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The What is up, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Fajmaput. I'm Scott here with Michael

and Drew. As always, this is the Elder Scrolls podcast, and today we are talking all about

the reach folk, the native men inhabitants of the reach.

And you've probably had some exposure to them by at the very least playing Skyrim in the form

of the forsworn. But we're going to get into them more broadly. And I think one of the most

interesting things about the reachmen is that for as long as they've been around, they're still yet to be essentially annihilated or conquered to the point where you don't see their culture anymore.

You know, you look at all of the coolest cultures and civilizations. I mean, it's all subjective, but like some of my favorite would be things like the snow elves,

or we know a lot of Elders Girls fans love the Dwemer, there's the Kima, but then the Reachman, they're still around, despite not being as, you know, technologically advanced or magically advanced.

They're definitely more of a primitive people, but they're still there. They're, and obviously when I say their culture is still around, I should also say that

their culture is still quite diverse with, like there's lots of microcultures within it and

different clans with different practices, but they've still kept that core kind of like

natural barbaric live in the land and by the rules of the

land and, and of course the Dadric princes that many of them worship, which though do relate back

to that whole nature theme because that's how they see them.

In ways, I feel like it would be comparable to sort of, in terms of describing their culture,

kind of going like, imagine, like, in the way that outsiders will go, like,

oh, Native American cultures of, like, the United States, all the indigenous people there,

they would go like, oh, you know, Native Americans.

But that doesn't actually tell you a lot at how diverse and different all of the individual cultures are.

There are some, of course, similarities by virtue of being in the same geography.

But there is, well, even then there's different parts of geography.

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