Kartaylir's Den

  SWTOR (Satele Shan Server), Elder Scrolls, etc. Kartaylir on AO3. 

[kartaylirsden]

OC guide post, art by @methysis-art

Ashann (SWTOR, pictured top left), aka Cipher Nine, officially Chiss (actually Chiss and Zeltron), eternally stressed, living up to the seduction part of her job. Has a bunch of fics on AO3.

Ashana (Morrowind - Skyrim, pictured top right): Ashlander, devotee of Mephala, fomer member of the Dark Brotherhood (presumed dead), would very much like to stop being a vampire.

Alonisea (some point post-Skyrim): House Redoran scion, Ashana's daughter, has a complex about both her parents and the good daedra.

ESO characters (in development): Estilien + others

I write lots of things. Most of it is posted on my AO3 and then linked here when I remember.

[cthulhubrain]

dunmer wip

was playing a lot of tamriel rebuilt.

[okthisway]

[laurelindis]

Cassia Orsellio for @painkiller322

[okthisway]

The Red Prince: I was destined to become the next emperor, but...

[uesp]

Pictured: Concept art by Ray Lederer, one of the two concept artists who worked on Skyrim. After the passing of Adam Adamowicz, he was the only Skyrim concept artist remaining at Bethesda, but was let go of this week.

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

BABYLON 5 1993 – 1998・3x22 Z'ha'dum

[playthenpaint]

Looks like Nocturnal will win the poll - so here’s the sketch for her :)

I love painting birds, especially crows and ravens, love all the blues and purples in their feathers. Always fun to paint.

Today’s timelapse- a little shading before the wash.

Hope you’re all well!

[stdismas]

Wyll Ravengard in Baldur's Gate 3 (2023).

[potjeh]

Most Blessed Lady Almalexia

[buriedknight]

Lady of the Ark

[monstermonger]

I've been studying botany lately for the art book I'm working on, and, while not getting tooo bogged down in scientifically accurate things, still happily trying to apply some little details while drawing the flowers in my recent pieces :D thinking about what makes each specific flower itself.... that sort of thing 🌸🌺🌼🌻🌷🌹

[tiwazmannaz]

Years after the Oblivion Crisis.

[anneapocalypse]

A big thing about me and RPGs is that I do not need or even want the game to constantly reassure me that my player character is the specialest and most important person who ever lived. Yes, they are the hero and most of the time the main character, and the power fantasy that comes with being level 100 in a video game and eating monsters for breakfast is fun. But for me that power fantasy needs to be balanced with the verisimilitude of a world that doesn't feel like it revolves around one character 100% of the time. I want NPCs that are rude to my OC. I want NPCs who don't like them. I want NPCs who don't know who the fuck they are and don't care. I want to feel like they can lose sometimes, not because they found the One Other Character who is as badass as they are but just because they are a person and sometimes people lose. I want them to sometimes participate in stories that are about other people. Because for me, if they are too special and too perfect and too powerful, it's not just the character that stops feeling believable and engaging; the entire world stops feeling real and inhabited, and starts to feel like just a flattened tableau to pose in front of. And that's not what I want out of a game. I want a world to play in that feels vaster and fuller than one character could ever know. And it's infinitely possible to make a world feel like that if you just make parts of the world indifferent to and even casually hostile to the player character without being villains. They aren't your archnemesis. They just don't know you. Ma'am, this is Fantasy Wendy's. It is good worldbuilding for a world to not fawn over your player character all the time and this is a hill I will die on.

[playthenpaint]

Azura is finished! Wanted her hair to represent twilight, which was easier said than done. The idea being a setting sun or something - it made sense in my head…

Just a 50/50 choice today as I only have two sketches prepared:

Who’s next?

Boethia

Nocturnal

Voting ended onJul 9

Today’s timelapse, that hair. I’m not sold on it.

Hope you’re all well!

[misty-seashore]

No hidden meaning, I was too lazy to draw clothes, so I decided to leave it as is. Regret about it a little because I lost the battle with anatomy.

[annahenriart]

more ifans ;-;