#tebarro

[choilacanth]

Artfight for @sothasil, one of my favorite TES artists ever ;u; your Khajiit give me so much life!!

Edited to add stripes ;u;

[sothasil]

khajiit angy phase of life

[sothasil]

Hi! Just wanted to pop in saying that your art really inspires me, I made a Big Dad Cat Man Khajiit OC too, and in trying to depict him well I learn so much from your Khajiit concepts. I love your whole squad and your drawing style!

Yeah baby two dads... you know what that means

[sothasil]

“Imagine yourself being gently held by tall large khajiit men” god pls I would love hugs from giant kitties!!!

cat dad squad cat dad squad

[sothasil]

Old Tebarro and...less old Tebarro

[choilacanth]

Highlights from Artfight, some favorites out of the 19 I did in no particular order so I can see these in one place. Made while experimenting with Clip Studio and getting used to working on a desktop again :]

Sedris Ilneleth (steamclouds) | Bataqq (mine), Rakkhan, and Tebarro (sothasil)

Elneri Oril (Kurehasama) | Dersei (honeyginsen)

Darra and Lanskr (boulderfall-cave)

Neralion (bora-in-tamriel) and Teldryn | Krad (icicleteeth)

[sothasil]

Alright 2 things if you don't mind helpin me out:

1. What type of Khajiit is Ma'Jahrann, if they have a set type?

2. Any advice for coming up with Khajiit names? I'm stumped :')

Ma'Jahrann is a tojay-raht. My design for them is original. Here's what she'd look like as other humanoid khajiit types, according to my design for them. Also, she's a girl, she/her pronouns :D

1. Suthay-raht, 2. Suthay (Morrowind types)

3. Ohmes-raht (Daggerfall), 5. Ohmes (Arena)

4. Tojay, 6. Tojay-raht, 7. Dagi, 8. Dagi-raht; all my designs

As for khajiit names, I love creating them. I have memorized the ta'agra phenetic inventory at this point! I use several methods to name my khajiit, which are the following, with my own examples (but keep in mind, this is for elsweyri khajiit only!):

Made up by sonority (ex: Rezad, Tebarro, Ma'Jahrann). These are just made up names who sound khajiit. For this, prefer around three syllables, CV structure. Common letters include: R, T, Sh, J, M, Z, D for consonants, A, I, O, Ay, E for vowels. I recommend looking at lists of official NPC names to get the pattern right. I pick these for my OCs via how they sound, and "look" (I have synthesia, which I know isn't everyone's case)

Common tongue meaning (ex: Softpaw). These names are "translated" into the common tongue and usually refer to something about their bearer. While most commonly seen for argonians, they are written without hyphenation and are generally shorter and with no verbs. Both sharing the same name, an argonian would prefer swims-in-the-sea, and a khajiit Seaswimmer. For khajiit, they tend to center around physical appearance, you can pick them based on your character's most striking features: bright eyes? Strong arms? Long claws?

Ta'agra meaning (Do'Kataj, Dar'Ji, Kimivari-ko). These are created from a meaningful name like the last bullet point, but translated in ta'agra. I used the dictionary + grammar of the Ta'agra project to find my translations. To note: since ta'agra is agglutinative, it makes for extremely long names, so mine tend to be cut short to keep the sonority with less syllables. Do'Kataj comes from katataj, which means "bite", in relation to her martial stature. Kimivari-ko comes from krimir vari, which means "sweet smile", or sweet-smiled. Translated in a literal and verbose way, their names would be "great warrior of the bite" and "sweet smiled scholar". These are the most fun to create for me, as they mix the meaning of (2) with the sonority of (1) and come with some brainstorming.

Using the TES1&2 name generator (Elaahni, Qa'Husar). Yes, most of my older khajiit OCs were named using it! It's very dated and imperfect but ya know, it exists. I recommend taking it with a grain of salt if you're to use it, and add prefix and suffix to the names to make it more meaningful and more up to date lorewise. Remember, one particle is normal, two is either super honorific OR your khajiit has very swollen ankles.