Eymei Gwylanwe, Head Professor of Healing, Winterhold College
Araszha-ko, Arch-Mage, Winterhold College
Editor's note: the following is an excerpt from an interview with Arch-Mage Arazsha-ko and Head Professor of Healing Eymei Gwylanwe of Winterhold College. The full interview, along with interviews from many more of Tamriel's biggest names in magecraft, will appear in this month's Midyear 2E 615 Special Issue of Mournhold Maguszine. Mournhold Maguszine is Tamriel's premier publication following popular mage culture in Tamriel and beyond. The annual Midyear Special Issue reports on all the news, fashion, gossip, and goings-on from House Nivulirel's famous yearly gala.
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MM: I noticed you introduced yourself as Professor of Healing. Why not Restoration?
EG: Winterhold takes the approach that the various applications of magic are far more important than classification thereof. There are no clean lines between Destruction, Restoration, Mysticism, and so forth—of course Arch-Magus Benele stressed as much decades ago in her original proposal that the Mages Guild adopt Shad Astula’s Eight-Schools framework.
MM: Sounds like a bit of shade for Shad Astula, hm?
EG: I would not speak ill of Shad Astula—especially not to a Mournhold-based publication! Nor is that a critique of the Guild; at the end of the day, we are all working toward the purpose of advancing the arcane sciences in Tamriel. But quite simply, it would set Tamrielic mystic culture back centuries if that rather rigid thinking were the only lens available to Tamrielic mages to learn their craft.
MM: In your view, then—
EG: Don't tell me you're at this gala to listen to a stick-arsed academic prattle on about mystic philosophy...
MM: Well, that's one of the reasons I’m here—
A: To underscore Professor Gwylanwe’s point, I am standing here today—in this very sleek outfit, please note for your readers—because of my skill in healing with siphoning magic, which Shad Astula and the Guild teach exclusively as destruction magic. But if you are trying to start a feud between Tamriel’s magic academies, you will have to try harder than that, yes? You are most welcome to make the journey to Winterhold to see what we have accomplished during my tenure as Arch-Mage—I might even consider sharing some of my spicier opinions… but it will not happen tonight.
EG: The Arch-Mage is dying to talk about his very sleek outfit.
A: Make sure to describe the many fine details for your readers—I point your attention to the gilded trim and the embroidered slippers—and do not forget to mention that this one still has the trim waistline and attractive musculature of a decades-younger cat! I am far too modestly-dressed for my personal Khajiiti tastes—as you can likely discern from the lovely Winterhold-green shade of this one’s garb, the gala is an invaluable networking and promotional event. I cannot help but look dashing, but I must also appear professional, unfortunately for everyone in attendance tonight.
MM: This year’s theme is Constellations and Birth Signs. Let me guess… you were born in Sun’s Dawn? The Lover?
A: Ah, this one’s charm gives him away! Or perhaps it was the most interesting part of this robe—the twelve shining Azurah’s-star pendants arranged in the shape of The Lover. The pendants have very little mystic charge remaining to them—enough for a glittering glow and a decent protective ward against spills, rips, and stains. But there is an artistry to their placement; encircling this one, like the embrace of a lover, yet also somewhat restricting his movement, symbolizing the fact that he is bound to his work as one is bound to a spouse.
MM: Speaking of which, you aren’t married—what are you looking for in someone to spend your life with?
A: Did you not hear me just now? I am not looking! In order to determine who would have the privilege of being the Arch-Mage’s plus-one, the faculty held a friendly contest, judged by the students. The judging show turned out to be quite the celebration in its own right; we had our own little gala in our frozen wizards’ tower, thanks to House Nivulirel! Each participant created their own look based on their own birth sign, using the same archive of mystic artifacts from whence my sleek pendants here. Many of the students participated as well, although they were not eligible for the prize. We have a very sleek and stylish faculty and student body, and there were many extravagantly impressive outfits to be seen at Winterhold that evening.
MM: Professor Gwylanwe, I take it the beautiful silver and pearl eye crest you’re wearing means you were born under The Ritual? What about the rest of your outfit?
EG: I could not very well wear the eye crest alone, no? As you guessed, I am a Morning Star baby, so my dress is meant to evoke the aurora, a common sight in Winterhold during the long nights of Morning Star.
MM: Forgive my saying so, but your outfit is a bit subdued—you look lovely, but I am surprised this outfit won a contest with many extravagant entries.
EG: Hm, I suppose it is, even compared to many of the other outfits here at the gala. I’m afraid the explanation is a bit academic; the sort of thing that would impress an auditorium full of nerds, which of course I say with deepest affection. But I am quite pleased about it—many gracious thanks to House Nivulirel, as I never otherwise would have had the occasion for playful experimentation.
