#nibenese

[the-wildfire-wisp]

Children playing in the Niben Valley

(Clothes are very loosely based off of byzantine and minoan fashion)

[roumanelli]

Some outfits for the Cyrodilic Grand Visier 🤔

The bottom one has a very nice description btw

[the-lost-mananaut]

I’m of the opinion that besides the Redguards, it’s very difficult to tell which human race in The Elder Scrolls is which just by look alone. Their most distinct visual difference is height and that’s about it, Bretons, Nords and Imperials are all white, with Bretons being the shortest, Nords being the tallest and Imperials being in the middle and slightly tanner then the others, Boring, Boring, Boring. Where’s the visual diversity?

I could never expect this to be changed officially, but my own personal headcanon/CODA of the Imperials has them look Indian. They still keep their Roman/Southern European/Slavic/Southeast Asian influences but the people themselves are Indian in appearance.

Partially I like this cause I think it adds needed visual diversity among the human races of The Elder Scrolls and to a lesser extent I do enjoy the idea having people that look like me in my favorite fantasy setting. I am curious what others think about my headcanon.

[eddrawsthings]

Anyways here's everything from Tyrellius' character bio

Forgot to correct the text in some parts (particularly changing "Better Armors" to "Immersive Armors") but eh

One thing I DID forget was that his last name is probably Agrippa but tbh he's ditched anything linking him back to his (totally charred corpse of a) dad

[tread-ever-litely]

"...And Garid of the men-of-ge once saw such a Madness from afar and maneuvered, after it had abated, to drink together with Pelinal, and he asked what such an affliction felt like, to which Pelinal could only answer, "Like when the dream no longer needs its dreamer."

-- The Song of Pelinal VI

My least played character now: Stella Gaius Amera!

A Nibenese Battlemage who is deeply interested in Imperial History, especially that of the First Era Alessians and Reman I.

With the Second Empire all but collapsed she's moved to High Rock for the time being, namely the port city of Evermore, but travels all over Tamriel in her exploits -- very Indiana Jones style.

She's written scholarly papers trying to advocate for the rights of Minotaurs on many occasions. She also researches discrepancies in various historical sources, like the jungles of Cyrodiil, finding it fascinating to look into.

[lygry]

Been through the harshest moment of my life. It took a lot of struggles to overcome such an experience, and now here I am. At least I can continue with what I've been doing. Cheers.

[thelostmetallurgist]

When Mzulan visits Cheydinhal with his wife, Azhrina, in 5E 06. And is shocked to see kids having fun instead of building dangerous automatons...Classic.

[konradscrow]

Yes. Just yes

Some Nibenese Imperial fashion concept ideas, based on the depiction of their culture being the part of cyrodiil more oriented towards intricated ceremonies ,ornate clothing as well as tattoos. pulled inspo from byzantine, classical roman/greek and minoan clothes

Other Cyrodiilic fashion concepts :

Various Colovians

Colovians (Skingrad)

[arimabari]

told myself I'd draw all the counts of Oblivion to finally pinpoint Imperial fashion. Think I'm off to a strong start

[roumanelli]

Just some of my other TESA: Redguard OCs.

[ehlnofay]

wip wednesday ! tagged by @lemon-embalmer and @jiubilant, tagging back @everybodyknows-everybodydies @ervona @elavoria @kagrenacs if you so please :)

currently working on sketching out pax's family and their dynamics pre-running-away-and-never-being-seen-again, so here's part of something I wrote to that end

this one was about her getting her first tattoo. was fun to squeeze in a little bit of worldbuilding for the weird criminal-underworld low-niben-melting-pot culture she was raised in, in between exploring how she talks and relates to her five terrible parents

[tanlorin]

tbh i wouldnt really consider myself an Imperial Fan (in the same way other people are Dunmer Fans or Altmer Fans), it's just that most of the characters im into happen to almost all be imperials bc the ocs i connect them to (val and amarie) are mainly from imperial cultures

[the-nwah-embassy]

My favorite shit is when you look up 'Dunmer' on the nexus, you'd expect some cool shit like racial overhauls or maybe more true-to-Morrowind architecture redos for Solstheim or the Gray Quarter or maybe just some basic acknowledgement of their deep and intricate lore like a Morag Tong nod or something, and instead you get a bunch of balloon-titted white girl 'Dunmer presets' for giant incel nerds to wack it to.

[akaviri-dovah]

@an-orsimer-and-a-gentlemer is doing us an amazing favour with his Colovian culture headcanons. he's also got some interesting thoughts on the Akaviri/Tsaesci so that would be relevant too.

now if only we could find someone who does the same for the Nibenese...

Man I would love to see an Imperial redesign that really shows off what an interesting mix of cultures went into forming them. Like, ok. The Cyro-nedes seem to be where the italian/latin side came from. Tracks with Ayleidoon sounding vaguely faux latin at times. Ok, can buy that. Then the Nords came and were BIG in founding the Empire in its early years. So from there we get the far more nordic Colovians - with their germanic names and larger, more nordic, appearances. That is fairly represented I think. So so far so good? But there's so many other neat ways of taking it. Like; to start off with actual lore stuff we have how the Nibeneans are described. With their ornate silken robes and bright colours and extensive jewellery that just make me imagine almost ancient indian style clothing but mixed with ancient roman stuff. To say nothing of the extensive tattoos they were talked about as having and just got cut/forgotten about but ah well. But like... ok... here is where I really wish they got funky with the Empire... the Akaviri. Reman's empire had a HUGE population influx of Akaviri people. Most of his ruling council was Akaviri. There were enough Akaviri people that the Empire couldn't even support all of them continuing as soldiers so they founded the fighter's guild to keep up putting the one skill set they (a former invading army) had. But others went on to settle the Rim - become the Rim-Men - had an entire REGION named after them there were so many. But where is the Akaviri influence in modern Imperial stuff? IDK... I just think it would be cool if we got some more Akaviri things sprinkled through day to day empire stuff and appearances. Some ancient japanese haircuts here and there. Some Imperial nobles that trace their lineage back to the Potentate/Reman times and still have monolid eyes or otherwise more Akaviri-Imperial features. I think the Blades armor in Oblivion is actually a really REALLY cool design for this - like, if it had been the standard legionnaire armor instead of just blades. It has so many samurai looking flairs to it but if you look at the actual structure - especially the lorica style chest plate and the shoulders - its really just roman armor done in a japanese style and that is so dang NEAT!!

[sasquach-scratches]

One neat thing about how fans portray Bretons is that they'll occasionally add a slight point to their ears which is great but one thing I see less of that should also be done is Imperials with a slight point to their ears and/or a wide array of skintones considering they're often portrayed as being more open to interracial marriages.

Modern Bretons as a whole are mostly Mannish save for nobles that inbreed maintain elven looks, Imperials on the other hand likely have a much wider pool of genetics to draw from.

[liaratisoni]

Loving these two new costumes I got. Idrilain with the returning Mercymother's Attire and Rihla with the new Wizard About Town that's finally arrived <3