#Steren Nerevarine

[trickstarbrave]

reincarnation of indoril nerevar? nah. nerevar's soul never got reincarnated. instead you have his descendant--from a secret child he had with voryn dagoth, the line continued on and on until nerevar's son was reborn and shipped off to morrowind, unknowingly righting the wrongs of his ancestors and solving his family history of absolutely abysmal luck

i tried playing around with colors. not sure how well it came out in some areas but uhhhh. yknow im still learning

i also STILL dont have a name for this guy. i know his name is the same as the first kid but im absolutely fucking abysmal at naming. i know his first lifetime, this life time, long family history of shit luck, and nerevar haunting him and teaching him (moon and star can be worn by his descendants--nerevar had that enchantment modified when he was hopeful he'd be able to pass it on to his children and his childrens' children. lol. but wearing it lets him FINALLY hear old nerevar)

let me know what you think of him. i got Stuff i could say about him. along with name suggestions :'D

[wellthebardsdead]

Vivienne: *sits down in the sleeping giant inn, still hearing Steren giving Delphine an earful from downstairs*

Taliesin: are you okay?

Vivienne: mm. Just tired… is Kaidan alright?

Taliesin: he hasn’t said much since you handed him those dossiers on what happened to his family. But he’ll be okay. I’ve got my eye on him. Do you want a drink?

Vivienne: no, no I’m good. *smiles trying to hide his anxiety, worrying how this will effect his friends and their safety moving forward*

Taliesin: *sees through it easily, just gently pats his shoulder and smiles* sit tight, I’ll go talk to Kaidan then get you some water. Okay?

Vivienne: thank you… *watches him walk off before blinking as a drink is held in front of him and the bench beneath him shifts with the weight of another figure*

???: what’s a pretty thing like you doing sulking all alone?

Vivienne: *turns his head to see a nord man beside him offering him a drink* o-oh um, n-no thank you I’m waiting for my- *catches himself, wanting so bad to call steren his partner, lover, boyfriend…* -friend.

???: who? That prissy elf in a dress? *glances over to where Taliesin had walked off to* A cute thing like you won’t stand a chance out in skyrims wilderness with that sort of company. Especially with the dragons about.

Vivienne: *ears pinning back in annoyance* I can handle m-myself just fine, and Taliesin is a veteran of the Great W-

Bishop: sure you can sweetheart, but why chance it? I can guarantee you’ll find yourself in too deep over your pretty little head and you’ll be wishing you had a real man to take care of you. The names Bishop by the way, I could get used to having a girl like you on my arm~

Vivienne: I’m not a girl I’m- not a man either.

Bishop: *rolls his eyes* with a face and body like yours I can’t see how you’d ever be considered a man, even under all that fabric I can tell you’ve got a figure I’d love to see riding me front or back~

Vivienne: *visibly disgusted, even the patrons at the brothel weren’t so openly vile until gold had been exchanged* y-you horrible beast- *gets up and immediately readies himself to loosen his thuum as he feels the man grab his wrist*

Bishop: Hold on where do you think you’re go-

Vivienne: FUS-

Steren: *suddenly slugs bishop hard across the face making him let go of vivienne and stagger back in shock* filthy creature!! *snarls and grabs him by his hair punching him in the gut repeatedly before dragging him to the fire pit and shoving his face into it, holding him down in the coals until his screams die with him* good riddance… *gets off him before spitting on his corpse and looking around the inn at the other patrons, visibly bristling for another fight* Anyone else?!?! *watches as they all quickly look away* … good… *looks over at vivienne and smiles softly as he walks to him and pulls him into his arms* are you okay?

Vivienne: I-I am. Thank you…

Steren: *presses his forehead to his and gently holds his wrist, inspecting it for bruising* you’ve enough on your plate to worry about without adding random creeps to the mix… are you sure you’re alright?

Vivienne: *smiles up at him* I am. Now that you’re here.

[keleren-ie]

Sooooooo I've got a question for @trickstarbrave and @mulberrycafe (I hope I'm doing this correctly I'm still discovering how tumblr works). You've been talking about Vivi and Steren having a baby, and I have to know : what would it look like ?

