This is just a metaphor for capitalism. Capitalism will literally kill the earth and suck the population dry just so a few can enjoy their lives.
Just going to point out that the sun in the elder scrolls universe isn’t a ball of plasma and is infact a big ass hole in the fabric of reality from when Magnus pussies out of creation. So it is entirely possible that plants could grow without sunlight in the elder scrolls.
Also for any more specialized lore junkies are vampires hurt by the raw Magicka from the sun or is it more of a raw lumens thing?
Also also the Empire had a space program, do with that what you will.
Who art thou who are so wise in the ways of the elder scrolls
Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don’t.
The like 4 buildings 15 feet away? That’s a district?
It is definitely the Magicka harming them, or it could be pedantry behind the curse because they seem fine in brightly lit rooms, you just rarely see them in one.
Also it could just be Molag Bal being a dick, daedric curses tend to have symbolism behind them. For example if memory serves right the reason werebeasts transform at night is because Hircine is honoring Lorkhan/Shor/Shezar who’s corpse is the moons, but not the necromancers moon that’s manimarco the god of necromancy.
Sounds about as forward thinking as most politicians I know.
That and “quarterly growth above all else” capitalism
Yeah the vampire would have the start of one very fucking awesome quarter before the planet froze and became inhospitable to life.
that’s the next vampire CEO’s problem. I get a golden parachute (and don’t even joke about trying to give me a silver parachute)
Let’s assume this is correct about surface plants needing the raw Magicka from the sun to live.
Blackreach is full of plants, many of which are edible, and receives no sunlight. Humanoids could just start farming the plants from Blackreach along with fungi. That should be enough to sustain a large enough population for Harkon and his court to feed on in their vampire paradise.
I’m surprised Harkon didn’t try to take Blackreach for himself. They’re immune to Falmer poison, they can use their full power without sunlight, they’re smarter and have access to invisibility, illusions, and charms.
In return he could have a country sized cavern, with at least two points of contact to Skyrim one either end, all the dwemer tech to hoard and use with their ancient knowledge. He could subjugate the falmer to be blood livestock, they’re already crafted to be good slaves by the dwemer.
He could slowly build up a vampire/thrall/dwemer machine army right under Skyrim then wage war overnight. Could even use dwemer machines by day to maintain territory until you complete this master prophecy you have.
Don’t even need the invisibility and illusion underground, just get good at ventriliquism.
Fungi, for the large part, feed on vegetable matter
I mean a billionaire would literally attempt this if you told him that he would be the number one billionaire if he blocks the sun out.
I’m sure there was a Simpsons episode on this.
Edit: Yep
Not just a random episode, too - it’s one of the plot points in Who Shot Mr Burns
New quest: uncover the mystery of the crimson nirnroot
Yeah, I always found his plan stupid
I want to play a game one day where it has a character AI good enough to be able to point out something like that and have it affect the flow of that character’s story.
“Oh hum… you… make a good point. Ok, pivoting: let’s block out the sun but only on Tuesdays and Thursdays!”
We’ve had that in 1997 with Fallout.
As an example of a human written story: You can avoid the final boss fight in fallout 1 by calling out a similar flaw in the master’s plan. He will commit suicide.
DnD
You want to play a game called Fallout: New Vegas
seems unrelated but yeah play it anyway
I mean you can literally convince a final boss that his plan is dumb, and he’ll back off without a fight
i think its an awful execution. built up this unstoppable badass only to be stopped by courier saying “u will lose lol” and it works
The writers had to justify calling it Skyrim
No. its because Skyrim belongs to the Nords.
Nice, I didn’t even see the punchline coming.
What a fucking turn of events. That’s what I come for
without even opening the image, it’s the Sky’s rim one, right?
Is it the light or the UV rays that kill them, because if it’s just the UV rays, we have technology that can block them now.
We stopped hearing credible stories of vampires around the same time we invented sunscreen.
Coincidence?
Same plothole as in the Matrix movies
What irks me most about this is that originally the idea was to use humans for their computing powers. But they changed it because they thought audiences wouldn’t be able to understand it.