A: My colleague is being far too modest! The artifacts in our archive range from powerful, legendary mystic foci that have been decommissioned, to totally un-magical baubles that perhaps a mage once owned. This ceremonial ritual scrying lens had been classified as the latter for centuries—until Professor Gwylanwe took it into her talented hands. Do you see the beautiful swirls of glittering light emanating from the pearls? It is highly reminiscent of the scullcaps and ritual headwear worn by the Psijic Order—to an auditorium full of nerds, immediately recognizable as Psijic magic.
EG: Well, I am of psijic ancestry—please write that with a lower-case ‘p’, thank you—so it is not so much of a feat as it may seem—
A: Do not believe her! The auditorium full of nerds was well aware of Professor Gwylanwe’s psijic ancestry. Plenty of Altmer claim Psijic ancestry—and many of them are even telling the truth—but there are still only a handful of people in all of Nirni who can wield psijic magic at all, let alone for playful glamours! If your readers were not already sold on Winterhold thanks to its Arch-Mage, who is handsome and talented enough for the faculty to hold a contest where the prize was attending a party with their boss, look no further than the head of our Healing department!
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I spent days’ worth of hours in procreate (i can’t draw and i have brain illnesses) on just the idea about the eye crest thingy, then the week of the gala i realized that that is not nearly enough to wear to a gala! Luckily my computer broke so I couldn’t play video games? Anyway. a close-up of the eyewear Eymei is wearing:
wow all of these images look sooo ass uploaded to tumblr :’( she’s actually smiling in these images 😅
Also, if you read the above writing… i tried to make it stand alone since most people don’t know anything about my ocs. but it’s also a joke that’s kinda only for me and the 4 people who’ve skimmed my fics: they’re actually married to each other, they just have to hide it! or, maybe they’re not hiding it super well; he’s kind of being a wife guy here. also, the way they’re looking at each other in the pic doesn’t exactly give ‘work colleagues’, in my mind. she won the contest fair and square, though!
I made it! This is my first time participating in such an event, it was very exciting! Thank you, @tes-gala, such a wonderful experience🤲💖
For Dakotta and Teldryn, I chose their birth signs (from my headcount, of course), but I decided that they would switch places. Dakotta was born under the sign of Atronach, but she really wanted to wear armor (or something similar, in a lighter way) at least once🌸🤲😮💨 Well, Teldryn just had to agree and give her his warrior sign.🗡️
Not trying to victim blame or anything but you’d think with all the times necromancers have tried/succeeded in raising undead armies the people of Tamriel would’ve stopped burying their dead fully armed and equipped for battle.
Like, I know your great grandpa’s sword was A Part Of Him and all but maybe you could bury SuperDeathblade somewhere not right next to SuperDeathbladeMan. Just in case.
oh, what, so he can get his ass kicked when he inevitably gets raised from the dead?? you want to make great grandpa into a loser? a chump?? if his corpse is going to be puppeteered into battle by a sick and twisted sorcerer then by the nine he is going to do it well
"average necromancer raises at least one army" factoid actualy just statistical error. average necromancer raises 0 armies. Mannimarco, King of Worms who's been practicing necromancy and repeatedly raising armies about it since the second era, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
yesterday in the night market, at the end of a boss battle, someone in the PUG said to me, “hey, you know an ice staff taunts right? that’s why the boss kept targeting you.”
and i still don’t know which one of us is bad at the game: me, whose tanking evidently wasn’t obvious enough (ice staff only babey), or the person who explained to me that the taunt that I, the tank, was intentionally using to pull the fire-spitting enemy to the edges of the arena, was indeed taunting the boss 🤔
Night Market rules. Reddit is overreacting imho. Grab yourself a group via the group finder and go ham out there in Craglorn 2.0
Also? The Night Market has this guy
Which is extremely important to note. Lots of points in their favor for this one. Excuse me though, I need to take a cold shower real quick for reasons surely unrelated to the shirtless Havocrel in the /sit3 pose.
Last shots of my old Sleek Creek on PTS. It's long been closed and picked-apart for parts, but still my main crafting house.
Soon I'll share a newer, sleeker iteration!
See also: my alt's Sleek Creek.
Khajiit’s Garden of Curiosities at Sleek Creek was my first housing project and very basic, but for some reason a popular one! I do what I can for the Rawl'Kha housing market. 😹 Despite all the fancier places I've collected and built since then, SC and Rawl are still my favorite house and neighborhood to "live" in.
The OG:
Welcome, walker, to Khajiit's Garden of Curiosities! This one shows you around her enchanted, tropical home. Featuring an accumulation of tr
My alt's Sleek Creek:
Sleek Creek is one of my favorite houses, for both utility and aesthetics. I'd have 10 different instances of it if I could!
