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if lisa frank mantled sheogorath (positive)

For Our Lord Sheogorath, without Whom all Thought would be linear and all Feeling would be fleeting - I have spent. Five. Months. on this art of what I can only call 'Sheogorath Phase 2'. Not continuously, because I was taking breaks to avoid going crazy, but you can see by the sheer amount of unique patterns and level of detail (all of which was done by hand, though I did copy my work over a couple times once I got the necessary bits of the wing line art done + simplified matters for the foreground/background butterflies) that this was a labor of love... and that I was going to go full in on my love of patchwork coats, given that I haven't made any Sixth Doctor art for a long time now. It took almost a month and a half to get just the rough design of the wings functional.

Butterflies referenced for the wings - Alpine Black Swallowtail, American Swallowtail, Monarch Butterfly, Spotted Fritillary, Scarlet Mormon Butterfly, Red Spotted Purple (which is more of a black + blue with a touch of orange), Cairns birdwing, Blue clipper, Painted beauty... and that's even before we get into the dragonflies/damsel flies that inspired the work on those parts of the wings, because I couldn't keep them all straight beyond the Blue Dazzler Damselfly.

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the reason Teldryn never takes his helmet off is because he’s the naked guy in the story about how the retching netch corner club got its name and he doesn’t want anybody to recognize him. He would’ve left Solstheim ages ago but all the coin he makes goes the proprietor as hush money to keep his identity safe

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currently obsessed with the fact that oblivion only takes place six years after the events of morrowind.

meaning the impact of the fall of the tribunal is barely even understood, or even being felt in full. the great houses are no doubt opening up a private civil war - as is the dunmer way - for the top spots in the wake of the nerevarine, the temple in ruins with the loss of their god-kings, the empire at their doorstep, not to say the least about the spiritual impact on the dunmer people. how much time does it take to mourn the god-king mother of morrowind? of sotha sil?? how does one even navigate the idea of their gods dying while they, their worshippers, remain???

i just. the entire country has to be in freefall, and thats not including the damage dagoth ur has done to vvardenfell. that the repressive system built in the wake of ALMSIVI is doing to the entire nation. and then oblivion gates start tearing open, and the entire country which is at the lowest it's been in possibly it's entire existence has to deal with a full blown daedric invasion. the implications for the dunmer are just so staggering

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"How can you kill a god?"

-Someone standing very close to the heart of a dead god

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what if dagoth ur's true form was a conglomeration of corpus flesh cradling the corpse of Nerevar?

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They betrayed you, my Nerevar.

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Trinimac and Lorkhan were definitely fucking right?

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Renée Victor, the voice actress for female Argonians in Skyrim and female Khajiit in Oblivion Remastered has passed away at the age of 86.

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My wife and I cosplayed Nerevar and Voryn to the renfair a month ago or so— forgot to even post it 🫣

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bethesda games is the same

merchant: take a look at my wares

me: let me take a look

merchant: take a look

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There are some mortal figures so associated with a Daedric Prince it seems like they'd have a special status of support, an upgraded package, a new tier unlocked. I think of them as their Champion-of-Champions.

Azura and Nerevar directly inspired this idea.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Shit Up About Elder Scrolls Lore and Also Sound Like You Know What You're Talking About:

1. Say in-universe sources are uninformed

2. Say in-universe sources are subconciously biased

3. Say in-universe sources are consciously biased, i.e., propaganda

4. Dig through the 36 Lessons until you find something that sounds deep and impressive. Be sure to move on quickly before the reader has a chance to think, "Wait, what?"

5. Use the word "enantiomorph" without bothering to define it.

6. Be totally self-referential about the concept of godhood, the Prisoner, and metafiction. People will surely feel more immersed in a fictional universe if they also have to think about metaphysics and pseudo-scientific applications of Heidegger's Uncertainty Principle, and if NPCs have feelings when the power is turned off.

6.1 Act like you understand whatever the hell Sotha Sil was on about

7. Imply the definitive truth of what happened on Red Mountain in 1E 700 is so obvious you don't have to say it. Again, be sure to move on quickly before they can say, "Wait, what?"

7.1 Avoid talking about the Dwemer. If you have to ask why, you're already too far gone.

8. Say you've read the novels. (Do not, under any circumstances, read the novels.)

9. Sometimes, spell the names of gods and godlike thingamajiggers with all caps and no vowels, à la Hebrew. Especially the ones who don't have a spelling like that somewhere in canon already.

9.1 Don't ask why CHIM has a vowel in it.

10. Impress everybody with stating that you know Michael Kirkbride's stuff after Morrowind is technically non-canonical, but then use it anyway.

11. If you're a Rush fan, be sure not to confuse 2112 and 2920.

And don't forget Rule 0: When in doubt, a Dragon Break did it. As in, a Dragon Break both fuckered it up and fixed it at the same time.

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Nerevar Moon-and-Star prints | patreon (print club is Dark Brotherhood themed for this month!!)

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*sniff* *wipes a tear away* i - i guess bethesda is okay sometimes

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not played daggerfall or arena but i bet daggerfall politics and lore in a modern game would be fuckin cool (or fail horribly)