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an oddly calm day on the borders of molag amur

reference + speedpaint under the cut

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it's never too late to start! believe in yourself and don't forget to have fun! ✨🗡️

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I know a lot of people don't like how many notes you can find even in the unlikeliest situations in Skyrim for the express purpose of explaining to you, the player, what happened in a place, and I agree to some extent, but I think Morrowind is too far in the opposite direction. I don't really judge it considering its age and how much commitment to the lore and storytelling is put in other places, but dungeon crawls do often feel a little random as a result. WHY are there a bunch of orcs in this random dwemer ruin? Who knows! Just kill em and take their stuff.

Idk, there's times I feel like there's a story waiting to be told but isn't. And maybe it's just my modern gaming expectations showing. Maybe I'm meant to use my imagination and create my own explanation for stuff like that. A lot of people might prefer that. But I think there's a good balance to be had somewhere between Morrowind and Skyrim, and I gotta say this is one area where I think Skyrim wins out.

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>walk into Dagon Fel

>walk up to some nords standing around in the street having a "conversation"

Male Nord: Seen any...elves? HAHAHAHAHA!

Female Nord: Seen any.........ELVES? HAAhahahHAHAHA

This is just what it's like here every day isn't it

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Playing Morrowind for the first time as someone who has known all about the story and the Deep Lore and whatnot for years has been like...okay, it's nice seeing all this stuff presented in its original context, and the mods even out the jank JUST enough that I can tolerate it, but a lot of the time I'm still fighting against myself as the person Playing Old Video Game, someone who isn't coming into any of this story with SURPRISE and AWE, enjoying myself well enough but not really feeling the deep levels of immersion that people who played this game growing up talk so fondly of.

But man, something about the Sheogorad region is really making me feel it. Clawing my way all the way out here from Maar Gan (there might be closer civilization I could have used as a hub/starting point but idk I studied the lore of Morrowind for years not its map). Water walking. Dealing with the ABUNDANCE of hostile wildlife in the northern part of Vvardenfell compared to the much tamer and quieter south. Water walking my way across the islands, trying to find any landmarks to ground myself and find my way. There's something ancient and mysterious out here that really makes me feel like "damn...I'm in Morrowind".

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IM WEEPING AGAHAHAHAHAGAHA

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I love how that final conflict in Clair Obscur mirrors Renoir and Aline's conflict in the canvas.

Verso and Renoir want to destroy the canvas, Maelle and Aline want to keep using it as escape from their grief.

At the end of the story, the conflict between Renoir and Aline that threatened the world seems resolved. Aline is out of the canvas, and Renoir agrees to leave the Canvas intact to respect Maelles wishes. If the story ended at that point, I would say it ends on a hopeful note for both the people of Lumiere and the family.

But then there's Maelle and Verso. Both of them are trying to escape a life they don't want, and both of them are trying to save each other.

But at their worst, they become just like their parents. Verso, convinced he knows what's best for his family, willing to erase an entire world to save them. Maelle, drowning herself in her grief, repainting the family she's lost (Gustave and the others), unwilling to let Verso go, unable to move on.

Like father, like son. Like mother, like daughter. They cannot break the cycle.

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morrowind is special because its lore and premise are in no way calculated, accessible, or marketable. it’s a game about stumbling around in the dark through a world that is utterly baffling and hostile. it is the work of unchecked occult nerds who spent half a decade working on a text-based game about dark elves aimed at nobody in particular. it’s ugly and misguided and boring in ways that wouldn’t be allowed to happen now. it’s irreplaceable

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Behold! My collection of Skyrim dragons, all available on my Redbubble!

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Playing the Skyrim mod for Morrowind and it's jarring to see normal creatures and objects after living in The Bug And Ash land for five in game years.

I passed by a squirrel and an apple tree and was disgusted.

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Not trying to victim blame or anything but you’d think with all the times necromancers have tried/succeeded in raising undead armies the people of Tamriel would’ve stopped burying their dead fully armed and equipped for battle.

Like, I know your great grandpa’s sword was A Part Of Him and all but maybe you could bury SuperDeathblade somewhere not right next to SuperDeathbladeMan. Just in case.

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daggerfall: there is no chosen one. you’re an imperial agent jackass who happens to fulfill the role of hero by virtue of sticking to it long enough and causing enough problems that you fuck up walk-brass and now we’re down an entire tower. good job asshole.

morrowind: you literally aren’t the chosen one. your mythopoetic pattern resembles the prophecy, and if you work hard at accomplishing the prophecy, you can retroactively become the nerevarine by virtue of fulfilling its duties, thereby consuming nerevar’s identity via narrative continuity. if you want to look at it like that, at least. also you deactivated another tower, good job asshole.

oblivion: the other assholes deactivated all the towers and now shit’s falling apart. you aren’t the chosen one. martin is. you can follow him around and he does stuff and beats the game for you. you fight level-scaled daedra and that’s neat i guess.

skyrim: you’re the chosen one. no, we aren’t going to explain why. fuck you. you’re special you bought the game you’re so important and cool. look at how cool you are. do you feel special enough? how can i make you feel more special please? also dragons are no longer six-limbed and they no longer worked with the empire, instead we decided they used to rule the entire world yes hush i know we didn’t say anything about that until this game but shut up also alduin is no longer akatosh. fuck you.

todd howard, emil pagliario, if we ever meet in person, i literally challenge you to a duel to the death you are the death of modern fantasy games as a genre i will actually FIGHT YOU to the death this isn’t hyperbole or tumblr grandstanding let’s get some SWORDS and let’s go until one of us is DEAD

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everybody’s catching dagoth fever, i blame @tesjejunus

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Holds of Skyrim

The whole series in one post! Can't believe it's done :) I'm really proud of myself! Thank you all for the kind words and the warmest support! it means a lot to me 😳 Through this series, I wanted to convey this feeling of...awe that I had when I first played Skyrim. And I am delighted that this project made some of you feel this way. I love TES community that I have here very much 💗

✦ patreon with the full process description ✦ prints ✦ separate posts from this series

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Esquie's Nest CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 (2025) dev. Sandfall Interactive

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Find yourself someone that looks at you the way these guar look at each other