Befriend the Dorito

Hello and welcome to one idiot's ESO blog. This is the space where I dump all of my shenanigans. Expect content from my stories with @Sinnaroll/@nirnroot-noise, character-based shitposts, and a smattering of reblogged neat TES things.

[couriers-mile]

something something, look at my doctor. he's a dog and I'm cooked

Mathis is a fun little foray into "what if werewolf, but instead of being brutish or outdoorsy in any way shape or form, the ferocious violent instincts of a werewolf were stuffed into a high society byronic lush of a doctor-surgeon who moonlights as an assassin and prides himself on being stealthy, precise, and exceedingly controlled"

Bit of a Jekyll and Hyde situation. He has to fight daily to suppress his more feral instincts (the salivating and stomach-growling during surgery has been... interesting) and perceives himself as an urbane gentleman who's above the baseness of the Wolf. But, at the end of the day, he's also an extremely shitty person who needs very little justification to kill someone and enjoy doing it, and is never terribly far from a scenario where he's happy to let his inner beast out to play.

[couriers-mile]

He has stupidly straight posture even when he's in werewolf form, if that gives you an idea how uptight this man is

(he's even slouching uncharacteristically in wolf form on this character sheet because it IS difficult, he often stands straighter than that as a wolf)

[nerevarbean]

a younger bravoyn in his family apothecary

[boiledkwamaegg]

They hate me for my exuberance and joy. Just like how Maormer hate dolphins....

[piornik]

I love the uesp wiki

[coruscatingcoven]

I think a lot about how in Morrowind you can sometimes convince people who would otherwise attack you on sight to hear you out and have an actual conversation with you by stripping naked before you talk to them. I understand its a semi-unintended consequence of the nudity lines having higher priority than they should, but its really funny to imagine that these murdering assassins are just so flabbergasted by the chosen hero of prophecy turning up naked and trying to negotiate that it just stunlocks their brains into forgetting they had to kill you.

[coruscatingcoven]

I think it's really interesting how Morrowind's main quest frequently forces you to do morally repugnant things. Go defile a Dunmer burial grounds to steal the skull of a pious man for a blatant Necromancer in defiance of local custom and laws. Go buy a slave, dress her up, and give her to this tribal chieftain to secure an alliance. The whole campaign you are playing as an agent of a foreign occupier using a local prophecy to your advantage while manipulating people into believing you about it, though you could justify your character also believing it by the end.

Except actually all that is optional. If you find out where to go (or know it already on a second playthrough), you can help people, keep yourself morally upright, and save the world anyways. You can push through the citadels of the Sixth house without the disease immunity or any of the divine/secular approval. If you are strong enough, you can take the tools that unmade the dwarves and take them in your hands, taking grevious wounds from them, and destroy the heart on your own merit. The immoral actions and bad motivations are optional, if unintuitive. Its hard to keep your conscience clean, but being fully good and upright SHOULD be hard.

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Dremora

3D render for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Render by Kevin Johnson

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Architect Pack

Art for The Elder Scrolls: Blades

Artist Unknown

[unrinconmas]

[adelaiy]

[dibellas-moth]

stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back // oil pastel on paper

the alternative title for this piece is ‘punishment’ and there is a reason within it that explains why, you just might need it to be a little brighter :)

[snowlilly]

OC habits ask game

🗣️ Voice 1. Are they talkative? 2. Is their voice quiet or loud? 3. Do they have unusual speech patterns? 4. Do they have an accent or dialect? 5. Do they like to sing? Are they good at it?

🖐️ Hands 6. Left handed, right handed, ambidextrous? 7. Neat or messy hand writing? 8. Do they draw/paint a lot? 9. Are they good or bad at making handicrafts? 10. Do they need their hands occupied a lot? If so, what do they do?

🍛 Food 11. What's their favorite food/least favorite food? 12. Are they a picky eater? 13. Any food they avoid for reasons other than taste? 14. How are their table manners? 15. Do they rather eat too much or too little? 16. Do they prefer to eat alone or with company? 17. Are they good at cooking?

🛏️Sleep 18. Morning person or night owl? 19. Easy to fall asleep or insomniac? 20. Light or heavy sleeper? 21. Do they move around a lot while sleeping? 22. Are they used to sleeping around others or alone? 23. Do they snore? 24. Other sleeping habits?

[chippypiper]

The Poison Gardens yes that is voryn

this painting is sort of about the personal issues i headcanon voryn having and the whole thing symbolizes a cage, the question of whether its better to be free but with risk or stay safe but painfully constricted. The hands are supposed to reference the Dagoth family (or more specifically the matriarch, Voryns mother) and the hardship that comes from being born with expectations of getting a position of such importance as a high councilor, not being able to choose what you actually wanted to do with your life. I did also kind of want to contrast this with the kind of luxurious palace environment, despite voryns issues you should still keep in mind that this doesnt compare to the more extreme struggles of a peasant. I also just wanted to try and design a building interior that feels sort of House Dagoth.

the text on the pillar is translatable but i know its a hastle, so ill just say that its about not being able to escape fate, multiple implications when it comes to that

close ups:

[uesp]

"Ayem threw down her cloak and became the Face-Snaked Queen of the Three in One. Those that looked upon her were overcome by the meanings of the stars."

--Vivec

[irl-loading-screens]

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Triangled Truth Altar

3D render for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Nathan VanWyngarden

[ramiikin]

Started up skyrim again recently and had to paint a glitch I experienced, this game is still life changing so many years later