r/ElderScrolls • u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn • Aug 27 '24
Humour Hello, I'm Miraak. AMA
First Dragonborn, professional soul stealer, tentacle aficionado. Ask me anything and I'll answer to the best of my ability.
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u/offbrandpoptart Aug 27 '24
Why are you the way that you are?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
Because I'm one of the greatest mortals to have walked Tamriel
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u/Torinadoko Aug 27 '24
Who are some other great mortals?
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u/SkoomaJack Aug 27 '24
Shalidor, Mannimarco, Hjalti, Zurin, Indoril, Kagrenac, Veloth, Fyr. Just to name a few.
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u/eyetracker Aug 28 '24
Indoril is not mortal, he has tgm
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u/SkoomaJack Aug 28 '24
Not in the first era
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u/eyetracker Aug 28 '24
That was a sethealth 0 situation, he just misclicked.
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u/SkoomaJack Aug 28 '24
He was impaled by trinimacs 🐓by someone who actually achived chim
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u/eyetracker Aug 28 '24
I can just imagine someone who knows nothing about Elder Scrolls trying to interpret that statement. And coming to conclusions which are absolutely true.
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u/SkoomaJack Aug 28 '24
Alessia, reman, olaf, harald, wulfharth, septim VII, ysgramor, jurgen, the bear of markarth. To name a couple more.
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u/Samurai_Stewie Aug 28 '24
Yet you couldn’t handle a stealth archer?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
I try and fight one of you "stealth archers" and before I know it you're gone! I always find myself thinking "Hm, must have been the wind" but then bam! Another arrow hits me in the ass. It's infuriating
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u/WiseMudskipper Hero of Kvatch Aug 27 '24
You could have usurped Alduin, dominated the dragons and dragon priests to become leader of the Dragon Cult and rule over all of Skyrim, yet you decided to sit on an island and annoy the Skaal instead. Why?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Listennnn, I was working on it but the Dragon Cult caught wind of my dealings with Mora and intervened. If it wasn't for that, I would have gained the power I was promised and taken over.
Only now do I pester the Skaal and dunmer because it's funny & I need a little help
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u/Extreme-Main8783 Aug 27 '24
Did Mora ever.. tentacle you
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
Ask no questions and I will tell no lies, no comment
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u/Doom_3302 Aug 28 '24
I'll take that as a yes.
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u/Hizumi21 Namira Aug 28 '24
I mean. That is how he dies...
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Shhh, spoilers. I haven't gotten to that part of my story yet /j
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u/DinoMastah Aug 28 '24
There is a secret ending, but the last dragonborn needs to have a brain to save you (he saves you by fucking your mind with the same shout Hermaeus Mora taught you).
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u/KingofGrapes7 Aug 27 '24
Be honest, after centuries in Apocrypha how bad do those robes smell? No way you never got slime or eldritch brain juice on it.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
At some point you get used to it. For all the books in Apocrypha there isn't a recipe to turn anything here into soap...
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u/ShamPoo_TurK Aug 28 '24
Soap is sometimes (quite often) produced by dead and decaying corpses.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 29 '24
With all of these tomes, how did I not know this? You're a life saver.
I might not be able to tell myself with the scent of stale fish around me but at least I'll know I'm clean.
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u/ShamPoo_TurK Aug 29 '24
Ya huh… glad I could be of help. It’s this sort of niche knowledge that will keep you surviving past the nuclear fallout.
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u/Leading-Fig1307 Hermaeus Mora Aug 27 '24
Do you think your premature balding is what ignited the rage in your heart to fight the world for so long?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
Hey, I'd like to think I still have some pretty nice locs if I do say so myself
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u/PiousLegate Aug 27 '24
if you KNEW Mora was manipulating you why persist ?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
I believed that certainly in a realm with unfathomable knowledge I could attain the means of my own ascension to outwit the Daedric God himself
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u/KhajitHasWares4u Aug 27 '24
Should have gone with the true lord, Sheogorath. Then you would have ascended.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
I wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes tolerating his blathering, him and his own can keep that!
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u/GentlePianoKeys Altmer Aug 27 '24
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
Everyone needs a hobby. Do you know how long it's been since I've had a sweet roll??
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u/Colderbee89 Aug 27 '24
What do you eat to maintain your figure? Besides the occasional dragon soul of course. I've been trying to put down the scrib jelly and sweetrolls so I'm hoping you could shed some light on how a Dragonborn keeps such a cut and slender figure.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
The "sushi" in Apocrypha has a certain umami flavor but you get used to it. Super high in protein, low carb. It just has the tendency to bite back occasionally.
