#darkbrotherhood

[aquicat]

pretty, pretty flowers… 💐🩸💐

[helga-ackerman]

Sithis, also known as SITHISIT, Psijii, the Dread-Father, the Original Creator, and sometimes Padomay, is a deity representative of emptiness and the Void ⚫️ 💀

[morsanguina]

Character sheet of my Nord Nightblade from ESO who is also a member of the Dark Brotherhood. 

Commission info link: https://morsanguinaarts-commissioninfo.carrd.co

[univerprintshop]

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[kaelyn-stocktonmil]

I said I would continue this with my Skyrim self-insert OC, Stalks-In-Shadows, and I intend to keep my word. Yes, I forgot for a bit, sue me. Now, let's get into it.

Alone: Stalks has been very lucky in this regard. Even for a born assassin, you think she would be alone for the majority of her life- wrong. She grew up alongside another born Shadowscale, Veezara, who quickly became her closest ally, and her closest friend through her training, and later, life. Because they were lucky enough to be sent to the same Dark Brotherhood sanctuary, which they both celebrated when they saw each other again, as they had been separated for the initial journey.

Betrayal: Once again, very lucky in this regard. You'd think as an assassin, betrayal would be fairly familiar. Well, it's actually not. She's only been through ONE big betrayal, and that was when Astrid sold her out for the murder of the emperor. Despite that, her Family fought while she raced across Skyrim to get home and help in the fight to save them, even at the cost of their home. Her closest friend, Veezara had come along with her on the contract, so he was spared of severe injuries. Astrid had the worst of it, her body burnt...she was unrecognizable for months. Lucky for her, Stalks doesn't lose faith in her Family so easily. She refused to kill Astrid despite her pleading. If she had been holding on for that long, than there was still hope of healing and saving her. And since Gabriella was still alive, they had a chance. She did accept Astrid's request to have her lead the Family, and left Gabriella to heal Astrid, Arnbjorn to be with her, and the others to figure things out. Veezara and her? They had a contract to finish...and a SCORE TO SETTLE.

Bound: She's been bound many times. Being an assassin is not without it's dangers. She's gained scars, most of which are not visible due to her pure white scales. Just a part of the thrill of the job. :)

Break: Break? Hmm. Stalks has never had a moment where she's "broken". When Gaius Maro broke the deal and said "Your Sanctuary's being put to the sword right now", she was FURIOUS. and terrified. and worried. The Penitus Oculatus guards that were with him had to hold her back from lunging at him...he got to say his piece and escape for that moment, but the moment he gave the word to kill her, and walked away, Stalks let all hell break loose. The only reason they were able to hold her back, was because she was terrified that her Family was dead. But she tore them apart nonetheless. Literally. Being blessed by Hircine and born under two lycanthrope Argonians will do that. Her blessing, her gift, got her and Veezara out of Solitude, through the marsh's of Hjaalmarch and all the way home to their burning Sanctuary in Falkreath, to fight for their family...the only casualties were the bastards who were a part of the Oculatus...that's the only time she's truly "broken". Aside from that- she wept for her home, and for Astrid's painful recovery...and she tore Maro limb from limb.

Desire: Stalks doesn't have many "desires". Other than the hell her Family has been through, and wishing that she could have prevented it from happening to begin with, she got lucky.

Failure: The failure to kill the true emperor the first time...and to prevent her original Sanctuary from being razed to the ground.

Fear: Now that, is an easy one. Losing her Family. A home can be replaced, and she doesn't fear death...but her Family is something she narrowly managed to save. And losing Veezara would be heart-breaking for her.

Future: Stalks is aware that her future is uncertain. A Child of Sithis. A Chosen One of Hircine. An Argonian. She has no way of knowing who will claim her soul when she dies. Will she be reborn in the Hist? Serve her Dread Lord, Sithis, in the Void when she dies? Spend eternity in Hircine's Hunting Ground's? Either way...so long as she's with Veezara, she'll be happy. So in a way, she's either hoping to be claimed by Sithis or the Hist, because either way, she'll be with Veezara, or she'll know when she's found him again in the next life. And she'll fight for that future.

Ghost: The only thing that sometimes haunts Stalks, are some of her past contracts. She's an assassin, not a mentally sick lunatic. What she does, is just her job, it's nothing personal. Her job is to kill someone who deserved it. Not get rid of someone who annoyed another person. She believes some of her contracts have been innocents, and when she believes it, she mourns and gives them a proper burial. That doesn't mean she doesn't feel bad every now and then.

