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I can’t believe I actually finished it. I present the Five Companions (iteration 2).

Individual characters + info under the cut

They’re all squares for ease of crossposting to IG.

But yes I was admiring all of that Dragon Ball artwork where the characters are just standing there menacingly on a white background. And I thought, I want to draw something that could be a comic cover for the Five Companions. And this was born out of that. So a slightly unexpected origin but inspiration comes from strange places.

Their designs are mostly based on their concept art iterations so if there’s a few differences that’s why, along with a few creative liberties of my own (like sheathes for the swords, etc).

PS Iveri does have her weapons like everyone else, they’re just out of frame. She wouldn’t be caught dead unarmed.

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I think as gamers we can all agree that pointless gay outfits should be a requirement for all video games

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Reeled in this big stonking fish last night and my immediate reaction to seeing it was like:

Hell YEAH.

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Screenshot 1: (X) Take Nirn (Gold icon)[Overflow Error], (Weight icon)[Overflow Error] Screenshot 2: You are over-encumbered.

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Low-key hilarious how 95% of Dragonborn end up with a Hoard. Absolutely peak intersection of narrative and game design. You consume ONE dragon soul and next thing you know you’ve got 175 wheels of cheese. You learn like 3 whole words in Draconic and you’ve got poor Lydia pack-muling candelabras across the fjords. I personally mostly Hoarded precious metals and gems, but I’ve seen people who Hoarded books and pelts and, like…there is No mechanical reward for this. Players just love to Hoard shit in that game. Absolute Dragon behavior.

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the view from lovely windstad

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That enchanting survey is like the western skyrim jewelry survey, they dont even look associated with each other 😂

kissing whichever dev made this jewelry survey in solstice

and biting whoever made this enchanting survey

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I saw this screenshot a then something happened...

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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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Early Blades missions in Oblivion: Take the amulet and keep it safe from the Mythic Dawn!

Early Blades missions in Morrowind: We understand you can’t afford training. Go sell these drugs about it.

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when you wanna open a game just to get screenshots to use for drawing refs but then you. just play the game for 5 hours. and forget to get the screenshots.

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really wish i saw more people interpret nerevar as truly gone. im the only person i know for whom their nerevarine is completely disconnected from nerevar,has none of his memories, personality traits, or cannot see or hear him.

the majority of people i see have some element of nerevar alive with their nerevarines and like memories or talking to him and that's like fine and I don't mean to demean it anyways but to me personally the idea of nerevar being deader than dead and gone forever is so interesting i want to explore that idea with other people but!!!!!! :(

like in a high fantasy world were ghosts are like Irrefutably Real and everywhere to the point of ancestor worship and summoning being part of dunmer culture.... wouldn't it be particularly weird and fucked up if one guy died and just. NEVER came back? at all? yeah ghosts are real. there's even dwemer ghosts in morrowind! except this fucking guy. he got killed so hard even his ghost is gone. the nerevarine having a crisis of faith over not having his memories or being able to hear or see him. the nerevarine who wants to be nerevar but is just all alone. vivec almalexia and dagoth ur waiting thousands of years to see their old friend again but he never comes. Please talk to me about this before i start breaking my teeth gnawing on the cage bars oh my GOD

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Stay humble, ESO. At the end of the day you are still a janky Elder Scrolls game in your heart

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Redguard trolls are a certain level of freaky that I absolutely despise. Just look at this thing

Goblin cave is a fucking horror game and not just because I got stuck in there for several hours

why he caked up tho

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Sketchies of the Morrowind crew…Once Dree (finally) accepts he’s Nerevarine I think he starts doing that upside down v-shape in his warpaint to represent Nerevar. And also mixes ash into it (which doubles as a fire damage shield).