LYG - An Elder Scrolls Secret You May Not Know! (TES Lore)

Lyg is a mysterious continent created when Tamriel left an imprint on the planet Nirn. In today’s video, I explore Lyg, its inhabitants, its history, and more!

Topics Covered in this video include: Mehrunes Dagon; Molag Bal; the Magna Ge; Dreughs; some discussion of Vivec; theories on Yokuda, Akavir, and the other continents.

Expect an Elder Scrolls VI and beyond episode on Lyg at some point in the future. It's an interesting enough topic that I'd like to speculate on its possible (albeit, unlikely) role in TES 6 and future games.

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Disclaimer: I do not own ANY of the games, soundtracks, pictures, etc. depicted in this video. All rights go to Bethesda Softworks and their respective owners.

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36 Lessons of Vivec - Sermons 26, 28, 29, 30

Mythic Dawn Commentaries #4

Exegenesis of Merid-Nunda

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[JohnD]

it always amazes me how much lore there is in these games, that are hidden behind text that almost everyone skips. keep up the great work. really enjoy these videos.

[hueylongdong]

What if the Dwemer were sent to Lyg after Kagrenac used his tools to strike Lorkhan's heart? What if by doing so he opened some magical barrier that separates Lyg from Tamriel and allowed the Grabbers to take every single Dwemer in Tamriel to Lyg? What if Lorkhan's heart is somehow tied to Lyg? What if his death is what made Lyg somehow possible?

[morriganpandora]

If everything on Tamriel is mirrored in Lyg then perhaps Mehrunes Dagon is the parallel to Talos. The man made aedra this one was made Daedra. They both essentially used hope to conqueor the lands (The empire had first risen over the oppressive elves and the denizens of Lyg were ruled by the droughes)

[soul_prodigy]

It would be cool to do a Elder Scrolls game where the Protagonist travels to Lyg through a portal.

[adamburgess]

Too bad this means nothing because they won't do anything with this lore ever, still a good video though.

[Hazy]

If the only way to get to Lyg is to “walk sideways in an awkward fashion” is true.. is that not how the Yokudans and Left-handed Elves escaped the end of their Kalpa and got to Nirn? So basically Lyg could just be a past Kalpas Tamriel that’s Kalpa came to an end after Molag Bal and Mahrunes Dagon destroyed it, similar to what would have happened on Tamriel if Molag Bal’s invasion in ESO succeeded and the Oblivion Crisis wasn’t averted... maybe this was already obvious... or maybe I’m thinking too much into this.. realising I’m actually a nerd about this game ( ._.)

[ultratankie]

A common interpretation is that Lyg is a past kalpa. My personal belief is that, however many kalpas there are, the reality we see in the games is a sort of amalgamation of all of them, like it's the spot where the leftovers from other dead kalpas ended up (the Ra'Gada, the Aldmer, the Dreugh, the Atmorans, the Hist, etc). I don't see the other continents as literally different kalpas or being in different points in time, but rather as normal landmasses with their own histories in this kalpa - but they and their people are reflections of other kalpas that ultimately died, just as the various landscapes of Tamriel are.

Anyway, Lyg would be a special exception. It doesn't appear physically on Nirn, and I believe the reason has to do with how it was destroyed. Typically, a kalpa is ended by Alduin awakening to devour the world, after which we might imagine that he always leaves "crumbs" that wash up to Tamriel. But Lyg was conquered by Dagon and its pieces were taken by Molag Bal, who shaped them into Coldharbour. He literally took an entire kalpa and made it his new plane of Oblivion - presumably, he didn't have one at the time, because he would have been Aedric in that kalpa. This is presumably the fate of Tamriel itself if events like the Planemeld or the Oblivion Crisis ever ended the world; the entire kalpa would be converted into a new plane of Oblivion, and the next phase of Mundus (if there could even be another one) would have almost no echo of Tamriel or her people.

Then again, maybe Lyg was already a "melting pot" for the other kalpas, and maybe Tamriel is a reflection of *it, * not the other way around.

[Crytica.]

This video in short is = We have no clue as to what LYG actually is but we have sources that THINK they MIGHT know SOMETHING about it but it's all very VAGUE.
I love this kinda lore, makes you think about it and it makes you imagine things.

[danielrogers]

If Lyg was Molag Baal's original realm then wouldn't it have to be a part of Oblivion?

[Notallowed]

Saying about the differences in time across Nirn at the end... Couldn't this just be a reference to timezones?

[jeremybds]

I was hearing 'Far Harbor' instead of cold harbor and started getting sweaty

[bretthunt]

your lore videos are the best on youtube because you cover topics not everyone understands like this great work keep it up

[K_hessel]

I'm not so sure about that time theory towards the end, because several people from Tamriel have sailed to Akavir and come back, and there was even a war between the akaviri and Cyrodiil.

[jinnmoxx]

I am so Confucius with this continent...

[nishney]

Holy crap man, Great quality! 1 sub for you.

[BatMan-jhsq]

I talked about lyg with some people on the wiki and presented a theory that we found made sense. Lyg is not parallel, but is actually a 2D plane of existence perpendicular to tamriel. Lyg is to simple to absorb tamriel and tamriel is so complex it cannot absorb lyg allowing for coexistence without collapse

[XJonAye]

Thanks for video, I enjoy the lore of tes, it's depth is fascinating to me and the creativity behind it blows my mind.
Also I liked the way you say Vivec

[FurlowT]

In other words, they left it as Vague as possible so they can use it as possible quest story later on and do what ever they want with it until they finally decide on a set story of that area.

[irishcream]

the star egg vivec did summersaults in his mothers womb

[Gigatony]

You completely forgot to talk about its lost prince, Lyg-Mabalz