#gelebor

[thana-topsy]

Knight-Paladin Gelebor

#gelebor #snow elf #falmer #skyrim #elder scrolls #skyrim fanart #topsy draws

[renthari-from-telvanni]

May the light of Auri-El illuminate your darkest hour ☀️

— Knight-Paladin Gelebor

#gelebor #knight-paladin gelebor #dawnguard #the elder scrolls #the elder scrolls v: skyrim #tes 5 #tesblr #tes fanart #skyrim fanart #skyrim #snow elf #falmer

[sabiartrin]

The last ones.

#tes #skyrim #falmer #snow elf #gelebor #vyrthur #mer #elder scrolls #vampire #fantasy #fan art

[falmerbrook]

@tescheer Week 4: Blizzard

Snow Elf headcanon time! (ft. A younger Gelebor and Vyrthur)

We don’t know a lot about the Snow Elf religious practices, but the sun-inspired motifs and imagery in a place that probably gets nasty winter weather and little to no sunlight for several months of the year intrigues me. I like to think the folks at the Chantry of Auri-El think of winter as a more contemplative time and a time to test and strengthen one’s faith.

#tescheer #tescheer2023 #skyrim #tes #the elder scrolls #snow elves #gelebor #vyrthur #my art #mine #this ended up being more background practice than anything so don’t look too closely at the boys

[dragonheartwolf]

Some Skyrim sketches!

#the elder scrolls #skyrim #teldryn sero #cicero #erandur #gelebor #aka NPCs that I love very much <3 lmao

[carlandcorals]

#knight paladin gelebor #gelebor #sketch #tes #elven #the elder scrolls #skyrim #traditional art #falmer #snow elf #my art #art #artists on tumblr

[aethuviel]

Gelebor reading the Falmer stone for us.

For the first time (I suppose), here's Gelebor speaking in his own mother tongue.

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I did my best with the UESP wiki to put commas and periods, and this was the third of fourth attempt. Each attempt is unique, so in the others, he said "t" instead of "th" on one word, and sadly one had to be thrown because he said "arcaten" instead of "arcten".

#Gelebor #Knight Paladin Gelebor #Falmer #Snow Elves #Skyrim #Elder Scrolls #elvish

[throughtrialbyfire]

dropping some skyrim character headcanons - physical affection edition <3 gender neutral, tried to make them as relationship ambiguous as possible.

-brynjolf - early on, he's not very receptive to touch. a pat on the shoulder, that usual, hard-handed kind that he gives anyone he's friends with, is pretty much all you'll get at first. but once he warms up to you, you can expect a big shoulder-hug and a ruffle of the hair, no matter the relationship you two share. -cicero - clingy. clingy clingy clingy CLINGY. he LOVES affection. oh, the moment you show that you're receptive to his attempts at affection, he just melts. whether it's grabbing your shoulders to make you dance a little bit with him, grasping your hand, full on sprinting to you to give you a hug when you get back to the sanctuary, he's all for it, because it means you're there. it means that you've accepted him, and to him, any bit of acceptance from the listener can make him into a doting fool. -serana - extremely shy at first. she's uncomfortable with people in general, but after a while of traveling together, getting to know you, she begins to warm up. it may only be brushing your hands against one anothers or her head on your shoulder or standing close to one another for a long time, but she does enjoy your presence, and wants you to know she's here, through thick and thin. -gelebor - by auri-el he's touch-starved. he'll never admit it out loud, but he does miss even the smallest gestures of affection. he, like serana, is also excruciatingly shy. but he does try to make the effort to reach out first, whether it be the tiniest squeeze of your hand to reassure you when things get rough, or the gentlest press of his palm on your upper back. once he's assured you're comfortable with it, there's little to stop him from sitting with you by a warm fire, shoulder-to-shoulder, just enjoying the fact there's another living being beside him. -nazir - you know how some people will ask you to do things for/with them as an excuse to spend time together? yeah thats nazir. whether it be asking you to help him put together a particularly strong poison, sort coin for a job, help chop something up for a new recipe he's working on, or write down/work out a contract for the brotherhood, he's using this as a chance to spend time with you. and if it winds up with the two of you brushing hands, sitting close together, him guiding your hand on something, then that's how it is. if you're comfortable with it, he will wrap an arm around your shoulder casually or lean against you, just to be near you. -ancano - haha, good luck <3 it takes a lot to get near him, as he keeps everyone about ten feet away at all times. however, once you do manage to break through that icy exterior… well, he'll say he doesn't like physical affection, that he finds someone playing with his hair demeaning, that oh, he absolutely abhors someone putting their arms around him and burying their face in his chest, but… we all know otherwise. he will pretend to hate it, he will whine and grumble and sigh dramatically the entire time, but he'll also do this while melting into your touch and allowing himself the first bit of comfort he's felt in a very long time. -miraak - he's not very big on affection for a while after getting out of apocrypha. it's been thousands of years, he's kind of forgotten what it's like for another living thing to touch him, to actually want to be near him. but after spending enough time together, he'll find himself sleeping closer to you for warmth at night and then thinking about it the next day. it kind of hits all at once, how much he does miss feeling another person near him. so, once you two are comfortable around one another, he'll probably give you an awkward side hug or sit with his shoulder to yours. the small things, but they mean a lot.

