as his exit vehicle despite not being part of the deal, and refers to him as ''"No Shira"'', the Yokudan word for "Noble Person".

* SoreLoser: Tu'whacca, after Cyrus wins his ChessWithDeath against the Yokudan God of Souls, who is...''very deeply in denial'' he's lost. Having his familiars ''thoroughly'' check the board, the pieces, and ''Cyrus himself'' to make ''certain'' he actually won, all while insisting that there is absolutely no way he could lose and even tries pulling a "we're playing again" in refusal of defeat. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] however, as when Cyrus reiterates ''firmly'' that ''he has won the game'', and Tu'whacca silently checks the board ''one last time'', he finally admits defeat, and allows him to return to the living world as was promised. He even becomes a GracefulLoser by [[spoiler: resurrecting a Sunbird of Alinor]] and offering it to him as his exit vehicle despite not being part of the deal, and refers to him as ''"No Shira"'', the Yokudan word for "Noble Person".

[[caption-width-right:350:And yet the wheel keeps turning.]]

* SoreLoser: Cyrus in his ChessWithDeath against Tu'whacca, who is...''very deeply in denial'' he's lost. Having his familiars ''thoroughly'' check the board, the pieces, and ''Cyrus himself'' to make ''certain'' he actually won, all while insisting that there is absolutely no way he could lose and even tries pulling a "we're playing again" in refusal of defeat. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] however, as when Cyrus reiterates ''firmly'' that ''he has won the game'', and Tu'whacca silently checks the board ''one last time'', he finally admits defeat, and allows him to return to the living world as was promised. He even becomes a GracefulLoser by [[spoiler: resurrecting a Sunbird of Alinor]] and offering it to him as his exit vehicle despite not being part of the deal, and refers to him as ''"No Shira"'', the Yokudan word for "Noble Person".

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: In later episodes, some more complex visuals were made in 3D.

* AChildShallLeadThem: Played with, but ultimately {{downplayed|Trope}} if not {{subverted|Trope}}. The Child is a youngish (even by human standards) person, but grown-up nevertheless. They hold high position in Thalmor, but it's strongly implied that they're manipulated by another Thalmor officer.

* ApocalypseHow: Class 0 at the very least, probably way, way higher considered [[spoiler: Thalmor is aiming for unmaking whole creation]] and in the finale of episode 4 [[spoiler: they seem have begun executing their plan]].

** When Cyrus exits the Far Shores on the Sunbird of Alinor, it somehow exits up ''upside down'', [[LampshadeHanging which he acknowledges out loud.]]

* ChessWithDeath: The subject of Episode 6, where [[Videogame/TheElderScrollsAdventuresRedguard Cyrus the Restless]] is granted his request to return to the living world after winning a game of Domino against Tu'whacca, Yokudan aspect of Arkay.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: PELINAL is just 3 minutes of Pelinal Whitestrake butchering thousands, ''millions'' of Ayleids (and Khajiit) after Huna dies in battle.

* ApocalypseHow: Class 0 at the very least, probably way, way higher considered [[spoiler: Thalmor is aiming for unmaking whole creation]] and in the finale of episode 5 [[spoiler: they seem to have achieved their plan]].

* ChessWithDeath: Cyrus returns to the living world after winning against Tu'wacca.

* HumanoidAbomination: Mannimarco and Zurin Arctus, as per usual. Pelinal to a slightly lesser degree.

* AffablyEvil: Subverted with Mannimarco. He's easily the show's most chill character, but only because his immense power gives him the freedom to screw over his enemies.

* AmbiguousDisorder: The Child being kinda EmptyShell, with seemingly suicidal ideation in "To Die".

* AdaptationalAbomination: Averted. THLMR is based on the wildest interpretation of The Elder Scrolls' canon, but it's extremely true to the text (apart of some intentional goofs here and there, like Mannimarco's golden guitar for example).

%%* AxCrazy: Pelinal Whitestrake.

