#HAMMERFELL

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Hammerfell, Skyrim, Cyrodiil, and Valenwood

All in the same picture.

[mazurga]

Five more panoramas of Stros M'Kai

[changelingsandothernonsense]

Yeshua the Silent circa 4E 187

From The Myriad Realms of Revelry

Teldryn had managed to convince himself that the whole massacre had been the machinations of Azura. Her revenge for him straying from her gaze. That woman bathed in twilight was probably her in disguise. Save him from the fiery ruins of his drug-induced folly only to take his tongue using the same bullshit tactic the fucking Sharmat used to use to get him to submit. It hadn’t worked for the masked bastard, what made that bitch think it would work for her? And yet here he was, unable to speak, his tongue gone from his mouth. The canvas walls of the tent he was standing in still seemed to be a little- melted. He was still high. He would be for at least another few days. Teldryn would wake up in a panic as he had that dream over and over again. The screams, the fire, the woman who silenced him forever. It made the kind Ash'abah warrior who had found him wandering through the desert, naked and delirious, a little worried to say the least. He had been trying the get Teldryn to talk for their whole journey back to Sentinel, insisting that Teldryn still had his tongue. He had given Teldryn a fresh change of clothes and some goggles to wear as they travelled through the Alik’r. It was this set of linens that he was wearing now, turns out he could pass for a Redguard well enough, albeit a rather stringy one so long as he kept his mouth shut. He had taken the name that warrior had given him too, Yeshua the Silent. Something he had given Teldryn in jest, but he didn’t mind it. When Teldryn had asked him why he chose that name, writing his queries in the sand as he was coming out of his skooma withdrawal the old warrior just shrugged and told him it was ‘the first name that popped into his head.’ When he asked him why not a Dunmeri name? He said that Teldryn was the first one he’d ever met. So naturally, he didn’t know any Dunmeri names. Teldryn didn’t bother correcting him, even after his skooma haze wore off and he’d recovered from his withdrawal, finding that he was once again able to speak. He found that he liked pretending to be someone else. He had gone by that name when he booked passage to Solstheim after the massacre. Sending Geldis and his mother a letter to tell him that he was returning in disguise. He was afraid the Vigil of Stendarr was still after him and honestly, he was still kinda paranoid that Azura was still mad at him. Geldis had told him that his letters had made absolutely no sense.

Josh in his Redguard disguise, featuring his patented goggles that's he's meant to wear all the time. Also some of his scimitars that he collected for his big collection of shiny blades. Short haired Josh for story reasons.

[keleravna]

@tes-summer-fest day 4 thief | enamored

both! i present to you an enamored babyman thief, the happiest boy in abah's landing who is on his way to give his crush a little gift :))

[reagan-the-saunders]

Asakala, Hammerfell - The Elder Scrolls: Online

[boiledkwamaegg]

Hello! I was wondering if Faenil prefers sword and close combat because they know how to work with flesh and enjoy doing so, or I misunderstood it, and they are actually some kind of mage and scientist, who doesn't like fight but must to?

And, second question, if I may. Feanil has his unique blades. Do they have history, and can you tell more them, maybe?

It was all coming together to me last night but then I passed out. But now I can finally answer this ask too!

I've had a lot of trouble trying to figure out how to design these in a way that will be convenient or at least somewhat realistic. Each time I think I got it, I realize I don't. But maybe it doesn't have to be perfect, it's medieval fantasy land after all haha

Faenil is a battlemage, they prefer using magic and ranged spell attacks, but in case they can't use magic for some reason (after all, some effects can give you the inability to cast magic for a while) they have these trusty curved dual blades that they use in close combat. They are not enchanted or anything, just regular melee weapons. Of course, because Faenil is a surgeon, and needs to show off, they can be combined and used like giant scissors. (There is some type of a screw or magnet there in the middle that allows for a quick attachment and easy pivoting) You can often see them snip someone's head off as a finishing move.

I can't imagine Faenil is that good with melee attacks, they only started training this when they left Summerset, but I do believe that as a doctor they at least know where to aim and where someone's weak points are. And Faenil is scarily good at strategizing.

As for the history of these blades, when Faenil was doing their loopdy loops through Hammerfell before arriving at Skyrim, they got these blades forged for them through someone they had sold organs to before, as a little thank-you and a "good luck escaping the Dominion" gift.

