Tamriel's Board, Dice and Card Games - The Elder Scrolls Lore

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Making this video was pure torture. My flu still isnt over and I kept coughing every 30 seconds or so. Meaning the audio in some parts is heavily cut and I hope it wasnt too sketchy, sorry if it was. Next time it will hopefully be normal again.

[@symmetryking8884]

Man get well soon. Your videos are incredible and we understand and respect that you work really hard on them.

[@RestlessHarp]

It was great! I wouldn't have known you were sick. I hope you get better soon!

[@Varagoth]

Blood on the Snow looks like a variation of the medieval Scandinavian board game Hnefatafl, where the object of the game is for the player starting in the center to move their king to one of the escape squares on the edges of the board while the other player tries to capture their king.

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Cool! Never heard of that

[@mirkrahven]

@@ImperialKnowledge I build my own Hnefatafl game years ago. The game is simple to learn but can require deep thought - a classic game of strategic warfare. Like Varagoth already said, Hnefetafl (pronounced “nef-ah-tah-fel” if I’m right) is an Old Norse board-game, but it’s also known in its various forms as Tafl, Tablut, Brandubh, Tawlbwrdd, Alea Evangelii and Fidchell. The family of Tafl games is at least 1,500 years old and was known not only in Scandinavia, but also in other regions that were under influence by the Vikings like Ireland, Wales, England and Lapland. The board was made of wood or leather and the playing pieces were usually made of glass, bone, amber, clay, and wood. After the 11th or 12th century, the Tafl games were largely displaced by chess. I hope you get well soon. Thank you for your informative videos and all the work and time you put into them. ^^

[@yokai333]

Battle on the high seas... Sounds cyrodiilic for battleship

[@SenneWMichiels]

Maybe, Three Banners War is like Risk, that'd be fun.

[@VESM4121]

Ooh i heard the dunmers farming simulator is petty good

[@Auriorium]

There is a European Tarot game called Tapp Tarock originating from Austria that use Tarot cards but they are not the same as the one used for divination. And its really popular in the northern part of my country while here in the south we prefer Italian Briscola or Terssette.

[@aprildanae7487]

I didn’t know these existed, nor was I notified of your video ‘til I saw your poll.

[@justinterry8894]

I want these games as mini games in TES 6.

[@NovoCognition]

This is something that one usually does not think of but yeah, people will often have times where there is nothing else to do and rather than just spend that time being _bored_ , they will play dice, card, and/or _board_ games. It does add the the liveliness of the world. I wonder how D&D would work in Clockwork city. Would they just do alt-history fiction, or would it be meta & have theirs set on Earth? Anyway I like everyone else here hopes you'll soon get over your flu. Just make sure to not put any skooma in your soup during this time.

[@tsarmikhail2647]

Strip Blackwood Boast

[@seamus6387]

Yes! Tarot is an actual card game. From what I know it's a fairly complex game but I've only seen the rules and never played it. I do know most of the rules I've seen are French. And the blood on the snow game seems to be a Hnefatafl board or something like that.

[@ProjectRedfoot]

Tarot is less of a game and more of a form of scrying

[@ProjectRedfoot]

Maybe not scrying, but not a game

[@Tyharo]

The minor arcana is basicly a regular playing card deck. Four suits, numbered ace (1) to 10 + court cards.

[@philplessis]

there used to be a time, not so long ago, when every student in France was supposed to be an accomplished tarot player :)

[@acolyte1951]

Great video. Thank you for these unique lore videos, and it's not only that you make videos about unique topics but you have a good style about you.

[@skysamurai4649]

Swanstones is a TES version of a viking game “daldos”. It’s a game that depicts a ship boarding

[@ProjectRedfoot]

6:20 not only reminds me of Mancala, but also either Cribbage or Bridge (I can't remember which, but they involve cards, but pegs instead of gems)

[@robertrobertson4181]

I think you're thinking of cribbage.

[@ProjectRedfoot]

@@robertrobertson4181 I just remember that my ex GF's family LOVED card games. (Cribbage, Bridge, and Poker, mainly) lol I had an aversion to cards because my dad tried to teach me Poker when I was little thinking it would help boost my math skills, but it just stressed me out

[@ProjectRedfoot]

@@robertrobertson4181 I know, overshare lol

[@zebraofkotor7403]

Glad I noticed the poll.

[@ProjectRedfoot]

I've never heard of Hares and hounds. Cool

[@anahit4474]

The khajiit boardgames reminds me of old ancient Egyptian games that have been uncovered.

