On the Nords' Totemic Religion (design document)

[Pilaf The Defiler]

Lady N was nice enough to share this on Reddit. It's notable that some of these concepts clearly didn't make it into Skyrim, but the identities of the actual Totem deities, I assume, didn't change, so we can finally get something close to official confirmation on them. Note the absence of the Owl and the Whale here. I think it's safe to assign them to Jhunal and Tsun respectively.


edit: Adding the relevant tumblr post from MK.

[legoless]

The Nords believe that, During the Oblivion Crisis, it was Talos (Dragonborn, Martin's forefather) lending his aid, not Alduin.

Pretty interesting. A shame these concepts weren't used, it would've really added to the significance of Talos worship.

[BetaB17]

May I comment on something >_> but this is the 3rd time that I know of where a religion or majority belief mentions different 'time cycles'. We already know about the Rearguards', and in Skyrim we learned from the dragons about the Kalpas(and frankly their word holds more weight), and now the Nords too It doesnt confuse me much that the Nords would of adapted plenty of the shared beliefs with dragons

Also, I really love the added conflict between the Divines and the nordic gods, it adds a new layer of depth to things