#Eso

[falmerbrook]

I prefer the general design of nix-hounds in Morrowind over their other appearances, but the way they move in ESO? Absolutely perfect. Whoever animated this had divine inspiration

[soullessbullshit]

I actually don't remember when I first heard of Skyrim (either middle school or high school by name), but I do remember hearing about ESO from a friend freshman year of high school.

Tried it out a couple years after that, fell off in a couple months, and got back into it in late 2020 when the hyperfixation hit hard.

Only other game I've played in the series is a couple hours of Morrowind, but I did get Oblivion on Steam as a birthday gift I have yet to get into.

Was Skyrim the first Elder Scrolls game you played and/or the first game in the series you ever heard of?

[freerainhl]

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Falmer

Art for The Elder Scrolls : Betrayal of the Second Era

*Art credit unclear* Likely by Federico Pompili

[omiramotakiart]

So yeah I think my arcanist would kind of get Ithelia. Should've made this when Gold Road came out but wasn't feeling much inspo as a whole this year, finished a while back but wasn't that happt with how it turned out back then. Used some of my screenshots for texture tho

[3wisellamas]

2e582 is Tamriel's November 5th, 2020.

One thing that endlessly amuses me when talking about TESO is the timeline. Everyone agrees: it starts at 2e582. From there, things get a bit wild.

For a lot of RPers, it's 2e592 - time tracking in realtime from launch date.

For others, it's 2e626, following the in-game timescale.

Officially: it's still 2e582. This is the one that amuses me the most, because, canonically, *everything* happens all at once. Dragons, vampires, the events of Summerset, etc etc etc. The world is going straight to hell in a hand basket.

I just imagine, by the time of the third empire, there's a small group of vampires still living from the interregnum era, just utterly shell shocked hundreds of years later. Their thralls and spawn know better than to ask what happened in 2e582, because when they do, the vampire in question gets a long, far-off look in his eyes, and a horrified silence settles over the room, before, with a long sigh, the immortal creature replies with only a softly muttered

"Fuck, what *didn't*?"

[bishie-in-tamriel]

~𝘈 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳~

[harlequinalis]

indrik

[soullessbullshit]

I want it on record that I am a proud member of Team "Gabrielle Benele is Completely Unhinged."

This may be a rather lukewarm take, as I don't have as much interaction with the Daggerfall Covenant side of the ESO fandom, but I'm convinced that, like myself until a couple years ago, neither has anyone that has ever earnestly considered her a voice of reason.

Gabrielle is that one character that people assume is put together at first glance because she's intelligent and professionally accomplished, but that perception completely shifts as people gradually discover the laundry list of borderline war crimes she's used those smarts to commit.

Her canonical claims to fame include, with no hyperbole applied:

Singlehandedly breaking into a cult-infested crypt for a talisman rumored to open portals to Oblivion.

Gleefully hacking the warding sequence on one of the most secure vaults in the Covenant and openly admitting that she'd wanted to take a crack for some time upon learning it was named the "Impervious Vault."

Getting banned from the Anchor's Point Inn for setting fire to the hair of a pushy dragonknight who failed to heed her rather upfront request to stop hitting on her (easily the most understandable point on this dissertation).

Losing "teleporting directly to the Evermore Mages' Guild" privileges for a reportedly similar incident.

And, most unnervingly of all, sending a treatise to Covenant generals advising the displacement of beasts and beastfolk in enemy territory to send them rampaging into local settlements as an invasion tactic.

Ya gurl may have more outward tact in professional settings, but there's absolutely no way her dynamic with Darien doesn't involve him reigning her in ethically as often as she reigns him in conversationally. These feral besties are two halves of a whole common sense and I love that for them.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[sanza-17]

2nd batch of my mutuals oc's <33

Sifkni - @hircines-hunter

Nevri - @theoneandonlysemla

Elentari - @illumiera

[nerael]

My patron and my lord. Prince of Madness is Sheogorath!

[triflingshadows]

eso affirmations

[tropicalscream]

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

[hermas-mora]

Real dot com slash true…

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Draugr

Art for The Elder Scrolls : Betrayal of the Second Era

*Art credit unclear* Likely by Federico Pompili