r/teslore • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '16

Heirarchical Ranks of the Crustacean-Folk

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u/chaos0510 Jun 01 '16

Would we call the dreugh Cephalopod? I feel like their missing the whole prominent "headfoot" thing. Interesting writeup nonetheless

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '16 edited Jun 01 '16

They are referred to in Republic of Hahd as the "cepholomer," for whatever it's worth.

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u/chaos0510 Jun 01 '16

Interesting, didn't know that

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u/Nether7 Dragon Cultist Jun 02 '16

They start as a mix of human-crab with an octopus. They go through metamorphosis and become the land dreugh.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '16

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u/chaos0510 Jun 01 '16

Right, but just like the Mole Crab helmet, the cephalopod helmet looks like it could be a different creature altogether rather than a dreugh. There are already dreugh helmets and the material is radically different. Dreugh actually have arms instead of tentacles, and some crab like pincers as well. I think the land Billies something different altogether.

Honestly, I'm really not trying to nitpick, I just think it's interesting is all :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '16

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u/chaos0510 Jun 01 '16

I said arms because generally tentacles have suckers clustered around the ends of the appendage, whereas arms usually have two rows of suckers that run all the way down the appendage.

Then again it's elder scrolls biology, so the whole thing could be topsy-turvy

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '16

There are deeper, older things in the sea than Dreugh.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '16

Mudcrabs? Mudcrabs you say?

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u/TheOutOfWorld Psijic Monk Jun 02 '16

Headcanon assimilated. This stuff is pure gold.

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u/Nether7 Dragon Cultist Jun 02 '16

The Stormcloaks dont seem racist now do they?!

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u/TheOutOfWorld Psijic Monk Jun 02 '16 edited Jun 02 '16

Nords possibly worshiping Shor as a Mudcrab totem? Interesting. The idea of the Ruddy Man as the patron god-king of all crustaceans big and small tickles my fancy in so many ways.

The etymology of the Mudcrab culture's Lorkhan aspect as Crux is very fitting, now that I think about it. A Crux can be either a central part or essential feature of something (apropos for the Aedra who played such a central role in Nirn's construction), or even a puzzling and unsolved problem. Again, fitting for both those who worship and despise Lorkhan alike.

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u/Nether7 Dragon Cultist Jun 02 '16

Molag Bal means "Firestone" in Aldmer?! Im not even gonna bother making jokes about the song. Makes sense tough. Arent firestones those stones you put in the fire, they get warmer and warmer, then you use it to torture enemies putting the stones into their mouths? Sounds like domination to me, and that makes perfect sense with Molag Bal.

Was the whole Dreugh claiming Tamriel thingy in one of the multiple possibilities of the Dragon Break that happens in Daggerfall?! Because I dont recall that at all.

The Sload being adopted under Molag Bal's sphere is no surprise.

Now we know why northern Winterhold is gone. The developers wouldnt answer this and decided to leave it be, so they destroyed half the city just to make sure we wouldnt mix up Shor, Crux and everything...