I've taken the liberty of making a few hypothesis. Feel free to correct me, I hope I got their features right.

[trickstarbrave]

TCS FRIDAY BABEYYYY

i just wanna talk about steren because i love him. sorry for what will no doubt be rambling u_u @the-elder-polls i will be including art and stuff as necessary bc i love my boyyyyyyy and ive drawn him a lot

he's technically a nerevarine. he isnt nerevar's reincarnation though, instead nerevar (trans) and voryn had a kid by accident and well. steren is the reincarnation of THAT child.

first lifetime in his early life he was born at kogoruhn and raised in house dagoth. The cover story is nerevar was on a pilgrimage for azura and voryn had a drunken affair with a woman. steren is born, voryn fakes the death of the random woman, now he has a son. very few people know the truth. nerevar wanted to raise him but he was originally born a commoner and while he's strong enough to protect himself, he wouldn't put it past anyone with a grudge to target a literal infant just to spite him. nerevar still visits often though, under the guise that of course he'd be nice to his closet friend's son

steren was born a few years before the war of the first council though. tensions were getting high between the chimer and previously quiet dwemer, and house dagoth being the spies for the chimer by and large discovered what kagrenac was up to. you know the rest (mostly). nerevar and voryn die, the tribunal become gods, the dwemer vanish, everyone becomes dunmer except ayem and half of vivec... tribunal had caught on though that steren was nerevar's son as well though and they think it is particularly cruel to kill nerevar's only child just because he's of house dagoth blood. so they pretty much wipe his memories for the most part and have him raised in house indoril.

steren grew up in house indoril, and eventually realized he was of house dagoth. he confronts vivec who had become a sort of mentor to him, and vivec tells him to leave it in the past. he was spared because he was an innocent child. house dagoth were destroyed because they were traitors. they had to be purged from morrowind. there is nothing in the past that will give steren the answers and comfort he wants and will only lead him to his doom. this goes over as well as you would expect with him leaving house indoril and looking for answers alone. at some point he got married and had a kid, but his mission was about uncovering the secrets of house dagoth the tribunal tried to bury and learn more about his parents. he's killed during a collapse of some ruins. his wife takes the kid and promptly leaves morrowind, fearing what the temple may do now that steren is dead

family line continues for a while, and during this time nerevar's ghost has been watching over them. he felt too bad leaving his son all alone in the world, so he silently watched over him, heartbroken. then steren died and nerevar followed his child, his child's child, and so on. up to the third era where steren is reborn to a dying woman on the run from some illiac bay nobleman. after she dies, steren goes to an orphanage. unknown parents, born under a certain sign, fulfilling the prophecy. he's arrested when, after leaving a house he was robbing, he stumbles upon a dead body at the completely wrong time. the trial is shit because this is the TES universe (guilty until proven innocent is canon fsr, dont let me ramble about why we'll be here all day) and he develops a fear of large crowds having their eyes all on him (idk what thats called). he stays 3 months in prison before being pardoned and shipped to morrowind. despite it being his home province he never heard great things about it.

he follows the storyline pretty closely. except that this is my world so mods like tamriel rebuilt are canon for me. he joins house hlaalu and the mages guild. he's really freaked out by all the sleepers who know him by name saying weird shit calling him 'prince' or some shit so he decides to take the opportunity to visit the mainland when the mages guild asks him to. on the mainland he does a bunch of stuff but finds vissamu and an ancient tome from house dagoth. he doesnt know why but he cant let go out of the house dagoth stuff. its familiar. but it also makes his heart ache.

more importantly though on the mainland is he comes across a dunmer who didn't know what house or family he was from. a nearby temple has you gather ingredients for a ritual to summon an ancestor spirit. steren does it correctly and then after seeing the guy happy to know who he is and able to build a relationship with his deceased family, asks the temple to do the same for him. an ancestor spirit is in fact summoned but before they can reveal who steren is, nerevar shoos them away. all steren knows is it fails but the priest sees what is clearly saint nerevar watching over him and tells him he doesnt know why it failed but that he is watched over well. steren hears a voice urging him to go outside and does so. there, nerevar reveals himself, able to communicate with him now, and tells him he stopped the spirit. she wanted to come and talk to him, but she was a woman of house dagoth (voryns mom specifically) and nerevar feared what might happen if his lineage was revealed to others. steren is kinda freaked out, asking if he'll go insane like some of the sleepers he sees, but nerevar assures him he wont let that happen.