#tesblr #tes v #skyrim #nazir #miraak #ancano #brynjolf #gelebor #serana #cicero #headcanons #my writing #bishop.txt #may make a part 2 eventually but for now have this <3

[samich666]

❄️And again my art with him❄️

Gelebor has a certain magnetism for me. I have never liked a character from anywhere for so long, and this craving for him has been for more than five years. It is likely that his history, the history of his brother and the history of the people remain completely lost to us. But this is a huge layer of the history of Skyrim itself, and so Bethesda let it all go with a wonderful fleeting moment. I feel sorry for Gelebor that they did this to him. After all, as I understand it, he was originally calculated as a companion in the game, but this, apparently, was abandoned. Fortunately there is a mod that I enjoy using.

But it's scary to imagine what fate awaits him after completing the quest. Will he leave in the end? Or will he stay there, in the Forgotten Valley? It hurts me to think about it.

#the elder scrolls skyrim #knight paladin gelebor #gelebor #art #my art #fanart #falmer #snow elf #elf #skyrim #digital arwork #samich666

[jiubilant]

finna...and gleeb. and serana and gelebor

most present-day falmer are born with a form of vocal cord paralysis that makes speech difficult or impossible. gleeb can speak when necessary, but he usually talks to finna in the knock-and-tap code with which the people of his clan communicate (and which almost no one else knows)

#skyrim #my art #serana #gelebor #oc tag #finna and gleeb

[thana-topsy]

Sarel teaching Gelebor about the Sightless Alphabet!

#sarel the falmer #topsy’s ocs #Gelebor #falmer #snow elves #skyrim art #skyrim fanart #skyrim #elder scrolls fanart #elder scrolls #topsy draws

[ariquar]

Some more stickers.... Just headshots because I want to keep some of them simple!

#these are before I adjusted them for cmyk printing #Skyrim #serana #Cicero #teldryn sero #gelebor #i need to get these printed as well as some other things I'm working on sticking in my shop

[supervillain-smut]

How would Erandur, Gelebor, Etienne Rarnis, Malborn, Ancano, Marcurio, and Cicero react to surprise hugs?

Malborn and Ancano scream like little girls before they realize and no one can convince me otherwise.

(They scream for different reasons) Hope you enjoy these!

Ancano: Screams like a little girl because he's rarely been hugged and never by surprise, so his scream is more "BY THE GODS I'M BEING ASSAILED WHO'S LAYING THEIR HANDS ON ME?!" and less fear from the general suddenness. Once he realizes it's you, he's stern about letting you know that is not okay.

Cicero: Cicero may be mostly mad, but he hasn't lost all of his abilities as an assassin. You can't sneak up on him no matter how quiet you are. He just knows. He can feel eyes on him, and the hair on the back of his neck stands up; he has a sense for these things. Isn't surprised at all and greets you in his usual jovial manner.

