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Lore:Exclamations

There have been numerous exclamations throughout the history of The Elder Scrolls. These phrases give insight to the culture, beliefs, and the execution of vulgarity among the people of Tamriel and beyond.

RACESEdit

AltmerEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By Auriel"
  • "By Auri-el"
  • "By Auri-el’s hand"
  • "By Auriel’s grace"
  • "By Syrabane's sacred ring"
  • "By the Firmament"
  • "By the Fixed Center"
  • "By Xarxes"
  • "By the Highest One"
  • "By the White Crystal"
  • "By the Wood of Elborn"
  • "By the Blue Divide"
  • "By the Otherworld"
  • "By the First Spirit"


ExclamationsEdit

  • "Auri-el's breath"
  • "Blade of Cassimoran"
  • "Lorkhan's doom!"
  • "Nebarra"
  • "Stars above"
  • "Three-and-five venerations"
  • "Thrice-damn"
  • "Y'ffre's bones!"
  • "Faerielight"
  • "First Spirit of Tamriel"
  • "Blade of Cassimoran"
  • "Crystals of Sumurset"



Maxims and ProverbsEdit

  • "Only a fool trusts a sea snake"[1]

ArgonianEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By bark and birth"
  • "By bark and bite"
  • "By the Egg"
  • "By the Gods"
  • "By the Throne of Aphicles"
  • "By the Blades of Fate"
  • "By the Lonely One"
  • "By the Swamp Spirit"
  • "By the Mother-goddess"

CursesEdit

  • "May he burn in the glare of a thousand suns"[2]
  • "May their spirits never find dirt"[3]

ExclamationsEdit

  • "As mud is my mother"
  • "Hist guide me"
  • "Host of Stormhold"
  • "Xuth!"
  • "Mire of Murkwood"
  • "Bogfire"
  • "Kaoc"[4]
  • "My doubt-spine quivers"[4]
  • "My knowing-tree is barren"[4]
  • "My tail sinks"[5] (an expression of disappointment)

Exhortations and BlessingsEdit

  • "Lay the facts onto the stones"[6]
  • "I was hatched ready"[6]
  • "Bristle your war-spines"[5] (get excited for battle)

Colorful AdjectivesEdit

  • "Swamp Devil"
  • "You hilarious deek-beeko"[6]
  • "Mammal-licker"[7]
  • "Limp-fin"[7]
  • "Flat-toothed"[5] (a demeaning reference to those without the sharp teeth of the Naga)
  • "Tail-lifting savage"[5]

Colorful MetaphorsEdit

Maxims and ProverbsEdit

  • "The river has brought us here for a reason"[2]
  • "Taking a life closes more doors than it opens"[4]
  • "Fools and maniacs both bleed red"[8]

BosmerEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By the Green"
  • "By Y'ffre"
  • "By the Elden Grove"
  • "By the Timber Spirits"
  • "By the Lore of Wood"
  • "By Mistria's Curse"
  • "By Caliron's Heart"
  • "By the Root"
  • "By the Fire"

CursesEdit

  • "Thrice-blasted son of a dreck-sifting, root-munching, bread-baking sot! May your ears be stuffed with whirlifly larvae, your bow-hand bitten by a rabid stoat"[9]

ExclamationsEdit

  • "Baan Dar's toes!"
  • "Bug shells!"
  • "Spirits of the Wood"
  • "Faeries of the Grove"
  • "Fire of Eldenroot"
  • "Rabbit dung!"
  • "Yffre's bones!"[10]


Colorful MetaphorsEdit

  • "The boggy end of the swamp"[11] (describing a situation involving difficulty, complexity, and uncertainty)


BretonEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By Sheor's beard"
  • "By Starfall's Waters"
  • "By the Crypt"
  • "By My Lady"
  • "By the Mists"
  • "By the Wolf"
  • "By the Dark Lord"
  • "By the ArchDruid"
  • "By Pelagius"
  • "By the Dragon"


