#yokudan

[aldudagga]

Project Hammerfell concept art for the Abecean Red Armada - a state-sanctioned privateer militia chartered by the Crown to oversee his direct domains of Old Hegathe, Stros M'kai, and Gilane. They were founded during the Simulacrum in response to the decline of the Imperial West Navy and the increasing instability following the War of the Blue Divide. The coronation of Commodore Naffir as Constable of Stros M'kai has invariably given the outfit more power and tighter responsibilities, and the Constable still remains ever vigilant in his war on smuggling.

#hammerfell #high rock #daggerfall #project tamriel #tamriel rebuilt #tamriel #morrowind #vvardenfell #oblivion #skyrim #elder scrolls #the elder scrolls #tesblr #redguard #yokuda #yokudan #video games #gaming #fan art #concept art #art #armor

[late-nite-scholar]

Aug 11th (Day 7): Prompt- Profane / Sword

Day 7: Sword- Besharat finds the secret of something long lost to her people, and with it, a link to her culture that she sometimes feels she is losing by being the Dragonborn. A little off-canon but very much part of my personal story for her. For her, this is bigger than being the Dragonborn, because first and foremost, she is Yokudan. Prompts by @tes-summer-fest   

Redguard LDB x Farkas

Warnings- None

Wordcount- ~1500

(I posted a picture of a mod that gave me the Book of Circles. This is what you make with it. Description in alt text)

***

I stared at the ancient page in front of me, dropping my quill onto the paper I’d brought to take notes. My hand shook as I brought it up to cover my mouth. I wanted to cry. I had jokingly grumbled to anyone who would listen about not actually being the first Redguard Harbinger of the Companions, but now I was infinitely grateful I wasn’t.

My predecessor had left me a gift more precious than gold, gems, or any kind treasure that could be had. He’d left a memoir, chronicling his leaving Hammerfell, his arrival at Jorrvaskr posing as a servant, to his time as a Shield-Brother, and then to Harbinger in his later years. But within those pages, I had just learned a life-altering secret.

He was a blademaster, but not just because he studied Hunding as I did. No, Cirroc the Lofty had been Ansei! And more than that, he’d written how to create a shehai, lamenting that the art was becoming lost even in his time!

I wrote down everything he had written on the subject, trying to keep my hand steady. I copied it verbatim, lest I miss something by taking a shortcut. My heart was beating so hard I thought it would burst from my chest. Could I use his writings to do this for myself? I could hardly dare hope that such a thing were possible, so far removed from the First Era when Cirroc had written this down.

There was only one way to find out.

***

Three days later I stood in the practice yard, ready to try. I’d studied Cirroc’s words, read Hunding, and meditated in the way of my people. I’d prepared as thoroughly as possible for this moment, ritually cleansing myself and giving offerings to my gods two hours ago in the early dawn. I had only a statue of Morwha here in Whiterun, but I appealed not only to her, but to all our gods; Leki, Tall Papa, Onsi, Tava, Diagna, The HoonDing, our ancestors, and the rest. Anyone who could help me achieve this feat, I prayed for their help. Never had I dreamed I would ever actually attempt this. Had these arts not been lost since the Second Age? But then again, had dragons not been as well? Perhaps nothing was truly lost forever?   

The yard was empty at this hour, minus me and Farkas, who stood beside me with a frown deepening the crease between his brows. I knew he wasn’t quite sure what I was doing and that my explanations over the last few days had probably sounded like mad rambling. But he also wasn’t going to let me try some sort of new and powerful magic on my own. I knew he’d been talking to Orielle about what he could do if something went wrong and I was fairly certain the scroll sticking out of his pocket was a dispel magicka ward. But I knew he’d only use it if he absolutely thought he had to. He was still a bit wary of magicka, but he trusted me to know what I was doing.

But that thought couldn’t dispel the excitement bubbling up inside me. I tried to keep it in check; after all, this might not work. In fact, it was more than likely that it wouldn’t. But just the idea… I pushed it out of my mind. I needed concentration now, to focus on my lessons.