back on vvardenfell steren continues his questing. gets corprus, cures corprus. goes to kogoruhn and finds at the old family hearth a bottle with what was originally his baby teeth as well as locks of hair from both parents, typical things to leave near the family hearth for protection. steren takes it with him, not knowing why he's so attached to it.

after getting the ring though he gets his past life memories back and realizes he's not nerevar reborn. he has memories of "uncle nerevar" in his first life. he demands answers, crying, and nerevar comes clean that no, he isn't nerevar reborn. nerevar didnt want him doing this either, but azura has no other options because nerevar refused to reincarnate and apologizes to steren. but steren asks how he can wear the ring then and nerevar is quiet before explaining that while he was alive he asked azura to modify the enchantment so that nerevar and his descendants can wear the ring. that steren's other parent was always nerevar, but nerevar couldnt be open about that fact because he couldnt bear the thought of his own child being killed

fighting dagoth ur is particularly painful because dagoth ur recognizes steren as his son but well. he's still insane. dagoth ur thinks steren is too corrupted and blinded by the tribunal who stole him away and brainwashed him, but dagoth ur can kill and remake him, just like he did his brothers. then he can bring back nerevar, purge the empire from morrowind, and live together as a family, proud and openly. defeating him was not easy emotionally or physically tbh, but steren did win.

also at some point he got trueflame. i havent figured out when he did the tribunal dlc quite yet. it might be while he was on the mainland if im being honest but i feel like almalexia would def spill the beans on who he is. maybe he takes out the assassins, comes back, gets the ring, and then goes to deal with the rest of the stuff from tribunal.

after daogth ur's defeat, azura comes to usher nerevar to moonshadow. spirits arent supposed to remain in the realm of the living for too long and he risks being completely destroyed. nerevar is worried, but steren assures him he'll be fine, and nerevar goes to rest. then azura says she'll give steren any gift within her power to him as a reward for doing such a difficult task, and steren says he just wants to be with his parents again. azura frowns and says she cant bring back the living. steren knows. azura is even more upset because steren is not that old for dunmer and is already asking to die. but instead of killing him she sends him to another world where his parents ARE alive. and also 200 years in the future where theyre together in hopes steren can be with his parents and live happily there. she's going to let this worlds nerevar and voryn have the memories of steren's world too so it wont be weird.

mephala though intervenes with the reasoning "you can just send people to different worlds and time periods. you'll fucking break the dragon." and drops him off not in mournhold but in blacklight, outside of a brothel where the reincarnation/child of vivec (named vivienne, who belongs to @wellthebardsdead) is currently being kept. in this world nerevar was the nerevarine, azura restored him to his status, voryn reincarnated, i wrote about them getting together here. steren, strongly resembling voryn, is taken in by force and fed poison to both diminish his strength and keep him from healing the injuries from dagoth ur. but he and vivienne save up money from tips and escape. steren couldnt take his ring or sword but he figures the brothel madam probably pawned them off and he should just gtfo of morrowind before the temple figures out theres two copies of nerevar's ring and sword and if theres an impersonator running around. they hop on a boat like a day or two before voryn and nerevar track down the brothel in blacklight to look for steren.

they get off the boat in.... SKYRIM!!! surprise, vivienne is the dragonborn too. he and steren are very close but very shy about admitting the fact theyre in love. theyre both traumatized and afraid of hurting the other or being rejected. im sure you can imagine.

look at how cute they are...