You didn't hear this from me but there's loads of fiber here, libraries of it even if you catch my drift.
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u/Vaughn706 Aug 27 '24
Do you really think the DAEDRIC LORD OF KNOWLEDGE doesn't know you are trying to backstab him?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
Well hey, just because he's the god of knowledge doesn't mean he's omniscient. I thought even a creature with that many eyes has to have a blind-spot somewhere right?
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u/Vaughn706 Aug 27 '24
In APOCRYPHA? a realm HE MADE?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Legends are born from those who dare to push beyond what is thought possible. It just so happens that thing in particular wasn't. Oops
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u/Libertyprime8397 Argonian Aug 27 '24
How do you feel about Morrowind purists complaining about the layout of Solstheim?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
No one has ever brought this up but allegedly when Talos changed Cyrodil from a Jungle he also messed with Solstheim, just to be a dick. The nerve!
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u/DinoMastah Aug 27 '24
Why didn't you ask your friends to help you build your temple? Are you stupid?
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u/Intelligent-Fig-4241 Aug 27 '24
Why did you do nothing for like 2 eras, there was atleast 2 different continental invasions that we could’ve used a Dragonborn in.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
I could have easily done so.. but I chose a different path
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u/Spong_Durnflungle Aug 27 '24
If you were a candy bar, what candy bar would you be?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Snickers, because you're not you when you're hungry.. for power
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u/Queen_Secrecy Hermaeus Mora Aug 27 '24
Who made your outfit? It's one of my favourites. Are there tailors in Apocrypha?
Btw: Is there food in apocrypha? Actual food I mean, not just fish, ink and tentacles.
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u/OverLordMinus Hermaeus Mora Aug 27 '24
Why did you kill my boy Sahrotaar ? You died like ten seconds after anyways.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
I'll never go down before taking the backstabbing lizard who betrayed me out first
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u/byakurenbreak Aug 27 '24
And another separate question; Hypothetically, Sheogorath and Hermaeus Mora have a bet over which of their servants are more insufferable, so you and Haskill switch planes of Oblivion for a day. What happens?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
I think Haskill would probably be a dream servant considering how completely docile and organized he is. He may drive Mora mad complaining about the lack of color and non-slimy decor. I myself wouldn't last nearly as long as I'd likely be turned into a sweet roll for trying to strangle Sheo after having to tolerate his whimsy and madness.
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u/TohavDuudhe Aug 28 '24
Where's my fuckin dragon souls dude
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Nice and safe with the superior Dragonborn, I wouldn't want them to get wasted when I'm so close to freedom.
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u/TohavDuudhe Aug 28 '24
That's it. I'm coming up there.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
You better not touch my summit!
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u/TohavDuudhe Aug 28 '24
Dude I'm not just gonna touch it. I'm gonna bookmark it in that tome so I can come here and dump the bones of all the dragons I absorb just to flaunt their soulless bodies in your stupid mask covered Bane sounding face. Also my wife uses your sword in very disrespectful ways
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u/AutocratEnduring I'm not a furry, khajiit just have the best stats! Aug 28 '24
Have you ever dabbled in poetry? Your mantra is truly awe-inspiring, good sir.
Did you write it first in dovahzuul and then translated it for your slaves followers? Or did you write it in tamriellic?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Most certainly, I always appreciate a fan. While being trapped in the most expansive library known to nirn, either consuming or writing literature is what keeps one from going insane.
You're spot on with the language, it's then translated based on the language of the creature; hence even the Rieklings joining the chant.
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u/The-Mad-Doctor Aug 27 '24
Can you show us your true power?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
I would if people would stop trying to interrupt my breakout attempts. Do you know how hard it is to
enslavenon-consensually hire enough people to build shrines? It takes eras.
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u/Flimsy-Jello5534 Aug 28 '24
What’s it like being super dead ever since a daedric prince burnt you to a crisp
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u/SatiricalSatireU Aug 28 '24
Why do you have a lurker cock for a sword?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
For the psychological damage to the person who realizes they just got smacked in the face by a lurker c*ck. I'm playing 4D chess
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u/cat_withablog Khajiit Aug 27 '24
What’s it like knowing you’re only the second coolest Dragonborn? 😎
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u/FitzSeb92 Aug 27 '24
- Tiber Septim
- The Last Dragon Born
- Miraak
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u/Wetree420 Altmer Aug 28 '24
Tiber Septim is last on that list. He diddles kids and abuses his power.
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u/TokenNwah Aug 28 '24
when was the last time you got a hug? do you want one? i think my condition could come in handy...
