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[viv36c]

FALSE GODS

the ending of the words is ALMSIVI

[dromie-11114]

Morrowind is just having to deal with your former reincarnations shitty polycule breakup It’s so annoying you land in Tamriel’s most homosexual province and immediately get spam emails from the corpse of your dead lover from your past life. You try and get shit done but your wife from like 9 lifetimes ago makes you run errands for her. Vivec is there

[vantagewin]

Mother Morrowind

[trickstarbrave]

Hello there! What headcanons do you have about Nerevar and his peers (the first council and the tribunal)?

oh wow we're gonna be here a while

nerevar:

shezzarine (mortal incarnation of lorkhan) i dont have time to go into all the details but here is the first post i made about it

trans. i just think it fits in with chimer culture and also i am projecting

half nord. i like nerevar having more traits in common with the nerevarine and this one i think makes it so he never fully feels "integrated" with any one group. he is always someone stuck inbetween and having to balance everything and hide parts of himself. and obviously as the years went the tribunal temple erased that as part of him

was a caravan guard originally for house dagoth

smells like citrus, fresh herbs, and salt water

almalexia:

her parents were assassinated when she was young and afterwards a relative hid her in a vassal house: house sotha. so she and sil played together when they were young

has a preference for women

loves children and unfortunately never had any of her own. she did start a bunch of charity programs though

the only real ruler of the tribunal before becoming a god and the pressure on her is immense. she basically forced herself to become as perfect as possible and never falter in the public, and eventually never falter around her loved ones either. she fears if she isnt perfect, she will be worthless and abandoned by her people. and if she is abandoned by them she cant help them either. her power hungry nature is just her trying to secure the only way of life she has ever known

vivec:

honestly most of my "headcanons" are just things in the extra semi-canon lore kirkbride has written. bc vivec is his oc.

loved nerevar so much it honestly made him fucking sick and crazy with want. loved him so much he legit started hating him. wanted him and wanted to be him. brutus by the buttresses energy too tbh

a musician in life, but he has a collection of songs he wrote solely for nerevar and will not play in front of anyone else anymore because nerevar is no longer here

sotha sil:

i dont care what yall want to say. it is in the text plainly but i think sotha sil was the one who instigated nerevar's murder because he genuinely felt nerevar was a now failed leader and his rulership was no longer needed. only after attaining godhood did he realize that was a mistake and he lives with the regret of being wrong. i think he did like nerevar a bit but not on the level of being his bestie

lost an arm in the attack on ald sotha as well as sustained some serious burns and a very fucked up leg that makes walking difficult. he began tinkering at a young age but ramped up his experiments to make prosthetics

he prefers to isolate on the anniversary of the attack of ald sotha. if its turning the war he likes to shut himself inside and if its post war (and hes in resdayn not off with the psijics) he will go to the ruins of ald sotha

voryn:

his gender is actually kind of fluid. he also just doesnt really care how people refer to him most of the time. but if you do try to disparage him he will definitely kill you sooner or later

house dagoth worships mephala predominately so they were commonly spies and intelligence gatherers. voryn was trained in the art of spying, seduction, manipulation, coded letters, and more

he is predominately a mage but he does have pretty good skill at throwing small weapons. he prefers small needles though that he can disarm or kill someone with. video below to show what i mean:

also voryn wears perfume and smells like briar rose by andromedea's curse (irl perfume it would prob be called smth else in resdayn or is a mixture of his perfume and incense)

[bosmer-meme-shrine]

rip sotha sil, you would’ve loved “SILOS” by starset.

[faeeevee]

[daggerfall]

the coldharbour What

[bosmer-meme-shrine]

As if that realm wasn’t diabolical enough 😭

[calibantree]

Saint Nerevar’s Companions

Queen Almalexia ☆ Alandro Sul ☆ Sotha Sil ☆ King Dumac ☆ Voryn Dagoth ☆ Vivec

Aka I’ve seen so many people described as his close companions, I’m convinced it’s an allegory atp.

Headcanons/Straight up fanfic about these relationships

Almalexia

I feel like her ruthless/soft duiality was there from the beginning, but she never showed the latter due to being afraid of any sort of vulnerability. I think maybe she was threatened by rumors of some upstart warrior preaching unity and organizing on her land and she might have even tried to kill him. I think then Nerevar would drop everything and march up to her castle dropping a blade of the assassin by her feet. Almalexia would ask "What else is a queen to do in a situation like this?" Maybe Nerevar says “A queen is to elect a general.” To which Almalexia would respond “It I would be scandalous to elevate and outsider to such a prestigious role.” Then Nerevar would go like “Then we’ll have to remedy that.” with bedroom eyes etc etc. I think maybe she was able to feel vulnerable around him for the first time, which scared her. Also possibly what here corruption spiral was about that she got from the tools. Something about expecting Nerevar to betray her first. And then later her motherly nature as a god is another mask on top of her ruthless self so she could be in total control.

