#captain valmir

[anilliscarts]

10/10 disguise Valmir no one will question it

[crysdrawsthings]

I have an ex-Justiciar Dragonborn (he got mildly head trauma'd and lost all his memories. being very recognizable this is A Problem) who has been collecting (recruiting, through various means) other Thalmor like pokemon cards, or however the saying goes. His name is Orondil. So far he's got Ondolemar (and guards), Ancano, Estormo, and Sanyon (don't ask). You have single-handedly convinced me to add Valmir to the mix. Thank you!

Oh my goodness, thank you so much!

I find Valmir just so very fascinating character. He was with us for just one quest, but damn, would I love to get more of this guy, he is just so out there.

The sheer fact of him dressing up as a Stormcloak soldier just left me absolutely wheezing, crying, laughing, in awe. Just, the sheer gall of it.

Valmir, I love you so much, you dork. With there was an option to the quest to finish without killing him.

[nientedenada]

For the Send me a Character meme what about the mer, the disaster, the legend - captain Valmir?

First impression: This guy isn't for real, is he? He just expects me to go into this ruin and hand him stuff?

Impression now: What a legend! His convoluted plan to get the Mask relies on so many moving parts, and then you look at his orders and they just say

You will proceed to the ruins of Forelhost to retrieve the Mask from the Dragon Cult there. If you are discovered, impersonate an officer. It is unlikely that anyone from Skyrim will be clever enough to see through the disguise. Once you have obtained the Mask, bring it to Labyrinthian.

clearly the impersonating an officer suggestion is just a back-up plan if he gets caught, and yet, he decides this will be his whole plan now, and he'll just keep doing it till it works. And by Auri-El, it could have worked! He sends tons of people in there!

Favorite moment: When he runs into the problem of trying to convince an Imperial and Stormcloak at the same time. Oh! Um, he he... Hold on... I... I can explain..."

Idea for a story - I put him in my fic and let him succeed. Someone bought his story and fetched him the mask. Then he went to Labyrinthian and ran into Elenwen there. Yes! He'd succeeded. He proceeds to blow the secret of the mask in front of a Legionnaire who understands Altmeris, and Elenwen retaliates by claiming Valmir is a renegade Thalmor deserter and having him stripped naked in Labyrinthian to "prove" to the Legionnaires he didn't have any mask, Valmir was just delusional. They noticed her taking and hiding the mask and got it back afterwards. Because I love making this guy's life miserable, but don't want to kill him off. Last seen in fic trekking alone back to Labyrinthian to try to find the mask again.

“Shall we go back to search for it, Mistress Elenwen?” asked Valmir. Elenwen sighed. “You don’t have the skills to do that. It’ll take some serious divination magic, with all the magical background energy up there. I would need a team of mages.” She paused. “Yes, go look for it. Alone.”

Unpopular opinion - I didn't think this would be an unpopular opinion, but it was.. So, Captain Valmir has become a weird data point in the ongoing "Are the Stormcloaks racist? If so, how racist?" debate. The argument goes that since he managed to lure in a lot of Stormcloaks to die in Forelhost, that means the dead Stormcloaks had very strong non-racist views about what a Stormcloak officer could look like! While it is kind of funny to envision all these poor Altmer-positive Stormcloaks defeated by their non-racist natures, I said I thought it most likely that Valmir must have some illusion magic going, to be able to attract and convince all these people. But yeah, it was unpopular. No one agreed with me. Especially since mechanically, he doesn't know any Illusion spells. I still would write him as using Illusion, perhaps not to change his appearance, but to assuage people's suspicions enough to listen to him.

Favorite relationship - We don't see it in canon, but I imagine Elenwen is incredibly exasperated with him.

Favorite headcanon - He actually really is into Dragon cult history and is a bit of a nerd. But he's interested from a safe distance. " I'm too important to the war effort to risk life and limb in there."

[watermelonsaltandhoney]

I’m playing Skyrim and this just tickled me very much. 😌❤️

[ixar-of-the-bargains]

the thing about the Altmer in Forelhost who masquerades as a member of whichever side of the War you chose is either proof that the Stormcloaks don’t give a fuck about your race (and that Valmir, an Altmeri agent of the Thalmor knows this well enough to know that your average Stormcloak wouldn’t find it unlikely) or that the Thalmor agent is so deluded that he just expects you to fall for it if he’s wearing the right clothes and either way is funny as hell imo

[anilliscarts]

POV you just said praise Talos at the Thalmor party

[fishysos]

Okay okay I take back some of my Thalmor hate, Captain Valmir is funny as fuck LMAO