Guilt: Many things. Killing targets she believed were innocents. The murder of the emperor who was even so kind to her, his killer, and not only accepted it, but simply asked that she killed Amaund in return. He didn't even fight her. Killing Gaius Maro's son. She feels no regret for killing Maro himself, but she witnessed the goodbye between him and his son. His son had a beloved, who made him promise to come back to her...he didn't get to keep his promise. She feels guilt for many things. But it's what she's good at, and it's her job. She won't abandon her Family.

Hate: She hates Gaius Maro. Sure, he's dead, but she can still hate him for what he did to her Family.

Heartbreak: For a short time, she was heartbroken to be separated from Veezara, when they were sent to their final Sanctuary. That one didn't last, thankfully. The other, is the pain Astrid was put through and the conflicting, painful decision she felt she had to make. The loss of her original home.

Hide: Even as an assassin, she doesn't have much to hide. She hid her lycanthropy, except from Arnbjorn, a fellow were-beast who could smell it, but that secret was exposed a long time ago, and she's grateful her Family took it so well.

Hunt: She is not "hunted" by anything. No. SHE is the hunter.

Mask: She doesn't have much to "mask". Aside from her face when she's on a contract.

Midnight: Another thing she's lucky with, she doesn't have nightmares unless something is on her mind. She's an assassin for Sithis' sake, she's seen enough to not be scared by most things!

Mistake: Mistake? The only "mistake" she can think of was killing the emperor "decoy". Granted, he was a snob, but he wasn't the true emperor.

Monster: Oooooh~ now this one, is interesting. Even as an assassin, she's not very "monstrous" on her own. Her were-beast form, however? It's pretty damn terrifying seeing as a were-beast of her kind is not even documented. It's always "werewolves" and "werebears". No one's heard of a "Were-Argonian". Mostly because nobody lives long enough to see her and tell the tale. :)

Nightmare: What do you think?

Pain: Physical or emotional? Emotional is probably worse in this case. She's been through physical pain enough that she's built up a tolerance to what most would consider an unnatural amount to most intense pain.

Secret: Her lycanthropy, to her victims at least, on top of her being an assassin.

Skin: She couldn't be more comfortable in her skin. And no, that's actually NOT sarcasm!

Torture: Been there, done that, are you even trying? (lol)

Wound: Like I said, she has an unnatural pain tolerance...HOWEVER. She was once captured for what she assumes to be at least a week. Thalmor. They were trying to get the location of her Sanctuary out of her. Lashed her back more times than she can count, caught her left eye, but she took it with stride. She never broke, and by the end of the week, Gabriella and Veezara were the ones to rescue her, erase any proof of her capture, and eliminate all the Thalmor who were aware of her existence. To this day, if she's stabbed LITERALLY in the back, she won't feel it. That's a pretty common attack when going after more defensive targets. She only knows they've stabbed her because she will feel a very VERY numb throb that lets her know she's been stabbed, which she uses to her advantage. She's a strong bastard. :)

oc asks: not-so-nice edition

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

hunt: Who or what is your OC hunted by? A person, a feeling, a past mistake? Is your OC able to let their guard down, or are they constantly alert?

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

mistake: What's the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself?

pain: What's the worst pain your OC has ever felt? Do they have a high pain tolerance?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

[mildlymortified]

Lucien raising shadowscales <3

[justdarkbrotherhoodthings]

So, very unrelated to this blog but I've been playing Fallout 76 for a bit now. Managed to get it on sale marked down to like $9 and decided to give it a try since all the issues are done with. I mean I expect there's still issues, it is a Bethesda game after all.

Anyway I'm sharing this here because I noticed this conversation with a particular NPC and well...

This did bring me some joy, and after looking it is indeed a reference to the better Brotherhood of Bethesda media.

Hope you guys got a chuckle out of it as well.

[cutiejestercat]

We live, we love, we lie

#Skyrim #Cicero #DarkBrotherhood #SmurfCat #meme

[beginnerskyrim]

I started a new play through of Skyrim, focusing on not completing a single quest for as long as possible and somehow I pissed off the Darkbrotherhood

I dont know how I did this

I have taken no contract or if I did I def didn't fulfill it.

