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Overturned rowboat, wreck of the Brinehammer, and that one island what has horkers on it

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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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i know it's bc skyrim is held together with spit and duct tape and having too much city per city would likely cause problems + only so much mapspace to work with, so that's the doylist explanation as to why solitude doesn't have any sort of fort or anything on the other side of the karth river where it feeds into the sea of ghosts (bc that seems like a logical thing to do for your capital for defense, to have watchtowers at the opening of its river) but i think the potential watsonian reason as to why there's nothing there is that the entire other side of the river is swamp so almost anything solid/stone they've tried to build there has sunk into the ground after a few years and at this point in skyrim's history (post-oblivion crisis, general state of the world seems to be pretty broken) they've given up on it

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i know it's bc skyrim is held together with spit and duct tape and having too much city per city would likely cause problems + only so much mapspace to work with, so that's the doylist explanation as to why solitude doesn't have any sort of fort or anything on the other side of the karth river where it feeds into the sea of ghosts (bc that seems like a logical thing to do for your capital for defense, to have watchtowers at the opening of its river) but i think the potential watsonian reason as to why there's nothing there is that the entire other side of the river is swamp so almost anything solid/stone they've tried to build there has sunk into the ground after a few years and at this point in skyrim's history (post-oblivion crisis, general state of the world seems to be pretty broken) they've given up on it

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You know what I've never really seen realistically depicted in fiction? The way that people in places that get a huge amount of snow deal with said snow. Specifically in the cities. I get that it's probably not exactly an intuitive thing to think about if you've never lived in a place that gets a lot of snow, and even if you do, you probably figure that they must have some really sophisticated infrastructure systems specifically for this purpose. It's not like they'll just scoop the snow off the streets and gather it into huge piles, and then just climb over the progressively larger and larger snow piles every single year for months while waiting for the piles to melt in the spring.

We do. There's no point in planning more sophisticated systems to get rid of something that'll eventually just go away on its own. So they just pile the snow into randomly designated spaces that cars or people aren't supposed to go through, and let it pile up. There's significantly less street parking available in the winter because some spots where you could otherwise park a car are currently the parking spot of a snow pile three times taller than a car.

You get used to it. And if you grow up around here, it never even occurs to you to think of it as something strange in the first place.

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Small shaggy horses adapted to harshly cold climates are so woefully neglected in historical/fantasy media

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Skuldafn

Art for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Artist Unknown

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man there's so many art projects for uni its draining any will from me to do something art related.. either way here are my unused ideas for dunmer ceramics!!

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Nexus Mods was acquired by Chosen, a company focused on growth and monetization of gaming startups.

Reddit thread

Dark0ne, creator and ex-owner of Nexus Mods, stepped down today in an update post:

NexusMods post

Users on Resetera were able to found out more about this sudden change of ownership:

Resetera thread

Victor Folmann, CEO of Chosen, published this "Gaming Startup Monetization Cheat Sheet" on his LinkedIn

Link to the post

Users are already sharing their fear of NexusMods allowing more bigoted mods in the future, and taking down inclusive ones to follow the current "anti-woke" trend in the gaming industry

Reseta threada bout their change in moderation concerning bigoted mods following Oblivion Remastered launch

Another User, this time on NexusMods forum, noticed queer and inclusive mods being removed following Dark0ne's post

Link to the forum post

It is also worth mentioning that Chosen and its CEO are seen using AI generated images on their website (including generated images depicting Tracer from Overwatch) hyping up ChatGPT on his Linkedin account, and are including "rewarding gamers with crypto money"

Users speculate that Chosen buying out NexusMods is to potentially train an AI model that generates mods

More about Nvidia's AI "RTX Remix" and future projects

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If you're interested, I've released the outfits I used in Children of the Green's screenshots as a SkyPatcher.

Get it for SE here.

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I’m an evil wizard. I like blowing things up. And I have LOTS of time on my hands, since I’m LOADED with gold. So I blow things up. And burn them. And frost them. And shock the living daylights out of them. But I’m a smart, law-abiding evil wizard, because I only blow up my own stuff. So don’t get any ideas about murdering me and looting my gold… Aside from the fact that I’ll kick your ass… it’s against the law, and you’ll rot in jail for it. So how do like THEM apples?

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The city-state of Rihad THE ELDER SCROLLS I: ARENA

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if they’re really going w the thalmor trying to undo reality thing i think it’d be funny if it turned out there were towers in akavir and they get all the ones in tamriel and stand there waiting for the dawn era chaos but nothing happens

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I hope whoever decided to cut these lines from the game is miserable and living a stupid miserable life 

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what if he rebranded as a macho village people gay who had a mustache and could use a spear properly when he restarted his life on vvardenfell because he used to be weak and throwable on cyrodiil and the dunmer culture shock viewing imperial masculinity as effeminate rewired his brain out of humilation

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love how expressive your style is. sahrotaar for the reqs?

its too bad solvej is the last dragonborn and the one who met him instead of someone who would be nice to him and kiss him on the snout so sweetly

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no basis in canon at all really but I had a hc in my tes longfic that fire/frost/void salts are used to embalm and it depends on your personality or your wishes before you died which one gets used. not really used in skyrim anymore, but very common pre-empire

fire/frost/void salts anon. this also effects the type of draugr you might become. like pokemon elemental types.

OH THAT RULES I REALLY LIKE THAT. honestly i think it could be a modern practice too like why not