Knee-deep in Apocrypha

[thescrolls-haveforetold]

school is over for 7 weeks i handed in my final assignment im free

[princemaveran]

Here's Erandur, drawn for @goodwounded earlier this year!

[orbitpuddingsagan]

Justice punishes the Thalmor

[kanafinwean]

soldier, poet, king

[fyrirraan]

Started a new Skyrim character and I quite like him.

He's a young Breton alchemist that got robbed and dumped near the Falkreath border by the caravan he tried to join in order to broaden his horizons.

He has no money and only the clothes on his back. Knows very rudimentary destruction magic and knows how to use an axe to chop wood, but he never had to fight.

[fyrirraan]

So Joss managed to actually earn enough money doing courier jobs around Falkreath to afford the licence to sell potions lol.

He hasn't ventured far yet tho, anything more dangerous than 3 wolves or a single bandit and he's toast. *But* he can afford sleeping in the Inn now and bought a spell book to learn how to conjure a familiar. He did contract a disease from a nasty skeever bite, luckily being an alchemist he could make a cure, but he's not been feeling great.

Current goal for the next couple of days is to acquire a tent, warm travel clothes, provisions and learn his new spell so he can take on work that will lead him further out of town without instantly perishing.

[fyrirraan]

He's in jail again.

So Joss actually made it to Whiterun to deliver some letters, but he didn't have a good time.

First off it rained for the whole trip, then he did get robbed by some wayside thief, and then he almost died to some lunatic necromancer and his zombies. Luckily 2 passing Vigilants of Stendarr saved him from becoming the newest addition to the walking dead.

Finally arriving in Whiterun he decided to try and get past all that stress from almost being killed by having a drink in the Bannered Mare. Turns out the Honingbrew Mead is a bit stronger that what he's used to .... So the Guards stopped him for being drunk and disorderly. Unfortunately they found some poison on him again (oops) and all his trying to explain that he's an alchemist not a soon to be murderer fell on deaf ears. So he's behind bars again.

[tira4sii]

airport doodle. ily dark brotherhood, sithis worship is so fascinating as a concept

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Bull Netch

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Art by Michael Kirkbride

[but-a-humble-goon]

I can never get over how stupid it is that every single guild in Skyrim hands over leadership to you after you've been with them for five minutes. I really wish there was at least an option to turn them down. In what universe are Aela, Tolfdir, Brynjolf and Nazir not better choices in every regard? They've all been there longer than you and they do all of the actual leadership for you while you run off forever at the first opportunity to go loot dungeons and kill Draugr. There's not even any gameplay reason for it.

[fyrirraan]

Yes.

But to be fair to the mages, they're a shunned isolated splinter group in an icy hell hole whose leadership just got massacred after an ancient artefact was found.

And Tolfdir is kinda somewhat responsible for this and also apparently leads study expeditions with new students that probably get half of them killed on the regular.

Like them choosing the first person still standing that seemed to have somewhat helped resolve the mess isn't the craziest thing going on there.

Kinda funny too how skyrims college is somewhat the opposite of most of Oblivions mage guild questline. While neither of them actually teach you much about being a mage.

One has you play law enforcement and courier for guild intern issues before you can even properly join and the other throws you into two ruined ancient cities full of traps after confirming that you can cast *two* whole spells, one of it being a weak ass ward.

[laamdt-arts]

Sotha Sil. I redrew my old sketch.

[tes-season-unending-fest]

Screenshot provided by @umbracirrus

Prompt: Recovery

In whatever medium pleases you, incorporate this prompt into a creative work and tag @tes-season-unending-fest so that it can be shared here. There is also an ao3 collection if you would also like to add it there! 

Fest Info

[loccorocco]

Lucia and Sofie get adopted AO3 Link

[korhart]

My original character is Skyra from Anvil. This is how it looks in the game :)

[uesp]

Pictured: Renders of skeletons created for Oblivion.

[naturalistsguidetoeberron]

Gotta respect the necromancer who put in the effort to give them angry eye-sockets, just so you know these aren't their friendly service skeletons. These are the angry kill-people skeletons.

[uesp]

A necromancer truly dedicated to the art of creating service skeletons will do a lot to improve their display. Sewing an outfit to their bones is an obvious one, leading experts will tell you that hiding most of the skeleton greatly limits the shock of seeing a skeleton in most people. It also helps the less informed know from a glance the assigned tasks of said skeleton. It is much better to ask the skeleton wearing working clothes to clean up a spill over the skeleton wearing a nice suit or dress.

Some of the most determined necromancers will even experiment with methods of allowing them to perform some more subtle facial emotes. Inserting googly eyes into the empty sockets can be a charming addition. Adding on adjustable eyebrows embedded with magnetic studs so they can inquisitively raise an eyebrow is another popular adaption.

[blue-dartwing]

Before the storm (v2)

[fyrirraan]

On the train daydreaming about forcing the DB bosses to go onto a ride across the whole country on the regional trains in summer.

[fyrirraan]

Also can we get some hanging bike racks on this hellish contraption. Getting my ankles smashed between 2 e-bikes is not the summer vibe I was hoping for

[evilnicegirl]

i hope that someday there will be no more advertisements ever again

[fyrirraan]

On the train daydreaming about forcing the DB bosses to go onto a ride across the whole country on the regional trains in summer.