The continent of Akavir, also known as "Dragon Land", is a landmass east of Tamriel. The two continents have a history of animosity towards each other, each having invaded the other several times in the pastNo mer have ever lived there; the men that did live in Akavir were all "eaten" [Note 1] long ago by the Vampiric Serpent Folk of Tsaesci. There are four major nations on Akavir, each with its own race: Kamal, Tsaesci, Tang Mo and Ka Po' Tun.

Kamal is translated as "Snow Hell", and many armies of demons call it their home. Every summer they thaw out and attempt to invade Tang Mo, but are always driven back by the courageous monkey-folk who live there. Once Ada'Soom Dir-Kamal, a king among the demons, tried to invade and conquer Morrowind, but was destroyed by Almalexia and the Underking at Red Mountain.

Tsaesci is translated as "Snake Palace", and was once the strongest kingdom in Akavir. It is home to the Vampire Snake people who ate the men of Akavir long ago. They are described as beautiful, with golden scales, a human upper body and a snake like lower body. The goblin tribes of Akavir are their source of food and labor. Potentate Versidue-Shaie, was a Tsaesci who ruled Tamriel in the previous era for 400 years before being assassinated by the Morag Tong.

Tang Mo is translated as "The Thousand Monkey Isles". It is inhabited by many breeds of monkeys who are described as kind and brave. The other nations of Akavir have tried to enslave them at some point, but the monkeys can make armies if they must. They are apparently allies of the tiger people of Ka Po' Tun.

Ka Po' Tun is translated as the "Tiger-Dragon Empire". The inhabitants, of course, are a cat-like people and are ruled by the great ruler Tosh Raka, a tiger dragon. They are the greatest empire in Akavir, but are not skilled at fighting at sea. After the Serpent people ate the men, they tried to eat the dragons. They managed to make the red dragons slaves, but the black dragons fled to Po Tun. A great battle was fought, and it left both the cats and the snakes weak, and the dragons extinct. Since then, the cats have always tried to become dragons. Tosh Raka is the first and only so far to have accomplished this. He is the largest dragon on Nirn and is covered in Orange and Black Scales.Most Akaviri history is only known so far as it affects Tamriel, which means it is a story of conflict and violence, betrayal and intrigue.

Perhaps the earliest story concerning Akavir is The Story of Lyrisius, in which the eponymous hero and general has his own army destroyed before going on to destroy the Akaviri army through other means. Thus, even the oldest tales from Akavir are about war.

The most famous and important interaction between the two continents concerns the Reman dynasty of Tamrielic emperors and their successors, the Akaviri Potentates. In 1E 2703 [1] the forces of Akavir invaded Tamriel and were decisively defeated at Pale Pass by the army of Reman I. Reman's empire was also under threat from the Elves, and he agreed to allow the survivors of the disaster to remain in Tamriel and strengthen his army. They eventually rose to positions of power and in 1E 2920, the last year of the first era, Potentate of the Empire, Versidue-Shaie brought about the death of Reman III and his heir Prince Juilek and took the throne for himself. After his assassination by the Morag Tong in 2E 324, the empire passed to his son Savirien-Chorak who was in turn assassinated along with his heirs in 2E 431.

Next came an invasion of Akavir from Tamriel. At the height of his power in 3E 288, Uriel Septim V launched an invasion of the continent, which came to utter ruin at the Battle of Ionith in 3E 290. Since then, the two continents have had little or no contact.The martial ability of the Akaviri soldiers had a strong influence on the military hierarchies of Tamriel. The Imperial Legions benefited by the superior organization and knowledge of tactics of the Akavir, and the political and legal systems of the Empire were both improved as well. The Empire in general benefited from the influence of the sophisticated beastpeople.

The Blades adopted Akaviri style for their weaponry and armor, both of which strongly resemble Akaviri items. Their headquarters, Cloud Ruler Temple is also built in the Akaviri style.

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Research by Conner97

Just thought Id throw it out there, but some of the stuff Ive reas suggest the Tsaesci 'eating' the men of Akavir wasnt totaly literal, IE: they either merged as a culture with the humans finding a cultural niche, and/or they interbreed and there are few pureblood humans left there now. The humans merging as a culture seems to be backed up by oblivion, since ALL the 'dead' akaviri you find are human skeletons. I know this is proably bethesda not bothering to pay attention to anything but what celebs they had booked for the game, and how the HDR bloom was going, but still it does imply that some of the Akavir that invaded were human, or at least appeard human.

If y'all decide to add the Tsaesci into the mod, including the humans among them, I suggest taking a look at the corean race mod on the nexus, I think it would do quite nicely for suck (its how I'm RPing my characther anyway, a Tsaesci affilitated Akaviri human whose ship was knocked way off course by a storm, and eventualy sank, with my PC having been rescued by a merchant ship.

Could be both, maybe it's more literal than you think. It does say that Tsaesci ate all the Akviri "men". Maybe they then bred with all the women who were left

But seriously, even though the books in the game are the 'opinions' of the NPC's, I think they could eat the entire Akviri race, and still resemble men, i.e. walk on two legs, have opposable thumbs, much like the Khajit and Argonians. I tend to believe Beth isn't going to be too tricky with their information, unless one of the future games they come out with revolves around the Akviri. But the fun part of using mods (and your imagination), is that you can take your game in any direction you want. Since Beth isn't likely to come out with a game taking ES into that direction, to add the Tsaesci into a mod...well, you'll have to convince a modder, or make the mod yourself. And speaking of which, is Beth going to come out with a new game in my lifetime, or what?

Misnomer

P.S. Nice role-playing for your OB character

Thats actualy an intriuging idea..... they ate the men, breed the women, and created a new race that they dont feed on.

hehe there is an idea

and very detialed to ur rp char

as for the tes5.... im beiging to think the answer to ur question misnomer, is no the way they are acting now anyway

lol

Im suprised noone has mad any comment on how they proably ate the men and 'ate' women, too .........


Thanks Scythe, yeah with Pseudo RPGs like oblivion I cant help but try to make SOME background for my characther, because otherwise there wouldnt be any real background info on my PC other than yet ANOTHER mysterious hero that escapes prison.

hehe if u vist the dc library section, most of its off limits to the general public.. and the wips are only visable to the writing team... but they contain the back stories to my charector, and all my mods....

book 1 is relased, the others are nearing it

heh, sounds like it'd be a good read.

Personaly, I tend to sitck with a similar characther archtype for a while, each replay I tend to make changes in story/skills, until either i get bored or DL some new mod, then eventualy will go and totoaly change my characther.

Currently, using the corean mod, playing a corean female, Im RPing a human female from akivir, who for whatever reason left home and is now staying in the empire.

Various reasons for the switch so far

Shipwrecked, drifted, picked up by ship from empire.

From nobility, family lost a fight and was wiped out. Hired a ship to smuggle her to skyrim, from there hired a ship to go to cryodil.




But yeah, the Akiviri tend to be my favorite 'background' because so little is know about them, thus you can feel free to not know a whole lot, wheras with the vanilla races you truly dont know that much about them, and what you do 'know' could be turned upside down with the next DLC or the next game.

ya, my backgorund completly goes outside of the ingame lore that way i dont have to worry botu beths chagnes, and things i dont know about it...

Yeah, easier to RP your own char that way. Especily since its hard to make ANY of your choices matter at all anyway, especily once you become famous ingame. (IE: TEC JAG mission to skooma dealer, I LOLd hard since the dealer knew who I was, praised me continualy, but couldnt connect the dots that I was in the legion, one case of something that actualy needs fixing in TEC since you shouldnt be able to do undercover work if you're too well known.)