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[Dunamisdeos]

My most powerful character was a destruction mage.

The game got boring because I could kill literally anything before it touched me. Primarily lightning magic.

[Ultimuh]

Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me.

[Rolan7]

ALDEMERI aldemeri ALDEMERI aldemeri ALDEMIRI CHIMero
CHIM-CHIM-EROOOOoooo

[SOLDIER First]

Are you having a stroke?

[Rolan7]

I was have always been having a stroke, as long as Cyrodill was plains instead of a jungle.
CHIM~

[Silverthrone]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Extra, extra! Climate change denial on the rise amongst disgruntled elderly elves! Read all about it!

[Putnam]

Okay, wait, this is great.

ESO retconned Heimskr into the latest in a long line of cartographers and historians, all of whom are called "Heimskr".

In ESO, Phrastus of Elinhir thinks that their saying Cyrodiil was a jungle was a mere transcription error.

Lady Cinnabar of Taneth believes that Cyrodiil was a jungle when the Ayleids (being from around Valenwood anyway) were in charge and that its climate changed over time when the Empire of Man was in charge due to the resonance of White-Gold Tower and its Stone, CHIM-EL ADABAL, with the Dragonborn emperors now leading the place (especially given that the first of them was literally the child of Cyrodiil--his dad did love unto a hillock).

Heimskr, however, has more history to see: the Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition, written a few hundred years after Phrastus and Cinnabar had both died (them being Redguards, who don't live hundreds of years). The Pocket Guide mentions the jungles of Cyrodiil, which does not mesh with Cinnabar's explanation and certainly not with Phrastus's (which is completely wrong regardless).

So, what gives? This is answered in From the Many-Headed Talos, which Heimskr yells at you:

And after the throne of Alinor did finally break at the feet of Men, and news of it came to the Dragon Emperor in Cyrodiil, he gathered his captains and spoke to them, saying:

"You have suffered for me to win this throne, and I see how you hate jungle. Let me show you the power of Talos Stormcrown, born of the North, where my breath is long winter. I breathe now, in royalty, and reshape this land which is mine. I do this for you, Red Legions, for I love you."

What ESO did is retcon Heimskr into not just reiterating scripture, but understanding it. When he says "Aye, love. Love! Even as man, great Talos cherished us. For he saw in us, in each of us, the future of Skyrim! The future of Tamriel!", these are not empty words; he knows what Talos did there, and why he did it, and what he was trying to teach us.

Remember that Talos filled in the place of the Ninth Divine, the Missing, Shezarr, Lorkhan, the Lunar God: their goals are similar, and this is what that is.

[Ultimuh]

Nirnroots. Think they sound too annoying? Or too boring?
I found this here new Nexus mod which may or may not solve both issues.
And a Youtube vid to explain what it does.

[LordPorkins]

lol yeah, the only reason I completed that red nirnroot quest was because that noise. Oh god that noise. And then o found those giant nirnroot in Dragonborn. My ears cried for days.

[Mech#4]

I remember I played Oblivion for quite a while before the alchemist told me they made a noise. I was quite surprised as I'd never noticed before then.

Wouldn't that mod mean nirnroots are more like mandrake roots?

[JimboM12]

I'm on a NORSE IN THE NORTHHHHH trip after watching the end of Game of Thrones and playing Viking Conquest so I decided to jump back into Skyrim. While I usually try either warrior builds or mages, this time I'm Osterkligr, the alchemist. I installed a flora harvest mod and alchemy re-balance and most of my play-through is hiding behind Lydia while healing her, casting summons and quaffing various buff potions. It's surprisingly fun, being a milk-drinking coward. I wish there was a mod that also allowed me to throw healing potions at my housecarl and summons to heal them.

[LordPorkins]

That is like the biggest letdown (For me) in EOS: No throwable Potions. I mean, come one, you'd think you'd be able to simply chuck your poison of Paralysis at someone. 

[Urist McScoopbeard]

That is like the biggest letdown (For me) in EOS: No throwable Potions. I mean, come one, you'd think you'd be able to simply chuck your poison of Paralysis at someone.

Are you telling me those AREN'T for drinking!?

[Rolan7]

tHeys TEh GOoOD SHT!1!

[SOLDIER First]

Until you don't throw it hard enough and it bounces off, splattering harmlessly at their feet.