also since steren isn't the dragonborn he doesnt do much of the msq. he is more like a follower but he has some side content he does. he joins the companions, contracts lycanthrope (thanks hircine, not helping steren's opinion of daedra at all), ends up doing the forsworn conspiracy and after breaking out of the mine the forsworn take over markarth. vivienne does the thieves guild and steren helps with that bc he does know some dwemer from being taught it by both nerevar as a ghost and voryn when he was a kid. also he did the mages guild in morrowind so he knows a lot of dwemer stuff. oh steren also got fucked up by the heart of lorkhan a little and during the peace talks he did make the throat of the world start shaking when he got violently angry. steren is also not at all impressed with delphine (he already didnt like the blades for obvious reasons)

oh they also adopt a scrib. named mr scribbles. its later revealed scribbles is a girl but (sorry i cant draw bugs well)

alduin is defeated and vivienne comes back. steren was worried sick but is happy to have his beloved back. they confess, its cute, and steren gifts him a necklace he made with traditional house dagoth craftsmanship

shortly afterwards though miraak's cultists show up and despite what they want they have to go to solthsheim and deal with it..... ugh. while all this is going on nerevar and voryn arrived in skyrim and were trying to track their son down sort of on a wild goose chase. by the time they catch up steren and vivi are on their way to solstheim.

on solstheim they try to keep a low profile. steren uses a bandana to keep the big red star on his face covered. vivienne ends up getting turn grey and cold like vivec which doesnt help the vivec allegations. after he's turned steren starts getting some gold patches on him too (i forgot the red star like an idiot sorry)

one of vivienne's clients though survived the purge that voryn and nerevar did. his name is sen dres and he's been hiding out on solstheim getting enough political power to either go to skyrim and find vivi or get vivi when they come to solstheim. sen hates steren thinking steren is the one who convinced vivi to leave and his plan is to kill steren and take vivi back to morrowind to live with him forever. when he finds out vivi is the reincarnation of vivec he wants to force him to become vivec too because then he can have a god as his slave/husband. i hate sen dres so much. anyways he manages to get steren and vivienne alone and convinces vivi if he comes quietly they'll leave steren alive. only to promptly stab steren straight through the stomach and leave him there to bleed out while vivienne is gagged so he cant shout and drugged.

nerevar and voryn do arrive in time to help steren and heal him up. they were told by the house hlaalu dude actually what sen dres' plan was because that guy saw steren had the tattoo of a house hlaalu grandmaster and he doesn't want a potential high ranking member of house hlaalu to die. they get steren to safety and with the rest of the dragonborn gang rescue vivi and the two of them are happy together again while recovering :))) and steren gets to see his parents

steren and vivi also end up getting married eventually. yay!!!!!!

other stuff i couldnt figure out where to put it-- at first the good three think vivi is vivec. mephala sent steren to vivi to see if he'd betray steren to alleviate his own suffering. but vivienne did not, instead he took care of steren and wanted to escape with him. boethiah and azura both try to kill vivienne though. and molag bal thinks vivienne is vivec and should be married to him ugh. do you see why steren hates daedra.

[trickstarbrave]

Steren: Unless you get tired of me.

Vivienne: *giggles* No, never!

Taliesin: I cannot take another month of you two verbally edging each other.

Taliesin: This HAS to be the month you fuck—!

[trickstarbrave]

Today, of all days, see How the most dangerous thing is to love

im fuckin this poor guy up

love will really drive you to terrible places. you start looking at profane tools that have corrupted your own father before you and gave rise to the tribunal who erased your other father's legacy, destroyed your home, and harmed your people just as much as they helped them, and you start to think "maybe it'll be different if its me. all i have to do is use them to get rid of molag bal"

nerevar, voryn, please hurry. theres a councilman trying to kill your son, abduct his lover to make him into vivec AND a sex slave, and steren is contemplating using profane tools in a wild act of hubris to protect his beloved from a daedric prince

[wellthebardsdead]

Steren: *stumbles back into breezehome to find the group all putting on their armour and vivienne unconscious by the fire after being knocked out with a simple sleep potion* I- what’s going on?!

Taliesin: What’s going on?! That’s ALL You have to say for yourself?!

Kaidan: You fuck off to jorrvaskr for the night, a werewolf is seen barreling through the city and you suddenly disappear for 3 days only to turn up and ask “what’s going on??!?!” Vivienne’s been distraught you fucking arsehole! We thought you’d been killed or kidnapped! We were just heading out to look for you!

