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choilacanth · 3 days
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Happy TES 30th! I will share a drawing soon but for now, I have questions.
One day, while bothering mudcrabs for alchemy writs in ESO I thought "wait I had this guy with chili garlic sauce what's he doing in Skyrim" and have not looked back since.
I'm sure someone has already explored crab biology in TES but I constantly wonder why the dominant crab of Skyrim and the whole of Tamriel is the humble mudcrab, beloved Southeast Asian food mascot, alimango of mangroves in warm Indo-Pacific waters. In general, these are crabs belonging to the Scylla genus, with Scylla serrata in the picture beside an ESO mudcrab.
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(Picture: Pincer, Old Salty, and the Mudcrab guardian spirit, some of Skyrim's named mudcrabs. Images from UESP)
I don't know what's going on with Old Salty's shell, but there was a still a deliberate choice to include a mudcrab with big claws, small legs, and a wide, domed shell in both Skyrim and ESO. I suspect the mudcrab holds some semi-terrestrial charm along with the impressive claws that leggy crabs don’t really have, and I am tickled at the abundant SEasian representation in TES. I am also delighted that, like my family members around a crab, the citizens of Skyrim are able to devour abundant mouthfuls of meat from mudcrab claws.
Do you see your local crab in Tamriel? Feel free to share crab and mudcrab thoughts! Happy TES day!
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Addendum: I am not a crab expert and do not know what Oblivion's and Morrowind's mudcrabs are. These are entirely different genera of crab. I suspect Oblivion's is some pelagic crab and Morrowind's is some box crab (Calappa) with the claws oriented strangely.
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(id: Oblivion mudcrab, Morrowind mudcrab)
Crabs also get very diverse with the special crabs, including Clatterclaw, Titanclaw, and other named crab bosses. Also, there can be no discussion of crabs without Skar. RIP Skar, you are an icon and I have no idea what you are supposed to be.
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(id: Skar in ESO, Skar in Morrowind)
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bro didn't like being interrupted while working in his youth
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he wasn't quite friendly neither
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Various animations developed for The Elder Scrolls: Online
Animation by Mindwalk Studios
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t00thpasteface · 5 hours
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why didn't anyone tell me about the Jester's Feast style in eso
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vestigme · 16 hours
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Oblivion Mannimarco redesign
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ilona-art · 11 hours
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Was in the mood for some Elder Scrolls Photobashing this morning. Ended up with this piece featuring my Dunmer/Maormer Kyriion as well.
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allthingstamriel · 3 days
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Bal Foyen
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Bal Foyen, on the southern coast of Morrowind's Inner Sea, was a wild expanse of marshland until recently. Now much of it has been turned over to the Dark Elves' former Argonian slaves, who plant saltrice and herd guar in the former wastes...
“Go to the watchtower, just past the village of Dhalmora. Tell the soldiers there to light the signal fires along the coast. The fires will warn Davon's Watch that war is upon them." - Captain Rana 
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soullessbullshit · 1 day
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Darien: We just ate. Why are you making pancakes?
Cadwell: They’re for Honor.
Darien: Why are you making pancakes for Honor?
Cadwell: He doesn’t know how!
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triflingshadows · 1 month
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eso affirmations
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tropicalscream · 6 months
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blah blah Bethesda bad anyway
my favorite thing about Elder Scrolls is how goddamn fuckin weird it is
like on surface it's just some dnd game but like even a cursory glance shows tis fucking insane like:
The moons is the corpse of a god
the stars are actually holes in reality when alot of primordial spirits hated that mortals were becoming a thing and fucked off
The demon lord of forbidden knowledge/resident Cthulhu stand-in might also be the beta version of the entire fucking universe made sentient when it wasn't chosen to be the used reality
there are cat ppl that take the form of furrys, lions, or regular cats, so you can have a cursing Pirate legend whose an alcoholic & wanted in 5 countries but is also a like basic tabby cat
the wood elves are so pro-nature they're cannibals and also they murder vegetarians
Vampires came from the Lord of Rape doing well ya know
Werewolves came to exist bc the lord of hunt got bored and is a furry
sex is treated like a fucking ip copyright contract on what aspect of sex is happening and what god it's under. There's been many religious wars about this
The lizard ppl are part tree
the Dwarves all fucked off somewhere and disappeared bc they were so atheist they did math to break relativity and literally no one has any idea where they went God or mortal (except maybe Cthulhu and hes not telling)
Said Cthulhu stand-in treats hiding your grandma's secret cookie recipe & hiding a spell that would end the universe and slay a god the exact same and he will murder you for either
Everyone wants to fuck the Orcs but will never admit it and they got so bent out of shape that a demon god killed the og orc god, ate him, and shat him out bc she couldn't deal with everyone complimenting them all the time so now all Orcs are cursed to be hated but they're all still sexy & so is their god
And all this isnt even the tip of the iceberg
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hermas-mora · 9 months
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Real dot com slash true…
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falmerbrook · 3 months
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The one thing I will give ESO's elf designs is that I like that you can't see much of their sclera. I like to think they do the whale eye thing dogs do when they are uncomfortable
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spacewonder19 · 2 months
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Running Chicken Nebula Widefield © ESO
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"Moon Facade"
Concept art for The Elder Scrolls: Online
Art by Joseph Watmough
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t00thpasteface · 3 hours
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you can look, but you will not find a STRONGER, FASTER-ACTING, or PINCHIER sea elf; that's the Joe Crabshack guarantee!
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without-ado · 4 months
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Halley's Comet l ESO l 1986
The comet begins returning to Earth (Dec. 2023) It will be visible from Earth in 2061.
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