#even the sun is just one big hole
What I love most about Skyrim (and TES in general) is how, once the surface is at all scratched, you’re confronted with the most buckwild lore in the history of ever. Like, Skyrim’s baseline experience is: you are a person born with the soul of a dragon, which means you can absorb their souls and speak their language. Fair enough! There are two moons! And vampires! Giants herd mammoths across the plains!
But then! Dig a little deeper, and it’s all “yeah, there are two moons, but they aren’t really moons, they’re the corpse of the god who tricked all the other gods into creating the world, and mortals just interpret them as moons”, and “an entire race created technology that runs on souls, and they accidentally erased themselves from existence while trying to become gods, well at least that’s our best guess”and “some dudes replaced their hearts with plants and you can pickpocket the plant-heart right out of their chest”and “here’s a weapon that sometimes turns your enemies into pastries”.
What a game, you guys.
Cannot stress enough that Elder Scrolls is just like this and furthermore the older games are much more blatant with this kind of thing. One of the major plot points in Morrowind is that it’s possible for a mortal to achieve godhood through a process called Chim. This process has been described as a general sense of perfect enlightenment (i.e. Nirvanna Special Edition), but more specifically its strongly implied to be that the specific method is realizing that the entire universe is a dream held by some unknown godhead and not letting that knowledge just straight up zero-sum you, with the god powers coming from the equivalent of lucid dreaming.
But to go even further, some people believe that Chim is even more serious and comes from straight up realizing you’re a video game character.