Inigo: we had to knock our friend out because he was growing delirious refusing to rest until he found you.

Steren: *contracted lycanthropy and is still coming to terms with what happened* I- I’m sorry, I can explain everything. I-… oh Vivi… *walks to his side and strokes his hair*

Vivienne: *whimpers in his sleep but leans into his touch* mnn…

Steren: *kisses his forehead softly* I’m sorry for making you worry…

Vivienne: *smiles in his sleep* Mm…

Steren: … *tail suddenly pops out and starts wagging*

[wellthebardsdead]

Vivienne: oh look! Mud crabs!

Steren: they’re smaller here than in morrowind- *watches one scuttle over with its claws raised* but just as aggressive, stand back I’ve got this-

Vivienne: *picks it up and grabs its shell ripping it clean open* A few more of these and I can make us lunch!

Steren: … *drops his sword in awe*

[trickstarbrave]

YAYYYYY this was my idea for steren i mentioned b4 and i rly like it

i was thinking abt the vivi au (the hypothetical one where he ends up. very early on in vivi's storyline. that i was talking about with @mulberrycafe yesterday)

and i was also thinking about how in vivienne's story he's supposed to be like. healing from the past, the one who breaks the curse from azura. and how in a way steren had to right the wrongs of the past and break a (family) curse himself to be free. and also how a lot of people draw their nerevarines with bits of chimer skin bleeding through and stuff.

so my thought was: to love is to be changed. what if fully embracing and loving vivienne no matter what leads to him getting a little patch of gold himself and one of his old blue eyes he used to have? maybe seeing their son already changing and healing with vivienne would be enough to convince them vivienne really is different.

idk. i feel the picture better captures the feeling im going for

[trickstarbrave]

im still rereading the vivienne au but

>steren is going to go absolutely batshit after boethiah's shrine. he's normally quiet and reserved and tries to blend in but. oh god he's furious. honestly i think it would be best if there will be some cultists alive only because steren is going to slaughter them himself looking for vivienne with trueflame looking absolutely insane with rage.

>steren groaning at the prospect of having to see neloth again. the others ask if he's met neloth and he says yes, but neloth probably doesn't remember him. (vivienne knows he's probably referring to his previous world. idk if the others would know by then that steren is from another universe)

>ash monsters freak him the fuck out. he knows theyre heart of lorkhan related and the heartstones only confirm it.

>steren making vivi food he remembers from morrowind.... a lot of dunmer food is bitter but steren got a bit of voryn's sweet tooth and in this lifetime grew up in cyrodiil so he has a very... modified cooking style. spicy mudcrab stew, little sweet treats, telling stories about how his ata used to buy expensive imported honey from skyrim.... and then getting kinda sad whenever he talks about it

>neloth seeing the ring and immediately going "nerevarine?" before steren insists he must be mistaken. neloth then scoffs and goes "of course, what was i thinking... the nerevarine is king now after he put the new temple in place. but your ring... it's a very convincing fake. where did you get it?" and steren just replying it was a gift from his father, and their family tomb was destroyed so he can't exactly ask him.

>steren getting the gold patch on his eye after vivienne's skin changes color....

>when vivienne remembers making love to neht i think vivienne would think "huh why does that chimer kinda look and act like steren...? especially in bed. was i imagining those parts?"

>steren has a weird sixth sense about sensing assassins after so long trying to rest in morrowind's wilderness and getting jumped by dark brotherhood assassins. the first time a morag tong assassin was tailing them a little too far, trying to get a closer look at steren, steren instantly threw a blade and killed him. after confirming it was a tong assassin, steren makes a face and says that. is very bad news because they aren't allowed to operate outside of skyrim. but theyre here now, and that means there are probably more of them. so he insists they rotate keeping watch.