Alandro Sul:

We do not know much about him but I suspect he met Nerevar when he was uniting the Ashlander tribes. I personally see one of the tribe tasks be something like defeating Alandro Sul in battle of honor, which proved his strength and resolve. I like to also think that like the claim that he was Azura's son is mainly because he was serving her to the very end, pursuing the tribunal after what happened at red mountain.

Sotha Sil:

In my mind's eye he was very reclusive and resigned due to a chronic and potentially terminal illness(an interpretation of his childhood) and perhaps offered to help Nerevar who was traveling with Vivec at the time with magical aspects of their adventures? something something, navigating ancestral tombs and dealing with daedric shrines. Maybe he taught Vivec to read and write? Idk I see Nerevar inspiring Sil to feel life and passion again. I picture his corruption train of thought to be that despite his resignation as a sagely character prepared for his fate, he still wanted to live so much and seeing godhood as his way to do it.

Dumac:

We don't know much about him but I think that perhaps he enjoyed Nerevar's company precisely because he wasn't highborn and knew of other places in the world. I picture them playing some kind of strategy board game and having long conversations. Nerevar would intently listen to everything Dumac would say about the Dwemer society(He was eager for his society to thrive too) and that intrigued Dumac. At some point he was spilling secrets he was not supposed to, and I think when Dumac realize that Nerevar did not expose that information to anyone, that he could really trust him. I think maybe he was one of the few people that Nerevar expressed doubt about not feeling confident enough to accomplish his task of unification causing Dumac to commission the Moon-and-Star ring which turned out to be a placebo, because Nerevar already had what it took. (Seriously the stats on that ring are hilarious)

Voryn Dagoth:

So before meeting Nerevar, he was a leader in his own right and a powerful mage. I feel like the way they met was: Nerevar wanted an in with the dwarves but he needed an introduction. House Dagoth was supposedly the only house the Dwemer had good relations with and so Nerevar went to Kogoruhn. I think his house would be very very traditional and uptight, without any nonsense but sort of had a strange nobility to it. Nerevar would aproach Voryn and before he would even say anything, Voryn would straight up go "Are you just here to butter me up for a reference" and Nerevar would go "So it's not working?" And I think this sort of like honest disregard for procedure and playfully terrible diplomacy is what drew him in. Eventually he would soon go from a solemn, responsible leader, to Nerevar's servant wrapped around his finger. Nerevar's advances at first would be treated without any regard for the longest of time. "I'm not your wife" Voryn would say and then one day he found himself by Nerevar's side, ready to move mountains for him. And his corruption would be around being tired of feeling like a servant and wanting to feel more equal to him.

Vivec:

I like to picture him having like a Senpai/Kouhai thing with Nerevar with a serious case of hero worship.(Based on even his name being inspired by Nerevar) To me, before ages made him the person we meet in Morrowind, he had sort of the same vibe as a kid that got famous online too soon and too far, stunting hisdevelopment in weird ways. Maybe Nerevar saw the potential in him and asked Sotha Sil to teach him how to read and write. Maybe after a lifetime spent as a brute, his creativity exploded leading to him eventually becoming worthy of being Nerevar's advisor. I do think that at first it was Vivec reading a bunch of bad poems to them and Nerevar encouraging him. And his corruption would probably have to do with wishing for Nerevar's spotlight. Like I feel like Vivec was not a balanced and wise sounding god figure for the longest of time judging by his writing and what people say about him. I also like to picture him and Almalexia competing for Nerevar's attention.

Anyway, that's what I've got, feel free to add or correct or anything.

[bosmer-meme-shrine]

And another thing about the Morrowind fandom that boggles my mind:

How is it that every other bit of lore we get about Vivec and Sotha Sil is regarded as the truth or acceptable interpretations exploring their characters, but, predictably, the same courtesy and curiosity cannot be applied to Almalexia? Everything about her is immediately dismissed as Tribunal propaganda and nothing more, so much so that she doesn’t even have a real backstory despite being a literal queen in her own right.

