#crysandthoughts

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I love this new updates I must say.

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Done.

With exams (at least until the late January) in general.

Biggest plans for the coming days include crawling under rock, hibernating and elfposting with a dash of romantic on main.

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People around: *having opinions, digging into lore, having discourse, writing meta, etc*

Me: hee hee meeme funny

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Me: I can draw Deer being also fancy-shmancy and shiny like a New Year Tree and like, go wild with details and all these lore things about fancy-shmancy Altmer fashion...

Also me: or I can draw her pretty much ready to beat the living shit from your army, you personally and fucking Numidium you ride on, emphasising on why I assigned her the Wrath on this "My TES OCs as the Deadly Sins"...

And also me, galaxy brain: or I can combine both this ideas.

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Everyone's OCs: complex, well written characters, with developed backstories, strengths and weaknesses. Have unique designs, recognisable and believable, follow the rules set up by world, fairly balansed, ... etc.

My OCs: well, here we have four slightly different shades of "Dumbass OP Altmer".

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The public must know, 14.

Who kisses the hardest?

I am still a bit confused about how I am supposed to answer, but let’s try to guess?

1) Sheo!HoK Sheba and Mannimarco - I suppose Sheba2) Skyrim OC Cassia and Valmir - they still have yet to get to this part. But Valmir maybe? 3) Skyrim OC Puppy and Elenwen - unsure. Puppy definitely tries to hug her often.4) LDB Elanor and Ancano - I would say Elanor5) Nerevarine Yeoba and Voryn Dagoth\Dagoth Ur - honestly I see both as kinda awkward nerds, so probably neither6) Vestige Deer and Naemon - Deer, I would say.

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Ok, how did you come to love Altmer so much? And since Skyrim kinda pulled you into the whole Elder Scrolls world, did you like the Thalmor from the beginning or did that change? Feel free to write a whole wall of text about that

A wall of text you say?*cracks knuckles*With pleasure <3

Okay, as for why I even like them? I don’t really know. I guess they just like, elegantly tick every must have in my list of what I usually like in fantasy nations, so to say?

Elves, badass mages, with crazily pleasing whole aesthetic thing? Ethereal, shrouded in mysteries Summerset, all that gold and crystals and shimmering stuff, eagles and that whole thing about being descendants of gods or how it works, I dunno, I am a lore pancake, like, damn, I am bought??? I am bought.And like, Altmer themselves being all these tall, golden-skinned and therefore kinda also like unreal, ethereal and so on and also snooty bananas and not only this? Like, just let me love them, they are amazing. Not necessarily good, but like. Amazing.

Like, I mean, I am not sure what exactly works good for me and clicks so well, but somehow it does and I am not really going to try and dissect the feel. Also like, yeah, I am a lore pancake so there are probably a good load of shit I am missing in lore, but eh, I am a simple person. I see a banana, I probably love banana.

As for what games got me into Elder Scrolls. Well, I guess I will just tell the whole story.So, my first game TES game was Oblivion. I am not exactly sure what year it was, but judging by the info on my disc - it was probably something like 2007-08 and I played it A LOT. And by A LOT I mean, like, A LOT. But since I was a little larvae of a human I honestly doesn’t really paid much attention to things going on beside WOAH, SWORDS.I wasn’t a smart larvae. I am still not very smart.

I mean, while I played it back them I barely done and quests because, like, you need to talk to NPC to start most quest-line? And I was far too stupid or shy or probably both to figure it out. So I hardly done anything in a game. Mostly I was just running around eating bees and playing some quest mods and so on. Main quest-line also and DLC. Ah, good days.

So, I played Oblivion a real lot, so it was just a question of time, that eventually i got myself Skyrim too. Since it was kind of before the DLC, but most likely not immediately after game was out I bet it was 2012 or maybe really early 2013. And so, as a not so much of a larvae I decided to continue my adventuring in Tamriel.