[trickstarbrave]

sketching my favorite little prince of house dagoth

[trickstarbrave]

me: [siting an doodling]

brain: hey

me: oh god no

brain: what if. vivi au. from bambi.

me: dont even start

brain: but steren gets told his parents will be alive in this universe by azura. he just has to find them

me: please shut uppppp

brain: and mephala interferes and drops him in skyrim super early in vivi's adventure before vivienne even knows who he is. meanwhile neht and ryn are just getting memories from a different timeline of a son they had and freaking out looking for him when they get the word azura and boethia are fighting over vivec and azura lets it loose that mephala interfered and drop neht and ryn's son with vivec so now everyone is fighting and scrambling to get to skyrim

me: this is chaotic nonsense.

me: why are you STILL making me think about it im not gonna write two of these aus

[wellthebardsdead]

Vivienne: *staring up at the temple of dibella while steren is off investigating the forsworn conspiracy* … *walks inside and lowers his hood*

Dibellan priestess: The temple is closed off to men but you may recieve a blessing if-

Vivienne: I’m not a man- I mean, I am… but I’m, im a girl too… I have… I have both… *sighs* I was… I was used, for money… against my will… I can’t, use that part of myself without feeling shame or guilt anymore… and they drugged me so frequently to keep me infertile that I’ve still not had a monthly cycle but I’m not pregnant either… I… I have no where else I can go to for help…

Dibellan Priestess: this is, highly unorthodox but… if you can prove what you’re saying… we can help you feel one with your body again and, we’ll do whatever we can to fix the damage you speak of.

Vivienne: I-… I don’t know how I can without showing you…

Dibellan Prirstess: as expected. Just know if you’re lying I’ll be reporting you to the guards.

Vivienne: I-I’m not lying I swear. I-… *shyly unties his belt and lowers his pants, keeping most of himself covered as he raises his leg to show his feminine parts before quickly pulling his pants back up feeling ashamed and nervous*

Dibellan Priestess: *at a loss for words and feeling awful for doubting them* oh, you poor child… Come, come into the inner sanctum, let dibellas blessing be given to you.

Vivienne: *follows her in quietly*

*that evening*

Vivienne: *leaves the temple feeling a little more comfortable in his own skin again and relieved they could jumpstart his cycle again reversing some of the damage done to him*

Taliesin: *waited outside for him the whole time* how did it go?

Vivienne: it went… good. It was different from the mephalan arts… I never thought of sex in terms of love, only manipulation, work, and pleasure… but… I felt… beautiful when they showed me how I could share this part of myself with Steren… I hope… one day I’ll feel brave enough to lay with him again… without thinking of the awful things they made me do to him. Made him do to me… to both of us…

Taliesin: *smiles* So now you understand what I meant when I said there’s complexities to Dibellas teachings?

Vivienne: yes, I d- *blinks hearing a commotion from below, before looking down to see hundreds of reachmen storming the city and leading them, Steren* What in oblivion happened?! My star?!

[trickstarbrave]

taliesin: are you really going to keep an elytra as a pet? steren: *deadpan* we kept kaidan. taliesin and vivienne: *fall over laughing*

[wellthebardsdead]

Genuinely nothing makes me feel happier than imagining small little romantic moments between my blorbos.

Raphael dancing slowly with Lucy to no music after defeating the absolute.

Dammon carrying Falûne across a muddy path.

Wyll offering Clow his clothes and boots so he’ll have actual clothing to wear beyond his dance attire.

Solairen pouting as he’s dressed in nice relaxed clothes and made to enjoy hobbies outside of swinging a sword like painting or reading while Astarion and Raphael brush his hair and admire their handsome lover.

Wyrm sipping hot coco in taliesins arms as he reads to him.

Marigold laying beneath a big tree and eating fruit with Taliesin.

Steren gently unveiling Vivienne and removing his heavy coat and clothes just so he can hold him and enjoy his beloveds embrace without him being hidden from the world.

It just makes me so happy and I want it to be meeeeee!!!

[trickstarbrave]

fuck it idk what to do with the background. take the blurry skyrim screenshots. i just wanted to draw two elves who are in love

vivienne belongs to @wellthebardsdead. steren (star on his forehead) is mine.

lyrics are from hozier's "would that i"

these two haven't confessed yet. they're still too shy to admit they are in love (and too afraid of hurting the other's feelings) but dw. literally everyone around them knows they are madly in love. once alduin is dealt with they can be all lovey dovey (until well. the dragonborn dlc happens and they both nearly are killed)