dwemeri

[dwemeri]

[dwemeri]

remember when the dragonborn upon meeting paarthurnax for the first time immediately asked to learn the Spell For Dragon Killing

#no etiquette whatsoever no greeting or nothin #chatterbox

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@trinimac​ i have thought about this back and forth for the greater part of seven months (not deeply but frequently) and yes, in-game stalhrim is referred to as magical ice but from a worldbuilding standpoint................ what if it were chert

visually stalhrim weapons look like knapped stone:

which like. isn’t necessarily reason enough; obviously yeah stalhrim visually resembles em but so do dragonbone weapons but being found on a volcanic island means that despite not knowing the Deep Geological History of skyrim (though the skyrim geological survey is cool as shit and provides good pointers) with significant heat and tectonic activity, silica from nearby volcanoes as well as a coastline (for limestone formation), conditions for chert/flint formation are favorable and therefore could be the reason for the specificity of solstheim being the only place to find stalhrim, with stalhrim being a unique variety of chert/flint (like ohio flint or pedernal chert or any other kind of chert/flint associated with a specific formation/member)

the analogy isnt perfect because stalhrim encases the (more recent) corpses but it sure is cool to think of the geological implications of a unique type of material found only on a volcanic island and what real-world analog can be found to flesh out a little detail of How It Would Actually Work.

#this is coming from a veeeeery very amateur level knowledge of geology but speculative natural history is fun :))) i like the it #skyrim #stalhrim armor still goofy to me

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Malborn & Delphine's absolute disparagement of the Dragonborn's clothing fits so well with Kelkemmeran and his lack of style. ("You can't go to a party at the Thalmor Embassy dressed like that!")

Couldn't resist designing some Nordic-Altmeri party clothes, though! uvu

#luv luv luv the use of skyrim font for dialogue :) #its like futura right? #i like it and i lve offputting dragonborns

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why do vilkas and farkas have different accents. what was your home life like.

#chatterbox

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for skyrim day i think we should ban skyrim

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my tes ocs :) in their natural habitats

#YEAS..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #friend art #swag ass jazz art

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have fun absorbing blows in your knappable igneous rock armor dipshit

#skyrim armor makes me so joyfully ANGRY #stalhrim is ABSOLUTELY supposed to be obsidian except light blue #it is only found in regions of volcanic activity.??…?!!? it is believed to be imbued with power….?.?.!.!.??? #bark bark bark etc etc

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Everyone tell me about what your elder scrolls ocs would be cancelled for in real life. Please. I wanna hear it

#pallene would be cancelled for havjng an affair (twice) (admittedly while not Together together but the point stands) #nur’ama for ‘abandoning’ her daughter and then having a complex abot it #kelta for literally any of it take your pick. necromancy. sibling murder. thinking of herself as an exception to the rule. etc

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the voiced dental fricative ð of “thu’um” and “thuri” should not be a part of dragon language if they look like this…….!!!!!! or is paarthurnax speaking a version of dovah that uses spoken english sounds…?? mama mia the linguistics department of bethesda softworks really bungled this one!

no offense but this is truly an abysmal way to depict bone let alone a skull

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no offense but this is truly an abysmal way to depict bone let alone a skull

#chatterbox #is anyone else seeing this shit

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this should be considered terrorism

falmer silk moth insect husbandry cultural identification with butterflies and moths cultivating chaurus is an intentional decision the falmer are people, forgotten vale area falmer people different from winterhold/sarthaal area falmer people. snowmelt significance. portable fibrecraft to counter the dwemer’s mechanical loom. cold-water tannin fabric dyeing, lichen and bark. ammonia mordant. linen not cotton. goatswool. dropspindle and distaff to counter the dwemer’s carding drums and spinning wheels. understand?

