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...I post stuff/art here. Nothing more. I am a typical 29 year old male living in boring Indiana, U.S.A. I have a very unorganised blog because I don't tag my posts. I also have a deviantART and Twitter, both called Spottedfire23. I normally never post my art here on Tumblr, so rather follow me on DA or Twitter.

Pictured: The statue of Empress Alessia, the Founder of the Empire and Saint of Humanity, as seen in Oblivion (Classic and Remastered).

“The Bloodmoon will rise again, and my hounds will walk the lands. Let this world enjoy its brief respite, for Hircine will hunt again!”

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A collab piece between two other TES artists here @hircines-hunter and their OC, Sifkni (the werewolf in the middle) and @lobo-inu character, Ember, at the top. Both were drawn by each artist respectively. I drew Hircine, Callum, and the background (and added some finishing touches).

I had this idea randomly and thought it’d be cool to collab with other Elder Scrolls fans who had werewolf OCs. Like Hircine calling them to a hunt, some more thrilled about it than others (Callum forced against his will and his werewolf form very excited to kill for one xD).

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Guys HELP I fast traveled and the two Martin's I spawned at the start of the game appeared and now I can't tell which is the real one 😭😭😭

emojis oc ask game! These are unabashedly just the questions *I* want to ask about y’all’s ocs. Feel free to copy the entire question into the ask box, because this list is hefty and I wouldn’t mind not searching through it, hahaha. Remember to specify which oc(s) you’re asking about!

🌈 - Do you associate any colors with them?

👁️ - How do other people perceive this oc? How close do their first assumptions come to the truth?

💝 - How much effort do they put into appearances? Do they have a favorite article of clothing?

⚠️ - If this oc came with a warning sign, what would it be?

🌨️ - If this oc had a day free from all their responsibilities, how would they spend it?

💙 - Describe their bedroom! Is it personalized, unchanged? Messy, neat?

👖 - Coffee shop or high school AU, your choice: tell me their role.

☕ - What is their preferred beverage(s)?

🧁 - When is their birthday? How do they celebrate it, if at all?

🧠 - What is their stress response: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn?

💭 - How is their mental health? Do they struggle with guilt or shame?

💔 - Does forgiveness come easily or with difficulty to this oc? Can they forgive others? What about themselves?

❗- What are the highest priorities to this oc (at a point in their life of your choosing)?

⚔️ - How does this oc handle conflict?

🌍 - What are this oc’s religious views?

🌊 - Does this oc have a secret or repressed desire?

✨ - Tell something that makes this oc feel happy!

🧶 - Do they do any arts, crafts, or creative hobbies?

🍪 - What are their favorite scents?

☔ - How does this oc feel about rain?

🌲 - Do they have a favorite location to hang out in?

⚡ - Does this oc have any unusual or “irrational” fears?

🗡️ - Does this oc have a signature object, accessory, or weapon?

💛 - Are they ‘good with children’, or more awkward?

🧡 - Physical touch: good or bad for this oc?

👁️‍🗨️ - Eye contact: good or bad for this oc?

🐺 - How does this oc deal with solitude?

🔅 - How does this oc deal with physical pain?

🌱 - Share one of this oc’s early memories.

🐰 - How huggable is this oc?

🍁 - What is this oc’s favorite season?

🌕 - If this oc was an animal, what kind would they be?

🦷 - Would this oc ever bite someone?

🐉 - Very serious question… are they more like a dragon, or a unicorn?

🐸 - What’s this oc’s sense of humor like?

🚷 - Tell one difference between yourself and this oc!

📓 - Do you associate any quotes or lyrics with this oc?

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Callum walking in the rain with his werewolf form reflected in the puddles.

Been obsessed with werebeasts lately... This is Sashanji in his wereform, he's Roe's twin brother. Not sure if it makes sense for him to be a werelion in relation to the Bloodmoon questline, but then again who cares. I always thought it was a bit weird for khajiit to transform into basic ass looking werewolves but I get it from a lore friendly standpoint

summary of kh smell powers but I didn't bother, like, making this post look good or making sure my research was conclusive so just take it

Zexion:

