#jhunal

[wisdom-of-julianos]

No, soul gems are NOT supposed to be eaten. Stop trying to eat them. That is not what they are for.

[pinessydr]

My contribution to TES Gala: a young Morokei in garments inspired by Jhunal, his patron deity. As an ambassador, he visited many cities and showed respect to many cultural aspects, including Ayleidic masked parties. A curious owl with a slightly odd accent, a charming smile, and limitless patience. A perfect listener for some totally unimportant secrets, yes?

[lady-iizsil]

I have finally modded my Skyrim! It's been super exciting to finally be able to bring my ldb Lorika to life in the game where she actually belongs!

I do wish I could find more owl-themed stuff for her motif, but the dragon things are just as fitting. But now I present...

Lorika Ice-Heart, Lorekeeper of the Companions.

Eldest daughter of an old and respected clan, she lived in the Temple of Jhunal where she studied runes and history for several years until joining the Companions. She's been a part of the guild for 12 years. Upon her Trial to become a Companion and earn her wolf armor, she unfortunately had her eye slashed through by an Ice Wraith, and was rendered half blind after losing the eye. Since then, she focused more on bookkeeping, and eventually her goal became to restore the cultural and historical heart to the Companions by opening an archive for them.

Thus, earning her title of Lorekeeper. She maintains their records, recovers artifacts, and offers insight to new and curious members of the guild.

She worships Jhunal, the old Nordic god of wisdom and knowledge.

Secret Reluctant Dragon Cultist because her father is one.

There is more but I will lore dump on another post 💔 I've been writing about her for so many years that there is just too much for one place.

[daedric-prince-of-pasta]

Giving some love to Jhunal aka Julianos! God of Wisdom, Facts and Logic™️

I feel like a lot he and the other divines don’t get a lot of attention. So cheers, you big nerd god! 🍻

[elderscrollsconceptart]

The Owl - Jhunal Mural

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Art by Adam Adamowicz

[rosemorningstar]

I was thinking about how Ancestor Moths are required for the reading of Elder Scrolls and this whole process and the priests who do it are linked to Julianos. But Julianos is a syncretic form of Jhunal whose totem is the Owl while the Moth is linked instead to Dibella.

We can think about the information in the Elder Scrolls as like “Raw data” that’s too computerized for any mortal mind to comprehend. It’s the “coding” of Nirn aka the “Damned Equation” that Julianos “incanted”. So, how do mortals go about understanding the abstract and divine? They filter it through art.

Dibella’s totem is utilized to turn all of that existential gibberish into an understandable picture and/or narrative. She creates a Graphical User Interface instead of just throwing binary at you.

Maybe that’s why reading the scrolls so much leaves you blind. Excessive beauty has been linked to leaving mortal sight impaired before: Moonshadow is said to be so beautiful that it leaves mortals half-blind (We won’t get into the Azura/Dibella links rn). What could be more beautiful than a picture painted by the goddess of beauty herself?

And maybe this all is Dibella’s hand in creation as a whole? Someone else wrote the plot, but she’s the illustrator.

[adeepdark]

I was at it again but maybe I should be humanely put down

Btw literally anyone is free to use this (this as in all) - it is partially why I made this abomination and I also have a vested interest in seeing this world get worse

[mortallytooturtle]

What happens to past faces of Aedra and Daedra when they are replaced?

Ignore for a second that time does not work the same way outside Mundus

Instead imagine that an entirely new divine takes their place, cannibalizing their power from the old incarnation, letting it starve and wither.

Think of the Nordic rune god Jhunal, divine of Hermetic orders and wisdom. Discarded by the Nords for the relation to Herma Mora, the second known and more violent incarnation of the knowledge demon.

Does his spirit still battle this incarnation of the daedric lord?? Does he still answer prayers from sundered shrines? Is he angry? Mournful of his identity lost? Mournful for his time with the title and authority when the world was young?

Or are reimagined gods frozen in time? Unaware of the change, discarded like a dead skin, did it hurt? did they know it was happening? What could it have felt like as he watched from his domain, the mortals, who had slowly turned against him, spoke a new god into existence under Alysia's' name?

Or maybe they die.

Maybe Jhunal is dead, the woodland man won, the owl god now a corpse locked away in the eldrich halls of Apocrapha under an infinite ocean, does his bones yearn for the open sky a suffocating depth away? Does he yearn for rest? Is there peace in the frozen wasteland of Atmora for a dead god? Can the stillness of a dead home-land be peaceful? Does the woodland man wait for him there now? Can two discarded corpses find meaning in eachother, or do they rest for eternity in the wasteland?

Yet what marvels are lost with his passing. What was it like to influence the first Nordic clever men? Help hone their sorcery into enchanted stahlrim and massive city building ability. What was the first encounter with the woodland man like? Did they shape eachother? How did the Rune god earn his name, was it through existing Atmoran rune systems carved by his own hand? or was it taken from the snow elves and adopted in conquest?

Needless to say..

TREAT. All. INCARNATIONS. OF. AEDRA. AND. DEADRA. LIKE. DYNANIC. CHARACTERS. ITS. SO. MUCH. FUN !!!!