Erandur: Jumps a little with a small "Oh!" but as soon as he registers the hug he calms, chuckling and grabbing your hands, asking about your day and temperament.

Etienne: Jumps a foot high in the air and immediately begins struggling only to realize he was being hugged. You might catch an elbow to the face if you're not careful, or aware of how he'll react.

Gelebor: Jumps internally. You've never actually seen him have an obvious strong emotion before, and this is no exception.

Malborn: Shrieks and attempts to fend off whoever's grabbing him. Poorly, but he's trying his best. Once he realizes he's not in danger, he calms. Barely. He's shaking like a leaf the entire rest of the day.

Marcurio: Verbally key smashes, then sighs. "Oh, it's you. Did you really have to do that? You could have just approached me properly."

#tes skyrim #sfw #ancano #cicero skyrim #skyrim cicero #cicero #erandur #etienne rarnis #gelebor #knight paladin gelebor #malborn #malborn skyrim #marcurio

[falmerbrook]

A rough timeline of the Snow Elf/Falmer history that we know of

While working on a fanfiction, I tried to figure out a rough order of events and when they happened for what we know about the Snow Elves and Falmer since they are pretty foggy in terms of dates. I mainly tried to figure out 1) when did the Night of Tears (and the start of the Snow Elf/Atmoran conflict) happen, 2) how long did the Snow Elf genocide last, 3) when did the Falmer evolve into the Falmer we know them as, 4) when was the Chantry of Auri-El built, 5) when did Vyrthur create the Tyranny of the Sun prophecy, and when (and how) did Harkon hear about it?

So here's roughly what I put together:

ME = Merethic Era (dates function like BCE), 1E = 1st Era

ME 1000-800 – First human settlements in Tamriel

ME 500s-100s - Atmorans land at Hsaarik Head and settle Saarthal

ME 100s – Night of Tears, war between Nords and Snow elves

ME 100s – Battle of Moesring (death of the Snow Prince)

ME 100s – Dwemer make deal with Snow elves

ME late 100s-0 – Dragon War

Early 1E – Construction of the Chantry of Auri-El

1E 200s – last of Snow Elves thought to be driven away/killed

1E 600s – War of the Crag

1E 700 – Dwemer disappear

1E 800s-??? – Chantry of Auri-El is attacked

1E ???-2300s - Vyrthur creates the Tyranny of the Sun prophecy

1E 2300s-2700 – Harkon discovers the prophecy and Valerica hides Serana away

4E 201 – Events of Dawnguard

Bolded = concrete canon dates directly stated somewhere Normal = dates with canon evidence, but never concretely mentioned Italics = dates I made up based on being between/before and after canon events

Now let's go through that timeline again but with my evidence and reasoning (under the cut for space):

ME 1000-800 – First human settlements in Tamriel

Frontier, Conquest, and Accommodation: A Social History of Cyrodiil cites the first human settlements on Tamriel having been dated to ME 1000-800 (Late Merethic Era) outside of Skyrim, which was colonized later.

PGE3 claims that settlers from Atmora sailed to Tamriel for hundreds of years in the Merethic, but that these included the Nedes as well, and it is implied they came over and settled south and potentially in High Rock first as the interbreeding that would lead to Bretons also begin occurring in the Late Merethic. My conclusion is that the Atmoran ancestors of the Nedes came to Tamriel and settled farther south several hundred years before the Atmoran ancestors of the Nords (according to legend) such as Ysgramor settled in Skyrim.

ME 500s-100s - Atmorans land at Hsaarik Head and settle Saarthal

Before the Ages of Man places the settlement of Saarthal in the Late Merethic Era, but as mentioned above, it was likely after several other Atmoran migrations had occurred earlier.

The UESP page on the Merethic Era puts forward two theories for when the settling of the Atmorans in Skyrim/Saarthal occured. To summarize, Kodlack Whitemane claims the Companions are "nearly 5,000 years old" dating them to at latest ME 550 (it has be 4,450 years since the start of the 1st Era). Alternatively, King Harald is said to be the 13th in the direct line of Ysgramor, and UESP thinks, assuming it is referring to generations, that would put Ysgramor as being alive in the ME 100s.

