i have had little energy to actually draw the elaborate oc concepts in my head lately, but recently i've been chewing on a specific concept for a 3rd era character while playing morrowind for the nth time
yszardan was raised to believe she was the last living dwemer, of course, under the comforting spotlight of public spectacle. if she had a life outside of the traveling carnival she was raised in, she wouldn't recognize it now; leading credence to the act that she is in fact a child of dwemeris descent, empowered by her pale skin and unique features. nevermind that she has to wear a wig to hide the wispy pale stubble on her scalp, or hides her sickly pinkish eyes behind an enchantment to make them an exotic, ethereal blue. these alterations are a part of 'the act', but not a part of The Grift her handler/guardian imposed on her. who was she to know that all she was taught of her supposed dead culture not just a lie, but potentially someone else's truth? someone else's history left to turn to ash, picked up and made a fictitious spectacle by those who occupied the lands left by the long-fallen dwemeri empires? all of her schooling, mannerisms, 'customs' and more have been complete lies, to the audience and herself, and when the local guards bust her company's operation, she is left utterly displaced. measured by what imperial census and excise officials perceive of her rather than what she professes to be her truth, yszardan is sent to the east, to morrowind. to the site of the the true last stand of the dwemer empire, and the sole survivor of its aftermath.