Skyrim - The Argonian’s SECRET Potential - Elder Scrolls Lore

we cannot fear change cannot turn our heads from it this we know and always must know deep within our heart roots sometimes the change comes from outside forces the passing of a season or the death of a loved one other times this change comes from within ourselves and need to shake away an old identity and embrace a new one so we require the aid of the hist though the hist watch over the tribe and guide us along our needed paths rarely does it take direct action but during this time hist and spirit combine a loving embrace followed by a great change the histories have dwelt on Tamriel since the very beginning since I knew the everything assembled the twelve worlds of creation they stood by swaying idly in the wind as the predecessors two men and elves Ward over the land of Dawn's beauty the hist gavotte knowledge like water through their roots absorbing invaluable sustenance that they could use to better understand their homeland even as much of it sank into the sea the LFA evolved and changed after their primordial conflicts and by the time of the men and mer they had lost much of what connected them to the forces of the dawn times but while the past is opaque for mortals the hist seemed to remember they know of SIF is's role in the creation of the universe and they revere him as the original creator without surface the void the chaos there was no reaction nothing for an we l2 interplay with therefore the hist and subsequently the argonians have an intrinsic link to the forces of chaos a veneration that brings understanding but how does this manifest in reality well while the races of man mer and beast can trace their lineage back to the Elna feign some way or another the argonians are unique they owe their existence to the hist not the Divine's or the Daedra or the eventual devolution of the illness a the parable of becoming speaks of an allegory used to explain why argonians look the way they do it claims that the HISP eceived humans and elves and admired their walking legs and clever hands and then molded and remoulded the swamps useful lizards until they found they had made argonians scholars have also speculated from their interpretations of the parable that the hist created the argonians from an existing lizard of black marsh specifically the hellström ancestor lizard as it is commonly known in modern times one Argonian named mia glim had a vision of the distant past and described the condense life of a lizard it wandered listless see in the blase nonchalant way that only a simple faultless creature can it ate the small things that moved in its vicinity grubs and flies and beetles that could not identify the camouflage predator it drank the thick murky waters of the mayas and then one day it drank something entirely different something strong and strangely SAP it hist SAP and then in his transient trip Mia glim experienced the intricate transformation from lizard to Argonian eons of evolution in mere moments it's no coincidence that such a miraculous transformation was only possible with the celestial power of the hist that enters the tangible world in the form of SAP it seems that of all the inhabitants of Tamriel during the dawn times the historama 'putin powers the old and wandering LFA became mortal the Adria tied up a great deal of their divine essence in keeping the mortal realm of Mundus alive but the hissed they just watched and waited for the forces of stasis and change to finish their feuding it's difficult to pinpoint exactly how powerful the hissed are as they do not communicate with mortals and when they do it's in esoteric ways through hallucinations and complex rituals but it is entirely possible that their powers have not wavered since the moment they were created by Anu and if the histor powerful enough to turn a living but non intelligent life-form like the ancestor lizard into the sapient argonians deciding the details of their biology seemingly on a whim then the hissed could theoretically alter the lizard folk anyway they please transmogrifying them into any form defying the laws of nature embracing surfaces chaos and when we delve into the rituals and customs of the argonians this possibility seems much more plausible that's what we're going to explore in this video hey guys it's drew here and welcome back to fudge Muppet can the Argonian shape-shift let's find out the intimate relationship between histone Argonian begins even before birth when a pair of argonians mate the female lays a clutch of eggs and these eggs are transferred to a nest called an XF and these nests are you located in hatching pools made among the shallow exposed roots of The Histories The Closer Argonian eggs can be to the history incubation the better here where the eggs can be exposed to raw hissed sap Argonian embryos are practically gestated in hissed and when they hatch the first thing they will eat is not milk but hissed sap even the pacify is given to teething youths are made from hardened SAP argonians tickled under the chin will reflexively open their jaws and this allows for parents to feed hatchlings the SAP as well as liquorice worms which are nutrient dense and easy to chew the importance