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Happy ever after

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More stuff with these idiots (a continuation of this post).

(also, I MIGHT have disregarded their canonical weapons. But let's face it, I also disregarded a lot of other canonical details, soooo...)

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Fruity Telvanni wizard hours. Another of my many Dunmer OCs, this one is Relnalryn Gothyl, younger brother to Ulvinis and a bratty Telvanni wizard with awful shoes.

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one thing i love about morrowind is the cultural diversity and heterogeneity of vvardenfell. and it's not even just a worldbuilding backdrop, either: the main quest has you interface directly with the imperial interests on the island as well as the native dunmer there. and the dunmer are of course split into three great houses, each of which are culturally distinct, and four ashlander tribes, likewise distinct. this is not even to mention what we learn about the ancient chimer and dwemer, the dagoths, etc etc. you are forced to confront and come to terms with the variety of peoples on this island you are charged with changing the destiny of.

but the subsequent two games really fail in this department. as far as i remember oblivion fails completely, with cyrodiil being truly culturally homogenous, which i see as a major failure of world design. in preexisting lore cyrodiil was known to be nearly as diverse as morrowind, with each city-state county unique, with a division between the colovian estates and the nibenese tribes. but oblivion's failure of the imagination is a well-documented issue with the game, being known more or less as "the elder scrolls: lord of the rings edition".

skyrim rectifies this issue, but only somewhat, and clumsily. you'd think that the whole "imperials vs stormcloaks" divide would give an interesting heterogeneity to the setting, but it's not so much a cultural divide as an ideological/political one. at the end of the day, these two groups are fundamentally just nords. you do get a little bit of a breather with the stronghold orcs, but they don't matter much in the grand scheme of things; they're just set-dressing. the game takes two of the potentially most interesting and skyrim-relevant cultures, the reachmen and the falmer, and reduces them to arrow-fodder, just bandits and goblins with fancy names. it took them an entire dlc to introduce an actually different (friendly) faction distinct from mainstream nords, the skaal, and we already met them in bloodmoon ten years ago.

one has to wonder: is this actually a failure on bethesda's part to imagine unique and diverse cultures in their newer video games? or do they just not think anyone would be interested in that nowadays? i think either prospect is depressing tbh

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Lukha, my Dragonborn OC. He will be baked soon.

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Repostober Day 7: Do'ashra, 2018

My khajiit oc from Skyrim.

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"Finally, The missing piece!" ⚙💎

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My little princess (Literally a traumatized man)

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Khajiit oc drawing for @doll-flesh ! :D

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I drew my Nerevarine

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My ESO OCs (not all but these are the most mentally ill heh). That's the reason they can't hang out together 🔪

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Nerevar, guar and Ascadian evening~

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"Always shoulda come here" -The Happy Skyrim Bandit

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REX

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Nerevar and Dagoth

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What my beloved taught me