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.

[done-mer-moved]

Consolidating fragmented dashboards, find this blog here now: https://www.tumblr.com/done-mer

[wizardpostsdotorg]

i cast concussion! [beats you over the head with my staff]

[witchklng]

[thescrolls-haveforetold]

BELIED. BETRAYED. BORN ANEW IN DAWN AND GIVEN BREATH IN DUSK.

[jiubilant]

scene from the middle-grade elder scrolls novel that lives in my head. introducing the Child, a bored spirit of mysterious provenance who claims to have forgotten his name, makes it a point of honor to know everyone's business, and seems to enjoy nothing more than following winterhold's resident clairvoyant around

my thought is that, rarely, a velothi child develops a particular knack for seeing and hearing the family spirits. traditionally, the duty of those so blessed is to study under an elder seer and learn to act as liason between the people of veloth and their ancestors. winterhold first-year pirer alethi starts seeing ghosts mid-semester and, unwilling to be sent away from the college, keeps it to himself; as a result, he soon finds himself caught between the grand plans of the living and the dangerous desires of the dead

[deniselavestal-deactivated20231]

You gotta write for funsies sometimes. Everything doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Like. Who cares if it’s a little silly it is made out of love

[thana-topsy]

Eno Hlaalu and Rels for @banjotea

[tastesoftamriel]

I have a very short period of time to raise a LOT of money for my work visa. If you were considering giving me a gift for my birthday or Jul this year, please consider donating just £1 toward my visa because we all know how well I cope when I'm forcibly sent back to Asia haha gag

DONATE HERE

[tastesoftamriel]

My friends, you are INCREDIBLE! I have until the end of the month roughly to sort this visa out. Anything at all you can chip in is much appreciated! And if that's out of the question, then sharing this post is just as good!

Thanks for all the help, love, and advice you've all sent me as I go through this visa rigmarole. Tastes of Tamriel has the best community in any online Elder Scrolls space and I'd like to thank you all for your kindness, compassion, and patience with me this year.

Stay safe, eat well, be kind. ~Tal

[hugtakart-deactivated20250626]

Some Orc gal I drew (Perhaps a new OC 🤫). I barely ever draw women (or Orcs) so this was fun practice.

[unknownhomosapien]

im gonna kill for them.....they need a happy end goddamn

[kuuwo]

My Lord, Friend, and Companion

[ad-wills]

[aladaylessecondblog]

I have no one to really talk TES with so you guys viewing my tumblr page get blasted with all of it

[kuuwo]

I’ll take you to the stars!

[mannimarcoiscool]

Wizards curse made me draw the eyes woopsie daisy

[uesp]

Morrowind fans will see this and just think "hell yeah".

[tastesoftamriel]

I have a very short period of time to raise a LOT of money for my work visa. If you were considering giving me a gift for my birthday or Jul this year, please consider donating just £1 toward my visa because we all know how well I cope when I'm forcibly sent back to Asia haha gag

DONATE HERE

[wouldntyoulichentoknow]

trying to name every baby netch she comes across...

[thana-topsy]

Sarel was only a few months old when he was abducted from the Alftand caverns as part of a college-sanctioned research project to study the intelligence, development, and magical ability of the Falmer. His abductor and head of the project, Aiden, was a disgraced mage from the College of Sapiarchs on a mission to prove his worth as a formidable scholar. Aiden operated under the assumption that the Falmer were a "devolved" race and did not possess the ability to communicate or develop past most basic functions. This assumption all came crashing down around him when Sarel developed at the same speed as any elf child -- curious, inquisitive, emotionally expressive, and communicative.

As Sarel grew and developed, Aiden stopped thinking of him as an experiment and began to see him as his son. Being the only child at the College of Winterhold, as well as fully blind, presented many stumbling blocks for Sarel's upbringing, resulting in him having a very sheltered experience. Aiden was also hesitant to reveal to him the full history of the Falmer, and also kept the nature of his adoption hidden from him. Sarel grew up without knowing he was an "experiment".

On his 11th birthday, a stranger showed up at the College of Winterhold asking after him. The stranger was a man named Harukar -- a Redguard vampire hunter with the Dawnguard -- and he'd recently met Gelebor in his quest for Auriel's Bow. Knowing that there was a modern Falmer being raised at the college piqued his curiosity and gave him hope that the Falmer were not an irredeemable, lost race of elves. He wanted to pass this news onto Gelebor, but inadvertently ended up triggering a chain of events that resulted in Sarel being sent away from the college to "be with his own kind".

A distraught Aiden agrees to travel with Harukar to deliver Sarel to Gelebor. [Their story is the plot of "Halfway to the Sky", so I won't be spoiling how it ends here!]

When Sarel turns 16 he returns to the College of Winterhold to complete his "formal" training as a mage. His story after that is tentative and ever-shifting, but he goes on to be a formidable scholar in the field of ancient Dwemer research as well as modern Falmer anthropology, acting as a translator and ambassador. Eventually, much later in his life, he assumes the role of Arch-Mage at the College of Winterhold, promoting cultural exchange and study between the College and the Alftand settlements.