As for Faenil's non-melee combat style, they are most skilled at conjuration, and will often summon their flesh atronach to fight by their side during bigger battles and they also wear bound armor (daedric, though it looks rather personal and draconic) which they then buff up with alteration spells (such as ironflesh) and use the remaining magicka they have on casting ranged destruction spells (they probably favor frost magic above all) And outside of combat, Faenil obviously knows a lot about restoration and ancient flesh magic as well, and knows a few things about alchemy too. The only school of magic they are really bad at is illusion.

[reyneluvirith]

Language Families of the Mannish Provinces, 4E197

The language families of the mannish provinces (Cyrodiil, Skyrim, High Rock, and Hammerfell) as described in my language-focused apocrypha, Languages of Tamriel, which fleshes out the linguistic situation of Tamriel in the Fourth Era.

Maps of the individual families:

LOTS of different maps this time! These are the overarching languages families for the languages depicted on my map of the languages of the mannish provinces. I'm planning on making the full suite of these again once all of the provinces are done, but might make a couple of the language family/branch maps after each province as well. We'll see!!

Direct links to hi-res versions of the full maps:

Top-level families

Second-level families

Third-level families

Fourth-level families

And the language family-specific maps:

Aldmeri languages

Nedic-Atmoran languages

Yokudan languages

Khajiiti languages

Saxhleel languages

[connortheconceded]

Rihad the gateway to hammerfell

finally posting this piece for my tesdnd campaign

[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.

[arnesia]

i know bethesda seems to prefer going to single provinces since mw and oblivion but i'd love it if tesvi is iliac bay 2 electric boogaloo. there's a lot of interesting cultural diversity in that region, not just between the bretons, redguards, and orcs, but within each of those groups as well. you could have different cultures for each of the bretic tribes (refer to the morrowind savant class talk on high rock), plus the different major citystates like daggerfall and wayrest; the crown vs forebear dichotomy, plus the alik'r nomads (please including the ash'abah); the dichotomy between orsinium proper, satellite cities/towns/villages belonging to the orsinium capital, and independent strongholds around the rest of the region; and different reachmen clans in the reach, and i'd love a more diverse approach to this, similar to what the morrowind mod "skyrim: home of the nords" does

[quackyleaf]

val, the lover of a powerful redguard noble. court rumours are that he is a young male eunuch, while others claim she is simply a boyish woman

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"Khajiit Stole Nothing"

Art for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Lucas Slominski

[mazurga]

Stros M'Kai my beloved

[changelingsandothernonsense]

Wip last 40 something minutes of Wednesday.

Thank you @skyrim-forever @silly-little-diary for the tags (I'll read both as I'm winding down.

0 pressure tagging @redyn-nerevarine @firefly-factory @vehksfingerguns @smolpocketmonstercoffee @pocket-vvardvark @scholarlyhermit and anyone else that wants to share.

Been dealing with the consequences of having a period this week, so I'm just posting art today. One of the render for those who haven't seen it and a design i'm working on that's currently getting lined.

He has fingers, pretty neat stuff.

And the design for Yeshua the Silent (one of Joshi's aliases.) As seen in this fic.

[starfreak]

I'm gonna talk Elder Scrolls 6 and fantasy politics here for a second. Maybe a long post, who knows.

I think that the Elder Scrolls 6, which is all but confirmed to be set in Hammerfell, is going to be about politics. Like, full stop, it has to be. The overwhelming presence of the Empire as of TES 5 is undeniable, with the territories of Cyrodiil, High Rock, and half of Skyrim being under Imperial control.

If the civil war in Skyrim canonically goes to the Empire, then their coverage will cover the entirety of 3 provinces out of the 9 on Tamriel. They will control a THIRD of the continent.

But that's not all, because the Empire is backed (some might even say controlled) by the Aldmeri Dominion. The Dominion's geopolitical grasp is comprised of the Summerset Isles, Valenwood, and Elsweyr. That's another third of Tamriel. With the Dominion and the Empire's forces combined, they will be in control of 2/3 of all of Tamriel. Let's see who remains:

Morrowind: After the eruption of Red Mountain in the early 4th Era, this region is almost completely uninhabitable, with even its ashen-skinned residents (the Dunmer) choosing to leave their home in search of refuge in Skyrim, Cyrodiil, and even Black Marsh, two out of the three of which absolutely despise the dark elves. They are a shattered people, and have virtually no presence in the continental war besides what they lend to their respective places of refuge.