ME 100s – Night of Tears, war between Nords and Snow elves

The Snow Elves attack and raze Saarthal for reasons that have been lost to time, (supposedly) after having had peace with each other. Ysgramor returns to Atmora with his two sons and returns with the Five Hundred Companions.

This one has to have taken part not too long after the settling of Saarthal; Ysgramor is still alive and will live on for awhile after this, and for the sake of caution I'm putting this at the end of the range established in the previous point because it's one of the last things that we know of happening in the Merethic Era.

ME 100s – Battle of Moesring (death of the Snow Prince)

The Fall of the Snow Prince is the one source for the battle itself.

The Nords view this battle as sort of the final stand of Snow Elves, and took place on Solstheim.

Ysgramor led the Atmorans/Nords in this battle (according to the above), so he was still alive for this to take place, which is why I placed it in the same century as the start of the Snow Elf-Atmoran conflict/genocide.

ME 100s – Dwemer make deal with Snow elves

This journal from a Snow Elf in hiding suggests that the Battle of Moesring and the death of the Snow Prince was a major catalyst in deciding to seek out the Dwemer for aid, so whatever deal or alliance was made likely happened fairly soon after that battle.

ME late 100s-0 – Dragon War

Not necessarily relevant to the Snow Elves, but I was curious if the dragons could've been invovled in the conflict with them (and it's relevant to a scene from that fanfic I mentioned earlier)

Skorm Snow-Strider's Journal implies that the Dragon War had already occurred by 1E 139, and was long enough ago that finding dragon cultists was surprising.

UESP consistently lists the Dragon War as one of the last major events of the Merethic Era. It seems like once the Snow Elf population was significantly eliminated/driven out and the Atmorans/Nords began to significantly settle across the land that the Dragon Cult began to take off and become more tyrannical, inciting the Dragon War.

Personal headcanon: The method of Merethic dating originated with King Harald's Nordic scholars, but the event considered to mark the start of the 1st Era is the Founding of the Camoran Dynasty. I like to think that the original 1st Era Nordic event that marked the beginning of the 1st Era was the end of the Dragon War, but when this method of dating was adopted by Tamriel at large the founding of the Camoran Dynasty was adopted as the official start of the 1st Era.

Early 1E – Construction of the Chantry of Auri-El

Gelebor directly states it was built near the beginning of the 1st Era. This is sort of odd because it implies that there was enough of a presence and culture of the Snow Elves in the early 1st Era to put in the resources to build it. Additionally, Gelebor says, "The Chantry is quite isolated, so it took some time for word of the dwarves' offer to reach us here," an offer that almsot certainly happened before the 1st Era. (if I were to rewrite this timeline I would put it much earlier, pre-Atmoran involvement, but for the sake of consistency we will stick with canon for this post)

1E 200s – last of Snow Elves thought to be driven away/killed

In 1E 139, Skorm Snow-Strider's Journal details Lord Harald attempting to root out left over Snow Elves and Snow Elf "stronghold[s]". They are met with significant resistance and reports of attacks on local Nord settlements, however, the presence of Snow Elves is not treated as surprising, implying that this effort to wipe them out has been ongoing since the Merethic Era.

Meanwhile, PGE1 claims that the Snow Elves were considered "driven out" by reign of King Harald. He reigned form 1E 143 to 1E 221.

Given they were still present in 1E 139, but considered wiped out by at latest 1E 221, I concluded that this must've occurred over Harald's reign.

1E 600s – War of the Crag

The Falmer: A Study is the only evidence of this occurring, but it claims that at some point the Falmer under the control of the Dwemer, having already become the Betrayed, started a rebellion, eventually leaving the control of the Dwemer and settling into the deeper reaches of Blackreach. There, they continued in a conflict with the Dwemer called the War of the Crag.

