The Akaviri Tsaesci - The Elder Scrolls Lore

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Thanks again mr Duke Dogman for the screenshot help! And I am sorry for the poor quality of the video, due to life business I have not been able to work much and I did the best I could with the time I was given, sorry :(

[@d0vahwub80]

Quality was great man, no complaints here. Love your vids.

[@legit_potato2451]

Imperial Knowledge I would like to add to your video that the Tsaesi (I really don’t know how to spell it) might be similar to the Yuan Ti from the DnD universe. Yuan Ti are a mix between a human and a snake (especially the venomous kind) their body structure differs greatly between the types of Yuan Ti and some might be able to fit that burial mask. It might be a lead on your case but then again we know almost nothing about the Tsaesi so I might not conclude to anything. I hope this proves useful to you.

[@chains2660]

From what I gather I believe Tsaesi are human, though they wear armor and mask similar to medieval Japanese samurai in order to intimidate their enemy. You can guess how the imperial legion or nord army would feel when they face the enemy which wearing an armor and a creepy mask, this would greatly effect their morale greatly not seeing enemy faces make them believe their opponent aren’t human or elves. The tsaeci use blades and not shield similar to samurai, but their most deadly weapon is fear they make mask and armor that make their appearance unhuman enough to scare their enemy this probably be the reason why both elves and men in Tamriel fear them to this day.

[@monsutaman1]

Perhaps they are morphers imo. How morphers, Power Rangers, Were-people, etc....tend to morph back when severely hurt. Maybe, we see them in their non-morph (Or normal form). While those who battle them, describe these beings as snake like, because they are in their battle form. `

[@Nellowed]

have u seen the crusader kings 3 mod elder kings they have the tsaesci in one of the time periods do u think they might look like that?

[@MrInternetMan]

It's possible that the multiple accounts of their physical apparence are due to there being multiple kinds of them, just like there are different kinds of cat beings all called Khajiit.

[@RomanumChristum]

Perhaps the snake people and normal Japanese like humans live amongst each other

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

My guess is that either A) they were all weresnakes and formshifted between human and essentially lamia forms or B) they were a race of men that had snake-like features but werent actually as serpentine as some sources describe (maybe think something vaguely along the lines of the FFXIV Au Ra race, but scalier, not so dimorphic, having much larger tails, and with unhingeable jaws instead of horns)

[@thecrimsonfuckeralucard9500]

Various degrees of hybridized appearance.

[@TruekingoftheLeinstermen]

I think some of them where nore snake like then the others sone where barely different to humans while others where almost completely serpentine

[@dorokaiyinvil5705]

Lol elder scrolls lore never gets boring really if the right person is talking about it,good job bro,you would be a great narrator for ANY documentary

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Lol I dont think my broken english would help that

[@Simtar123]

@@ImperialKnowledge your english is actually quite clear and easy to understand. I dont see that as a problem

[@jeigza4597]

@@ImperialKnowledge Your english is fine, just use audacity and cut some of the parts where you messed up

[@MR_Nosy_Otter1]

That skeleton gave me chills and so much hype on what they look like !

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Same

[@mustahsin1910]

Sorry to bust your nut but that's just a lamia skull, do your research folks!

[@Spartan-kj8bq]

Always love these lore videos!

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Thanks!

[@mrlordcatvods5047]

Hey imperial no need to worry about the quality of the video,it's still a good video.

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Thanks, still weird you say that 1 minute after video got uploaded while its a 10 min video :P But still thanks :)

[@iamdogman7444]

Great pics. :^)

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Nice work

[@kalonem5719]

Lore had it that the Tsaesci ate the Akaviri men, not sure how accurate that is.

[@ImperialKnowledge]

If they are vampiric that would make some sense yeah

[@kalonem5719]

Thank you for the reply, love your vids bro, however the Tsaesci are indeed vamperic, just reading their race in game for the first time gave me chills that's when I had very little understanding about akavir, but I was doing a samurai playthrough back then so I remember trying to collect lore from akavir like mad 🤣 lol

[@kalonem5719]

Just imagine for a second you're whole life as a human is forfeited because the Tsaesci are op and you can't do shit about it.

[@maxzfjsalvnzlx]

They ate the men of Akavir like lycanthropy ate the Companions

[@giuliob7358]

For what I can recall, VIvec allied with Reman against the Tsaesci and personally attacked their flank while Reman was dealing in Pale pass, cutting the retreat as result. The skeleton in Vvanderfell could be that of a prisoner, perhaps an highranking officer, who ended at least buried in a coffin after death. O a tsaesci prisoner who fled, lived wild all around Vvanderfell long after the invasion failed. So could very well be canon, not even an easter egg and totally in tune with the established lore.

[@fireraid9173]

Reading how last year describes Versidue it seems he has the lower body of a snake as he'd be coiled in on/under himself. I think that there are different variations like the kajiit have, say vipers are more humanoid with legs and are warriors, cobras are more snake like without legs and are politicians or rulers, etc.