I mean, judging by the fact that earliest pictures of Elanor go back to 2013 I bet I was kinda right with dates. I also was drawing like a complete goof back then. Also I just got flashback to what I was writing back then and I have much fear in my soul. Ah, anyway.

So, it was 2012-2013. I of course don’t remember details of my playthroughs back then, but I guess I started with argonian or maybe khajiit, because I was always playing them in Oblivion and probably I was just, like, following the whole main quest  and like, doing side quests and such.Probably just going like, okay game, whatever you say about plot, let’s go with this is you want.Probably after a bit of test runs I started like, getting invested in story and stuff and so on. I also was able to like, google stuff at this point, but this is another thing.So, at some point I like, got a load of personal opinions about things. Like, you know, Ulfric goes yeet for the crime of being dumbass asshole, Blades go yeet for the crime of being mean to Dragon Grandpa, these Thalmor dudes are kind of really intriguing so lore pls and also I would and I had read almost every even crappy fics with Ancano, kind of those, you know. A lot more of them, tho. Alduin in a major babe and I want to boop his snoot. I still want, tho.

So, basically at this point I kind of. Created Elanor. Originally I got like, really curious would playing as an Altmer affect anything given like, the whole circumstances and the world state???(It didn’t really. Shame)So when I got a feeling that I will get nothing I decided to deliver enjoyment myself and kinda starter reading up stuff and creating her backstory and so and eventually ended up. Like. Where I ended up, lol.

But like, from the very, very, very beginning I knew that even if mean elfe are kinda antagonists, they for sure have the best style in game. Later I decided that yeah, they are assholes. But now they are my assholes and here is also a screaming banana dovahkiin. Also on like, second playthrough i was already screaming curses at the general direction of Bethesda for not allowing me to hang out with and spare mean snarky elfe Ancano.

Well, that’s kinda it I guess? I mean, it is probably incoherent wall of text, but feel free to ask any more questions, like, I would gladly answer.

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what kind of people/ creaturws do you think would live in the oceans of the elder scrolls series? do you think there are fishmenn :ooo

Well, I am not way a person with enough lore knowledge to give a canon supported answer, but as for my speculations? Sure, let’s think about it.

First of all, I presume TES oceans to have like, the basic variety of things we can also find in our oceans: fish, marine mammals, reptiles, shellfish, corals and so on. Probably differently named and most likely differently looking, but you got the idea. At least I hope I explain the thought well enough. 

Second I also believe that TES oceans will have, like, gigantic versions of some animals for sure. Like, giant sea serpents we can see in ESO and that seem to have strong connections with Pyandonea. Or that giant crab shell in Ald’ruhn? Imagine what a TES version of, say, Kraken can be? 

Speaking about the deeper ocean… Well, I would imagine there to be lot of bio-luminiscent animals, because it would look cool and so why not. Maybe some semi-alive plants too? They have spriggans up on earth, so maybe there are some coral based one too, or something like that? Also I would love, simply love to see like, giant isopods of TES oceans. Crawly babies from the depth below. 

What else? Well, some magic based beings I presume. Like, we have seen Nereids in ESO and various atronachs types in games and Mother Wisps and spriggans and so on, so it would be weird to me, to presume that there are nothing like this in the deeper water. Just imagine, like, ice atronach in some cold frozen oceanscape. Cool!

And as for the fishmen… Well, there are Sea Elves, Maormer, who seem to be a bit “fishy”, but given that we hardly know anything about the Pyandonea (me at least) and about them in more details some generic info, so…They seem to have some interesting magic, so maybe some of them can use it to like, adapt themselves even further for living in water and like, pull reverse Ariel thing. 

Also I remember Dreugh lived underwater or at least was somehow related to it? Maybe there are some Dreughs too.

So, well, that what I was able to think about like, right away. Not backed by lore more than what I can also remember right away, so.Feel free to share your mind, brainstorming things like this can be fun, I guess?