Elder Scrolls 6's Plot, Eclipses and the Connection to Lorkhan and the Adamantine Tower

Honestly don't wanna make this super complex (edit from when i finished writing. So much for that lmao), just an interest opener for discussion (lets keep things constructive and open minded), but i had an interest thought.

See someone on here awhile back reminded me that the Elder Scrolls Castles has an eclipse mechanic that shows up a bunch. An intentional thing that's not simply an aesthetic either.

Given varying degrees of 'current media' Bethesda often draws inspiration from. They explicitly let their previous discussions on Ice and Fire bleed into Skyrim. Lord of the Rings did play a role in oblivion. Morrowind had Dune inspiration. You can make the case the main one that lacked it was 3, but considering that was their first fallout foray it doesn't fuss me. 4 very much took some inspiration from the *original* westworld. Starfield was very inspired by Interstellar which came out around when they were likely concepting up the game proper.

I think Bethesda, given their pre production coincided with the timeline of the first movies release, *will* take inspiration from Dune again. Even if specifically the newer movies. Given all three will be released within its development, that's likely imo (but as stated, just my opinion).

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Now what i came here to say now that the preface-ish is done.

Elder scrolls castles brought in Eclipses and puts some amount of focus on them. We can discuss whether the game hints at all toward es6 (i think it does, the fact we have breton and redguard only castle designs is kinda telling), but given the Dune movies have been heavily marketed with eclipses... it brings up an interesting thought.

See Eclipses happen multiple times a year in elder scrolls due to having two moons (Masser and Secunda) but it is said that when a shall we say "true eclipse" where both moons overlap the sun, that a third moon is revealed. And is believed to be the corpse of 'lorkhaj' as he is known in the khajiti pantheon.

ESO introduced a quest wherein the Serpent Constellation (which is correlated as both Satakal and Lorkhan) manifested as a 'Celestial' to chase and eat the guardian constellations as they manifested into celestial personified form. Exactly what the serpent constellation is said to do (which notably, is not truly a constellation at all, and 'swims about the sky' trying to eat the stars) and what Satakal is said to do after 'Satak' died and who's skin was reborn as Satakal.

The above more heavily connects them outside of just books, including in skyrim, and ESO does have books (namely Knowing Satakal) that more heavily describes him in the same way as Lorkhan.

The interesting thing is its quite well known that the moons in some way are theorized to be the corpse of lorkhan, and yet ESO introduces very directly the Dark Moon (https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dark\_Moon)

Given the lore introduced by skyrim after its timeskip has put some focus on the towers (and it has), bethesda placed a candle on their "Transcribe the Past" post almost on top of the location of the Tower standing stone in skyrim. And while not officially confirmed, there's been a ton of hints and leaks heavily *heavily* suggesting a hammerfell/iliac bay inclusion. Which would involve the last known active Tower, the Direnni Tower, Tower Zero, Ada-mantia, the Adamantine Tower in some way.

With the fact they've been potentially hinting at stuff related to Satakal, Lorkhan and Eclipses in different ways. And the fact Dune imo might play a part in their inspirations given precedent and the lining up of the first movie and es6's pre production.

I think elder scrolls 6 may have some interaction with eclipses, potentially with the 'dark eclipse' where the moons truly eclipse the sun. Will have some interaction with the zero tower *and* the serpent (satakal/what remains of lorkhans personality turned to hunger seems minus his heart) and the plot will interact with those concepts much like Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind have all ultimately had existentially 'frightening' implications in lore for the main stories (in lore at least).

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Also fun lil note, the alikr nomads favor Satakal as a god, given their mention a bunch when hammerfell stuff has come up in skyrim, seems curious lol.

ANYWAYS, not necessarily saying this is all true or confirmed etc so nobody act like i did. Its just an interesting train of thought that came up to me. And thought it'd be an interesting topic people could add things i missed to or offer alternate takes to.

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Edit: as an addition. Crystlazar did remind me to mention an interesting quote found in castles about lorkhan.
Check in the comments (dunno how to do a single word link tbh)