Dawnstar apologist

I'm just here to look at pictures of the Elder Scrolls and nothing else. Reduce expectations.

[evans-endeavors]

Skyrim Study~

playing a lot of skyrim lately and im really trying to teach myself how to paint/backgrounds/how colors work lol

[gilearstimboards]

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Ahril (OC) Stimboard

Made for: a friend :)

Not my OC, belongs to the friend. :) She looks quite cool and spooky, thank you for letting me do a board of her.

Credits: x x x | x x x | x x x

[gilearstimboards]

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Dr. Antington (OC) Stimboard

Made for: a friend

Totally serious board, of a totally serious OC.

Credits: x x x | x x x | x x x

[gilearstimboards]

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Monster of the Week (TTRPG Campaign) Stimboard

Made for: a friend

This one was time sensitive, so it skipped the queue. :) This is a campaign I am playing in.

Credits: x x x | x x x | x x x

[boiledkwamaegg]

POV: you're a prisoner somewhere in Summerset and a high profile politician is in dire need of your two kidneys - oh and the surgeon is coming off of a weekend long skooma binge.

I started thinking about Faenil's backstory a bit deeper and was like "what would a surgeon from an evil elven supremacist society look like anyway" so there they are. Idk if I'm cooking or if this borders on insanity because I was high as balls too but I enjoyed drawing this more than I probably should

Reminder that this mer is supposed to save the world from Alduin???

[theminttu]

One of my favorite things in Morrowind was to commandeer a house somewhere and fill it with books and junk :’)

[itshirohi]

derpy doin taxes

You monster, why would you subject him to this?

[skyrim-forever]

@uesp im ur biggest fan

[moriche]

Inktober Day Thirty: Rush

From the moment he’d disembarked from the silt strider, Veryn noticed how despite the thousands of pilgrims that thronged the streets and bridges, the city was remarkably clean. Grey-uniformed Dunmer swept the ash away, cleared the gutters and the water fountains, while white-robed Temple acolytes made their rounds past countless shrines and frescoes to re-light their candles. From Fear in a Handful of Dust

And as a bonus: Where's Waldo?

India ink and red watercolour on paper, 10,5x14,8 cm

[shyflesh]

Children of the void

[darling-leech]

Saw this tweet. 💀☠️

[egg-on-a-legg]

morrowind is a fantastic game about the nature of free will and choice and how much that matters when your fate has already been predetermined by forces outside of your control. it haunts you with the question of how much you matter as an individual compared to the person you once were, a person you might not even remember being. if everyone sees you as someone else, does the you that you knew even exist? its also a game where you have to stop every five minutes to go "ohhhhh scib" as you pass a scrib

[full-frontal-fishstick]

The Last Dragonborn wasn't originally born as such, but became one by the blessing of Akatosh during the Incident at the Watchtower. With Akatosh's blessing, their bloodline was changed retroactively to have always been Dragonborn.

It works by the same principle as Talos's blood becoming Divine when it was shed before his apotheosis. By the same principle as the Nerevarine only becoming Nerevarine by passing the trials to prove they were. By the same principle as Cyrus the Restless being able to slay Nahfahlaar because he was the HoonDing, before wielding the Blade of A'tor and thus becoming them (both to his denial and displeasure)

By choosing to take up the mantle, it becomes predestined they always would. Prophecy is just weird like that.

[sigrid-of-solstheim]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Man I know that elder scrolls is a stupid series and all that but I really think they did concepts like orcs and dark elves mostly correct. More correct than a lot of franchises I’ve seen anyways.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think dnd took until like this year to properly update drow and orcs or something? Like fantasy as a whole has a hard time shaking off this idea of evil races.

The elder scrolls approach to these guys from the beginning though has been that their cultures are just really different from the other cultures around them.

Like you can hang out in orc strongholds in Skyrim and spend the whole game around dark elves in Morrowind and they’re just regular people that have kind of extreme cultural norms. Dark elves are kind of rude to you when they first meet you but like in the way certain cultures are rude to outsiders at first until they get to know them. Orcs are rough around the edges but they’re smart and have a proud culture and if you can hold your own in a fight they’ll respect you.

And you see these people can blend pretty well into other societies. They join faiths their ancestors didn’t practice, they have jobs that people of their race wouldn’t stereotypically have, they have opinions about what other people assume about them, they have their own wrong assumptions about other cultures.

There’s this understanding somewhere in these games that people are shaped by their cultures but you also can’t predict how an individual will behave based on the culture that they came from. And I like that.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Listen, I love the elder scrolls. It is deep and wide and beautiful. It is also filled with cheese though.

[catbotphoebe]

TES worldbuilding does something I haven't really seen any other fantasy universe do, it foregoes a clear cut and thoroughly explained cosmology in favor of actually different religious interpretations of its universe. There's a basic outline to be gleamed from the overlap between the various theologies, but there's no definitive answer to a lot of questions.

Are Masser and Secunda normal moons? Are they holes in reality through which the light of Aetherius shines? Are they the sundered corpse of the demiurge? Are they normal moons but there's a secret third moon that only comes out during a double eclipse and *that* one is Lorkhan's body? They fought a war about this.

[rubyandice]

I think the fact that utter silliness and ridiculous notions can coexist with conplex ideological flaws and layers upon layers of behavioural patterns and anomalies makes of TES something far from simply realistic or simply stupid. It is the most realistic exploration of the paradoxes of our reality without directly quoting them. A potential vast source to learn, without the consequences of learning all of this in the real world.

[scorchedcandy]

Dunmer children wearing spiky vests for cliff racers like the spiky armor you put on chihuahuas as an anti-hawk measure

[transmairon-deactivated20250901]

No fear.

"Elves in tes6 looking like pointy eared humans with unnatural skin colour, instead of having sharp features, forehead ridges, large tilted eyes, non-white sclera, and other features specific to their kin that made them look much more interesting and unique from humans, unlike most other fantasy Elves. "

One fear.

[knighthelm]

Questing in the Urshilaku Burial Caverns: skeleton hunting, mummy identification, and many, many levitation spells

This area in the game is one of the many gems you are rewarded with for all the adventuring you do. You get so much environmental storytelling in here from the attention to detail in how the level is laid out. It's one of those moments where you understand why Morrowind is still beloved.