Everything about opportunity to use the lore books and iconography to explore her character is tossed aside as nothing serious to consider, which leaves us with the fairly one-dimensional image that we get of her desperately trying to hold it together at the end of the Third Era. Meanwhile, neither Vivec nor Sotha Sil’s tidbits of lore are disregarded at nearly the same rate. Whereas everything remotely humanizing and positive about Almalexia is passed over, the other two get to be explored and favored without the same level of criticism. Despite knowing that works like The 36 Lessons stretch the truth for poetic purposes and all that, they get more leeway with being taken at their word. Almalexia, however, is always thrown under the bus and called a liar.

It’s so much more interesting to look at the lore and see how complex and flawed all of the Three are—how they’re ALL messy, how they ALL stretch their truths and shroud their lives with poetry and the gilded sides of victory, but only Ayem’s image is painted with as much blood as befitting them all, all while anything positive she does do is questioned.

It’s the misogyny for me, bruvs.

[skeletalemon]

Vestige : BUT YOU SAID YOU’D GIVE ME WHAT I WISH!!! NOW I WISH YOU WERE A HOUSEGUEST !!!

Sotha Sil: I cannot make that happen…how about you take this trinket ? It can tell you the exact time *pulls out a watch he made*

Vestige: *slaps watch out of Seht’s hand* NO. *cries*

[trickstarbrave]

the birth of almalexia

in morrowind's in game text it's stated almalexia was born from the collective 99 lovers of boethian atop mount assarnibibi. my original vision for the picture was a more bloody version mixing both the war goddess aspects with the softer, motherly aspects ayem is known for. unfortunately i couldn't get it to work with the colors, so this was about as good as i could do.

i also didn't wanna just throw her in very bland bikini armor. so i took a lot of inspiration from different clothes and some resin covered armor. other inspiration was also those statues of aphrodite/venus where she looks ethereal and soft.

and i'm still torturing myself with peonies it seems. this actually shares a lot in common with my ahkrinaak picture i did for spring a while back now that i think about it

[trickstarbrave]

im struggling so intensele with the fucking fabric. can someone just kill me

[perrizom]

happy 23rd birthday to the volcano doomed yaoi video game, gotta be one of my favorite genders

[alandrosul]

tbh like. it’s really sad what happened to almalexia in the end. she had been under so much pressure as a living god and trying her best to take care of her people and that propelled her forward for thousands of years until one day that power was ripped from her and she didn’t know how to keep doing her duty to her people so she kept grasping at power and control in any way possible. but all that stress and pressure fractured her. vivec is clearly on a similar path when you meet him in tes3, and arguably sotha sil crossed that line long before either of them did, but nobody noticed bc he was already rather distant and eccentric

[barfok]

i don't even begrudge almalexia her megalomania she has been a ruler from a very very young age i don't think she has once in her life been able to conceptualise herself-- her wants, her needs-- as separate from her duties to her people and the needs of her country. if you sat her down and asked her what she wanted or what she'd like she'd give you an expertly crafted political speech on how the prosperity of morrowind brings her more joy than anything and if you tried to push past that and ask what she, as a person, really wants, she'd stare at you blankly for thirty seconds and then have you hauled off by ordinators

[trickstarbrave]

do you know what high key pisses me off

ayem gets like. the least development and lore in the fucking series

vivec we see a lot of depth and metaphors and guilt over killing nerevar. sotha sil also gets that and gets sad boy hours and gets to feel guilty while other ppl hype him up as the member of the tribunal who loves the dunmer the most while he is committing OSHA violations you couldn't even dream of in the clockwork city. and ayem gets to be a bitch.

the crazy bitch ex wife who is evil and hates people and loves lying and being a narcissist. the most we get is sotha sil saying she's a better storyteller than vivec simply because she believes her lies and stories she spins where as vivec doesn't. but that's about it

she was nerevar's wife. the woman sharing a home and bed with him for centuries. a woman born and raised to be the ruler of a great house during nordic occupation. we know sotha sil had a sister and lost everything when ald sotha was destroyed, we know vivec was a netchrancher's child who ran away and became a prostitute in mournhold and he has a bunch of sexual trauma. what about almalexia? who cares. no one should care about who she was before any of this. she has never changed and never will. all she gets is being selfish and a liar and a bitch who loves manipulating ppl and hmmmm i wonder what is different about her that the other two don't share

[falmerbrook]

Morrowind Aesthetic Moodboards

Vivec, Almalexia, Sotha Sil, Dagoth Ur, and Nerevar