ExclamationsEdit

  • "Bless My Lord"
  • "Death Be Damned"
  • "Spirits of High Rock"
  • "Madness"
  • "Damn the Dragon"
  • "Dibella's legs"[12]


Colorful AdjectivesEdit


ChimerEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By the Avenger"




DaedraEdit

ExclamationsEdit

  • "Oh fathomless Prince"[14]



DunmerEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By Almalexia"
  • "By Almsivi"
  • "By dawn and dusk"
  • "By the fires of Red Mountain"
  • "By the Three"
  • "By Vivec" (sometimes “B’vek”)
  • "By the Black Isle"
  • "By the Dark Ones"
  • "By the Fires of Dagoth-Ur"
  • "By the Mad Queen"
  • "By the Black Maw"
  • "By the Night"
  • "By the Soulless One"
  • "By Malacath's toenails"
  • "By Malacath's hairy knuckles"
  • "By the Green"[15]

CursesEdit

  • "To Red Mountain with you"

ExclamationsEdit

  • "Dagon's eyeballs"
  • "Fetch"
  • "F’lah"
  • "Dark Goddess Protect Us"
  • "Soul of the Black Knight"
  • "Fireblood"

Exhortations and BlessingsEdit

  • "Three protect you"[16] (a blessing and hope for protection from harm)

Colorful AdjectivesEdit

  • "N'wah"
  • "S’wit"


Maxims and ProverbsEdit

  • "My basket is already full"[17] (an Ashlander expression reflecting that someone already has a lot of problems they're dealing with, and can't spare the time for new problems)
  • "You harvest from the seeds you plant"[18] (which means you get what your labors deserve, in both a positive sense of reward and negative sense of punishment)

ImperialEdit

Colorful AdjectivesEdit

  • "Ignominious corpse-herder"[19]


Maxims and ProverbsEdit

  • "The farmer doesn't thank the cow when it voids itself on the field, but it still makes the crops grow taller."[19]

KhajiitEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By the Rat-god"
  • "By the Sands of Elsweyr"
  • "By the Blessed Water"
  • "By the Hand of Ibrahad"
  • "By the Dry Heart"
  • "By the Water of Life"


ExclamationsEdit

  • "Whore of Alizahad"
  • "Dust of Orcrest"
  • "Desert Sun"
  • "Devil of the Sands"
  • "Kes kridesi"[20] (an exclamation of incredulity; something unthinkable)
  • "Kra"[21] (a mild curse)
  • "Ziss"[20] (a mild curse)
  • "Hahl Fajh'na"[21] (a strong curse)
  • "Kss"[21] (a sound of exasperation)
  • "Var, var"[21] (expressing a sense of being humble or demure)
  • "F'ah"[21] (a term of exasperation or distaste)
  • "Moon's mercy"[21] (invoking the sacred link of the Khajiit with the moons)
  • "Moon Mother be praised"[21]
  • "Jode's light"[22] (an exclamation of alarm)


Colorful MetaphorsEdit

  • "Sand between my ears"[21] (a description of feeling dazed)


KothringiEdit

Exhortations and BlessingsEdit

  • "Z'en's blessings"[23]

Colorful AdjectivesEdit

  • "Dung-guzzling Worm Cultists"[23]
  • "Lousy mushroom-nibblers"[23]
  • "Miserable toad-lickers"[23]
  • "Moss-gargling cultists"[23]
  • "Torchbug-gobblers"[23]


NordEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By Thorig's Beard"
  • "By Olfor's Hammer"
  • "By Shor's shiny arse"
  • "By the White Wolf"
  • "By the Frozen Wastes"
  • "By the Hoarfather"
  • "By the Cliffs of Solitude"
  • "By the Northern Sea"
  • "By the Beard of Thorig"
  • "By the Whale"[24] (technically from old Atmoran totem worship)

CursesEdit

  • "Born under a bad star"[25]