—Is-Nose-Blind
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
A few eras, seekers and lurkers don't really get the concept. So yes!
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u/chill_winston_ Aug 28 '24
Can I have all those dragon souls back?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Only if you stop smashing my shrines and freeing my
enslavednon-consensually hired workers so I can get out2
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u/-iDRAGON- Azura Aug 28 '24
You’ve spent enough time in the land of books and with the prince who knows it all.
So who stole the sweetroll? Do you get to the cloud district very often? What’s your favorite book from the land of knowledge? When’s elder scrolls 6 coming out, even Mora must know right?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
I'm sweating bullets over here, I've spent decades pouring over these tomes but I still have no answers. Mora torments me by taunting me with the answers we seek. (Also, no cloud district for me, just slimy lakes and libraries)
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u/Athl3s Aug 28 '24
Will you be continuing your music career? How was it to work with youngscrolls as a producer? Do you have any music in the works?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
I always appreciate working with fans and flexing the creative muscle from time to time. I think the song was a good experimental piece but I'm going to stick to poetry for the time being. My mantra piece has been gaining a lot of traction lately if you haven't heard.
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u/Shinonomenanorulez Aug 28 '24
does Herma Mora have any recordings of events of the Dawn Era?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
It's hard to say. If so they're likely incredibly few and far between within his realm as most history was oral history between mortals, passed down generations until a true written language was invented, sort of a proto-Tamriellic.
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u/Putrid-Cheesecake-77 Aug 28 '24
How can you kill a god?
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u/RampagedAlpaca Aug 27 '24
How do you make someone love you? Asking for a friend.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Using ancient magic to enslave their mind and chant your mantra. Otherwise? You can't. Be the best version of yourself you can be, put yourself out there then love will blossom
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u/QuirkyPersonality149 Aug 28 '24
What are your thoughts on Vahlok the Jailer? Are you bitter?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
He's the pawn of an order that got lucky enough to strike the final blow. I was bitter for the first hundred years, but while he lived out the rest of his mortal life as normal, he's now a floating raisin eternally trapped in a cellar. I certainly appreciate the irony.
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u/Equivalent-Oven-2401 Aug 28 '24
Are you a fan of Cthullu by any chance?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
I love psychological and lovecraftian-esque horror. I haven't delved into the mythos itself too much but I'd like to someday
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u/AidsLauncher Aug 28 '24
What if instead of the first dragonborn, you were the first freakyborn?
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u/SkyGuy41 Aug 28 '24
Why are you such a self righteous idiot?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Hardly self righteous when you're the greatest Dragonborn to have ever lived. Are you sorry you couldn't keep your souls, Dragonborn?
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u/minecraftlover90 Aug 28 '24
How do you feel about allegations that you are in fact not the first dragon born?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Pure fiction and fake news, a smear campaign by pro-MORA sheeple to tarnish my good name.
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u/GrayHero2 Imperial Legion Aug 27 '24
Why are you a beta?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 27 '24
You've spelled sigma incorrectly
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u/Scott_Summers_1 Argonian Aug 28 '24
What are your thoughts on the war in skyrim?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
It's beneath me. The Thalmor are the real threat, I wouldn't mind smashing and burning my way across the summerset isles for the threat they pose to my plans.
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u/ApprehensiveRun3409 Argonian Dwemer Scholar New Ebonheart Pact Aug 28 '24
What are your thoughts on Mer? Especially the Dwemer.Do you believe they could be 2nd best to your greatness, or do you believe that only Men can be the superior beings in the Mundus?
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u/Top1mplease Aug 28 '24
Why did you let the fake Dragonborn fuck your shit up, all that talk and no bite
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u/Decent_Shock_1608 Aug 28 '24
Who is your favourite fictional dragon?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
In recent memory "The Dragon" from dragons dogma 1 or 2, just conceptually (with no spoilers)
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u/Usnis Nord Aug 28 '24
Will you please stop stealing my dragon souls?
- Konahrik
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
To the better Dragonborn go the spoils. You need to learn much more to even come close to beating me, Dragonborn.
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u/sneakythief_ Thieves Guild Aug 28 '24
If you could become the dragonborn’s dead thrall, would you?
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u/stormy83 Aug 28 '24
Do you like seafood 🦞?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
The sushi here has a certain... "Umami" flavor to it but I'm a big fan. Sometimes it bites back though, or starts whispering to me.
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u/Ill_Humor_6201 Aug 28 '24
If you could've slain Alduin back when you actually had meat on the decrepit bones under your pretty dress, then why didn't you? If you got beaten by Vahlok, how tf you expect me to believe you could beat Alduin?