Black Marsh: Inhabitable by pretty much only Argonians, who could have even spread their control to Morrowind due to their hardy biology. Though, I wouldn't count on it due to the Hist's control over their every action. I've never heard of a Hist tree growing in ash, so the likelihood of the Argonians taking Morrowind is slim. However, Black Marsh will probably be the last territory that the Dominion/Empire take, due to the inhospitable nature of it. Previous attempts to invade Black Marsh have proved ineffectual, and notably the only battles the Argonians seem to win are those involving the defense of their home. They are not an offensive people. I suspect that the Dominion would sooner burn the marshes to the ground than attempt to colonize them.

And last but not least Hammerfell: Supposedly the setting for TES 6, and surrounded on all sides by Dominion and Empire alike, with the Imperial territories of High Rock, Western Skyrim, AND Cyrodiil surrounding them, and the Aldmeri territories of the Isles and Valenwood to the south. Hammerfell is basically fucked. It's gonna take a whole lot of divine intervention to—...what's that you say? There's an Elder Scrolls protagonist on the way...and Hammerfell's history recounts tales of people who can summon magic swords? Well I think the Dominion may find some resistance in Hammerfell after all.

The Dominion is basically guaranteed a victory over Hammerfell, especially if what the Alik'r from Skyrim's "In My Time of Need" quest are to be believed, and that Saadia's betrayal meant that the Dominion (whom most if not all people in Hammerfell hate) was able to take the city of Taneth in the war. Now if we look at a map like this:

If the Dominion's forces are coming from the south, it means they have a strong enough navy to oppose Hammerfell's, which is notably a province known for their pirate activity (see the Elder Scrolls: Redguard). And if they took a city as far north as Taneth, not only did they have to probably take Rihad to get there unopposed, but they also had to make it through that bay unscathed, meaning they either have strong enough outposts on that peninsula to oppose forces from Gilane OR they took Gilane too.

And if they took that whole south central and eastern part of the coast, and are coming from the sea, who's to say they haven't taken Stros M'kai and Helgathe as well?

The north stands basically no chance against the Empire, and the south has probably already been taken by the Dominion. All that leaves is...the huge fucking Alik'r Desert in the middle.

The game will probably start in Dragonstar or Elinhir, my bet goes to Elinhir because it's more on the Skyrim side, but Dragonstar is also almost equidistant from Elinhir and Skaven, with a straight shot to the Alik'r Desert. Plus, starting in Dragonstar after playing a game about literal dragons would be a nice little poke. Like, "hey, remember the dragons?" I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few dragons in the mountains that the Dragonborn missed. They could also have them be infinitely respawning, since they don't truly die unless their souls are absorbed by the Dragonborn. So there's your dragon tie-in, Bethesda, you freaks.

The story is likely going to be about the political struggle between the cultural identity of Hammerfell and the forces that seek to swallow it whole and reshape it in their image. There'll be some references to the Swordsingers of Yokudan legend, but whether or not we will be able to actually learn the technique is uncertain. And there will be a HEAVY Dwemer presence. In previous games we were given access to none other than the hammer of Malacath, Volendrung, which was once a Dwemer weapon corrupted into the image of the Orsimer god-daedra Malacath. The hammer, according to legend, was thrown from Morrowind all the way to the desert that we now call Hammerfell (guess why they call it that) and the dwarves made their new home there, founding the city of Volenfell. Not only am I certain that we will see Volendrung in TES 6, but there will likely be heavy Dwemer presence (metaphorically speaking, they are extinct after all) and Orsimer presence. We could potentially even see some dead Dwemer, in the form of ghosts, time travel visions, sentient automatons, or even some sort of lich. If so, we might get to see a struggle between the Dwemer and Orsimer over the control of Volendrung. The dwarves and orcs do seem to have a bit of shared history.

Overall, this game is gonna be huge, and i can't wait to play it when im 80.

Lemme know if I made any mistakes in the replies, and feel free to argue about fictional politics with me in reblogs :> may your road lead you to warm sands.

[lenjaysdp]

it would be SO FUNNY if falanu hlaalu survived to elder scrolls 6, moved from skingrad, and is now wondering what the fine for necrophilia is in this part of hammerfell