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I'm a total lore junkie... In my playthrough of skyrim(currently a Nord Mage), i have collected nearly every book and set them up in the arch mage office.... i have a headcannon going that the other mages there are quite worried about the state of my room... Having just piles of books everywhere...

Also i have organized them based on subject and race. With the ones i deem dangerous being hidden away and the elder scrolls... heh, no one will ever find them...

Also headcannon is Mirabelle finding my dragonborn passed out in the Midden after talking to the Augur for hours on end...
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I'm pretty into the lore. Well, some parts of it. Other parts really piss me off. IE: The Levitation Act. Fuck you Bethesda, fuck you. 

Their refusal to give concrete ages to the races is annoying as well, but at least Elves aren't immortals or even that long lived compared to other settings. Barenziah was around 430 in Morrowind and certainly looked old. It seems that in the Elder Scrolls, the key to long life is magic and not being an elf; count Janus was several hundred years old and people just chalked it up to magic. Apparently, using magic to live for centuries is barely worthy of anything more than local rumour in Nirn. (though he is actually a Vampire so, sorry locals. Almost got it though xD) I have always found it dull how writers have had elves oive for millennia. It's much more interesting for them to live a few hundred years like in TES. I'm glad they made it clear that half breeds aren't really a thing either; dnd had a problem with people making half-whatever characters and I'm glad Bethesda avoided that by saying that you always had your mother's race- though  at the same time made it clear that if it happened over centuries then it could lead to mixing as with the Bretons (I guess you an chalk this one up to some magic as well). It seems more reasonable, else you would have a tonne of halfXhalfX running everywhere

The best part about the lore, tbh, is that there are a tonne of contradictions and grey areas, which is exactly what you would expect from real history. It makes it feel more real even though it is all utterly alien and fantastic.

Anyhow, popping my head in here and looking around. I do have something of an idea for a character but I am not sure I will actually join, I'm still considering it. I'm more of a casual than a free too. So yeah, we'll see.