[dwemeri]

falmer silk moth insect husbandry cultural identification with butterflies and moths cultivating chaurus is an intentional decision the falmer are people, forgotten vale area falmer people different from winterhold/sarthaal area falmer people. snowmelt significance. portable fibrecraft to counter the dwemer’s mechanical loom. cold-water tannin fabric dyeing, lichen and bark. ammonia mordant. linen not cotton. goatswool. dropspindle and distaff to counter the dwemer’s carding drums and spinning wheels. understand?

#chatterbox #you know what. i was right for fixating on speculative falmer culture when i was 15.

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FINALLY finished the fullbody references for the Skyrim characters I’m currently playing with!!! God this took so long but it’s nice to break that habit of making a million OCs and then not drawing any of them

#LOVE these…!!!!!!

[dwemeri]

storms (day 2)

(chapter 3 - tesfest2022 - read on AO3)

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The day of Karnalta’s first magic lesson was as dark and stormy as Iliah’s mood was. Rain fell ceaselessly and wind lashed the windows, the trees of Mournhold bent in the gale. The streets echoed as torrents poured into the vast storm-sewers below. Within the manor of the remnant Ra’athim, Karnalta stood by the door, fastening an oiled netch-hide cloak over her head and ignoring Iliah’s pleading.

“You should go tomorrow,” Iliah was saying. “It’s so rainy outside. You can’t walk there. What if you get hit by lightning?”

“Then I’ll absorb the lightning,” Karnalta replied, tying a hood-string beneath her chin. “You heard what Saenus said. I absorb magic.”

“But what if it strikes a hole in your cloak and you get wet?”  

“That won’t happen.”

“What if someone tries to hurt you and I’m not there to protect you?”

“In this weather?”

“What if you fall over in the street and drown?”

Karnalta, finished putting on her cloak, gave Iliah an exasperated look.

Keep reading

#mein gott… and the fact that iliah views the library as a safe place…. and its the first place sje saw almalexia…. #(passes awé)

[dwemeri]

The Dwemer being atheistic, rational, scientific, elon musk assholes is a really common characterization with fans, and in the games sometimes. But when not being silly, it’s literally the most boring and reductive way you could characterize an entire culture tbqh.

It’s a telling way of how westerners generally view science. There’s a general assumption that science=atheism, and is opposite to religion (read Christianity), which I think comes from the Catholic Church’s prosecution of men of science. It completely overlooks instances where science and religion are harmonious; Indigenous ecological wisdom, Neo-Confucianism the ulama, many, many contemporary religious ideas. There aren’t tests to rule out the existence of gods or spirits because we don’t have variables to measure. Some of the concept art even discusses reverence of philosophers and scholars in a similar way to ancestor spirits.

Drawing back to my point, I usually don’t have too much faith in the writing, but there’s hints of this in Morrowind, with doubts around the First Council and synthesis of Dwemer and Chimeri culture, with it framed as a religious debate (which seems to be a parallel of the West vs East belief in some pieces of writing- this was 2 years post 9/11), but it worked for hundreds of years. The Dwemer are described as artisans, linguists, philosophers, not necessarily atheists who don’t believe in gods, but people who are looking past them to new limits. I think a lot of the asshole interpretation comes from assumptions on the Numidium & c0da. It denies reality by saying No. People assume it’s like the debater who won’t recognize the other side because they’re right, but that’s just an assumption. On a surface level c0da presents it like this as well, but Jubal gets the Numidium to admit it’s- and the Dwemer’s, pain in the Nordic occupation and the desperation in the Battle of Red Mountain. And this is the key to defeating the Numidium and saving the Aurbis.

None of this is to say I think there’s anything wrong with the elon musk interpretation- people take different things from tes and most of this deep lore stuff is hard to get through. Some content is gonna have a lighter tone and that’s fine. But god half the tags on my stuff talk about rick and morty

#choice dwemerposting. tumblr suggested the tag and Man there sure are posts in it

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underrated npcs part 1: weird swamp wizard

#FALION MY FRIEND FALION