#I also headcanon Goldbrand being somewhere between the lengths of a katana and an odachi

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For the OC ask game, 1, 6, and/or 20 for Thelasa!

Original Ask List

1) Does your OC have a voice claim, if so who?

For Thelasa, I imagine her being voiced by Keeley Hawes, who voiced Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video games, particularly Legend, Anniversary, and Underworld (I never played Guardian of Light but I heard Hawes was in that one too).

Voice sample from Legend (28:00-29:06)

These three games were pretty big in my childhood gaming experience and I just loved Hawes' voice in these games, so full of wisdom yet pitching in a dry comment every now and then. That's how I pictured Thelasa in the late game, once the naivete wears off and she's in full-on adventurer mode~

I think one thing that makes Thelasa stand out in Morrowind despite being a Dunmer is her "Cyrodiilic accent," since "Dunmer with Western words and ways are also immediately identified as outlanders -- [they're] very sensitive to accents, clothes, and manners in Morrowind."

Patrick Stewart as Emperor Uriel and Sean Bean as Brother Martin have me settled on Imperials having British accents while TES3's Dunmer voices have me settled on them having American accents (I know this got flipped around in later in Oblivion and later games, but let me have this shhhhh).

6) If your OC is in a fantasy setting, what profession would they be in the modern day?

She'd probably be an archeologist, which is kinda what Thelasa does in the TES-verse anyway lol. Spend a chunk of the year exploring a bunch of tombs and ruins, then hole up indoors with her books and findings to write more books. Livin’ the recluse’s dream~

Well, Thelasa is only 28 during the events of TES III, so maybe she's getting her Ph.D. or something. She is of the scholarly type.

20) If they fight, what's their weapon of choice?

In combat, Thelasa primarily wields a sword (of the Long Blade skill line) in tandem with destruction magic.

She generally favors one-handed single-edged blades, but I’d say she’s equally skilled in double-edged and two-handed swords too.

I typically associate Thelasa with Goldbrand during the base game late Main Quest and early phases of Tribunal's Main Quest. I imagine that Goldbrand is one of the two artifacts she donates in "The Blade of Nerevar" quest. From that quest onward, she uses Trueflame (which comes in very handy during her Bloodmoon shenanigans).

Thelasa also wields magical staves (like the Staff of Magnus or a custom-enchanted Ebony Staff). While she would normally switch between sword and sorcery (thank you hotkeys), she can whack someone with the staff in case they get too close.

Thanks for the ask~