Written in Uncertainty: An Elder Scrolls Lore Podcast

This week on Written in Uncertainty, we analyse a bit of Dwemer trash talking, in volume 5 of The Truth in Sequence . Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodcast@gmail.com Keep in touch on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/aramithius Wa...

This week on Written in Uncertainty, we carry on our investigation of The Truth in Sequence , and discuss reinvention, self-enlightenment and Tyler Durden. Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodcast@gmail.com Keep in touch on Twitter:...

This week on Written in Uncertainty, we carry on our investigation of The Truth in Sequence , which has got to the Daedra trash-talking volume. Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodcast@gmail.com Keep in touch on Twitter: https://www...

This week on Written in Uncertainty, we carry on our investigation of The Truth in Sequence , talking a lot about names, gods and division. Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodcast@gmail.com Keep in touch on Twitter: https://www.twi...

This week on Written in Uncertainty, we begin a multi-part series looking at The Truth in Sequence , also (wrongly) known as Sotha Sil's Sermons. Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodcast@gmail.com Keep in touch on Twitter: https://w...

Today on Written in Uncertainty, I’m discussing a question that has consumed scholars in this world and in Mundus, one that gets down to the fundamental question of being. Today we’re asking, what is a soul in the Elder Scrolls universe, and what is the Dreamsleeve? Check out the show’s website: https://writteninuncertainty.com/podcast/souls Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertai...

This week on Written in Uncertainty, we take a close look at the only text to detail one of Tamriel's most famous explorers, Topal the Pilot. This is a close reading of the Father of the Niben . Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodc...

This week on Written in Uncertainty, I’m discussing a puzzle that most people seem to have an opinion on, if not an informed answer. We’re discussing a trend that has split societies, transformed gods and turned the course of wars, all while being something that seems to be frowned upon but not quite illegal for much of Tamriel’s history. Today we’re asking, why worship a Daedra? Check out the sho...

This week on Written in Uncertainty, we look at Shezarr and the Divines, and how the Divines was mashed together as a political move, and all that means. Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodcast@gmail.com Keep in touch on Twitter: h...

Today on Written in Uncertainty I’m discussing some things that have been central to the Elder Scrolls and also kind of on the edge, objects containing immense knowledge that can leave reads entirely clueless. Things that are potentially beyond the gods of Mundus themselves. Today we’re asking, what actually ARE the Elder Scrolls? Check out the show’s website: https://writteninuncertainty.com/podc...

This week, Written in Uncertainty looks at the Khajiit creation myth, thie Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi. Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodcast@gmail.com Keep in touch on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/aramithius Watch Written i...

This week on Written in Uncertainty, we're discussing one of the most loved and oppressive figures in Tamriel’s history, a self-proclaimed god who has been the face and protector of Morrowind for millennia, before finally cracking as she lost her divinity. Today we’re asking, who is Almalexia? Check out the show’s website: https://writteninuncertainty.com/podcast/almalexia Talk TES lore with other...

We finish off the Monomyth this week with the Altmeri tale, the Heart of the World: https://www.imperial-library.info/content/monomyth-altmeri-heart-world Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodcast@gmail.com Keep in touch on Twitter:...

This week on Written in Uncertainty,  we're discussing a mysterious character, who has been working behind the scenes of Mundus in general and Morrowind in particular, bringing change to the world and hopefully, maybe, keeping it on a steady course. Or he could simply be a liar who wanted to maintain his godhood, whatever the cost. Today we’re asking, who is Sotha Sil? Check out the show’s we...

This week, Written in Uncertainty reads a book intended to bring all the various creation myths of Tamriel (and beyond?) together into one place: The Monomyth, this week looking at the Cyrodilic tale, Shezarr's Song: https://www.imperial-library.info/content/monomyth-cyrodiilic-shezarrs-song Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Wri...

This week on Written in Uncertainty I’m discussing one of the most talked about individuals in The Elder Scrolls lore, someone who has been a god, a mortal, a general, a poet, a liar and possibly a whore. Today we’re asking, who is Vivec? Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com/podcast/vivec Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://dis...

 Elder Scrolls Lore Close Reads continues, with the Redguard creation myth presented in the Monomyth text, Satakal the Worldskin. Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99w Send me an email: writteninuncertaintypodcast@gmail.com Keep in touch on Twitter: https://www.twitter....

 Today on Written in Uncertainty we're discussing one of the seminal events in Tamrielic history, which had representatives from almost every race present, and changed the fates of two of them forever. And yet no one seems to be able to agree what those events were. Today we’re asking, what actually happened at the Battle of Red Mountain? Check out the show’s website: https://writteninuncerta...

 This week, Written in Uncertainty reads a book intended to bring all the various creation myths of Tamriel (and beyond?) together into one place: The Monomyth, looking in particular at the tale told by the Psijics: https://www.imperial-library.info/content/monomyth-myth-aurbis Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in U...

 Today on Written in Uncertainty, we're discussing one of the most universal questions in all mythology and applying it to Tamriel. Trying to disentangle the chaos of the Dawn and work out an answer to that fundamental question: where do men come from? Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com/podcast/men Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Dis...

Special episode! I did an interview with The Elder Scrolls Lorecast over the weekend.  We talk perspectives on the lore, some history of the franchise, hopes for ES6 and a whole grab-bag of other stuff, including some bits about Immanuel Kant.  Episode will be out later this week/over the weekend as normal. Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore...

This week, Written in Uncertainty starts to read a book intended to bring all the various creation myths of Tamriel (and beyond?) together into one place: The Monomyth ( https://www.imperial-library.info/content/monomyth ). This week, we cover the intro, examining the Time God and the Space God. Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the...

Today on Written in Uncertainty,  we're discussing one of the strongest entities in The Elder Scrolls who was cast down and humiliated, and ultimately transformed, transforming his people with him. Or was he in fact many other things at once? Today we’re asking, who is Trinimac? Check out the show’s website: https://writteninuncertainty.com/podcast/trinimac Talk TES lore with other fans at th...

 This week, Written in Uncertainty reads one of the foundational creation myths in the lore of the Elder Scrolls: The Annotated Anuad. Or is it the Children's Anuad? Or the Anuad Paraphrased? Or the Bosmeri/Ayleid Creation Myth?  Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r9...

 This week on Written in Uncertainty,  we're discussing a figure who has divided the gods and the mortals, who either cursed everyone to dirt, or gave them a gift of existence. Today we’re asking, who is Lorkhan? Check out the show’s website: https://www.writteninuncertainty.com/podcast/lorkhan Talk TES lore with other fans at the Written in Uncertainty Discord: https://discord.gg/Jc3r99...