“I’m going to try it.” I said softly, taking a deep breath. “Leki show me how, as you did my ancestors. May The HoonDing make way for this art, long lost and now found. Ancestors, if I am worthy to walk beside you on this path, let me be successful. Mother Morwha, guide me as you always do. Tell Tall Papa that Besharat do Bergama comes to test her skill as a warrior of Yokuda!”

I reached deep into myself, into the core of my being. Into the deep and hidden parts that most people would never think to access. And I could feel something. I reached for it, my hand curling around it as I pulled it free. From deep within, white light poured out. I was holding it, I could feel it swirling around me. And then it coalesced into a solid grip in my hands, a long curved blade rising up before me. It pulsed with my life force, my soul; the two of us attuned to one another in a way no two other beings had been in millennia. At that moment I was no longer one being, part of me was now this sword made of light.

I swung it, gently at first but then in a practice routine I used every day. And it was absolutely perfect in every way; no better weapon could be made by human, mer, or beastfolk hands. Not to compare to this. Even my beloved Skyforge steel sword, made to my specifications by Eorlund himself, couldn't compare to this actual extension of my being.   

“I did it. By all the gods and ancestors… I really did it. A shehai…” Everything blurred as tears streamed down my face, and I began to laugh and cry at the same time. “I made a shehai…”

I looked over at Farkas, whose eyes were wide enough to see the whites all the way around. He took this all in, whispering, “I’ve never seen anything like that. Not even those folks who use bound weapons. It’s not like that.”

“It’s not. This isn’t calling a blade from elsewhere to use. This is creating it from within, from yourself. It’s a piece of me. No one’s done this for thousands of years. There’s been no Ansei since the Second Era. But… but I could be one… a Sword Singer…”

The spell wavered, and the shehai dissipated back into me. But I still smiled. I hadn’t expected to hold the spell even that long on the first try. No matter what, this had been incredibly, wildly successful.

“If I did it once, I can do it again!” I laughed, throwing my arms around Farkas. But he didn’t hug me in return, and as I stepped back I saw a shadow in his eyes. I reached up to take hold of his face. “What’s wrong, my heart?”

“I’m glad it worked. But making this sword from yourself, from your soul, it’s not gonna hurt you, is it? Not gonna affect you somehow?”

“Not from what I’ve read. It’s like magicka, but it’s not. When it disappeared there it just went back into me. Long ago, the wielders of this ability were powerful beyond measure, they could do things far beyond regular mortals. It’s more like… it’s more like the thu’um, it’s part of you and you just have to learn how to use it properly. And like the thu’um, I’m sure you could hurt yourself if you were reckless, but I have trained my whole life and I will keep training to use this properly.”

“Okay. That makes it make a lot more sense. I just worry sometimes, love.” He kissed my forehead.

“I know. And I don’t like to worry you. But this is huge! For me, for my people…” My shoulders dropped a little. “All this Dragonborn stuff… I feel like an outsider to it. It’s not mine. It’s the history, the stories, the gods of others. I’ve felt a bit like I’m being pulled away from my self, from who I am. But this is mine, it’s in my blood and bones. I feel it inside and it’s right. It makes me feel like maybe I haven’t totally lost my Redguard self to the whims of a dragon god who probably should’ve picked a Nord instead.”

Farkas hugged me tightly. “There’s no one else that can do what you do, Eshi. Maybe that’s why he picked you. But I… I am glad you’ve got this if it helps you feel more like yourself. It was really impressive.” He admitted. “It’d be quite the thing in battle, I think.”

“I think so too! I can’t wait to test it out! And thank you, for understanding. Why don’t we go get some breakfast? Everyone will be getting up soon and I promised Orielle I’d let her know how things went. And I don’t know about you, but I’ve been fasting for this and I’m hungry.”

He slipped an arm around my waist. “Let’s go then, love. I think Tilma said the kitchen were making apple dumplings this morning. We can get some while they’re nice and hot.”

We walked back into the hall, and I felt like I was walking on air. No matter what destiny or fate or the gods threw at me, I was still Yokudan! My blood and my bones and my soul were still of Hammerfell, and of our lost home beyond the sea. And no matter where I went or what I did, they always would be.    