[@GetBoinkd]

There's Nine Holes. Idk if it's a dice game or not. You can find reference to it at the trade house in Seyda Neen

[@franshermans6060]

Maybe blood on the snow is a little like the game hnefatafl. what I remember learning about Hnefatafl is its a really old game that originated in Scandinavia and was played during the Viking age.

[@FreelancerStudios100]

Tarrot cards were first developed in our world as a playing cards and there were games that could be played but over time the major arcana cards like the towers and fool passed out leaving us with the 52 card deck we play today

[@leofravell2564]

tarot cards were originally used as a game in france!

[@PrinsaVossum]

Maybe "Deceiver's Dice" is inspired by "Liar's Dice" from Pirates of the Caribbean? EDIT: I Googled it, and apparently Liar's Dice is actually from the 16th Century and was played on real pirate ships.

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Cool, hadnt heard of that. But its been a while since I watched those movies

[@TwistedAlphonso1]

@@ImperialKnowledge it's when Davy Jones played vs Bootstrap Bill and the son

[@Skydog6301]

Liar’s Dice is super fun to play irl too

[@thewolfpaladin1858]

Well I know the Elder Scrolls do have a form of poker due to immersive interaction mods when Erik quoted "I will not ask what beats three dragons again not after you dump your tankards on me" so they have to have a form of poker

[@splinkydoodah]

Great video!

[@robertrobertson4181]

I have no clue from when or where, but the board for "the wolf and the warrior" looks *very* familiar.

[@joshkardos1673]

1/2 No Limit Collovian HoldEm, 100 Septim buy in

[@lb5560]

Suggestion: Can you do lore video’s about what happens to dragons outside of Skyrim or Tamriel even. It’s a topic often not talked about.

[@dagothur5595]

I need more skooma I just need more a dragon attack destroyed all my skooma.

[@dannyshroyer5770]

Now these games would be a bad ass mod. I really love the tavern games mod I have and waste waaaaay too much time playing. But I would literally play any of these games in game for any amount of time, it would be so immersive and cool to walk into an inn and see NPC's fully embroiled in a complex board game that you can watch and then join in the next available game. Maybe one day some mod author will wake up in the night and not be able to live again until they make this mod. At least that's how I've heard inspiration comes to mod authors 😅

[@darnellsimpsin556]

Did not get notification for it.

[@sataridis]

aren't the bosmer carnivores, so as not to harm a single plant? if so, how the heck do they have a paper industry for card sets?

[@ImperialKnowledge]

As long as the tree is not a tree in valenwood they can cut it down. They just cant hurt their own forest if im correct.

[@Ryan-co9xc]

@@ImperialKnowledge that and importing it

[@sataridis]

@@ImperialKnowledge I'd prefer that they bought the cards from another race, almost being like a societal taboo and obcession, to own paper products... I dunno, if no hint of that hypocrisy being endemic to their society is to be found in any 'canon' sources, I'd call 'lore-unfriendly-bull' on this, because, unfortunately, it wouldn't be the first time they botched things up, and sure won't be the last

[@docdat3468]

What PC games did the deep elfes play ?

[@Jh5kRadio]

Dwemer Fortress And possibly Dwemer Fortress II

[@UNSCMarine117]

What about battle axe 40 billion.

[@user-wr6dj4ib9o]

we need gwent in tes 6

[@justsomebro2437]

That map background you have at the beginning of the video is awesome, how does one acquire something like that?

[@kuribohboi]

How did you come up with your name

[@eddieneffplaylist2499]

Pls do third era videos

[@cole27456]

Hi, I love your videos. I’m planning to write a fan fiction taking place during the Stormcrown Interregnum. So far I’ve just got a glossary of factions/characters/noble houses/etc just for building up my setting and stuff. It’s not totally lore friendly, but you’re the expert on TES, and I was wondering if you’d check it out

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Yeah sure, email it to me and I can have a quick look when ive got time [e-mail]

[@westongarner-qo2ez]

540th like!👍 Awesome video!🤘

[@kaiceecrane3884]

Weren't medieval literacy based on knowledge of latin, not native language?

[@darklordkuro7953]

Learn how to spell dwemer name Proceeed to make tons of point at scrabble tamriel edition!

[@seangrant8871]

This seems a little prescient

[@ImperialKnowledge]

My life is plagued with talking about lore only to have eso add more a few weeks later

[@axelanders9766]

So what about tales of tribute? Does it even exist in lore? Not that I'm a fan of it, far from it...