of the hiss to a developing Argonian cannot be understated for argonians born in other provinces the ramifications are much more significant than simply homesickness and a different accent firstly argonians from foreign lands have trouble communicating with black marsh natives largely because the body language and reliance on instinctive gestures are as vital to their language as the words themselves in the text the strange case of jar eat we hear of an Argonian born away from the marsh it says in Argonian society he is disadvantaged he's unable to read social clues the subtle movements of muscle and tail that most of us take for granted we occasionally have difficulty reading the emotions of other races jar 8 has that problem even with fellow argonians he listens to spoken words and is insensitive to their tone surely being born away from the hissed has deprived him of emotional intuition but beyond culture and communicating you'd think that there would be genuine physiological drawbacks to growing up without the hissed but their adaptability makes that hard to properly gauge the beautiful thing about argonians is that they adapt remarkably well to unfavorable circumstances in extreme conditions like the frigid reaches of skyrim argonians can bear children like mammals become pregnant and give birth to their youth by passing the egg-laying process altogether this somewhat controversial take on how argonians give birth comes from some of the many developer interviews both mark Nelson and Pete Hines of Bethesda Softworks have said that Argonian breasts provide Argonian infants with a source of hysts app when his tree is not available this ability for argonians to suddenly change their biology to suit their environment is not only astonishing but it only just scratches the surface of what they can do imagine if I told you that Imperials who spent long enough in a tropical climate could switch to laying eggs imagine seeing a baby human hatch it's unfathomable argonians however can quickly undergo millions of years of evolution depending on their proximity to the hissed hive mind you have to wonder why this phenomenon isn't researched by human and elven scholars more often unfortunately they're chopped off as primitive beasts so flippantly that the most sophisticated debates had over argonians is whether or not to enslave them the Ultima scholar surrond Hill is one of the few academics who can see the potential of studying the histone Argonian biology in an excerpt of her work titled on argonians she writes in studying the various races of Tamriel I have found a few strange aberrations among the humans shaped the argonians may be the most fascinating they are cold blooded in both the physiological and psychological sense and yet they somehow manage to operate in all climes with the same resilience as mammals their preference for subtropical and tropical climates notwithstanding to see an Argonian moving through subarctic or arctic regions with the same facility as their mammalian rivals is simply astounding while most other Aldmeri scholars simply choose to ignore this oddity I chose to delve into it and I believe I've discovered its cause the argonians maintain they are connected to a mystical force known as the hissed as religious beliefs go it is not terribly complicated but I believe it has a physical manifestation as well the hist supposedly emanates from all nature in Tamriel but is particularly strong in his trees large usually ancient grouse found at the center of every sizable Argonian settlement these histories contain the argonians believed the collective memories and knowledge of all argonians whether this is true or not the SAP that flows from a history contains concentrated Magica I believe that it is this his sap that gives the argonians the ability to defy the logical limits of their own physiology and Saran tell is right to ponder the untapped potential of hist SAP argonians feel a connection to the hist and their subconscious minds at all times they ingest the SAP from birth to death at Birth argonians claim the initial consumption of the SAP gives the hatchling its sole throughout their lives the hist communicate telepathically with the argonians through visions some of these divine reveries especially the ones granted by the consumption of deep SAP SAP found deep under the topsoil are so vivid that they blur the lines of real and imagined in more remote tribes shamans give the deep SAP to young argonians so that they may partake in coming-of-age challenges these rites of passage can involve dream beasts called Kaoru that must be slain or even bizarre psychedelic mental exercises there are rumors that the deep SAP is so potent that it allows the hiss to manifest objects in the physical world when argonians die their souls return whence they came the life essence and memories of the individual join the hive mind absorbed like moisture into the roots of the hissed and the Argonian spirit enriches the hissed SAP for the next generation of hatchlings to drink but as we just heard from sir and he'll and the examples of Argonian mothers adapting their reproductive organs to suit the climate the influence of the hissed fire his SAP goes far beyond