* AChildShallLeadThem: Played with, but ultimately {{downplayed|Trope if not {{subverted|Trope}}. The Child is a youngish (even by human standards) person, but grown-up nevertheless. They hold high position in Thalmor, but it's strongly implied that they're manipulated by another Thalmor officer.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: In later episodes some more complex visuals were made in 3D.
* AbsurdlyCoolCity: Crystal city of Alinor [[spoiler: until it's destroyed and transformed into giant robot]].

* AChildShallLeadThem: Played with, but ultimately downlpayed if not subverted. The Child is young-ish (even by human standards) person, but grown-up nevertheless. They hold high position in Thalmor, but it's strongly implied that they're manipulated by other Thalmor officer.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Episode 5 using this trope to great (maybe even too great) extent.
* AdaptationalAbomination: Actually averted. THLMR is based on the wildest interpretation of The Elder Scrolls' canon, but it's extremely true to the text (apart of some intentional goofs here and there, like Mannimarco's golden guitar for example).

* AllThereInTheManual: You really need pretty good comprehension of more esoteric side of The Elder Scrolls universe to make any sense of this series.
* AmbiguousGender: The Child is presented in androgynous way and there's no indication if they're male, female or non-binary individual.
* ApocalypseHow: Class 0 at the very least, probably way, way higher considered [[spoiler: Thalmor is aiming for unmaking whole creation]] and in the finale of episode 5 [[spoiler: they seems to acheived their plan]].
* AxCrazy: Pelinal Whitestrake, UpToEleven. Which is saying something.

* HumanoidAbomination: Mannimarco and Zurin Arctus, as per usual. Pelinal to slightly lesser degree.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: In later episodes some more complex visuals are made in 3D.
* AbsurdlyCoolCity: Crystal city of Alinor [[spoiler: until it's destroyed and transform into giant robot]].

THLMR is a web animation series created by Russian animator and musician AllInAll. Esentially, it's a VideoGame/TheElderScrolls fanfiction heavily leaning the more esoteric side of the franchise, especially Script/C0DA and other Obscure Texts created by Creator/MichaelKirkbride. Expect numbers of nods to extremely obscure motifs, memes and fan theories.

* AnachronicOrder:

* [[https://youtu.be/E5ix0_W-ouI Pelinal (Animated Opera)]] - not an official part of the series, but content of this episode laid some extremally importnant groundwork for things to come.

* AdaptationalAbomination: Actually averted. THLMR is based on the wildest interpretation of The Elder Scrolls' canon, but it's extremally true to the text (apart of some intentional goofs here and there, like Mannimarco's golden guitar for example).

* AffablyEvil: Subverted with Mannimarco. He's easily the show's most chill character, but only because his immense power gives him the freedom to shrug off his enemies.
* AllThereInTheManual: You really need pretty good comprehension of more esoteric side of The Elder Scrolls universe to make any sense from this series.

* ApocalypseHow: Class 0 at the very least, probably way, way higher considered [[spoiler: Thalmor is aiming fpr unmaking whole creation]] and in the finale of episode 5 [[spoiler: they seems to acheived their plan]].

->''To kill Man is to reach Heaven, from where we came before the Doom Drum's iniquity. When we accomplish this, we can escape the mockery and long shame of the Material Prison."''

* AcidTripDimension: We can briefly see Mannimarco's plane of existence during [spoiler: his fight with Morihaus]].

THLMR is a web animation series created by Russian animator and musician AllInAll. Esentially, it's a VideoGame/TheElderScrolls fanfiction heavily leaning the more esoteric side of the franchise, especially script/C0DA and other Obscure Texts created by Creator/MichaelKirkbride. Expect numbers of nods to extremely obscure motifs, memes and fan theories.

The plot is pretty incomprehensible without extended knowledge of The Elder Scroll's mythology, and even then author heavily utilize unusual Narrative devices, such as Main/PaintingTheMedium, Main/InMediasRes, {{Minimalism}}, {{Postmodernism}} and MindScrew among many others.