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Letters being sent out to streamers in advance of the reveal

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Elsonso
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Documenting this in a thread. Lotus of Doom received one, text is below. Photo used with permission.
Proxy,

The tide of fate swirls around you with glorious fury and has chosen you to serve as its surrogate in a crisis most perilous. The future of at least two worlds hangs in the balance. Your talent for changing destiny has been noticed, hence the reason for this letter.

Many paths lead forward, but only one ends with the survival of Nirn. At this particular moment, in this specific instance, you must be the thread that keeps reality itself from unraveling.

I shall summon you as soon as the inescapable fortunes of consequence show me where we are needed most.

Leramil the Wise

Edit: Under black light, the letter shows the sigil of Hermaeus Mora

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Edit 2: Wanted to add that three four ESO streamers have posted images of letters they received. So far, all of them are the same.
Edited by Elsonso on January 20, 2023 7:25PM
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  • HappyTheCamper
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    Plus “The Tides of Fate”
  • Zenzuki
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    True.

    But I have a sneaky suspicion that we may be spending some time in Aporcrypha soon enough if this letter is really hinting to him!

    And as long as he decides to come home every now and again! :smiley:
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  • colossalvoids
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    Syldras wrote: »
    Zenzuki wrote: »
    The Dunmer and Hermaeus Mora connection could also be pointing towards Solstheim being the new zone as they both are heavily tied to the Island (although I'm not sure to what extend during ESO's era).

    I don't see him having a special connection to that place. And at this time, there are probably only the Skaal on Solstheim.

    Well his current champion's rest is there, plus he's been striving for that Skaal "101 ways to skin a horker" lesson for quite a while there it seems.
  • Syldras
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    colossalvoids wrote: »
    Well his current champion's rest is there, plus he's been striving for that Skaal "101 ways to skin a horker" lesson for quite a while there it seems.

    Which champion? I think the last keeper of the Oghma Infinium was Graccus, an Imperial. Also I'm not sure if the Skaal were ever mentioned somewhere in ESO yet (except for a costume or outfit or something like that).

    Edited by Syldras on January 18, 2023 5:11AM
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  • HailstoSithis
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    This letter gives me vibes of time travel to the future and the past (two worlds) if there is a hidden sigil of Hermaeus Mora on this letter. I guess we will see.
  • colossalvoids
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    Syldras wrote: »
    colossalvoids wrote: »
    Well his current champion's rest is there, plus he's been striving for that Skaal "101 ways to skin a horker" lesson for quite a while there it seems.

    Which champion? I think the last keeper of the Oghma Infinium was Graccus, an Imperial. Also I'm not sure if the Skaal were ever mentioned somewhere in ESO yet (except for a costume or outfit or something like that).

    The first dragonborn one, which place we're taking in fourth era. His temple and the black book is still underground at the very centre of Solstheim. Like a lot of things there's not much mention of them in eso, which makes them even better target for a new content.
  • Syldras
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    colossalvoids wrote: »
    The first dragonborn one, which place we're taking in fourth era. His temple and the black book is still underground at the very centre of Solstheim.

    Oh, you mean the one from the Skaal myths? Well, okay, that one exists. But there are many cultures of Nirn, recent and historic, who had somehow come across Hermaeus Mora, if not all. They all have their specific names for him - for example the Khajiit call him Hermorah, the Ayleids Hyrma Mora - and there are cultists of him basically everywhere. The Skaal are only one culture within many that had to do with him, they're not special in that aspect.
    HappyTheCamper wrote: »
    Plus “The Tides of Fate”

    Yeah, "Master of the Tides of Fate" is one of the names of Herma Mora. Although I thought it was mainly used by Khajiit - but it could be common elsewhere too.
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    Malacar Sunavarlas, Altmer Ayleid vampire
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    Syldras wrote: »
    colossalvoids wrote: »
    The first dragonborn one, which place we're taking in fourth era. His temple and the black book is still underground at the very centre of Solstheim.

    Oh, you mean the one from the Skaal myths? Well, okay, that one exists. But there are many cultures of Nirn, recent and historic, who had somehow come across Hermaeus Mora, if not all. They all have their specific names for him - for example the Khajiit call him Hermorah, the Ayleids Hyrma Mora - and there are cultists of him basically everywhere. The Skaal are only one culture within many that had to do with him, they're not special in that aspect.

    They are special in a way ESO trying to monetize nostalgia, like they did with Vvardenfell or Blackwood, so it's best guess still as you can link any prince to literally any region in the game and the only place in tes (apart from Apocrypha itself) that is heavily linked to this exact one is Solstheim via Skyrim's last dlc, even though I don't think it's what we're getting, we just have no information to work with. Not that I even want to know this time around.
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    colossalvoids wrote: »
    They are special in a way ESO trying to monetize nostalgia

    Okay, from the marketing perspective, this makes sense. But Solstheim as a whole Q2 chapter would seem rather small to me, to be honest. And there isn't much according to lore, if they don't make up new settlements for this chapter.
    Trinotops wrote: »
    Also Leramil seems like more of an Altmer or perhaps Maormer name to me.

    I'd say most probably Altmer, although there are Dunmer names ending with -amil (Noramil comes to my mind), -adil and the likes too. But of course Maormer could also be possible.
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    The forceful expression of will gives true honor to the Ancestors.
    Sarayn Andrethi, Telvanni mage (Main)
    Darvasa Andrethi, his "I'm NOT a Necromancer!" sister
    Malacar Sunavarlas, Altmer Ayleid vampire
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    Syldras wrote: »
    colossalvoids wrote: »
    They are special in a way ESO trying to monetize nostalgia

    Okay, from the marketing perspective, this makes sense. But Solstheim as a whole Q2 chapter would seem rather small to me, to be honest. And there isn't much according to lore, if they don't make up new settlements for this chapter.

    One of the reasons I don't think it's going to be Solstheim, but they can always scale up and down, add some additional territories even outside of Nirn etc. Still having no actually useful information to guess making it all irrelevant kinda.
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    Syldras wrote: »
    Another thing, although that's basically a shot in the dark: In the first paragraph of the letter, the "tide of fate" is mentioned, which 100% related to Hermaeus Mora. I've been wondering if the 2nd paragraph could tell more about another force involved. What caught my attention is "the thread that keeps reality from unraveling". That sounds quite specific. Might it be related to the webspinner Mephala somehow? She's also a Daedra of hidden secrets and both Hermaeus Mora and Mephala play a role in Morag Tong history (and Mephala being important for Dunmer altogether, still being one of the "Good Daedra" of Dunmer religion).

    Highly doubt it. Mephala was already part of a Daedric plot where she got her just desserts and then some. I'm sure she knows better than to bother the Vestige so soon after her last failed attempt.
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