hallucinations and mere sustenance argonians can be changed physically by the SAP just as the SAP had once transformed to the ancestor lizards into the lizard folk at the top of the video I quoted a grand transformation a text detailing the process of an Argonian changing gender they refer to their genders as a life phases suggesting that it is commonplace to change often the process according to sir and he'll involves finding a nearby history and licking sap from its bowl the elements in the SAP then quicken the hormonal glands which sprout appropriate organs from which the argonians gender can be determined the physical permutations go beyond biological sex and another example of his SAP being used to change in argonians shape is during the Oblivion crisis after the hissed warned the lizard folk of the impending Cataclysm the trees altered the race to be stronger faster and more resilient this combined with the knowledge of the invasion gave the argonians the upper hand and allowed them to fend off the Daedra hordes even going so far as to chase them back into the Deadlands the races of men and myrrh revere their gods the aedra in some instances the aedra considered ancestors shining examples of what mortals once were and longed to be again in others the gods are unlike them but still credited with the creation of the mortal races however the elves and humans perceive their gods it is always the case that the gods are difficult if not impossible to commune with and when the gods do involve themselves in mortal affairs it is in a powerfully meaningful albeit fleeting way like a katashi's avatar manifesting as a golden dragon to derail Dagon's dastardly designs for the argonians though contact with their gods their creators is simple and you could even argue that they are but an extension of the hist swill meaning every conscious for they have comes to them from their gods the argonians haven't been left to fend for themselves like the other races have so long as the lizard's keep a close connection to the roots they will be protected and adapted to whatever travails they face and with this in mind the other races of Tamriel are incredibly fortunate that the hist have a reputation for being by standards what if the hist wished for the argonians to rule Tamriel what if they wanted to reclaim Dawn's beauty for the true natives of the continent how could any army face a united race of shape-shifting lizards they are currently humanoid in form because their history mired those traits about the old and wandering LFA but if they wanted the argonians to conquer every corner of the continent then they need only feed them the SAP and transform them into colossal beasts capable of slaying a hundred thousand men the hist seemed more interested in preserving what's theirs than taking from others they've tolerated centuries of Argonian slavery and morrowind and it's only recently that the histor felt the need to retaliate against the historic scourge of the lizard folk both the hist and by extension the argonians venerate surface as the original creator the darkness that made shape of the blinding ineffable light and this is perfectly suited to the races ability to alter their psychology and take on new and limitless physical forms surface is the primordial force of chaos and change and as befits his flock the lizards can undergo immense change with the aid of the histories men and elves worship our new the primordial force of stasis and all of his direct descendants like an we L oreal and akatosh these races are limited to our news order and permanence the argonians are not chaos is formless and unpredictable prone to rapid and radical change so too are the lizard folk in the words of the historian Brendon the persistent the Argonian people have throughout Tamriel ik history been perhaps the most misunderstood vilified and reviled of all the sentient races yet those who have taken the time to experience Argonian culture have gained a greater appreciation for this noble and beautiful people I think that if people understood just how much potential the argonians have they would be less hasty to vilify and revile them as subhuman sub elven beasts in the fourth era we've seen unprecedented aggression from the argonians as of the present day year 201 black marsh is more prosperous than ever before and thanks to the answer leo political faction the argonians even rule a significant chunk of southern morrowind the land upon which many of their kin were enslaved neither the Empire or the dunmer were able to reclaim the territories in the following years could this error be the time of the lizards will the yago nians put their divine powers of transformation to use or will they settle for the maintenance of their isolated corner of Tamriel whatever the answer may be only a fool would underestimate just how powerful the argonians could become but there you have it guys the secret power of the argonians that seems to go almost entirely unnoticed by the other races of Tamriel I hope you enjoyed the video thanks so much for watching I've been drew this has been fudge Muppet and I'll see you in the next one [Music]

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Published: Thu Jan 23 2020