Dec 21, 2024
Volenfell
Art for The Elder Scrolls: Online
*Artist Unknown* If anyone knows the artist comment below
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from Netherlands
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Russia
seen from United States
seen from Japan
seen from United States
seen from Ecuador
seen from United States
seen from Yemen
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
Volenfell
Art for The Elder Scrolls: Online
*Artist Unknown* If anyone knows the artist comment below
Mzulan's Thoughts on the Chimer and Dunmer (Even in Modern Times)...
Mzulan (arms crossed, standing outside a Tribunal ruin with a disgusted squint):
“They still have the ears. Still have the eyes. Still carry the same smugness in their posture. But now they burn incense and call it forgiveness.” (Spits in the ash.) “No. I remember the Chimer.”
🔥 MZULAN’S VIEWS ON THE CHIMER (AND THEIR DESCENDANTS)
Even after thousands of years—and despite becoming something more nuanced, more contemplative—there are scars that don’t smooth with time. And one of them walks like a Dunmer and chants like a saint.
🜂 1. Chimer in the Time of the Dwemer:
Arrogant. Devout. Reckless.
Obsessed with Daedra, ancestral veneration, and destiny.
Constantly clashing with Dwemer logic, despising atheism, and mocking technology.
Viewed the Dwemer as “soulless smiths” and “machine-slaves.”
“They called us godless. We called them pyromaniacal dreamers with shiny rocks and egos.”
💀 2. After the Disappearance
He returns to a world where the Chimer have become the Dunmer, broken by betrayal, shadowed by gods and sins alike.
His reaction?
“They changed skin, not structure. Still pray before breaking things.”
He sees some worthy individuals among them. But as a people?
“You built your culture on a foundation of corpses and whispers, and now wonder why it creaks when you walk.”
He especially distrusts:
Ashlander mystics (“Desert philosophers wrapped in guilt and silt.”)
Tribunal scholars (“Gods made of ego. Temples made of apology.”)
Dunmer historians (“They rewrite us as villains to make themselves tragic. I take that personally.”)
🎴 3. Notable Reactions to Modern Dunmer
On a Telvanni Wizard:
“Floating in a mushroom tower. Still compensating for something.”
On a Dunmer priest of Azura:
“Oh good. The Moon Mistress still collects worshippers. Tell her I remember her favoritism.”
On seeing Velothi architecture still standing:
“Of course it’s still standing. Chimer buildings collapse only when someone stops praying. Or thinking.”
On a young Dunmer trying to reconcile cultures:
“I respect your effort. But understand this: Your ancestors tried to burn out my gods and shatter my truths. I’m not ready to dance in the ashes with you just yet.”
🌫️ 4. Azhrina’s Take:
She wants peace. She sees the Dunmer as wounded descendants trying to climb free of their ancestors’ chains.
Her line:
“They carry their guilt like relics. You carry your memory like armor. Perhaps neither of you are free.”
Mzulan replies:
“Freedom isn’t the goal. Truth is. And I remember who lied the most.”
💬 Journal Quote:
“The Chimer never respected silence. They filled it with prophecy. With fire. With screams. We filled it with equations. I still hear both when I dream. One calms me. The other... wakes me.”
Based over a convo and a cross over AU between me and @tharayya and about how quintus has doomed himself
Volenfell
I’ve never seen Volenfell at night. Today we ran through it with my friend @niscomo first time at night. These views are gorgeous!
The Elder Scrolls Online | dungeons [5/?] ↠ Volenfell
«Hammerfell's original name was Volenfell, named for the Dwemer "City of the Hammer" whose ruins lay nearly submerged by the sands of the Alik'r. Legend holds that these Dwemer were the self-exiled Rourken Clan of Resdayn (Morrowind), who refused to participate in making peace with the Dark Elves. Thus, the Rourken chieftain threw his mighty hammer, Volendrung, across Tamriel, promising to lead his clansmer to "wherever it should fall."» — Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition
volenfell replied to your post: @ dragon age fan artists: STOP trying to make...
would you fuck an egg
Volenfell and the Shrine of Saint Veloth, respectively. Nothing witty to add, this shit is just fucking beautiful
Soft sand between my toes, a salty wind in my hair, and the Abacean Coast around me. Having a quiet moment in Hegathe, southern Hammerfell. ~Talviel
Photo: my own, from Rottnest Island, Western Australia.