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i believe this too

I firmly believe this

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i love this, and the OG post sm.

The Remnant of Meridia's Light

Reimagined sketch from this post of mine.

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i prefer horny himbo jesus with my chaotic gremlin of a vestige, but alas, devs decided to rip out our hearts.

This is not an invitation to be hateful towards these characters! This is merely a joke poll.

*I'd like to clarify that even though Jakarn is flirty with a lot of npcs, I included him because Jakarn seemed serious (as serious as he could be anyway) about liking Crafty Lerisa. I also put Raz and his preference for altmer women cause I'm always reminded of it while playing my bosmer adhsjsjs

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okay now that we’ve a had couple lesbian blockbusters and milfs are having a romance moment, we need to bring back the manic pixie dream girl. she was never fuckin suited to fixing all the problems of some boring twenty year old everyman, but you know who could actually benefit from a quirky free-spirited blue haired girl with pronouns (she/they)? a newly divorced forty-something mom who’s trying to learn how to be herself for the first time in her life

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The Vestige is side questing during Elsweyr. Meanwhile…

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Experimenting with mess ft Serana and Taima 🙂‍↕️

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pls let vanus’ ally be abnur tharn or cadwell (my vestige needs more angst)

ICYMI: notes on "The Gift of Death" quest (since a lot happens very fast) (obviously spoilers and big ones)

"Where's Vanus?" During the courtyard scene pre-Colored Rooms, you'll notice Vanus is there but notably Farinor isn't. And in the Colored Rooms, she is there and shapeshifts from Vanus to herself. This means that she was "Vanus" in the courtyard, she and Wormblood planned to double cross us too from the start, and the real Vanus is alive and still imprisoned on the other side of the Wall

"How did Mannimaco return if we purified the Gift of Death?" (this one is really blurry on details) When we pulled Wormblood and co. into the Colored Rooms, this sped up the plan to use the Gift to bring back Mannimarco (likely due to the urgency of realizing the Stirk Fellowship had betrayed them), and so they summoned the sarcophagus to the Colored Rooms to perform some ritual right then using Soul Reapers on cultists, and planning to use the Gift. I personally think the Soul Reapers channeling on the Worm Cultists was final preparations of the corpse of Mannimarco, since the Gift requires no prep to use. For some reason, it was known by Gabrielle that using the Gift would prevent Wormblood from being able to use it (there was no cooldown or one time usage ever mentioned before, but she did suspect it was a Light of Meridia), and so she did (when circumstances aligned). Wormblood's failure to acquire the Gift resulted in Mannimarco, already being channeled during the ritual and no longer able to return to life in his own body using the Gift, deciding to possess Wormblood instead. This was likely not the intended result, as Wormblood expressed surprise at his own demise (or maybe just on the possession side, and expected to be the trade using the Gift. Hard to tell). We did interrupt Mannimarco regaining some of his power by using the Light on the Soul Reapers and freeing the souls, and our companions suspect being in the wrong body will be disorienting for him and not be at full power.

"Darien wasn't truly dead, how did the Gift work on him?" The Gift of Death allowing one to trade one willing life for another dead one is predicated on the idea that Darien was actually dead (which he was arguably not). As we know, Darien wasn't a mortal and arguably didn't even have a mortal soul - as he was a Light of Meridia, a Vessel. But I think since the Gift was a corrupted Light, and the fact Lights have been used as narrative multipurpose tools to accomplish whatever is needed for the plot, I think it's fair to say if the user of the Gift has a strong enough concept of the "life" wanting to be returned, it can work regardless of the person "death" status. The necromancers of Solstice just may have wanted it to work as a trade between living and dead, and so it did that. But because we (us and Gabrielle) wanted to use it to bring back Darien, it still worked. Additionally, Walks-in-Ash comments (after we find Mannimarco's sacophagus) that necromancy shouldn't work on Mannimarco since his soul is sworn to Coldharbour, and then the player comments on the Gift of Death (implying maybe it can get around this). It's possible then that the Gift can get past the gate of one's soul being trapped in a realm of Oblivion, like the Colored Rooms.

"Does Darien remember Summerset?" Darien seems to talk more about Coldharbour and his disappearance there than his Summerset one. Whether this is a flaw in the writing to only toss a single line about DLC content our way, or it is narratively important that he barely remembers Summerset, I'm not sure. We had the "time works differently in Oblivion" line back in Summerset, but there is a possible threat of Meridia having partially wiped Darien back to default. I'm certainly worried by his lack of details on Summerset and just rolling with what the Vestige says. "yep she must have called upon her Light again" can you sound more certain on this please? I'm afraid...

And: we still don't know who Vanus' ally on the other side of the wall is. We know this ally 1) convinced Vanus he cannot escape while the Wall stands and 2) knew where the Gift of Death was, down to the name of the shrine on Solstice and its bloody history. Writhing Wall is scheduled for October per ZOS, so we have a lot of time to sit in our thoughts and theories.

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a funny thing about having a Problematic Blorbo is that you'll periodically come across a post along the lines of "um let's not forget that [Blorbo] is a bad person..." listing their various crimes, and if you have a modicum of intellectual honesty you find yourself nodding along and saying yeah it's true... but it's the greyness of their character that makes them so compelling... At the same time though you have a little Saul Goodman in your ear going "your honor in their defense: who cares like omfgggg who caresssssss like come onnnnnn"

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I found out that Mannimarco was a theme for @tes-gala so you know I had to do a third piece of Irene dressed up in an outfit inspired by his eso cinematic armour obviously (his best look tbh) I think this one might be my favourite so far cuz its basically a yassified version lol <3

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Hahah heheh

Couldn’t stop thinking abt him laughing like zenyatta overwatch

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To face down your demons, you've got to free them To seize all your demons, carpe demon

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you dont have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room to discover that the baby crawled out of his crib and onto that pottery wheel you forgot to turn off, and while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the babys soft cartilage head into something a little more modern.  it might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but lets see where the dog is going with this

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Test post. I hope to continue posting TES (mainly Vivec) related drawings in the future.

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