#Alinor

[keleravna]

nicest girl in alinor ✨

[install-wizard-exe]

concept art I did for the city of Alinor in the Summerset Isles of the Elder Scrolls universe. I might be a little obsessed with these high elves...! If I recall correctly, this piece served as an inspiration for the Altmer city models in the Elder Kings 2 mod for Crusader Kings 3, when I was working with their 3D artist, AJ.

[kydra-umbra]

Alinor, aka the Summerset Isles, home of the altmer

[elderscrollsconceptart]

This is what the Summerset Isles look like in Oblivion Remastered.

Note: I had to heavily adjust the image for clarity as the distant view is very hazy

[helondanbor]

TESO: Summerset

"A forbidden city for nearly fifty years, Alinor is both capital of the Summerset Isles and the heart of the Aldmeri Dominion. Human traders were only allowed at its ports, and they described the city as 'made from glass or insect wings.' Less fantastic accounts come from the Imperial emissaries of the Reman Dynasty, which describe the city as straight and glimmering, 'a hypnotic swirl of ramparts and impossibly high towers, designed to catch the light of the sun and break it to its component colors, which lies draped across its stones until you are thankful for nightfall.'"

[fayriequeene]

My Indrik garden/Alinor townhouse ✨

[theoneandonlysemla]

Turns out that staring at feet in ESO did not help me with researching Altmeri shoe fashion. Thinking about this now for a while and looked into late medieval and renaissance shoe's because I feel like that's the vibe but... I did not find what is the perfect vibe yet. Any headcanons are appreciated!

[truth-01001001-liar]

I really like the ‘Alinor is made of glass and is too bright to look at during the day’ idea. I want that. I love it. But also I feel like that’s a magically reliant society and there’s no fucking way some of those buildings aren’t enchanted to float. It would put those who lived in those places closer to the sun and stars. A sign of status for your home to be in the sky glass?

Also… glass everywhere means there can be rainbows EVERYWHERE. I need the altmer to have rainbows everywhere . Aggressively. Excessively. Proudly. I want that for them. I need it.

[dynamite124]

It's amazing how a new asset really helps flesh out a story. I look forward to seeing how Taliesin's personal quest plays out.

Calian asset made by @powdermelonkeg

[blighted-elf]

The Elder Scrolls Online scenery - 2023 Witches Festival in Alinor

[firefly-factory]

Is there any reliable info about what the Summerset Isles (Alinor) looks like in the 4th Era (specifically after 4E 22, when the Thalmor took over)? Or does anyone have solid headcanons?

I was using ESO as a ref for what things look like over there, but then realized that ESO is set in the 2nd Era, so things have obviously changed since then.

Also, any headcanons/theories/canon info about mage training in Alinor? I'm currently working with the idea of Thalmor-regulated academies (with different schools for magic, melee, etc.) and private instructors for particularly gifted/promising students.

I tend to like my fics to be as close to canon as possible, so if you know anything at all about the Summerset Isles in the 4th Era please share <3

Also, a quick sketch of Ancano because he's one of the lads I'm doing research for <3

[sunlightpassingthroughthewater]

I just made a rather unfortunate discovery (that doesn't matter whatsoever but bothers me anyway lmao).

Not a single name (that I can see anyway) on the Altmer uesp page has an -eon ending, it's -ion instead, making the name Adallaireon technically not lore friendly (I try to keep all my tes oc names compliant with how their spelt in the games).

So instead of changing it (im not paying irl money to change my characters name in eso, and Adallairion just looks wrong to me at this point), I've made up a headcanon that altmer on Auridon speak a different dialect of Altmeris than mainland Summerset, and therefore spell things differently. Auridon accents/dialects are seen as lower class to the rest of Summerset and are kinda viewed as a sort of "country" accent. (I'm pretty sure I read on one of the eso loading screens that the altmer of Auridon are seen as hardened due to Auridon being a buffer for invasion between mainland Summerset and the rest of Tamriel.)

[aetherialfalmer]

Other races when Altmer try roasting them

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Altmer Wells

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Mathew Weathers

[drnightstone]

On the Tenfold Strings of Existence

By Parmindariel of Seranil Expert in Dimensional Metaphysics, Neo-Larindili School of Philosophy, 3E 310

Who wanted more Altmeri philosophy? Why, you did of course!

[aethuviel]

What Alinor and Altmer architecture should look like

instead of the depressing grey stone we got in ESO.

ESO Alinor looks like it was built and populated by Bretons. Nothing elven or "alien" or

...describe the city as straight and glimmering, “a hypnotic swirl of ramparts and impossibly high towers, designed to catch the light of the sun and break it to its component colors, which lies draped across its stones until you are thankful for nightfall.”

The first picture, I found in a reddit thread on this topic, and I don't know the origins of it.

As for the rest, ignore the themes of space or desolate landscapes, and just look at the architecture.

"Impossible" structures, built by a culture that "fetishizes" beauty and perfection, and ascending to the stars.