#tesfest23 #tes fest 23 #tesfest23! #tes skyrim #the elder scrolls skyrim #tes v #skyrim #the companions #companions of jorrvaskr #farkas #farks x ldb #redguard ldb #oc: besharat #yokudan #tes fic

[reyneluvirith]

Languages of Hammerfell, 4E197

The languages of Hammerfell as described in my language-focused apocrypha, Languages of Tamriel, which fleshes out the linguistic situation of Tamriel in the Fourth Era.

>> Direct link to the map <<

#the elder scrolls #tes #elder scrolls #elder scrolls lore #maps #fantasy maps #language maps #hammerfell #“yoku was almost entirely replaced” #okay but what does that MEAN #clearly it means hammerfell is still full of extant nedic languages together with the yokudan ones #not stretching at all

[hammerfell]

When ES6 takes place in hammerfell then everyone will see💔

#I highly doubt that hammerfell Wont be in the game. even if they include highrock #plus. I need redguard lore i need yokudan pantheon lore i neeeed it I NEEEEED THE VOLENDRUNG DWEMER I NEEEEEEEEEDDD DITTTTT

[farshores]

Hi i had to pull an all nighter cus of personal bs but i had the realization that the Albatross would prob be like...the bird most likely used/seen as a motif of Tava next to the Goshawk/Redtail Hawk. Idk mybe it's the bird sailors would feed/have mini figurines or feathers of for safe sailing yknow

Maybe even like...idk Yokudan folklore on how the bird's creation was a collab of sorts between her n Morwha due to the seabirds' habit of forming life long pairs??? Idk im sleepy

#speaking of morwha i also have so many thoughts on her and like some hcs of her having more of a hand on areas like Arkay covers #cus like...i kinda just ignore a lot of beth's lore and how morwha is set up by them is kinda 😬 #like i still think her being a goddess of love would still work - mybe bcus of her covered realm she's also prayed to for things like #fertility or healthy children every now n again that's not too bad as a base concept but like she gets the whole #'hurr lusty god all about male gaze like dibella!' shit so its just hm. dont like that #idk im rambling in the tags now I'll make a decent post about some ideas/hcs i have for yhe yokudan pantheon one day but not today #for i.......am very sleepy....... #long tag rambling

[noxcorvid]

think I’m almost done deciding when serana gets bank chuted w her elder scroll, sometime between 1E 2331 and 1E 2703, the end and beginning times of the alessian and reman empires, bc the main hangup in figuring out when that happens is her line of “cyrodiil’s the seat of an empire?” when you wake her up. I decided against it happening during the interregnum in the 2E, bc while Cyrodiil doesn’t have a solid cohesive empire at that time, it still was kkkkkkkind of an empire? it was nominally an empire (the empire of Cyrodiil) so I decided against it, and then that segways right into Tiber septim septiming all over the place into the 3rd era, so 1E it is. Considered before the Alessian Empire, but that began 1E 243 and for the sake of keeping the story relatively cohesive (for perspective, the Dwemer getting thanos snapped and chimer->dunmer happened around 1E 700, and the yokudans began sailing en masse for Tamriel in 1E 792), and I initially didn’t want serana to be so violently out of the loop... I was gonna save that level of dissonance for a potential miraak doesn’t die in apocrypha arc but the ideas been growing on me. Like a fungus. ALSO, re: language: I don’t care what the official lore (or at least uesp) says there’s no way all of tamriel was using high elvish for legal documents continent-wide, serana would speak primarily old Nordic either way, but at least with the Alessian empire having already happened it makes sense if she at least spoke a little bit of old cyrodilic ……… but also very early 1E serana so. Hm.

#Skyrim #tes #serana #other things to consider: valerica tended her garden for centuries without there being a Cyrodiil empire #dragons weren’t so uncommon yet #the architecture of the Volkihar castle feels very… Breton in aesthetic #and I know this is bc Bethesda was probably going for a very generic spooky vampire castle design #but I like to think w the timeline its given enough time for the Bretons to expand out #bc the castles like. right on the border there #and I like the idea of it being originally built or commissioned to be built by Bretons #and before the alessian empire feels too short a period #like too close to when the direnni ruled and held the power #the Breton would be too busy figuring out their own shit to make a big fancy castle for the nords over there #so yah.