[@TheBigE15]

I loved the video. I can’t wait for the remake video!

[@ImperialKnowledge]

:)

[@giuliob7358]

Jesus, I've always thought akavir and the tsaesci as the most interesting, unknown things of tes lore. Wanna see something of akavir, sooner or later.

[@crazyhercules9442]

I have a feeling that another Akaviri invasion of Tamriel is on the Horizon. There is a popular theory that suggests that Emperor Uriel V didn’t die at Ionith. A support for this theory is that Todd Howard once said that the initial plot for Skyrim was a Dragonborn coming to Skyrim with an army of Dragons to reclaim his throne. Whether this is true or not, remains to be seen. But it surely makes for amazing storytelling😂😏

[@giuliob7358]

@@crazyhercules9442 oh yes oh yes I've heard of it. I really hope that happens

[@crazyhercules9442]

@@giuliob7358 Me too dude. I also wish we had an Elder Scrolls game where the player character start in Akavir and discovers for themselves that the other races of the land have their own political struggles and aren’t necessarily the sadistic barbarians that we’ve basically been told for the last twenty years😂

[@wiibrockster]

I think that The Tsaesci are more serpent like humanoids,they seem to snake like to be man or mer. I also remember reading that The Akaviri Humans were wiped out by The Tsaesci.

[@ImperialKnowledge]

That was a theory if I am correct, to explain the whole thing with the human/snake paradigma

[@wiibrockster]

@@ImperialKnowledge I thought it was that they literally Ate the men of Akavir.

[@Fr0st1989]

To all those people wondering if they're snake-men or humans, remember, there's a quest in Oblivion in which we speak to a Tsaesci ghost. And he's clearly human.

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Doesnt answer the question since there are hints of there being humans AMONG the forces at pale pass as the humans may have been kept as slaves by akaviri races (see story of lyrisius). And then we have the case of the potentates who lived far longer than humans and were described as snakelike. So i dont doubt anymore there were humans among the pale pass force, perhaps as freed akaviri slaves or as slaves (less likely). But the real question is wheter the original tsaesci were humans or snakelike.

[@tauempire1793]

Hey my personal input is that their was a beast serpentile race that is known as the Tseachi that may or may not have decendant of the Ehlnofey. Their is also a race of Humans that existed on their that were subjugated by the Tseachi. Perhaps thet weren't fully subjugated though but anyways. I think there were Alavriri Humans and Tseachi snake men

[@DANILAGI777]

Since the sources about tsesci aspec vary between more human to more serpent like i think they are based in the yuan-ti from Dungeons and dragons i think you should check It to see the resenblances

[@danti8510]

Every time you say speculation imma take a shot

[@potlick18]

I have the Tsaesci armor in ESO. I love it

[@gothic3theageofwar565]

I think they are humans. Asian people basically. Remember in Oblivion the akaviri Tsaesci warriors are humans.

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

My guess is that they're basically a culture of fantasy Asians who take on snake lycanthropy as a right-of-passage at some point (or at the very least their warriors do)

[@jacobvargas5336]

I think they may have accepted vampirism as a way to further survive

[@hamzaferoz6162]

Great Snakes. Now I won't be able to sleep at night

[@chainedsharkmedia2699]

Many people think the Tsaeci were humans; others think they are snake like. However, me personally, I think there are two species of Tsaeci. The humanoid Tsaeci who are hybirds who serve as warriors alongside the Tsaeci snakes while the Tsaeci snakes are the nobles and leaders.

[@kylewilliams3031]

I like to think the Humans live under the Tsaesci.

[@aysseralwan]

Yeah that's what I am thinking too

[@Genericname]

I hope we go to war and get to kill every living tsaesci :>

[@428CJ70]

That skull could be from a very young lamia. Humans average more that 5' tall but we start out at around 18" when born.

[@edwinofnorthumbria2511]

I believe that the Imperial army is based on that of the Tsaesci. So they probably have Roman influence as well. Like you can see with Oblivion's Blades armor. Which is basically just a lorica Segmentata with some japanese bracers and leg armor thrown on... And a migration era northern european helmet.

[@dustinhatfield8373]

The elven name for the Tsaesci is Hissmer

[@thephantomqueen4773]

Imo they can use the thuum. If they took dragons into their empire it’s possible that they used the thuum to control them. Also if they wiped them out it makes sense for them to be able to us it

[@valeriouscatastros8717]

Hey Imperial, I wonder if you can do a video on CHIM, Zero-Summing, and the Amaranth/Godhead. Supposedly, only two known people in the TES universe have achieved CHIM. Vivec, and Tiber Septim/Talos. But is it possible that there have been other people who were not famous who achieved CHIM, or Zero-Summed? Since there is a book in ESO that talks about Zero-Summing, and the Black Book Waking Dreams in Skyrim talks about the Godhead. The Black Book says "The eyes, once bleached by falling stars of utmost revelation, will forever see the faint insight drawn by the overwhelming question, as only the True Enquiry shapes the edge of thought. The rest is vulgar fiction, attempts to impose order on the consensus mantlings of an uncaring godhead. First," Does this mean Hermaous Mora knows about CHIM, and the Godhead?

