Fell back into another Fallout and Elder Scrolls kick. What are the craziest stories or pieces of lore that you know of? For instance, I think one of the wildest things is all the weird experiments that occurred in the Vault courtesy of Vault-Tec, and how each one seemed to have some unique and horrific backstory.
I don’t think it gets any crazier than CHIM in Elder Scrolls. It’s the knowledge that you are a fictional character dreamed up by the Godhead, the entity who created the TES universe (Bethesda’s writing team). And instead of accepting the meaningless of an existence where you have no say in things, where you disappear from existence–Zero Sum–you decide to take control of this lucid dream and achieve CHIM.
It’s just one big metaphor for the player having console commands and mods. The Godhead are the Bethesda writers, but you, the player, are the lucid dreamer who achieves CHIM and wrests control from the Godhead, reshaping the world as you see fit. TES canonized console commands and mods.
And it’s time for another Morrowind playthrough.