  • extremely wide range and pinpoint accuracy
  • could sense the remains of Ansem in Riku's heart, and specifically Ansem, not Xemnas- there is a subtle difference
  • likewise, could tell the difference between Maleficent and the false memory Maleficent
  • could tell when Vexen died and that Axel killed him, as well as when Lexaeus died- assuming basement hq is on the lowest floor like above ground hq is the highest, that's 24 floors away from Vexen death scene, and within a memory room too
  • glaring flaw: did not notice Sora until he was pointed out
  • also failed to notice Naminé when she showed up to help Riku (if she showed up in person at all, which I'm pretty sure she did)
  • I wish I could say that it's as easy as him only being able to detect scents when a high concentration of darkness is involved except that because of Sora's actions in Hollow Bastion kh1 + Naminé being a Nobody, they probably have very unique scents... I don't know
  • I also don't think it makes much sense with the other stuff he can do. You're telling me he can tell the difference between a real and false Maleficent but not smell normal levels of darkness? maybe he's just too swamped in the miasma in this game
  • sensory overload king

Riku

  • well he can smell darkness that's for sure
  • could tell when Marluxia died, implying a high range for him as well (level b3 to level 13, that's 16 floors... probably), but his level of nuance is "wow you guys all reek!" and this
  • what the hell do you mean "something else". not related to the point of this post
  • I don't think he can actually smell when someone is a Nobody or not, he can just connect one black coat + scent of darkness to another
  • "You and Kairi smell the same" in the context of the scene seems to imply that it actually means "You smell the same as the person who appeared to me as Kairi so I knew it was you in disguise" and not that Naminé and the real Kairi smell the same. or maybe they do and Riku just managed a bullseye on the conclusion he jumped to. or maybe they have a slight difference and he just couldn't tell. idk
  • being able to tell that Marluxia was a "strong darkness" does not actually imply that dark-sensing powers are an inherent powerscaling tool, just that if you have more darkness in you, the scent will be more powerful. Marluxia's attacks are very darkness-based
  • why oh whyyyyy did they make it "I just can't stand your foul stench" in Re:CoM instead of keeping GBA CoM's "You just really stink"? That's such a funny burn like imagine you're Ansem SoD and you ask Riku why he keeps rejecting you and he calls you a little baby loser and smelly in the same breath

Even?

  • idk if he can actually smell it or if it's something else but hey
  • capable of reading both light and darkness within hearts
  • very short range

Eraqus...

  • a single line in dark road to remind everyone that they didn't forget about the smelling darkness thing
  • he can do it

Man I know that elder scrolls is a stupid series and all that but I really think they did concepts like orcs and dark elves mostly correct. More correct than a lot of franchises I’ve seen anyways.

I think dnd took until like this year to properly update drow and orcs or something? Like fantasy as a whole has a hard time shaking off this idea of evil races.

The elder scrolls approach to these guys from the beginning though has been that their cultures are just really different from the other cultures around them.

Like you can hang out in orc strongholds in Skyrim and spend the whole game around dark elves in Morrowind and they’re just regular people that have kind of extreme cultural norms. Dark elves are kind of rude to you when they first meet you but like in the way certain cultures are rude to outsiders at first until they get to know them. Orcs are rough around the edges but they’re smart and have a proud culture and if you can hold your own in a fight they’ll respect you.

And you see these people can blend pretty well into other societies. They join faiths their ancestors didn’t practice, they have jobs that people of their race wouldn’t stereotypically have, they have opinions about what other people assume about them, they have their own wrong assumptions about other cultures.

There’s this understanding somewhere in these games that people are shaped by their cultures but you also can’t predict how an individual will behave based on the culture that they came from. And I like that.

Listen, I love the elder scrolls. It is deep and wide and beautiful. It is also filled with cheese though.

TES worldbuilding does something I haven't really seen any other fantasy universe do, it foregoes a clear cut and thoroughly explained cosmology in favor of actually different religious interpretations of its universe. There's a basic outline to be gleamed from the overlap between the various theologies, but there's no definitive answer to a lot of questions.

Are Masser and Secunda normal moons? Are they holes in reality through which the light of Aetherius shines? Are they the sundered corpse of the demiurge? Are they normal moons but there's a secret third moon that only comes out during a double eclipse and *that* one is Lorkhan's body? They fought a war about this.

I think the fact that utter silliness and ridiculous notions can coexist with conplex ideological flaws and layers upon layers of behavioural patterns and anomalies makes of TES something far from simply realistic or simply stupid. It is the most realistic exploration of the paradoxes of our reality without directly quoting them. A potential vast source to learn, without the consequences of learning all of this in the real world.

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Many have written about how Karlach throws Astarion, well… Don't worry, no Astarions were harmed! But I can't say the same about Gortash…

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