[elderscrollsconceptart]

"Yokudan Chest"

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Mathew Weathers

#the elder scrolls #art #concept art #tes #eso #the elder scrolls online #yokuda #redguard #hammerfell #chest #fantasy #mathew weathers

[ansu-gurleht]

a yokudan, atmoran, tsaesci, and maormer fight each other to the death. who wins and why is it the yokudan

[solitarydegarcia]

custom design of pre-vampiric Rada al-Saran back in his days of Yokudan glory and fashion sense for cerviero do not reupload

#Rada al-Saran #The Elder Scrolls Online #The Elder Scrolls #Markarth #ESO #bringart

[profanetools]

I'm trying to look through scraps to establish some things about sinistral elves and it's genuinely depressing how most of the lore is just "yeah the yokudans hated them so much that they killed every one of them"

#literally wish my brain had latched onto another series sometimes there is only so much worldbuilding via genocide i can take

[uesp]

Did You Know: The Silverhoof Horsemen were a group of Yokudans who arrived in High Rock nearly 200 years before the Ra Gada reached Tamriel? According to their oral tradition, the Horse-Folk left Yokuda to escape religious persecution.

#UESP #Lore #The Elder Scrolls #Did You Know #Elder Scrolls Online

[electronicdelusionstarlight]

Hey, uh, I was having a conversation about the lore, and someone mentioned how the Redguards are responsible for genocide.

And I was like "Well, yeah, Redguards and Bretons are known to be extremely awful to the Orsimer, that's right, that's a fucked up part of the lore that should be more open for discussion-"

And then they interrupted me and said they were talking about the indigenous nedic populations of Hammerfell, actually, getting enslaved and exterminated by the Warrior Wave.

And that fucking brings me pause, because that's not a fucking thing in the lore.

Then they mention a MK Quote about "Black Imperialism" to justify this, about how he decided to have the black people come,kick ass, and conquer a land, which they take as tacit approval of the genocide of the nedic natives.

Which, AGAIN, are not a fucking thing.

So I decide to dig deeper into it and.

Uh...

Ok, THIS, is an extract from the 3rd edition of the Pocket Guide of the Empire, used by UESP as source for the Hammerfell page for its history.

The Yokudans left their continent following a cataclysm (discussed in a later section of the Guide), arriving in Tamriel in an invading fleet called the Ra Gada. The disorganized Orcs fell to them quickly, as did all the infestations of monster and beast further inland. The Redguards, as the Ra Gada came to be called, made no concession to the Breton settlements along the coasts, slashing through the southern Iliac Bay, winning the entire area that is now the Province of Hammerfell in only a few major battles. The Na-Totambu, the government of Yokuda, was transplanted whole, together with their traditional system of agriculture and religion which was well suited to the unforgiving climate of the Redguards' new home.

The guide mentions only Orcs, Goblin-Ken and Monsters living in "The Deathlands" as natives, then mentions Dwemer, Altmer and Breton settlers, Altmer and Bretons specifically for ONE settlement each on the coasts.

There is no mention of the Nedic people, and none of the races here talked about have gone at any point extinct.

Now, THIS is from the First Pocket Guide of the Empire from ESO:

This vanguard "warrior wave" of Yokudans, the Ra Gada, swept into the country, quickly slaughtering and enslaving the beastfolk and Nedic villagers before them, bloodily paving the way for their people who waited at Herne, including the Na-Totambu, their kings and ruling bodies. The fierce Ra Gada became, phonetically, the Redguards, a name that has since spread to designate the Tamrielic-Yokudan race in general. They ultimately displaced the Nedic peoples, for their own agriculture and society was better organized and better adapted to Hammerfell's harsh environment. They took much of Nedic custom, religion, and language for themselves in the process, and eventual contact with the surrounding Breton tribes and Colovian Cyrodilics hastened their own assimilation into the larger Tamrielic theater.

Notice ANYTHING different?

Like, the sudden presence of white nedic tribes getting genocided by the Warrior Wave because they were too "primitive" to survive?

ESO decided, out of fucking nowhere, to just... Have the Redguards commit slavery and genocide. Just like that. To have them show up and commit slavery and genocide on some generic "primitive native white people."

