The Dark Brotherhood

James || he/him || Mainly TES || ask about my fics please

[uesp]

How many lifetimes of labor and lament

Will it take to seal this restless tomb?

--From Vivec's "Brooding Beneath Red Mountain"

[takemyhand-bitch]

I made a new tumblr account to handle my ao3 and writing shit and the MINUTE I put "trans" in my bio it was terminated. Tried to put in a complaint and it wouldn't let me.

The account was bluejeansandbluecheese. I had it for like an hour and had only like. 3 posts on it. What the fuck.

[underthewillowbridge]

draugr: by killing us, youve freed us from our thousands of years of servitude to the dragon priests! thank you! me, with soul trap and a whole load of empty soul gems:

[alandrosul]

you know how kwama workers have those big holes and kwama warriors are made when kwama foragers fuse into those holes?

two words: ash ghouls.

[dankar-camoran]

Morrowind au where dagoth ur has to ask the tribunal and nerevarine for help because the kwama figured out how to take over ash zombies and kicked him out of Red Mountain to build a mine in the heart chamber

[crashdig]

If Tumblr goes down, y'all can find me in here

[enolezdrata]

[trickstarbrave]

a big problem i do have with TES is while there is while the gods are real and everyone basically has a religion (minus the dwemer) most of the religions are not given any depth. the only times they are is if kirkbride worked on it and bethesda actually uses it (like in morrowind and to a degree earlier games). after morrowind the religions are kind of afterthoughts. religious holidays are briefly mentioned but not actually used, daedric summoning days are ignored, and we dont really see regional variations in worship anymore by the time of skyrim when a lead director decided "actually the Objectively Correct religion is the imperial religion. so there. anyone who is remotely a good guy or correct has to follow them".

no one goes to temples really, no one makes sacrifices on altars, i see places named after gods or saints but no people really. weddings are religious affairs with no explanation as to why really except in the case of mara being a god of marriage (well why do you need to go to the temple of that? and if there is a dedicated temple in riften, why is there a royal wedding in solitude?)

in morrowind people have saints and shrines and pilgrimages to these shrines and holy sites. in oblivion and skyrim there are chapels and temples and shrines but i never really SEE anyone going to them much. a couple of quests have you go there but its not really a thing you get the idea happens in the background without you. some nords meditate on the way up high hrothgar at least? but why dont i hear about them going to temples and shrines more outside of disjointed quests that don't really give me a picture of how the religion WORKS?

its just kinda handwaved as "you are a white christian american, you know how church works" when uhhhhh christianity isnt polytheistic. and many of these gods dont make sense to have a christian religious structure. they fill in "praying" with "meditating" but it doesn't do much to differentiate what the fuck they are meditating on. the tribunal temple is evil dark elf catholicism mixed with some evil buddism and is given depth without being overwhelming to non-religion nerds. but i cannot really grasp what the fuck is going on with the rest of the religions in other games bc it just seems to be There to fill the medieval fantasy religion quota because religion was so central to the daily life of everyone in the middle ages it would be bizarre to not have ANY of it and they didnt want to put in the work replacing it nor did they wanna do much for it.

[areggos-art-dump]

revenge on @psychicduelistrbd <3333

[caliblorn]

My body is a cage

That keeps me from dancing with the one i love

But my mind holds the key 

[feykrorovaan]

Shh babygirl, I know it's not actually 7,000 steps to High Hrothgar. It's actually 763, but canonically, it's 7,000. Shh, I know love. It's ok. It's Skyrim Darling,followers can get trapped in walls,people can swim in mid air and you can break doors with dinner plates. Let it go. It will all be alright.

[barvin0k]

ELENWEN ❤️💅🏻 this dress is too exposing for her taste

but she acts as a honey trap for tullius so that's okkk 🙄

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Swims-at-Night

Art for The Elder Scrolls: Legends

*Artists Unknown* If anyone knows the artist comment below

[lavendarr00]

Skyrim Scenery - Deepwood Redoubt

[kipakipa]

a late celebration of wednesday

[nauteno]

This is inspired from @silusvesuius 's art. Now I know they are so cute-cute...TY for your art of my Eliena also sry I'm soooo late🤪🫶✨

[caverncrooner]

This is my Serana From Skyrim Fan Club application. *Big watery puppy eyes gaze at you from afar. They are my eyes. Sopping.*

The fact that Necromancy is green in the Elder Scrolls is the coolest. I hope I did her justice. I'm including shots of the lineart too because those details were really fun, and her armor isn't 100% faithful here, but just don't look too hard and we'll get along fine still. Actually, if you look REALLY hard, you might notice I only used one brush for every layer. This is always true. Until next time.

[trickstarbrave]

>go to the museum from legacy of the dragonborn >talk to guy >he asks me to get a sixth house bellhammer >morrowind flashbacks