#nibenese

[the-wildfire-wisp]

Children playing in the Niben Valley

(Clothes are very loosely based off of byzantine and minoan fashion)

[be-a-stranger12]

A nibenese hunter high up in the jeralls

-for ptr

[roumanelli]

Some outfits for the Cyrodilic Grand Visier 🤔

The bottom one has a very nice description btw

[the-lost-mananaut]

I’m of the opinion that besides the Redguards, it’s very difficult to tell which human race in The Elder Scrolls is which just by look alone. Their most distinct visual difference is height and that’s about it, Bretons, Nords and Imperials are all white, with Bretons being the shortest, Nords being the tallest and Imperials being in the middle and slightly tanner then the others, Boring, Boring, Boring. Where’s the visual diversity?

I could never expect this to be changed officially, but my own personal headcanon/CODA of the Imperials has them look Indian. They still keep their Roman/Southern European/Slavic/Southeast Asian influences but the people themselves are Indian in appearance.

Partially I like this cause I think it adds needed visual diversity among the human races of The Elder Scrolls and to a lesser extent I do enjoy the idea having people that look like me in my favorite fantasy setting. I am curious what others think about my headcanon.

[eddrawsthings]

Anyways here's everything from Tyrellius' character bio

Forgot to correct the text in some parts (particularly changing "Better Armors" to "Immersive Armors") but eh

One thing I DID forget was that his last name is probably Agrippa but tbh he's ditched anything linking him back to his (totally charred corpse of a) dad

[drnightstone]

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The Narrated Niriad: Part 8 - The Use of Men

Men and women continue to try to find their proper place within an early forming of a society, with many inventions, customs, and roles emerging through trial, failure, and tension. In addition, the story is about changing social order, as an older world of unity and harmony slowly begins to harden into something more divided and protective.

[scarila]

Some Nibenese Imperial fashion concept ideas, based on the depiction of their culture being the part of cyrodiil more oriented towards intricated ceremonies ,ornate clothing as well as tattoos. pulled inspo from byzantine, classical roman/greek and minoan clothes

Other Cyrodiilic fashion concepts :

Various Colovians

Colovians (Skingrad)

[ehlnofay]

I figured I would draw out Pax’s tattoos as I don’t know if I’ve talked about them in the past :) explanation of each tattoo’s significance, and my ideas about the culture surrounding tattoos in the Nibenay part of Cyrodiil, under the cut

tattoos are not particularly common in Cyrodiil, and they don’t exactly add to one’s respectability in certain fields, but they’re far from unheard of, and they grow more common further south into the Nibenay Valley. especially around Blackwood and closer to the borders of Elsweyr, they grow more frequent; while still hardly prevalent in the general population, they’re pretty accepted, and often used as shorthand symbols and identifiers for various groups or representative of an individual’s beliefs and values.

(relevant headcanon I may write up more formally at a later date: the Nibenay Valley has historically had a lot of religious variation, and though this has not officially been the case since the formalisation of the pantheon of Divines, worship of other, older myths and deities remains, most particularly in groups on the fringe of society... like, for example, bands of outlaws.)

Pax has had the hand and neck tattoos since they were a child of about ten or eleven. The lines on their index and middle finger go all the way around, effectively like rings; they denote skill in archery and, according to some superstitions, fortify it. The eye on the back of the neck originated a long time ago, as an emblem of a Nibenay goddess of stealth and cunning (who modern scholars associate with, and often believe is a variation of, Nocturnal). Worship of this deity has all but vanished, but her symbolism is still used by those involved in the Niben’s criminal underbelly as a mark of recognition.

the row of lopsided suns running from the inside of their elbow to their wrist is not related to the religious and/or criminal culture of the Niben; that tattoo comes entirely from being fifteen, grieving, and having nothing better to do.