They decided to make it another fucking race war. And they decided to make their one human race featuring black people the butchers in it.

And now we have fuckers using this as a justification for anti Redguard sentiment, to use a very thinly veiled euphemism.

What in the fuck?

#elder scrolls #redguard #tes #tes lore #tes critical #elder scrolls criticism

[captain-heiko]

Hi do you have the download for the Yokudan Porcelain set, every link i can find has been deleted :(

[late-nite-scholar]

This may only be exciting to me, but I got a new mod tonight for some very important lore/headcanon stuff for Besharat. Behold!

This is kind of a big deal. As a Redguard and especially as a Crown Redguard who just as often refers to themselves as Yokudan, I was so thrilled to find this. It will stay permanently in her inventory.

It's not the actual Book of Circles, though. It's basically the instructions for how the mod works. I'll get to that part another time but it is amazing!

#Skyrim #skyrim mods #redguard #book of circles #skyrim screenshots #my screenshots

[joonjii]

Doing some research on the Maormer people, here’s the most interesting things I learned in the past hour:

Potema and Orgnum slept together in diplomatic politeness

Orgnum may very well be the Serpent god Satakal, the Yokudan god of everything. People who worship Satakal dispute it unless they are of Maormer descent.

The Maormer were never “exiled” from the Isles. Orgnum was a phenomenally wealthy Aldmeri diplomat that attempted to use his social standing to rebel against the Aldmeri powers. He and his supporters were exiled from Aldmeris, not the Isles. And they found Pyandonea in “The Veil of Mist.”

During the War if the Isles in 3E 110, the Altmer, the Imperial legion, and the fucking Psijic Order ganged up on the Maormer armada. A sudden “storm” devastated Orgnum’s fleet, and they never mustered up another attack.

The last known owner of King Orgnum’s Coffer was the Eternal Champion (protagonist of the Elder Scrolls: Arena)

Orgnum utilizes “snake magic” to control the minds of sea-serpents

There’s a cross breed of sea-serpents and Maormer known as Leviathans. They stand “a head above the tallest Nords” and they stand with their back arched, ready to strike.

They really like mudcrab.

#maormer #skyrim lore #orgnum #fishelf #arstulseastrider #arstul

[tamrieldrifter]

Reputations are slow to kindle, swift to douse

The people of Vlastarus endeavour just to survive in a world that keeps trying to destroy them. From the dispassionate occupation of the ever fluctuating banners, to ruthless bandit gangs, savage goblin tribes, and necromancers raising dead from their graveyards. But it was when the dead began to rise unsolicited from the nearby Ayleid ruins of Ceyatatar that they may just have begun to suspect that the whole of Mundas has it in for them.

Regular ghosts would be bad enough, but these are the spirits of Hadhuul the Fire King's notorious army who have somehow retained through quietus, their ability to summon and control flame atronachs. Ghosts will oft retain their power to cast simple destruction spells beyond the grave, perhaps it is that their magic becomes so much a part of their identity that it remains with them through death, but rarely have I seen or heard of ghosts that retain their ability to summon other entities. I mean, what self respecting daedra would want to be commanded by a dead mortal.

The townsfolk have a cunning plan to use an attuned crystal to collect essences of flame from the atronachs to prevent them from being resummoned, but first they require a hired hand to dispatch them. Luckily for them I have had no better offer this evening; not for lack of searching could I find a gambling hall, or bawdy house nearby. As I cut through the atronachs one by one, I watch with fascination their bodies crumble to dust, their essences rise into the air dancing in the dusk like shooting stars, and then disappearing into the crystal.

Only when I feel I have done enough do I venture to challenge the ghost of the fire king himself. This was not a request from Vlastarus, this is purely for my own pride. Rarely it is that one gets to face an opponent of such repute. Perhaps not since the Worm King raised the Yokudan heroes against us in the Ancestral Crypts beneath the Valley of Blades; not counting of course my encounter with the Lord of Brutality himself, for a thousand, thousand souls had my back on that day.

S.K

#662 #the elder scrolls online #cyrodiil #tamrieldrifter #eso #rpg adventure #screenshots #esorp #the elder scrolls #mmorpg