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like yeah sure i'm super happy to hear wes johnson's performance in almost anything, especially elderscrolls related, and hermaeus mora is my fav daedric prince, but that doesn't make up for the nothingness in the writing. A good actor can only get you so far!
something i’m extremely particular of when it comes to depicting sheogorath and hermaeus mora and their planes, is the fact these two mind-related beings/planes should be heavily associated with the sea. Especially deep sea creature imagery and motifs. to my dismay, eso goes out of its way to deny all fish associations where they’re supposed to beeeeeee.
i’m just so tired of the avoidance of fish-imagery in eso.
hungers look cool buggy-like, but then i was reminded of shivering isles’ hungers and how they remind me of dead rotting fish carcasses.
lurkers in eso look like big rock demon mans, but in dragonborn they actually looked like creatures from the black lagoon.
sheogorath wears his boring skyrim nothing tunic of swirls and eyes, rather than the fish spine and face and fin and mouth lookin outfit of shivering isles.
no fish. anywhere.
god i miss the sea.
Pictured: Hermaeus (or Hoermius, Hormaius, Herma, Hyrma, or Hermorah… there is no one correct spelling) Mora. Hermaeus Mora is also known as the Demon of Knowledge, the Master of the Tides of Fate, the Gardener of Men, the Prince of Fate, the Lord of Secrets, the Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge, the Golden Eye, Ur-Daedra, the Abyssal Cephaliarch, Old Antecedent, Scryer, Inevitable Knower, Lord of Knowledge, and the One Who Knows. His sphere is forbidden knowledge, memory, and fate.
It is currently Hermaeus Mora’s Summoning Day!
“Consider also the Tide-King, Hermorah. This document would have us believe that Azurah walks the dampened halls of his dark library as friend. If our distant mother does this, should we not do the same? No! For Khajiit who call on Hermorah’s counsel risk a fate worse than death. Mumbles from the sea will tear a mind asunder as surely as the most potent skooma. His briny "truths” shred our sense of reality and set us adrift—far from ja-Kha'jay.“
–Excerpt from Epistle on the Spirits of Amun-dro, discouraging Khajiit from involvement with Hermorah
Today is the Fifth of First Seed, the Summoning Day for Hermaeus Mora. What secret information would you request from the Demon of Knowledge today?
I’d like to know how he’s doing. How’s he holding up?
also if he wants to go for coffee some time and just gossip or something i dunno ;w;