According to the author of this paper, this conflict lasted for several decades and ended when the Dwemer disappeared, leaving the Falmer to freely spread throughout the underground of Skyrim. For this reason, it must've taken place in the 1E 600s.

1E 700 – Dwemer disappear

Kagrenac bonks the Heart of Lorkhan at the end of the War of the First Council. Rest in pieces, Dwemer. The entirety of the Falmer now have the freedom to spread and create their own communities.

1E 800s-2000s – Chantry of Auri-El is attacked

At some point, the modern Falmer invaded the Chantry of Auri-El and presumably killed everyone there except Vyrthur and Gelebor. Given that the Falmer had access to the Forgotten Vale to do so, and were organized and dangerous enough to do that sort of damage, this probably happened a significant amount of time after the disappearance of the Dwemer.

There are no other indications of a date when this happened, so basically all we have to go off of is "after the Dwemer disappeared" and "before Vyrthur created the Tyranny of the Sun prophecy", which itself doesn't have a date.

1E ???-2300s - Vyrthur creates the Tyranny of the Sun prophecy

So Vyrthur creates a prophecy for the sake of getting a Daughter of Coldharbour to him so he can use her blood to block out the sun to get revenge on Auri-El. How did he do that? How did it get out of the Forgotten Vale for Harkon to find out about? How did it end up on Elder Scrolls? Doesn't matter for the purpose of this timeline. We can presume it was after the Chantry of Auri-El was attacked (although we don't even know that for sure, but it's what I'm going with), but obviously before Harkon learned about it.

1E 2300s-2700 – Harkon discovers the prophecy and Valerica hides Serana away

This might not be relevant to the Snow Elves or Falmer as a whole, but it's relevant to Vyrthur's prophecy (in helping me work backwards to figure out when the attack on the Chantry happened) and the Dawguard quest, and many people have brought up before the context of Serana's "Cyrodiil is the seat of an empire?" comment so I thought I'd look into it out of curiosity.

Serana's empire comment is the only indication we have (that I'm aware of) of when Serana was sealed away (and therefore when Harkon learned of the prophecy), so let's look at Cyrodiil's empires:

The Ayleid empire ruled from sometime in the Merethic Era to the Alessian Slave Rebellion and the beginning of the Alessian empire in 1E 243. Obviously it was after this since there was no break between these empires.

In 1E 2321 the War of Righteousness would break out, leading to the dissolution of the Alessian Empire at its conclusion in 1E 2331.

The Second Empire started with the Reman Dynasty in 1E 2703 after the battle of Pale Pass. The 1st Era would end with the end of the Reman Dynasty and the beginning of the Akaviri Potentate, which would last until 2E 430. There wouldn't be another empire until Tiber Septim at the start of the 3rd Era. So there was a break in empires from 1E 2321 to 1E 2703 and from 2E 430 to 2E 854.

Harkon's UESP page claims he ruled over the Volkihar Clan after Serana's disappearance "for millennia" with a citation to the Skyrim Prima Official Guide, which I don't have, so I'll take the wiki's word on it. Knowing that, and acknowledging that by the time of Skyrim it has only been 634 years since the beginning of the Septim Empire, I assume that the mostly likely break in Cyrodiil empires for Serana to have been born and hidden away during was between the Alessian and Second Empires.

Did this matter? Only to help figure out a very minor detail in Gelebor and Vyrthur's timelines. Did I have fun trying to figure it out? yes!

4E 201 – Events of Dawnguard

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I believe that's it! If anyone knows of anything I missed (or messed up) feel free to add or speculate on that as well!

#tes #skyrim #the elder scrolls #falmer #snow elf #snow elves #headcanon #meta #gelebor #vyrthur #idk should i take their full titles? nah #mine #falmer brainrot

[idiotsyncratic0]

Half asleep scribbles of shelves

#my art #the elder scrolls #vartyr #radac #gelebor #tesblr

[carlandcorals]

<3

#knight paladin gelebor #gelebor #my art #artists on tumblr #tes #elven #the elder scrolls #skyrim #knight #paladin #tes 5 skyrim #tes 5 #snow elf #elf #falmer