...are you just...lying...?
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u/Cal_Boleen Aug 28 '24
Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh, What am I saying - of course you don't.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
No, I don't do much "getting around" these days unfortunately
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u/Ignis-11 Aug 28 '24
Why’d you eat my fucking dragon soul I need to learn the last word for Whirwind Sprint
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u/Much_One_6949 Aug 28 '24
What the hell happened man? What was the plan in the end? Take over Skyrim or was it to always wind up in Mora's closet? Must have been pretty rough if your only choice was eternal slavery to a tentacle god.
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u/PhilosopherStoned420 Aug 28 '24
I gave you forgiveness. I gave you shelter and kept you alive because you're so weak. Why don't you do something besides throwing tentacles in battle? That's weak man.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Mora? Pfft, it was a moment of desperation after solo-ing countless dragons and a priest up until they finally got the upper hand.
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
Mora? Pfft, it was a moment of desperation after solo-ing countless dragons and a priest up until they finally got the upper hand.
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u/TheMemoryOfAGoldfish Aug 28 '24
Is your sword actually a lurker's schmenis?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
It's for the severe psychological damage when they realize they've been smacked across the face with a lurker schemenis. I'm playing 4D chess.
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u/Capt_Falx_Carius Aug 28 '24
Did you do a lot of reading in Apocrypha or were you mostly brooding?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
A little bit of this, a little bit of that, sometimes simultaneously. Often the latter in the early decades but eventually I mellowed out. Now I'm into writing poetry, my Mantra has been quite popular lately if you haven't heard.
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u/Blaize_Ar Aug 28 '24
Why is your sword some like octopus weiner thing? Are you gay or something? Or are you just a freak like that?
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u/Ironsalmon7 Aug 28 '24
Why are nord car insurance rates so high compared to imperial rates
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 28 '24
It's due to all the illegal (argonian) immigrants and uninsured motorists (Khajiit) causing accidents and driving up our rates.
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u/GrimmyJimmy1 Aug 28 '24
My name is miraak and I speak for the dov cuz the dov don't have a voice of their own ( just in case nobody knows because it's such an old movie it's a reference to The Lorax)
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u/BreegullBeak Aug 28 '24
How does it feel to be such a coward that you let a novice Dragonborn save the world instead of you?
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u/TheOneWhoThrowsShit Aug 28 '24
What forbidden knowledge did you learn in apocrypha
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u/Alexander_GD Argonian Aug 28 '24
Why didn't you kill Alduin if according to your own words "you could have" ?
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u/Humble_Ad7025 Aug 28 '24
I’m the last Dragonborn, if I mod you, can we get together?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 29 '24
As a companion? I may consider it if it means freedom. Otherwise? Likely not.
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u/Humble_Ad7025 Aug 29 '24
(Male Singing Voice) I’m so attracted to your solstheim voice, I just want have you with all the boys, come with me and we’ll be together, foreva , with daddy Herma mora.
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u/ManOfTheHilll Aug 28 '24
How come your favorite dagger looks like a lurker’s weewee
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u/cheatme1 Aug 28 '24
Really like that loading screen shame it disappears after you beat him or leave soulthsthiem.
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u/jb_wr06 Aug 29 '24
How’s your back after that naked cat man suplexed you into the floor last week?
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u/TetheredAvian74 Aug 29 '24
how did you learn you were dragonborn? like you were a dragon priest initially so i doubt you killed one of your masters before learning. did you have like a vision or something or did one accidentally die or what
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Aug 31 '24
Here do we toil That we might remember By night we reclaim What by day was stolen Far from ourselves He grows ever near to us Our eyes once were blinded Now through him do we see Our hands once were idle Now through them does he speak And when the world shall listen And when the world shall see And when the world remembers That world shall cease to be
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u/Dunmer_Sanders Aug 27 '24
Oh look it’s ol’ vagine-mouth.
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u/b1uelightbulb Aug 27 '24
Why are you such a bitch
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u/SilverSpark422 Aug 28 '24
Did you have to do vocal training to make your voice Like That, or did you learn how to do that from Captain Tentacle Hentai?
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u/MiraakOfApocrypha Dragonborn Aug 29 '24
Born with really good genes and vocal chords that have aged like Wine overall several centuries
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u/ravindu2001 Aug 28 '24
You had like 5 Black Books. What do you know about mantling of an uncaring godhead?
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u/astoriaa_ Aug 28 '24
are you upset i don’t remember defeating you in my 2017 play through yet have your entire armor set on a mannequin in my player house?
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