This is just a metaphor for capitalism. Capitalism will literally kill the earth and suck the population dry just so a few can enjoy their lives.
You give Bethesda slop too much credit
Friend did you play Skyrim?
I don't mean to be all "Bethesda slop good" but the story they're telling (outside the main quest) is pretty spot on regarding rampant racism and nationalism tearing apart a country already at the behest of a small cabal of criminals. Vampires living on a private island want to extinct the earth so they can hunt free for a couple years just spells it out even clearer.
bethesda haters usually are just repeating phrases from ragebait youtubers
FR.
The only game of theirs that truly was allegorical and not simply cool for cool, edgy, or trying to squeeze in some hot topic buzz words and themes, was Morrowind.
And what it was allegorical to was basically a horned-up teenager's demented fantsies.
I mean a billionaire would literally attempt this if you told him that he would be the number one billionaire if he blocks the sun out.
I'm sure there was a Simpsons episode on this.
Edit: Yep
Not just a random episode, too - it's one of the plot points in Who Shot Mr Burns
Meanwhile, in Legacy of Kain:
Vampires: Uh, boss? You corrupted the pillars of Nosgoth - which is great and all - but now the sun kinda/sorta doesn't work anymore. It's always dusk.
Kain: So what you're saying is that we vampires can move around freely. All the time. Excellent.
Vampires: Won't that eventually kill all the humans? Yanno, with no food and all?
Kain: ::shrugs:: Fuck 'em.
Did they need to eat humans in this lore?
IIRC, there were human survivors and hold-outs, but not many. Consequently, the vampire's numbers were also rather small in turn. It was all a slow-moving apocalypse.
Really, it's only just good enough of a backdrop for some really solid gameplay, set-pieces, and great voice-acting (well, for Soul Reaver anyway).
Let's assume this is correct about surface plants needing the raw Magicka from the sun to live.
Blackreach is full of plants, many of which are edible, and receives no sunlight. Humanoids could just start farming the plants from Blackreach along with fungi. That should be enough to sustain a large enough population for Harkon and his court to feed on in their vampire paradise.
I'm surprised Harkon didn't try to take Blackreach for himself. They're immune to Falmer poison, they can use their full power without sunlight, they're smarter and have access to invisibility, illusions, and charms.
In return he could have a country sized cavern, with at least two points of contact to Skyrim one either end, all the dwemer tech to hoard and use with their ancient knowledge. He could subjugate the falmer to be blood livestock, they're already crafted to be good slaves by the dwemer.
He could slowly build up a vampire/thrall/dwemer machine army right under Skyrim then wage war overnight. Could even use dwemer machines by day to maintain territory until you complete this master prophecy you have.
Don't even need the invisibility and illusion underground, just get good at ventriliquism.
Fungi, for the large part, feed on vegetable matter
I mean, if you're going to force people into an underground cavern, why even have the extra step of blotting out the sun?
LOUD BLACKREACH NOISES
I've heard this one before...
Falmer do just fine without sunlight
And they taste terrible themselves I bet
New quest: uncover the mystery of the crimson nirnroot
Spoiler! I still haven't played through Skyrim.
A lesson in sorting out that backlog before buying any more games also Darth Vader is Luke's dad get wrecked
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