ExclamationsEdit

  • "Mother of the Ice"
  • "Frostfire"
  • "Shor's Blood"
  • "Shor's Bones"
  • "Troll's Blood"
  • "Herma-Mora's wagging tongue"[26]
  • "Orkey's gullet"[25]
  • "Arkay's beard"[26]


Colorful AdjectivesEdit

  • "Skeeving horkers"[26]
  • "Milk drinker"[25]
  • "Steely-eyed blighter"[25]
  • "Western beard-pullers"[27] (referring to Nords from the western end of Skyrim)

Colorful MetaphorsEdit

  • "Mad as a box of frogs"[26]
  • "Happier than a hairy skeever in the larder"[27]

Maxims and ProverbsEdit

  • "If you avoid all of life's abrasions, you'll never be polished enough to shine"[28]

OrcEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By all the snot in Malacath's right nostril"
  • "By the Bloody Curse"
  • "By the bloody fangs of Mauloch"
  • "By the First Forge"
  • "By the stench of Mauloch's gaping maw"
  • "By Yashnag's axe"
  • "By the Twelve Holds"[29]


ExclamationsEdit

  • "Malacath's nethers"
  • "Malacath’s rage"
  • "Malacath’s teat"
  • "Malacath’s tusk"
  • "Malacath’s wrath"
  • "Mauloch's fang"


Colorful AdjectivesEdit

  • "Son of a troll"

Colorful MetaphorsEdit

  • "That's when the troll dung hit the horker."[30]

Maxims and ProverbsEdit

  • "Conquerors name the wars"[31]
  • "The past is a wolf. The clever hunter keeps his eye fixed on it, while the foolish hunter looks away and is devoured."[32]
  • "A chief who does not listen to his wives is not chief for long."[32]
  • "The battle is won in the stomach first."[32]
  • "The Orc who shirks his duty and the Orc who becomes bitter doing it drink the same poison."[32]
  • "What Orc strength alone cannot achieve, Orc steel can."[32]
  • "An inexperienced warrior in the finest armor still trips over his leg-guards."[32]
  • "An Orc who complains about his chief, but does not challenge him, is still complaining a year later."[32]

ReachmenEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By Hircine's hounds"[33]
  • "By the spirits"[34]


ExclamationsEdit

  • "Gods take me"[35]
  • "Where in Namira's hide have you been?"[36]
  • "Hircine's hind"[37]
  • "Namira's blood"[34]
  • "Blood and briar"[38][39]

Exhortations and BlessingsEdit

  • "Spirits guide you"[40]
  • "Hircine will guide our strikes!"[34]


Maxims and ProverbsEdit

  • "Anyone can be a king in the Reach. No one can be a king of the Reach."[41]
  • "You've got to listen to the spirits."[42]

RedguardEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By the Dragon's Teeth"
  • "By My Father's Name"
  • "By Rourken"
  • "By the Great Hammer"
  • "By the Dwarf-King"
  • "By the Guardian's Blood"
  • "By the First Wyrm"
  • "By the Blade"
  • "By Divad"
  • "By Katrica"
  • "By The Maiden"
  • "By Frandar"
  • "By The Sun"
  • "By the thousand scales of Satakal"[43]
  • "By my father's blade"[44]


ExclamationsEdit

  • "Dragon's Teeth"
  • "Cursed Darvak"
  • "Beard of the Dwarf-King"
  • "Spirit Sword"
  • "Stendarr Preserve Us"



Maxims and ProverbsEdit

  • "A man is only as great as the beard that wears him"[45]
  • "A fool and his fingers are quickly parted"[45]

FACTIONSEdit

ArcanistsEdit

OathsEdit

  • "By Mora's eyes"[46] (sometimes "many eyes")

CursesEdit

  • "Apocrypha take you"[46]

ExclamationsEdit

  • "Twitching tentacles"[46] (expressing alarm)


Colorful AdjectivesEdit

  • "I have no Aurbisal idea"[46] (flatly denying any knowledge of an event, a subject, etc.)

