These sketches were mostly inspired by the fact that despite the Nords of Skyrim being blatantly based off Viking-esque aspects/themes, none of the really interesting cultural and aesthetic parts went into the game itself- and that isn’t just for Nords, a lot of the individual races/provinces have a lot of potential for massive cultural aesthetics and differences aside from stereotypes, but they do not. So I gotta do everything myself.
So have a bastardly Dovahkiin Nord who would have turned up to the Thalmor Embassy Party wearing the most traditional Nordic outfit she would have gotten her hands on. She has enough Speechcraft to talk herself out of any situation and by the gods she’ll use it there too.
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Ever since I got my new laptop (in the summer) I’d been able to play Skyrim Ultra Modded, and had been obsessively adding mods and playing it with my dragonborn to how I imagined her to be. Also my other non-dragonborn characters, and with over 800 mods, I had to stop when anniversary edition came out and wrecked my load structure ;w;
However! That did not deter me - I just dedicated my newfound time to scribbling my dovahkiin, Ylva, and figuring out her as a character, and also dedicating myself to my past love of historical fashion and sewing, which led me down a path of research and looking at archaeological findings and excavations for worldbuilding purposes.
I’m also slowly redesigning my characters in general, so when I’m able to get back into SWTOR, aka when I get expendable finances sorted... I’ll start posting and making art again :3