#aldmer

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Khajiit, Argonian, Ancient Elf, Reachman, Orsimer

Art for Tales of Tamriel

Art by Jan Pospisil

[luki-m3]

"Let's put the 'romance' back into 'necromancer'!" 💀🖤

Alternatively.. "Would you still love me if I were a worm?" 🪱

Mannimarco, King of Worms. Made with graphite pencil and pen. (Click on the picture for better resolution.)

Happy Valentine's Day!

[butch-de-101]

I know Ohmes/Ohmes-raht aren’t technically elves but because they can pass and I think even breed with other elves they can count?

Also I would love to hear your thoughts and comments.

[mannimarcoiscool]

[simonteaa]

A scene from a wonderful fanfiction

https://ficbook.net/readfic/6769933

[armentarius]

Dunmer fairytales for her aldmer friend about Moon-and-Star of course 💫

[raven-6-10]

Ok but was anyone going to tell me that Khajiit are another Ehlnofey offshoot or was I supposed to learn this from the post about how Aldmeris is not real?

Did You Know: According to Mysterious Akavir, while Akavir means “Dragon Land”, Atmora means “Elder Wood”, and Tamriel means “Dawn’s Beauty”, the meaning of “Yokuda” has been kept a secret?

[quicksilverdrabbles]

Ondolemar: I am a Thalmor Justiciar of the Aldmeri Dominion

Timelost Dragonborn: Sorry, the what dominion?

Ondolemar: the Aldmeri Dominion.

Timelost Dragonborn: But you're of a race called Altmer.

Ondolemar: Yes, and?

Timelost Dragonborn: Are your people really so arrogant that they would claim the name of the Pure Elves?

Ondolemar: *laughing* is that not what High Elves are in the first place?

Kaidan: *reaching out to stop her before she sets dwarven spiders on him*

[mothermara]

I think aldmer were a reasonably sized, compact elf with deep golden/brown skin most closely resembling modern day bosmer but the thalmor have been suppressing the evidence because that would mean they weren't the purest unaltered form of mer

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Aldmer, Imperial, Redguard, Nord, Dunmer, Bosmer (all labels are per the artist)

Art for Tales of Tamriel

Art by Jan Pospisil

[bam-monsterhospital]

these tags are everything to me. THANK YOU. i thought i was alone!

Regarding ayleid specifically, their skin is darker than that of altmers and their eyes are more consistently lighter, almost always with blue tint. Yeah, they still look like a generic elf, but their appearance is clearly separated from that of altmers

(slapping the other ask on this one since they're related)

Yeah I like that there's something visually different about the Ayleid's from the Altmer/Aldmer (and by eso design standards, skin tone is about as far as they can significantly go). It's mostly based on how Dynar looks, but I also like to imagine they are more square and boxy-er looking than the Aldmer/Altmer (less like your stereotypically tall and graceful fantasy elves) to set them apart.

And I agree I like the yellow Dunmer lol. I mentioned it briefly when I did the ear headcanon thing, but I pretty much picture Chimer as a mix of Dunmer and Altmer characteristics, so it works for me!

Speaking of, when I did the ear headcanon thing I also did this skin tone thing for my own reference as a sort of mapping of general trends. Might as well post them while we're here

[luki-m3]

Count Verandis Ravenwatch. Made with mechanical pencil and pen.

[caliblorn]

I promised to make this post months ago and completely forgot about it until the last few days (a classic!), so here I am now. Making it. And with silly art included. Yay!

As many of you know, Mannimarco and Vanus Galerion in Elder Scrolls Online are portrayed as 2E contemporaries who mirror each other journeys to leaders, out of the Psijic Order and into their own groups. ESO makes it clear that they're meant to be similar in age as well, and it does so both by de-aging Mannimarco's model for the "Half-Forming Understandings" quest, and by making it say by Vanus himself in Artaeum Lost.

BUT! If you have played Morrowind or Oblivion, you might already be familiar with Where were you when the Dragon Broke?, an account of different people's experiences during the Middle Dawn, the 1E Dragon Break. And oh! Look who it is.

(notice also he says God, not King) The Middle Dawn happened between 1E 1200 and 1E 2208. Time fuckeries as much as you want, but nonetheless, 1E ends in 2920, and we know FOR SURE that Vanus was born the first years of 2E and that he joined the Psijics as a 11 yo. So, even if we took into consideration ONLY the latest period of the Middle Dawn, Mannimarco would have been a... 700+ years old novice when he met Vanus. Very funny to think about, but an old mer having an intellectual rivalry with a teenager doesn't really scream "brilliant" to me.

I'd say the retconning of his age is also supported by Worm Saga, were he doesn't mention at all his period in the Maruhkati and makes it sound like he was either born or taken to Artaeum at a very young age.

Plus, both in Worm Saga and in the Vault's flashbacks and in every other source ever (WRITTEN FOR ESO. AHEM.) we see that his "discovery" of necromancy happened on Artaeum. Like, it's screamed into our ears a couple of times or more in the game itself.

The problem with all of this? The book that implies he lived through the Middle Dawn is still present in ESO.

Which is to me one little example of a bigger issue with ESO writers rewriting/retconning things without taking away/trying to somewhat link the original sources. But I digress, there are different ways to make this work but since some are too complicated to be discussed now, I'll just share with you what I usually go with;

Mannimarco is a great liar. Not only a liar, a politician. A sales man. A guru. He knows how to give himself prestige. What "Where were you when the dragon broke?" is to me is either fake accounts fabricated by the Cult themselves, or stolen accounts (probably from Artaeum's archives!) where his false experience was added and then sent around Tamriel.

If I had to make a TIMELINE for all the pieces cited, I would say the publication order would be "Where were you when the dragon broke" (used as propaganda by the Cult to make Mannimarco's figure important)-> "Artaeum Lost" (disproves what was fabricated about Mannimarco)-> "Worm Saga" (new attempt to give himself prestige with that "aldmer, scion of et'Ada").

[mannimarcoiscool]

bébé

[ffxivxd]

9 year old Halric's full name is Halric of the Gold House of Aldmere. As a Drahn, his lineage traces back to his Voeburtite roots. House Aldmere contained 3 houses, where the Black House issued a succession of kings.

[the-elder-polls]

don't see your favorite here? choose your favorite and then go to the #non player races tag on my blog to see the other options! thank you to the uesp for their lists.

thank you to anonymous for the suggestion!