#xileel

[the-troll-of-the-bridge]

Sometimes you need to face your past, and that means going home.

(I haven't dabbled in watercolor in a while bu I quite like how this turned out :D)

[lizardstho]

I want to study at an Argonian university.

I will spell regret as **shunatei** and use **reed huts**. I would watch **Hallucinations** in my **mind** every night while drinking **Hist sap** with my **Egg-brothers**. I’ll have **Raw meat and Bogwater** every day that’s worth 5 **Septims**. I would go to **An-xileel raids** every night. I am also more likely to meet **Wamasu, Talen-Jei, Jaree-ra,** and **The Nisswo.**

I wish I was argonian : (

[metallic-scaled-scarf]

Ta-da! Here we have my half of an art trade with @the-troll-of-the-bridge ! This is their Ordinator oc, Xileel, who unfortunately liked his job (especially Vivec) a liiiiittle too much.

WIPs below.

Reblogs > Likes

[ansu-gurleht]

huh. i just realized. i need to figure out more about this timeline these four (malekaiah valer kassur and aryon) occupy by 4e201. like……so much would be different by then. the oblivion crisis doesn’t hit as hard thanks to preparation from what i’m tentatively calling the “new ebonheart pact” between morrowind and black marsh under the hortator ku-vastei and her an-xileel. the empire as a result isn’t as destabilized, meaning the aldmeri dominion has less success (or maybe no opportunity at all) to attack it. martin septim survived and was a successful and beloved emperor who cooperated heavily with the new ebonheart pact and its hortator. orsinium never fell so never had to rebuild, since they were sent aid by the new ebonheart pact and the empire. the red year never happened since the hortator had baar dau mined out completely. no skyrim civil war bc no aldmeri invasion, no great war, etc. it’s honestly a thriving tamriel at this point

[bluepwnsu]

Hey, so what's his opinion on slavery? He seems really casual about working with house Telvanni.

This is brought up in his conversations with Remiel as well as some of his idle dialogue. He is opposed to slavery, but is not in a position to do much about it. Perhaps if he makes it on the Council he will push for abolition.

I figure that with House Dres in shambles, the Redoran in a strong position (doesn't do slavery) and the strength of The Aldmeri Dominion and the militant An-Xileel in Black Marsh. That slavery in Morrowind is on a far smaller scale than it was during its golden era. I figure that having a slave is a symbol of status, do to their rarity. Possibly they'd be more likely to be household slaves rather than cattle slaves.

So the sin of slavery still exists, but is on a far smaller scale, and the slaves are likely living better lives. That doesn't make it right of course.

Xelzaz believes he belongs in House Telvanni. People thinking less of him or saying he doesn't belong due to his race isn't worth his time. For him House Telvanni allows him to hone his skills as an alchemist, let him be rewarded by rising through the ranks and becoming a Master himself. For him getting to the top is about showing that Argonians are Dunmer's equals, not beneath them. To him the only way to do that is through action and results.

[profanetools]

22? (hard mode: nothing about the dwemer)

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

I really like Argonian lore. Less so the spirtual/religious/metaphysical aspects of The Hist or Sithis, which is what most people are drawn to, but actually more the sociopolitical history - the organisation of society, the differences between communities/tribes, the rise/fall of Pyramids in favour of a new philosophy, the various plagues, the resistance to the Reman Dynasty, the fact that there was a Kingdom of Argonia at somepoint, the An-Xileel.... it's all really interesting and overlooked imo. Obviously a lot of this ties into imperialism both on an intra- and extra- textual level (as most things with bosmer / khajiit / argonians do tbh), and that can often be difficult to navigate, but I do like that you've got this group whose society has taken all these different forms and have evolved in all sorts of ways in response to the times.

Anyway, think it's telling that after Dwemer, I think the most common OC race I have is a joint tie between Argonian and Orcs.

