#Teleri Nelvayn

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My characters Arelvan Indoril and his partner, Teleri, sporting the new outfit from this year’s Morrowind event. That new cliff strider memento has made me and Arelvan especially happy (He’s a real animal person. I’ve always imagined that the warden cliff racer skill was his one of his hunting cliff racers he’d trained himself.) 

Also, I’ve gone from having zero Nerevar statues to the proud owner of three because of the event (not that I’m complaining, I was wanting at least one to add to their temple home.)

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I’m still getting to grips with my new graphics tablet and drawing on the computer instead of my Note tablet. This is a portrait of Teleri Nelvayn, my sharp-tongued dunmer priestess of the Tribunal and Buoyant Armiger-in-training.

Basic character summary below the cut in case anyone is curious :) -

Teleri has a knack for mysticism and conjuration, but often treads a very thin line between what is considered acceptable and unacceptable necromancy ancestor worship in temple doctrine. Anything she does is usually out of a desire to help protect people, rather than inflict harm, but just like in other parts of her life, she is all-too happy to bend the rules when she thinks it is for the greater good.

Before she met Arelvan Indoril (another oc of mine) Teleri was far more likely to be found propping up the bar at the local corner club than at evening prayers at Molag Mar (when she could get away with it), and many a drunken mer has been on the receiving end of either her words or the her staff over the years (she has a fair amount of skill in melee combat with her staff and isn't afraid to show it). The locals of the corner club were usually on remarkably good behaviour when she was around, and the bartender was, strangely enough, often happy to provide Shein or sujamma free of charge to Teleri as a result.

Teleri also plays the flute quite well, and uses it as part of rituals to communicate with the ancestors (I had this idea kicking around in my head in some form for a while, and had already noted that Arelvan played it in a previous write-up about these two, but watching The Untamed recently on netflix has definitely cemented it in my mind as an image I really like).

(Also, I just remembered that she should really have some freckles as well in this art, as she does in game, but I’ve lost any energy to draw them now)

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Fenriael’s adventures in Cyrodiil

(Part 2 of 2)  part 1 here

My dark elf Buoyant Armiger priestess also took a visit to pact territory, and believe me when I say she is the sort to drunkenly take exception to a certain Sacerdote Alaisia’s supremely awkward (especially for my elfy characters, at any rate) anti-elf rhetoric.

Also, playing a necromancer ancestor-worshiping healer in pvp is very amusing when you can resurrect a whole bunch of players at once in the middle of battle. “And here, you thought we were all dead? Think again!” *cue maniacal laughter* 

Meanwhile my Imperial vampire blood mage healer took a trip back to his homeland and the imperial city. He is a Good Vampire™ in his old age, and usually looks a lot less monstrous, but was going in disguise in order to investigate certain matters he left unfinished before the fall of the imperial city (also, being a stage 4 vampire gives some excellent bonuses to being sneaky).

Here he is having a word with Abnur Tharn before he departs, and outside on his fancy new horse (He’s wearing the new legion zero chest alongside the daedric light legs, one of the imperial light helms and what I think is the light assassins league shoulders).

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Some screenshots and background (below) for two of my Dunmer OCs, Arelvan Indoril and Teleri Nelvayn. I just made Teleri in game recently, and was pretty happy with how her face turned out.

I’ve even saved up a load of gold and bought the lake Amaya lodge to turn into a Dunmer monastery, complete with library, a prayer garden and cosy living quarters for the couple. It’s still a work in progress, but is almost done, and I am completely poor in game again lol.

 Arelvan Indoril

Arelvan Indoril is a senior priest and (mostly) retired Buoyant Armiger, who joined the order in his youth despite his parents’ fervent wish that he become a temple Ordinator. Having moved up in the order over the years, Arelvan has become rather disillusioned with his role in the temple of late, feeling that all-too often his hands are tied by stifling temple bureaucracy and doctrine for him to properly help the mer of Vvardenfell in a way that he feels is befitting the teachings of the Three.

Sharp-tongued with an infamously acerbic wit, Arelvan does not suffer those he considers to be fools gladly, especially rich and idle priests who have barely stepped outside their own temple doors in their lives. He will, however, go out of his way to provide advice or aid to any who truly need it, especially acolytes in the temple who display a genuine interest in learning and independence of thought.

He also has a love of animals in general, and in his old age generally prefers them to other mer. He is often seen with his cliff racer companion, who hunts alongside him, and breeds guars, both for riding as pets, on his estate in the farmlands near to Vivec City.  In addition, he plays the flute very well, and used to enjoy playing it to his children when they were young.

Teleri Nelvayn

Often described affectionately by Arelvan as the “most troublesome woman he’s ever met”, Teleri Nelvayn is a cynical and mischievous young priestess who drinks rather too much sujamma at times and enjoys teasing Arelvan greatly. She joined the temple early in life as a way to further her education, as some temples have been known to open their doors to those from disadvantaged backgrounds and educate them for free. As an adult she became a member of the Buoyant Armiger order because, despite having a rocky relationship with temple authority and often finding herself considered an outsider due to her family background, she hoped she might see more of the world, as well as help a few people along the road.

Teleri spends a great deal of time studying mysticism and conjuration magics alongside the more martial arts, and holds the father of Mysteries in very high regard alongside her Lord, the Warrior-poet. She first met Arelvan on an expedition into to the Ashlands to hunt a cabal of rogue necromancers that Arelvan had volunteered to lead as a favour to an old friend.

The battle-scarred priestess in charge of the Buoyant Armigers-in-training reluctantly agreed to allow her to join Arelvan’s expedition alongside her companions, supposedly because of her skill in conjuration magic that would be of use against the necromancers, although it may have also been in order to be rid of her: a recent and public disagreement had eventually resulted in Teleri explaining to the priest exactly what she should do with the stick firmly situated up her backside; in turn, the older woman had waspishly informed Arelvan that if he was to leave Teleri in the depths of the Foyada Ashur-Dan, she would consider it quite an acceptable outcome.

Teleri and Arelvan found themselves spending much time on the road training in blades and with the bow, debating temple doctrine and exchanging frequent friendly barbs. Arelvan found himself secretly enjoying the fact that Teleri treated him as a friend and companion, rather than with the cautious reverence that many in the temple now have for him. In turn, Terleri appreciated having someone to discourse with who treated her as an intellectual equal and not as inferior due to her social background. Eventually, mutual respect and physical attraction turned into more as the pair realised their feelings for each other.

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A picture of my Buoyant Armiger Dunmer OCs, Arelvan Indoril and Teleri Nelvayn that I described in my previous post :)