[@wiibrockster]

I think it's likley. Hermaous Mora has incomprehensible amounts of knowledge to the point that in Skyrim the Mage Septimus Signus gets knowledge from him and he Zero-Sums in front of us by floating in the air and disintergrating.

[@dutchpatriot17]

@@wiibrockster Septimus is killed by Mora because Septimus served his purpose; he did not zero-sum.

[@wiibrockster]

@@dutchpatriot17 Really? Daedric Princes cannot "smite" mortals per say yet command their followers to kill them

[@dutchpatriot17]

@@wiibrockster ''Your continuing aid to Septimus renders him increasingly obsolete. He has served me well, but his time is nearing its end. Once that infernal lockbox is opened, he will have exhausted his usefulness to me. When that time comes, you shall take his place as my emissary.''

[@reidparker1848]

Keep Kirkbride's garbage out of TES

[@CadavresSansNom]

I would love to play as some kind of WoW Naga samurai but that will never happen because Beth is more likely to retcon them into being dudes with snek eyes and a forked tongue than to put in the work to build a different skeleton for a single race to fit armor sets. Morrowind was the last time we will have ever seen so much as digitigrade** legs

[@CadavresSansNom]

Also..snakes have hundreds of ribs, rather than fewer than us. Just sayin'. Dreaming is fun though.

[@EmulatorNoob]

I think Tsaesci are a vampiric clan like Clan Volkihar for example

[@newadventuresinskyrimse1750]

A letter from a friend sent me here.

[@thealdmeridominion7086]

Another great video, thanks. Question: what do you think about Amaund Motierre's political affiliation and/or personal reasons?

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Hmhm, thats a hard one. I talked about it multiple times, but after it all I think he is loyal to the empire, just not to the current dynasty, which he thinks is ruining the empire. OR he is part of a conspiracy by the medes themselves, either is possible but I think the first one is most likely

[@thealdmeridominion7086]

@@ImperialKnowledge I'm inclined to agree with the first option. Either way, his actions are likely to bring political instability to Cyrodiil.

[@ImperialKnowledge]

@@thealdmeridominion7086 I fear so too

[@flamesofchaos13]

@@thealdmeridominion7086 That's exactly what you're hoping for BUT watch it magically get better Elf!

[@thealdmeridominion7086]

Oh, you are ABSOLUTELY right. Cyrodiil will "magically get better" once it's free from the bloody and corrupt rule of the human Empires, which will happen by the NATURALLY MAGICAL hands of the Altmer. Then, enlightenment will replace obscurantism and grief.

[@uh-huh]

This guy's voice sounds like he is God's boss.

[@wsamuelsmithsmith6117]

good video

[@-smp-scientificmethodpersp838]

How do you know they can interbreed with humans?

[@vaniakeane3054]

Could the lamia be related to the tsaesci?

[@JDG602]

lol I been pronouncing it Tes a sci(as in sci-fi) Although I knew it was wrong...It sounded cool as hell so I reject all truth.

[@Galimeer5]

Elder Scrolls lore is great. You can say some bullshit like "vampire snake samurai" and people just know what you're talking about

[@aaroncabral7379]

I thought the humans of akavir are the ones who invaded tamriel 🤨

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

Differing sources refer to the men of the invasion and the snakes both as "Tsaesci". My guess is that theyre a race of men who all (or at least their leaders do) take on snake lycanthropy.

[@stijnwildeboer8809]

Can still be an argonian. Argonian can look very different from time to time. But the theory is interestjng

[@Spaceplant109]

Sweet

[@meatycitadel]

Don't you meet Tsaesci ghost and skeleton in Oblivion?

[@maxzfjsalvnzlx]

The Tsaesci are probably men who transform into giant serpents, like werewolves but instead of a wolf, it's a serpent. The Tsaesci ate the men of Akavir like lycanthropy ate the Companions.

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

That's my theory as well. It's the only theory that I think reconciles the two starkly different descriptions with no contradictions or holes, and it'd make sense, considering how Akavir seems to be s a much more wild and dangerous place than Tamriel. So for a race of men to survive there, lycanthropy was probably what was necessary

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

People point out humanity. What do they look like? If the human theory is true do they look like Indians or East Asians?

[@retroambassador2945]

Eso's lore is heavily neglected.

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

The lore when the game came out felt rather lacking, since they had to fit in so many different zones and couldnt flesh things out all that well given the time. But the DLCs and chapters have had a lot of good lore they've contributed (Clockwork City especially)

[@lss922]

Only a Finn could do a video like this