[nirnrootic]

thinkin abt mirvon this fine morning .......... to most, it's obvious he's hiding some kind of disfigurement, with his full body coverings. to some, it's so obvious, that they think he ought just show it anyway.

but mirvon knows it's better this way. even when he takes it all off, to steep himself in a bath, or to take tender care of his long, long silken hair, his last vestige of beauty, he doesn't like staring too long in the mirror.

memories sometimes cut through like a seared knife. burning, slicing, agonising. he is the result of war, of the pain and suffering of argonians for far, far too many years. he was only a child, less than five years old, when the accession war was waged. his village was one of the first targeted, since they were so close to the southern border. he survived, somehow, by the blessing of his mother who hid him prior to her death. he was taken in secretly by an argonian nurse, who supported the war, but only against those that actively targeted her people, such as house telvanni. her heart was torn to see villages, oft so separated that they were unaffiliated with houses and house squabbles, torn to shreds and burnt to black dust.

she took him into the depths of the black marsh. deep into an-xileel territory. mirvon thought of her as his second mother, an angel where he might've been left to otherwise starve and perish in silence; unknown and unremembered.

but there were great punishments that would lurk in the horizon. years later. for, harbouring a dunmer in an-xileel territory, would result in pain so agonising, that her entire family, mirvon included, wished they would simply drop dead rather than face an-xileel wrath.

[jiubilant]

I love your writing and thoughts on the world! like fourth era Morrowind, it really comes to life. what do you think happened with high ranking Hlaalu like councillors, nobles and their families? if they're still nobles and have their family name, marriage and business deals, maybe joining other great houses since Hlaalu isn't one anymore. and what do you think about the origins of house Sadras?

aw thank you! <3

i think that many of the more overtly pro-empire hlaalu nobles were banished or executed when their house fell from grace. house redoran needed money and manpower fast in order to fend off the an-xileel (and to keep the east empire company from taking too many liberties) and was in a hurry to consolidate however possible the wealth and assets of what had been, under the imperial thumb, the most prosperous group of families in the country. i doubt that many high-ranking hlaalu were quick to heap even more disgrace on their heads by denouncing their ties to their house—it's possible for the nerevarine to "join" a great house because they're an outlander with no connections to any of morrowind's established families, but most dunmer of morrowind are born into their houses and would consider betraying their house a dishonorable act akin to betraying one's family and ancestral values. so in the fourth era hlaalu still exists, but as an impoverished and vilified house struggling to reestablish a foothold in velothi politics and trade with many of its leaders and elders either dead or in exile

i've posted in more depth about house sadras before...i'm going to try to find those posts for you. the gist of it is that house sadras was a hlaalu vassal-house that threw its lot in with house redoran and was richly rewarded for it when the redorans took power. now it's a redoran catspaw struggling to keep a lid on insurrection in deshaan and suffering the brunt of hlaalu loyalists' rage against house redoran

[greysmuseum]

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[the-last-huntsman]

The Argonians can have a little bit of An-Xileel nationalism.

As a treat.

[foulserpent]

this is how much writing i have in the hypothetical out of order oblivion saga and almost every single thing in here is like 40% finished wips that have been in hell forever

[the-troll-of-the-bridge]

Nothing better than telling stories around a campfire

[boethiah]

The argonians golden age is the 4th era. Unless there was another time in history where they weren't slaves or completely isolated that I can't think of.

i was thinking abt pre-duskfall/xanmeer culture tbh 

[ansu-gurleht]

hm. i need to come up with a sort of dramatis personae for 3e634, particularly regarding side characters/political characters. like, who's the current septim emperor? who's the redoran archmaster? is torygg actually the high king or is some other guy? who's the jarls of windhelm/riften/winterhold, and what redoran nobles replace them when those cities get conquered? are ashiri or hla-eix still alive in this timeline at this time, and what roles do they play? who are the major players in the an-xileel in 3e634? who are the high king’s generals who counterinvade across the velothis? who are the archmaster’s generals who invade skyrim in the first place? who are the imperial generals who intervene on skyrim’s behalf? will orsinium play a role at all in this story as it was originally planned to, and if so who is its king? will the rather limited aldmeri dominion (likely just summerset and valenwood and MAYBE elsweyr or at least parts of it) play a role, and if so who is its leader?

like. those last couple questions assume that this is going to be a continent wide affair rather than a relatively local one. so maybe i shouldn’t worry about them too much

[profanetools]

I should read the Infernal City novels so I can get a better feel for the An-Xileel but also I don’t hate myself enough to subject myself to Bad Lore that I know I won’t like

[casino-lights]

ya can’t make an omelette without throwing some tin cans at your boyfriend’s face @an-xileels