Colorful MetaphorsEdit

  • "Stubborn as the abyssal sea."[46]


MagesEdit

ExclamationsEdit

  • "Like a ray of sunlight from Magnus himself."[47]

Exhortations and BlessingsEdit

  • "Faster than you can say 'eye of Magnus' three times fast"[11]


Colorful MetaphorsEdit

  • "He cuts through guild politics like a spellforged blade"[11]

Maxims and ProverbsEdit

  • "Seeing and understanding are two different things."[47]
  • "Not everything you need to know is on the page."[47]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Kinlady Helenaere's judgment about the Maormer, spoken during their invasion of Sunhold during the events of Sunhold Sundered
  2. ^ a b Sees-All-Colors's dialogue in ESO
  3. ^ Nuxul's dialogue in ESO
  4. ^ a b c d Xukas's dialogue in ESO
  5. ^ a b c d Jaxsik-Orrn's dialogue in ESO
  6. ^ a b c Otumi-Ra's dialogue in ESO
  7. ^ a b Meer-Ta's dialogue in ESO
  8. ^ Tsojei, as related by Jaxsik-Orrn's dialogue in ESO
  9. ^ Genboril's dialogue in ESO
  10. ^ Menninia's dialogue in ESO
  11. ^ a b c Votary Nahlia's dialogue in ESO
  12. ^ High King Emeric's dialogue in ESO
  13. ^ Isobel Veloise's dialogue in ESO
  14. ^ Ogle's dialogue in ESO
  15. ^ Cindieth's dialogue in ESO
  16. ^ Drelyth Hleran's dialogue in ESO
  17. ^ Wise Woman Asani's dialogue in ESO
  18. ^ The Lost Prophecy — Gilvas Barelo
  19. ^ a b Abnur Tharn's dialogue in ESO
  20. ^ a b Cantor Krin'ze's dialogue in ESO
  21. ^ a b c d e f g h Zerith-var's dialogue in ESO
  22. ^ Khamira's dialogue in ESO
  23. ^ a b c d e f Acolyte Morag's dialogue in ESO
  24. ^ Thane Hraldi's dialogue in ESO
  25. ^ a b c d Thane Svyne's dialogue in ESO
  26. ^ a b c d Lyris Titanborn's dialogue in ESO
  27. ^ a b Rigurt the Brash's dialogue in ESO
  28. ^ Gjalder's wisdom, passed down through his daughter, Lyris Titanborn, as told in ESO
  29. ^ Mahgrok's dialogue in ESO
  30. ^ Ghorn's dialogue in ESO: Orsinium
  31. ^ Great Spirits of the Reach: Volume 1 — Vashu gra-Morga, Chief Daedrotheologist at the University of Gwylim
  32. ^ a b c d e f g Sayings of the Wise
  33. ^ Chief Kynaer's dialogue in ESO: Markarth
  34. ^ a b c Arana's dialogue in ESO: Markarth
  35. ^ Drisoal's dialogue in ESO: Markarth
  36. ^ Chief-of-Chiefs Cannear's dialogue in ESO: Markarth
  37. ^ Vateshran Barth's dialogue in ESO: Markarth
  38. ^ Letter to Mairrna — Fascune
  39. ^ Reachman Shaman, Frenzied Witchman, and Forsaken Champion's dialogues in Legends
  40. ^ Letter from Sister Glynolde
  41. ^ Lady Belain's dialogue in ESO: Markarth
  42. ^ Averio Brassac's dialogue in ESO: Markarth
  43. ^ Taqiyat the Thrifty's dialogue in ESO
  44. ^ Paldeen's dialogue in ESO
  45. ^ a b Sai Sahan's dialogue in ESO
  46. ^ a b c d e Azandar's dialogue in ESO
  47. ^ a b c The Crow's dialogue in ESO
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