The Mane

Living_Ded · April 2019

The Mane

Full disclosure I haven't finished all the Aldmeri Dominion questlines. Anyone else thing it's likely we'll meet the current Mane in Elsweyr? I'm not sure why but I'm ridiculously excited about the prospect.

Claudman · April 2019

Er...

Play the Aldmeri Dominion main quest.

I won't spoil anything, just play it...Especially the Reaper's March main quest.

Nimrhys · May 2019

No but I think you will HEAR of them because I already have in the lead up quest.

Living_Ded · May 2019

Claudman wrote: »

Er...

Play the Aldmeri Dominion main quest.

I won't spoil anything, just play it...Especially the Reaper's March main quest.

I'd better get on that then

ghastley · May 2019

Just don't get too hung up on that ceremonial outfit.

Aristocles22 · May 2019

It would be funny to see the new mane in all that fur. Especially if it kicked in and grew all at once. Something like *THUMP*... "mew?"

Number_51 · May 2019

It doesn't really grow, or not all of anyway. Since The Mane, according to lore, is a separate breed/furstock, I guess we don't really know for sure. From the UESP Lore link the OP provided.

The Mane is a unique breed of Khajiit. Khajiit tradition holds that only one Mane can be alive at one time and, more specifically, believe that there is actually only one Mane who is reborn again and again in different bodies. There has been no recorded incident of more than one Mane contending for power, although whether due to the truth in the Khajiit belief or whether the ruling Mane takes care of any potential rivals is unknown. Manes can only be born under a rare alignment of the moons Masser and Secunda when, according to legend, a third moon actually appears. In older days the Khajiit would shave off their manes in deference to the Mane, braiding them into locks which the Mane would incorporate into its own mane. As the population grew, however, this became impractical, although the Khajiit still remove their manes and the current Mane still wears the hair of its tribe and Warrior Guard which includes several hundred in number. The Mane is so weighted down by the hair that movement is difficult without aid and they often travel the countryside by means of a palanquin.

ArchMikem · May 2019

Number_51 wrote: »

It doesn't really grow, or not all of anyway. Since The Mane, according to lore, is a separate breed/furstock, I guess we don't really know for sure. From the UESP Lore link the OP provided.

The Mane is a unique breed of Khajiit. Khajiit tradition holds that only one Mane can be alive at one time and, more specifically, believe that there is actually only one Mane who is reborn again and again in different bodies. There has been no recorded incident of more than one Mane contending for power, although whether due to the truth in the Khajiit belief or whether the ruling Mane takes care of any potential rivals is unknown. Manes can only be born under a rare alignment of the moons Masser and Secunda when, according to legend, a third moon actually appears. In older days the Khajiit would shave off their manes in deference to the Mane, braiding them into locks which the Mane would incorporate into its own mane. As the population grew, however, this became impractical, although the Khajiit still remove their manes and the current Mane still wears the hair of its tribe and Warrior Guard which includes several hundred in number. The Mane is so weighted down by the hair that movement is difficult without aid and they often travel the countryside by means of a palanquin.

All that is contradicted by ESO though. We're introduced to two possible Manes, Twins. And theyre both portrayed as Cathay, even though they claimed they were born under the special moon phase. Also they and the previous Mane have been alive together for years.

It points to the Mane just being a Title and position given to whoever is born under that moon phase. Theres nothing mystical about it.

PrinceShroob · May 2019

I don't know how the wiki gets away with saying the Mane is a "unique breed" of Khajiit when the Pocket Guide that's the source of most of the information in that paragraph says "The Mane is no more a 'breed' of khajiit than the other, more common forms of the catmen; he is simply unique..."

The Pocket Guide says that, traditionally, the Mane wears the manes of all Khajiit, and that the current Mane (as of 2E 864) wears the manes of his guard and tribe. This leaves a gap -- such as during the Alliance War, where an immobile Mane would be useless on the battlefield -- during which the Mane could forego this tradition. The Mane in ESO wears a helmet with several braids dangling from it, a more practical wartime version of the tradition of the Mane wearing the manes of other Khajiit.