-Obscure Lore- What in the hell is CHIM?

[WalrusMan]

Ok.
I am aware that this is entirely the wrong forum to ask a serious lore-related question.
However, Im far too lazy to go out of my way right now and make an account on some lore sight.


My question is simple:

CHIM... what in the literal ♥♥♥♥ does it mean?

Go to any lore post and you will see this all over the place.

I have looked at others answers and the most I can deduce is that it is some sort of realisation that everything isn't real and that the entire reality of existance is a dream.

Is this some sort of fourth wall break? Are the characters literally realising that there entire universe was created within the minds of game developers.

Is Akatosh Todd Howard?

Is Talos dogmeat?

HELP MY BRAIN HURTS

[Ilja]

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/CHIM

[76561198133591931]

CHIM is someone that swallowed the red pill. It's all an illusion. You don't really exist. And neither does anything you see, hear, or know. It's all a lie. Vivec is the only known person in Tamriel to have achieved CHIM. It's been suggested that Tiber Septim achieved it as well, but there's been to proof, lore wise.

[Delta 1038]

Think of it as Enlightenment.

[beans]

I remember another post on the wikia similar to that one, but it started with an S and not a C.

[WalrusMan]

Originally posted by Delta 1038:

Think of it as Enlightenment.

Personally I'd view it more as endarkenment.

(I actually sort of understood CHIM before I posted this, my post was more of a humorous jab at how much I really dont like CHIM)

Having everything you have ever done in the elder scrolls series invalidated by lore is precisely why I dislike some of Kirkbrides lore contributations.

It is ridiculously convoluted - I believe that creation and things that go beyond our realm of understanding should be left intentionally vague.

I dont need to have an existential crisis forced into the lore of the game. If CHIM was a concept that some abstract scholar in the games believed, I'd be perfectly fine.

[76561198133591931]

Originally posted by TunnelSnakesRule:

I dont need to have an existential crisis forced into the lore of the game. If CHIM was a concept that some abstract scholar in the games believed, I'd be perfectly fine.

To be honest, I figure one of the lead developers was a Matrix fan and just introduced CHIM as a tribute to the movie series.

[WalrusMan]

Originally posted by darkknight4321234:

Originally posted by TunnelSnakesRule:

I dont need to have an existential crisis forced into the lore of the game. If CHIM was a concept that some abstract scholar in the games believed, I'd be perfectly fine.

To be honest, I figure one of the lead developers was a Matrix fan and just introduced CHIM as a tribute to the movie series.

Eh, the anti-chris.... I mean Kirkbride's lore really only finds its way into the books. I can just dismiss it as the ramblings of a madman.

I already know tamriel isn't real.

Ive suspended my disbelief once,

I dont need another freaking layer of tamriel not being real to make it even harder to immerse myself into the game.