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.

For me, it’s the fact that Daggerfall had like 3 or 4 drastically different, mutually exclusive endings with giant ramifications for how they would shape the world going forward. They are all canon.

Watch this, every time someone brings this up people go crazy.

Kid ghoul in fridge.

1. How vampires were made in the Elder Scrolls always stood out to me cause of how shocking it was.
2. The Lovecraft inspired stuff in Fallout was also always interesting and is a lot different than the main feeling of fallout and leans into more mystical aspects.

The entirety of elder scrolls is the dream of some slumbering god…or something like that

“Greetings. Fisto is programmed to please.”

I’ve always been rather fond of the books, especially The Lusty Argonian Maid and The Thief of Virtue.

My favorite bit of wacky lore from Elder Scrolls is that the sun is just a giant hole in the sky and the stars in the night sky are millions of tiny holes. There’s some real neat lore explaining why this is but I just think it’s goofy and love it because of that.

Definitely the different vault experiments, like the one with drug addicts and the two with gender biases

Elder Scrolls wood elves. Turns the nature-loving vegetarian stereotype on its head. “We live in harmony with The Green. We’d never harm a plant… but you, you’re back on the menu boyo!”

Reman Cyrodiil (the founder of the Second Empire) was conceived when his father, King Hrol, fucked a literal hill containing the spirit of St Alessia, the founder of the First Empire. Hrol died after ejaculating, as did all of the witnesses, with the exception of one who managed to write “AND HROL DID LOVE UNTO A HILLOCK” on a rock before dying. 9 months later Reman appeared on top of the hill with the CHIM EL ADABAL (a giant soul stone that makes the centre of the Amulet of Kings) embedded in his skull.

For me it’s the disappearance of the entire dwemer race after trying to tamper with the heart of lorkan and to this very day we have NO idea where they are, if we accept what falion said when you ask if he’s an expert on vampirism he’ll say the following “I know many things. I have studied things beyond the reach of most humans, traveled the oblivion planes, seen things one should not see. I have met daedra and dwemer and everything in between” it could very well be the dwemer are in an plane of oblivion we just don’t know where

Look up an iceberg video from either series - Fallout has pre-war ghoul conspiracies and mid-excavation Eldritch beings with modern cult worshipers; The Elder Scrolls has a theory of waning magical power in the world, plus the multiple deities who actively influence living people in the world

Our lord and saint AllInAll, for the uninitiated.

For Elder Scrolls? Sheogorath for sure.

Fallout? The whole Vault Tec angle. And the monstrosity it brought.