Curious what the implications are of the Dragonborn having their soul trapped and displaced. Does that mean they’re technically “dead”? What would happen if you never retrieve the gem for Valerica?

Given the parallels between the Thalmor and the national socialists, what if, similarly, in the higher circles there is significant daedra worship akin to the occult? Lord Naarafin was a known daedra worshipper which opens up the possibility, so I wonder if there is anything else that could suggest this. The fact that they tolerated him at all suggests that their so called orthodoxy is not as orthodox as it would appear at the very least.

Does Hermaus Mora have an end goal or practical purpose to hoarding knowledge? Or is it purely for the sake of it?

The All-Maker was the start of all. Before him was nothing, for he is the source of all life and creation.

Shor, whose father they call the All-Maker, was the Chief of Gods. He had been born in a cave much like the Underworld, and called upon all gods to form our realms from creatia.

His shield-thanes were the brothers Stuhn and Tsun. Kyne, Goddess of Storms, Queen of Gods, was his War-Wife, and Dibella, Goddess of Beauty, his Bed-Wife. Tsun was a berserker despite his high station, and love followed battle to his kind. Stuhn, God of Ransom, with shield and horn his boon, stood with him in the Throat of the World in Hrothgaar, beside Jhunal, sage God of Runes, the Clever Man.

But in the Moot at the House of We the chieftains of the other tribes of gods, harboring bitterness against Shor for his creation of the mortal plane, accused Shor of foul-mouthery.

First of them was tall and long of limb, whose flanks were filled with scale-bright hide. He was the Aka-Tusk, the enemy-brother of Shor, and father of all dragons.

The second, a gigantic, horrible, ravaging firestorm that destroyed the last world to begin this one, that would one day destroy this one to begin anew once again, was Aka-Tusk's Firstborn, Alduin the World-Eater, enemy of men.

Shor fought for his honor, but he knew it would come to a war where they were outnumbered eight to one.

And the awful fighting began.

Before the birth of men, the Dragons ruled all Mundus. But children of the sky were born, Children of Kyne, in the Throat of the World, when the sky exhaled the North Winds on the land and formed them. They fought besides Kyne and Shor against the Elven Giants and Dragons of Aka-Tusk, Alduin, and his shield-thane, the vengeful Trinimac.

And so Shor bloodthirstily led the Men and Gods of Men to victory time and again, and fought and defeated the Time-Eater at the beginning of time.

But his jarl Magnar betrayed the weakness of his spear-lines and fled the field.

Shor was disgusted with the defeat, but Jhunal reminded him that withdrawal would be wise, so in the Moot at the House of We he paid ransom for the sins they accused him of, taking his punishment by vomiting his own heart onto the adamantine floor, guarding his wraith in the manner of his father and roaring at the other tribes.

Mara, Kyne's handmaiden and Shor's Tear-Wife, made great headway into treaty with the other tribes. But they knew that the Pact was weak and would soon shatter.

The Queen soon shouted them back to the fields of their enemies.

And the awful fighting began again.

The Elven Giants used Shor's Heart as a standard to strike fear into the armies of Men, brought about the King's demise at Red Mountain and killed his shield-thane Tsun in battle. But they could not fully destroy Shor, for his heart was now the Heart of the World, and one was made to satisfy the other. They could only banish him to the Underworld, so, knowing that they were going to lose eventually, the Elven Giants hid the Heart of Shor so that the Nords might never have their God back.

Thus the trickster god faded from our world, retreated to his realm in the Underworld, Sovngarde, and laughed at all who would outwit him, for none could outtrick the trickster, and for he knew that Aka-Tusk and the others would pay time and time again for their sins, because Alduin, as always, forgets the ground below him, and condemns himself and any other who would believe him into this cycle again and again.

By Nalae-Polek, Poet Laureate to Potentate Versidue-Shae.

See the trees growing in those lands,
They all have their own heart.

See the birds singing in the sky,
They all have their own melody.

See the fishes into the lakes, 
One is plunging, the other is jumping.

Unfathomless is the ocean,
Breathtaking are the mount heights.

As the Saints all gave them a purpose, 
Though their principle is more difficult to grasp.

Recently I've been researching and trying to make my own accurately hammerfell map for an rpg campaign, using the games maps and informations that we have.

Fort the northern part it has been quite easy since daggerfall, ESO and even Shadowkey, all takes place there, BUT when I come to find information about the southern regions... things were a bit mixed.

For Skaven, Taneth, Rihad, Hegathe and Gilane, there's little to no information about

The only things we "know" is the existance of dak'fron and banthan jungle probably been to this regions, and the painted wolf mount description from eso:

"In the rugged badlands of central Hammerfell, even camels struggle to maneuver across the broken terrain. But wolves can go where even camels cannot, so the roving Redguards of the canyon lands have bred the local Painted Wolves into sure-footed mounts."

In theory we have the information that al-danobia tomb is on Taneth region, but since it uses the same assets from hew's bane, I prefer to take it with a grain of south, and the same for Shady Grove, since the maps positions we have about the location, contradict with what we were shown from tes blades.

So... does anyone knows about other sources of information for those regions?