It was my firs
One thing I enjoy in Skyrim that there's not nearly enough of is the idea that ancient Nord culture was not what modern Nords imagine. There's Word walls honoring Redguards and Argonians, Tsun mentioning that ancient Nords actually valued magic, Olaf One-Eye being either a culture hero or a boogeyman depending entirely on who you ask. It's not much, but there is some sense that Nord revanchism is canonically misinformed and self-serving (like real life revisionist histories).
hey this is not elder scrolls related but i didn't know where else to put this
so... i saw some horny art about magic: the gathering characters and now i have a Question about magic: the gathering lore. this is terrible. where is m:tg tumblr. please help me m:tg tunglr
ok so i've been playing magic for like 20 years but i've never been really into the lore. and then i saw some art featuring my mans ajani. horny art. featuring him and kemba. ok?
so like. from what i have (lol) gathered, 'kha' is some manner of royalty/leadership in the leonin tribes. ajani's brother was kha and was also killed, maybe making ajani a ruler? idk. anyway, kemba is frequently referred to as 'kha regent'. '[female royalty] regent' often means the widow and/or mother of [male royalty], right? like a 'queen regent' is usually both the widow of the old king and the mother of the new king. right?
is kemba, then, ajani's sister-in-law, or his mother? or is she some unrelated kha regent? i have always idly wondered this, but then i saw this art and the curiosity became enough to actually bother to look it up, and i couldn't find any real answer to it. essentially, was this horny art also incest art, and is their relationship canon or do furries just think they're both sexy (true)?
"The Prisoner must apprehend two critical insights. First, they must face the reality of their imprisonment. They must see the determinative walls—the chains of causality that bind them to their course ...
... The Prisoner must see the door to their cell. They must gaze through the bars and perceive that which exists beyond causality. Beyond time. Only then can they escape.
... I see only unsteady walls.
If the people of Tamriel must exist inside this cell, I will make sure that the walls are stable, the gaps are sealed, and all who remain stay safe within it."
idk, i just want to post my eso characters. i like 'em!
in my mind they all have 'real' names and basic backstories, but they have these aliases so they can do all the shit they do in tamriel without all kinds of people bothering them. some of them kinda accidentally became characters in my fic.
A Ho Never Gets Cold. It's a reference to an iconic Cardi B Vine. Nord Frost Staff tank. (Warden Winter's Embrace/Necromancer Grave Lord/Templar Restoring Light)
Kamigoye. It's a reference to professional wrestling. She wears the colors of my fave wrestler. Dunmer elementalist DPS (Sorcerer Storm Calling/Dragonknight Ardent Flame/Warden Winter's Embrace)
Mx Heal Your Girl. 'Mr Heal Your Girl' and 'Ms Heal Your Girl' were taken. Rather than take the hint and think of something original, I did this. Bosmer Arcanist who I was going to make into a healer but idk, I don't play them a lot.
So-True-Bestie. A name for the tumblr girlies. Candy-colored Argonian Necromancer. i'm sick of necromancers wearing all black and being spoopy! Bestie's great axe still looks like a scythe, it's just a kawaii scythe :)
Nice Butt My Friend. I changed this character's name solely so I could give him this pose and the title 'Cake Connoisseur'. That way it looks like he's looking at your butt approvingly, and you can trust his opinion, bc he's a connoisseur. Orc Dragonknight with whom I have not done much.
Chad River Bait. A stupid pun on 'Shad, River Bait' which is a bait you use to catch fish. Imperial Nightblade--in the elder scrolls one must have a stealth archer character. I have to rework him now that Dragonknight doesn't have poison damage anymore. :(
Antifa Street Medic. Named in honor of those who serve 🫡 In theory it's a PVP build, but I've never done PVP healing and haven't played that much PVP in general, so I've been too nervous to actually try it. Altmer Sorcerer (Dark Magic + Templar Restoring Light/Necromancer Living Death)
Bree'zango. This too is a professional wrestling reference. Khajiit Nightblade healer. Kinda backburnered until pureclassing becomes cool again.
Quest Completer. My main, the Vestige! The most interesting person in Tamriel with the most boring personality. Also boring build. Also pureclassing (Redguard Templar)
Fun fact, I was writing an elder scrolls fanfic, and i needed some side-characters--a fortune-teller and an assassin--so I used the general appearance, magic style, and basic backstories I made for Antifa Street Medic and Bree'zango. Those side characters became unexpectedly interesting and now the fic is about them, and it's really awkward to play these characters now. Kamigoye also became a character in the fic, in much the same manner. In my mind these characters are not really the same people as the characters in the fic, but... they're not entirely separate either.
happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!
though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!
thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!
@joe-spookyy Ben and Socrates
@gooseontheinternet Chamomile and Beefy
@runawayy-rat Bartholomäus and Emo
@theunholystromboli Macrogryphosaurus, Xenoceratops, and Graciliraptor
@techlecticwtch Solas and Dorian
@merlyn-bane Roslyn and Rizzoli
@logictoinsanity Luna and Buttercup
@hagsthehag Orphie, Psyche, Calypso, Ariadne, and Eury
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