Anyways Martin Septim x Hero of Kvatch because life is too short.
Have I got a whole head cannon connecting my Elder Scrolls mcs in one bloodline (ESO, Oblivion, Skyrim) and have I used Martin as a logical reason as to why the there is a continuation of the Dragonborn bloodline 300 years post oblivion crisis in Skyrim? Yes. Yes I have.
Speaking of Martin Septim x Hero of Kvatch, had a little thought a while ago about the blood of Akatosh giving Martin snippets of visions of the past/present/future (yah know, cuz of the whole god of time thing)
Of course we’ve got Sheogorath HoK seeping through time into Martin’s visions predicting both of their futures.
Needless to say I ascribe to the theory that Martin mantled the deity of Akatosh similarly to how the HoK mantled the title of Sheogorath and that one day they may cross paths again
When your Dremora!AU becomes your favorite so you turn it into your canon- but then you make a Sheo version of him because you saw Skyrim Sheo's drip and hated it.
No, Tyal does not turn into Sheogorath / do the Shivering Isles QL. Normally he becomes a nomad and travels around Tamriel and then the rest of Nirn. ...But this is still very fun to imagine. I mean... it'd sever the bond between him and Dagon soooo....... one positive?
I fuck with this outfit HEAVY btw. Very proud of myself. 💅
If y'all thought I forgot about this—you were wrong (I still love you)! I've just been hyper busy between classes and travel! But now, at the eleventh hour, may I present to you the 2026 TES Pinup Challenge!
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Last year's challenge was heavily themed around Oblivion given the Remaster's release, so this year I made sure to open the prompt list to broader TES themes and concepts, with bent toward contrast.
Remember to tag your entries #tes pinup challenge 2026 so I can reblog them here!
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i dont even want TES 6 anymore. its going to be a generational disappointment that will cost at least 50 dollars, wont be available in physical disk form and be one billion terabytes for the privilege of a fishing minigame that doesnt work and ten fewer skills than skyrim offered us.
Okay. Listen. I love the idea of Nerevar/the Nerevarine being a Shezarrine and I know that's been explored a lot in the fandom, but I think there's a ton of evidence to believe that Voryn becomes Lorkhan when he becomes Dagoth Ur.
We're gonna dive into Khajiit mythology here. Buckle up and read on.
According to the cats, Lorkhaj discovered the idea to create Mundus within the Great Darkness (which we can refer to as simply The Void). It is this plane in which I believe Voryn was transported before/during his death - his death being the removal of his heart, but not the destruction of his identity. Everything that made up Voryn's mortal personhood had been taken away, but he still knows that he is.
From a text in ESO: "We all suffer the call to the Dark at some point in our lives. Who among us has not heard the beating drum of the Dark Heart in our moments of deepest sorrow or most anguished regret?"
Just like it was for Lorkhaj, Voryn's soul was so bared open by his pain that he was swallowed up by the Void.
The creation of Dagoth Ur, in my eyes, was Voryn desperately looking for some kind of meaning to everything that had just happened, trying helplessly to seek Anuic logic and reason in the face of Padomaic chaos - why doesn't Nerevar trust me? Why won't Nerevar listen to me? Why did Nerevar kill me?
The Heart is lonely and seeks to communicate, but just as it is impossible for most mortals to read the Elder Scrolls and not go mad or blind, it is impossible for most mortals to hear the voice of Lorkhan and comprehend his meaning. The difference in what the Heart said and what Voryn was able to comprehend has been discussed by a lot of people so I won't pretend to be coming up with anything new here, but it ended up with him achieving "anti-CHIM", which I think is Lorkhan exemplified. Suddenly he had a mission: to create a new reality with new restrictions and limits imposed by the Dreamer.
In Khajiiti myth, Lorkhaj tasked Azurah with tearing the darkness out of the pit where his heart used to be, and he died in her arms. This is how the main plot of Morrowind ends - with Dagoth finally dying, no longer trapped in the Void in a torturous, endless state of madness, shame and hatred.
Note: The Great Darkness is synonymous with Namira's plane but also Namira herself, who is the Daedric Prince of decay and disease (and, along with Azura and Nocturnal, is known as one of the ur-dra.) Similarly, in the Breton understanding of Lorkhan, he is seen as a previously-righteous-but-now-villainous character who spreads blight through the land. HELLO!
I also want to share this ESO text, which is about the Khajiiti version of Boethiah, but in my mind perfectly represents Nerevar/the Nerevarine (often referred to as the Son of Boethiah) and his eternal love for Voryn:
Boethra remembered Akha exiling her to the Many Paths and yet these new words said that Akha was never there, nor was Alkosh, nor Alkhan, nor any Children of Akha, nor any of the lands that he seeded and brought unto his kingdom. And in this chaos Boethra began to wonder if she was the Daughter of Blades at all, or if it had all been one long dream of someone she never knew...
...Beyond she saw warring serpents... One was a flame-feathered serpent, brilliant and pure, with crystal scales and a head like that of a hunting bird, its eyes sharp and clear, its mane an argument against all the Mannish impurity of all the known worlds.
There to meet it was a serpent of the blackest scales, and all the Void seemed to come with it, so much that one would think the feathered could never stand against it, and yet it did. And this serpent's eyes burned red as blood, and its scales moved and shifted with new ideas that were born and died as soon as they appeared...
...Boethra landed upon the head of the shadow snake and touched her palm to its scales. Memories of things past and visions of things yet seen scorched her mind, but more prominent than anything was her love for Lorkhaj and the feeling of his claw upon her cheek.
A dark flame surrounded Boethra, and upon her form appeared ebony mail, and in her free hand a black blade, and upon her head a mask of war, and upon her shoulders a shroud of death. And though Lorkhaj had loved many, some perhaps before her, in that moment Boethra felt his love within and around her, and she knew that it was as true and as great as that he had held for any other spirit of any known world.
TL;DR: Dagoth Voryn is the most tragic character in all of TES and died so hard that he became a god, redeemed only by the mercy-killing of Azura through her champion. (I like to think his soul was redeemed, anyhow. Probably can't expect that much from Azura.)
Note:
I'll concede that the most likely explanation is that Voryn is not the only character who channels Lorkhan here.
Lorkhan does tend to appear in threes (mirroring the enantiomorph, two mirror objects and the observation between those two) - which is why I ultimately believe that He appears here as being either Voryn, Nerevar, AND Vivec, or perhaps Voryn, Nerevar, AND the entire Tribunal, which are three-in-one.
Within the playthrough of Morrowind, it is understood that Voryn represents the king, the Nerevarine as the rebel, and Vivec as the observer. But at Red Mountain, I see Nerevar as the king, Vivec/ALMSIVI as the Rebel, and Voryn as the observer - an observer who goes mad with the knowledge of what he has just witnessed. Perhaps Alandro-Sul is also the observer - but he also acts as a parallel to Azura, in his judgment.
"The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Suffer Because of Xbox Layoffs, Bethesda Staff Say, Fearing Delays, Crunch, and Generational Talent Being Replaced by Contractors"
This week's devastating Xbox layoffs will have a "substantial and cascading effect" on Bethesda's development of The Elder Scrolls 6, multip
