User:Vulpa/The Lilmothiit

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Dream of the Lilmothiit[edit]

One of my greatest desires concerning the Elder Scrolls is for a future installment to include the Lilmothiit, whether as a playable/NPC race, an enemy beast race, or even just some literature/architecture/ANYTHING related to them. These creatures were a vulpine (fox-like) beast race who once inhabited the southern coast of Black Marsh with the Argonian tribes and other myriad creatures who called the Black Marsh home. The Lilmothiit are now supposedly extinct, but it would be wonderful if some surviving ancestors were found... just in case anyone reading this wants to tell Bethesda....

Most of our information about the Lilmothiit is just filler data for in-game novels-- basically a couple sentences. For me at least, that is not enough. I think that this race has the potential to be developed just as much as any other, and must therefore have an interesting story to tell.

Culture and Civilization[edit]

The lilmothiit were once one of the five beast races (sentient beastfolk), the others being the Argonians (residing in Black Marsh, alongside the Lilmothiit), the Imga of Valenwood, the Sloads (from the Coral Kingdoms of Thras south of Tamriel), and the Khajiit of Elsweyr.

Fall of the Lilmothiit[edit]

Tales of the Lilmothiit[edit]

Timeline and History[edit]

As quoted by ____, "In additional [sic] to the reptilian Argonians, who are today Black Marsh's most visible denizen, there were once tribes of men – Kothringi, Orma, Yerpest, Horwalli — and tribes of mer — the Barsaebic Ayleids and the Cantemiric Velothi — and even a tribe who may have been related to the Khajiit of Elsweyr, the vulpine Lilmothiit. Some were sent to Black Marsh as refugees or prisoners, others settled along the coastal waterways and adapted to its strange and usually insalubrious environment."

As noted in the in-game book "A Pocket Guide to the Empire, 3rd Edition/Argonia", the Kothringi and the Lilmothiit are both considered in lore, but the other races are not. They all hail from Black Marsh.

The Lilmothiit, a vulpine race thought to be related to Khajiit, once lived along the southern coasts but likely died out by the time of the Akaviri Potentate. While widely speculated, it is unknown whether the Khajiit are in any way related to the Po' Tun (currently Ka Po' Tun) cat people of Akavir or the Lilmothiit, a vulpine beast race which once inhabited Black Marsh.[26][27]

Etymology and Relations With Other Races[edit]

The cities of Stormhold and Gideon were originally founded by the Ayleids (their Ayleid names are unknown), but were so far removed from their culture in the heartland that they never were attacked by the Alessian army when it rose in revolt. The southern coastal regions, not surprisingly, were the realms of the Lilmothiit, though they were a nomadic group and left few enduring signs of their existence that were not covered up by later civilizations. The Black Marsh elves settled in the eastern regions near present-day {Archon, Arnesia, and Thorn.

The coastal areas and some parts of the interior where it was safe to travel received Imperial leaders to rule in the emperor's name. The land that had once been the home of freedom for Tamriel's criminals became its greatest prison state. Anyone considered too dangerous to hold in "civilized" dungeons in other Provinces was sent to Black Marsh. Its most famous convicts include the notorious axe murderer Nai, the heretic Devir-Mir, and Tavia, the wife of the last emperor of the First Era, who was sent to Gideon in 1E 2899, accused of treason. The worst of the dungeons was constructed in the following era by Potentate Versidae-Shae [sic] on the ruins of the Lilmothiit community called Blackrose.

The Rose, as it is called, is still the most secure and notorious prison of our own time, where Jagar Tharn's associates who were not executed await their final end. Blackrose is a major city in the swampy interior of Black Marsh, close to Murkwood, the "dark forest that ever moves". It was founded by a now-extinct community of Lilmothiit. In 1E 1033, Empress Hestra ordered the Imperial Navy to hunt down the notorious bandit king "Red" Bramman.[1] After a long search they caught Bramman in his hideout near Blackrose. Later, in the Second Era, Akaviri Potentate Versidue-Shaie ordered a dungeon to be built on the ruins of the abandoned settlement, and to this day it has kept its status as the most secure prison in Tamriel. Commonly known as "The Rose", this prison is where many of Jagar Tharn's associates were sent after the Imperial Simulacrum. During the reign of Empress Morihatha, shaken by many revolutions and civil wars, the Lore Master Celarus wrote about the Imperial Battlemage Welloc's battles with the rebellious army of Blackrose.[2] The city was once home to a gladiatorial team known as the Warriors.[OOG 1]