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let’s fight!!!

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After playing Oblivion I am so so so so so much more fucked up about Sheogorath regarding Martin as the greatest emperor to ever live. Even if it's "hardly sporting", even in the depths of madness, the Hero of Kvatch still thinks Martin is the best thing to ever happen.

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I made a 75 question medium/high difficulty TES Lore exam for anyone who is bored. Access it here

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[Orion Celimbor, Hero of Kvatch]

It had been a week since Mehrunes Dagon had been defeated. A week since Martin Septim sacrificed himself. Grief had changed Orion Celimbor irreparably. He felt hollow, scraped out and within him was a deep ever-growing void. He wondered vaguely if he would be able to recognize himself, if he could see his own face. Would Jauffre recognize him? Baurus? Would Martin? Tears streaked down his face, cutting through ash and blood. Martin would not want this… to see him like this, brought so low. But what was he to do? He was a moon without the sun. The lights had gone out and all that was left was the darkness within.

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I've been thinking a lot about how Martin mantled Akatosh, the eldest of the gods, the one who literally brings life to the planet through sunlight and growth to everything on it through time, who is the source of empires and control, whose existence brought the concept of law into the world. And he did it in a single moment of desperate necessity, giving up everything and leaving the mortal realm forever for just a few seconds with the power needed to save it.

And then I think about how the Hero of Kvatch mantled Sheogorath, the (arguably) youngest of the gods, the one who was inadvertently created by the others and fills in all the spaces between them, who makes life worth living through music and color, who allows and enables the mortal mind to expand past the limits placed upon it by all the others, the only one who believes in free will and is willing to destroy anything to preserve it. And how they had chance after chance to turn back, to give up, but set their feet and held their ground and took the reins of eternity to protect a world that wasn't even theirs.

I think about how Akatosh is a reflection of Anu on the surface of Nirn, and Sheogorath is the Sithis-shaped hole in the world, and I wonder if that's why it turned out like this. If the world was meant to end in the Oblivion Crisis, and the two of them together re-anchored the pillars that support reality by mantling the two mortal-compatible aspects thereof. I wonder if they saved the world in ways they didn't even understand at the time.

I wonder if they know that they're still working together, even now, even if they'll never see each other again. I wonder if they know they're still halves of a whole, a Chosen Two who will never be remembered for what they actually did, only for what they left behind. Martin will only ever be a name he didn't know was his own, Septim, and The Hero will never be anything but their first harrowing battle, Kvatch, losing their own name forever by becoming Sheogorath.

I think about it, and I wonder. I hope they know. It seems the least of what they both deserve.

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omg i need one stat

my new martin phone

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Wip wednesday 🦇

Very rare wip wednesday (at least from me) lol but i finally have something to post about since im working on a fic :3

Thank you @rustyram035 for the tag!! <33

I might rewrite some parts of this scene because im not really satisfied with it :// (<- struggling with writing my own oc, as well as canon characters)

Tagging: @probablylilly @zaahvi @bluejeans-andbluecheese @inthecrevicesofmycrispytoes @ulanxxxs @abstractredd @bethrnoora @cicerosfavouritelistener @katstwistedmind + anyone who'd like to join!!

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TES fans will be like "we love unreliable narrators!" and then rely on them

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Feeling dog awful so have a Lucien and Shadowmere.

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"...You've been a good friend, in the short time that I've known you. But now I must go. The Dragon waits."

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Doomed by the narrative.

Celebrating my 100th drawing of the year with Martini Septimi 'cause why not =w=

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one day, i am gonna grow wings

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"They never meet in game" bet

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uhhh so i got tagged a couple times in a TES crushes thing and um. hello? Martin Septim. that’s it that’s the post. ok bye

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what? cat got your tongue?

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beach episode

bonus:

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