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The What is up, ladies and gentlemen? Welcome back to Fudge Marpet. I am Scott here with Michael

and Drew as always. And today, this Elder Scrolls podcast, we are talking about Kalpers. Many people ask about them.

There's a very obscure sort of term up there with like Kim and Amaranth and all kinds of stuff.

And I will forewarn you, this whole conversation is going to be like 90% conjecture.

There are very few mentions of Kalipers in in the game anyways,

which we'll go through and then we'll sort of extrapolate and see what kind of things we can

think of and talk about. But I thought it might be interesting first, before I pass it off to

you guys, is to talk about what a calpa is in our real world mythologies, I guess, although religion or tradition,

I guess, because it's still ongoing. In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, a Kalpa is basically

this immense period of time that's specifically 4,320 million human years, and that's a single cycle of the cosmos or a day

of Brahma, which is like the big deity. We're not going to go into Sanskrit stuff and all

this kind of stuff, right? We're not going into real world mythology. But the essence there is,

to sort of take away, is Akaliper is just a really, really long time

as part of a cycle.

So that's what its real world word is.

Now we've got its mention in the Elder Scrolls.

Do any of you guys want to...

Well, if I had to boil it down to make it as simple as possible for the beginning, if you

imagine, you know, you got the dawn error, followed by the Merific error, followed by recorded time, first, second, third,

however long it goes. The way to imagine it is imagine that the dawn error is the end of the

previous cycle and the beginning of the new one somehow simultaneously. So it is a beginning and an end.

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