Ive killed four bitchass assassins already

[cuntstable]

wild card character bingo, skyrim cicero, because i can't decide if i should kill him again this playthrough

cicero skyrim….. is a character that exists..

my general take on him is that hes a silly guy. a funny little elf that learned how to kill. and thats it. i choose to pointedly ignore how he was for a time a tumblr sexyman and to me hes maybe The most sexless character in all of the elder scrolls. so i can keep my sanity. but anyway i usually keep him alive not because i particularily like him (and i salute my astrid stan mutuals who do kill him 🫡) but like i said hes just sort of a weird creature to me so in my mind i usually just like trap him under a glass and take him outside so he can fly away. and then when he shows up at the end of the darkbrotherhood questline im like damn i wish i had hit this thing with a rolled up newspaper till it died but oh well. so like in conclusion hes okay to me definitely one of the elder scrolls characters out there that exists 👍

[aquicat]

[sshoujo-ais]

sliding in for 👀👀 1, 3,4, 6, 9, 13, 30 an 32 for tahiri ! i also want many deets :3<

lets gooooo i kinda ran out of deets halfway through but i just dont have a lot to say about the questions you picked lmao

1. What is their birthsign and does it have any large significance to who they are?

well i play her with the lord stone so that would probably count as her birthsign even though i only picked it for gameplay benefits... im not rly into astronomy irl or in elder scrolls so i couldnt fucking tell you what this means for her in-universe. she is strong and a warrior i dont fuckin know. it fits

3. What factions are they a part of?

dawnguard and companions! in that order. when she was still new to skyrim she heard about the vampire hunters and they heard about her and she was like "that sounds cool i love hunting" <- clueless that she's about to get a goth gf

after the business with harkon was done she went back to whiterun and became a companions, eventually a woof and a harbinger. then she reunited with her goth gf :)

4. Do you consider them canonically dragonborn? If so, how are they faring at their prophetic duties? If not, what made you decide to do away with that part of the vanilla story?

she is not dragonborn, no! that's what nerissa is for actually. i think it's a bit more gay when someone who doesn't actually kill dragons for a living would still charge one with reckless abandon if it was threatening her vampire gf. plus i wanted a fucked up mora-loving scholar/wizard dragonborn oc so i just inserted her in the story too (that's nerissa)

6. How old are they?

old enough! i don't really have an exact number in mind. maybe like late 20s early 30s if i had to pick; serana is way older anyway :P

9. What skills that they fall short on?

she is very bad at wizard (except enchanting). at best she can cast like a clairvoyance or a candlelight. her gf is a powerful ancient vampire wizard and her best friend is a fucked up mora-loving scholar wizard so it balances out though

13. What questline had the biggest impact on them?

probably the dawnguard one. got a goth gf out of it and everything

30. What is their favorite type of dungeon?

one with lots of vantage points and/or corners to sneak around and kill things :)

32. Would you consider them to be merciful?

generally yes! like she'll kill bandits and stuff but they menace the populace so that's different. and she'll kill harkon but he'd menace the populace and her gf so really he was just asking for it. the biggest instances of tahiri going out of her way to not be merciful were killing grelod the kind (completely justifiable), following that up by killing astrid darkbrotherhood (she kidnapped her and asked her to kill other people which is very antithetical to how merciful tahiri usually is), and (much later on) the whole silver hand as revenge for what they did to kodlak (but it was vilkas's idea anyway).

[0mornings-dawn0]

I have finally released him along with the rest of the overhaul! You can either only download him or have the whole pack. Enjoy!

I've been overhauling the DB members, initially I was only going to do Cicero but decided to the others as well. Anyways here he is, I am very proud of how he came out.

[dailymusemaniac]

Ai art darkbrotherhood

[gaymingbinosaur]

I’m going to make reyla as a smuggler. I’ll go back to bg3 like my save is still there but dear god I just miss exploring Bethesda’s worlds and commuting crimes. Like I am going to steal so much shit. It’s not even funny. Bethesda theft is the best theft. Oblivion is probably my favorite place to rob. Like morrowind didn’t have schedules to take advantage of. And while oblivion there is a learning curve with lock picking the cities and specially the market district in the imperial city oh and the castles having restricted areas to area in and just the thieves guild in general in that game. Oh god oblivion was chefs kiss for thieves. Oh and acrobatics can’t forget that.

Like Skyrim also had improvements. I have mixed feelings on having armor. Like not subtle guys but oblivion didn’t do a great job hiding thieves like morrowind did that best. Like oh someone in the imperial city in leather armor you are a thief. So at least this has enchantments and for Skyrim it works. Having bounties be hold specific and oh god being able to get rid of bounties. Is so nice. Though the second one I feel is most useful to assassins. Like love the oblivion darkbrotherhood but god being an assassin was so much better knowing if you don’t kill a guy in the middle of the woods in one hit. The entirety of cyrodils guards are on your ass.

So I’m way to interested in how crime works in Starfield. I’ll be stealing al the shot. But also it appramtly has traits and back grounds. And the annoying fan has use. Which feels dirty to say. I’m so excited.

[mildlymortified]

The entirety of the dark brotherhood questline