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Morrowind: Nerevar and Almalexia

Digital painting. Made in Krita. Feel free to repost, reupload etc.

P.S: Should've mustered the courage to paint her pregnant—just to upset your precious lore with momentous implications. But I guess seeing bearded Nerevar will be enough of a shock for many of you.

[stupid-tes-nerd]

What’s up nerds. There’s a new Morrowind Monday on my channel! We face off against Dagoth Gares 👀

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A mishmash of my various ashlander/velothi and house dunmer cultural things Ive developed over the years for ocs and rp. (forgive any lore mistakes and misspellings, it's late and I don't want to spell and lore check rn)

(contents: language and literacy in Velothi communities, the saving of verbal stories and memories by wise women, Velothi and Dunmer communities post-red year, dunmer language Renaissance Post-RY, the evolution of the term Outlander P-RY, fabric in dunmer communities and daedric spider silk.)

inspired by this post about dunmer literacy/education from @scrib-jelly (unrelated but @jiubilant has MANY good dunmer hcs as well :) I rlly love the one about chatty dunmer being nicknamed alit. her stories are also beautifully written and amazingly world built. truly makes the world of tes seem real.) Any House Dunmer worth his drakes can speak, read and write in Cyrodiilic, while many Velothi by the late third era and fourth era have verbal fluency in Cyrodiilic, reading and especially writing literacy is slim to none in their communities. Many picked up Cyrodiilic simply for ease of communication, as prior to the unification of the Great Houses and the First Council there were many regional variants of their language, and even after ALMSIVI became rulers, for a long time a standardized Dunmeris language was only taught by Great House tutors and in temple religious studies, so there were still many different dialects. It was the joining of the Empire and the introduction of Cyrodiilic as a widely spoken language that gave Morrowind a truly standardized speech, and later a standardized education under the careful tutelage of Almalexia's guidance. Dunmeris as a written language was all but non existent except in Temple writings and occasional Great House documents, and spoken in small corners within the House Dunmer. It lived on in Velothi communities, but they even still had their own regional dialects.

Velothi people were not out going to cities and temples to learn to read and write Cyrodiilic Many weren't even enthused to learn to speak it. It wasn't something they needed. All their stories and memories of their people were held by their Wise Women. Intricately, and carefully held. Wise Women hold the memories and stories of their predecessor, and their predecessor, and their predecessor (etc) in carefully enchanted amulets using secret magics only known to their peoples, the rituals of such kept only between a wise woman and her successor. She keeps these memories in an amulet (or any sort of small enchanted item easily kept on a person), and can call upon them at any time when needed, and when her successor is chosen she slowly transfers her stored memories to her successor's amulet. Reading and writing was unneeded in their communities, because their wise woman held every guide, every story, everything their community could ever need within her stored memories.

But sometimes, they can be lost. Magic fails. A wise woman is killed and her amulet stolen to pawn off for a cheap price, not knowing it holds the lifeblood of a culture within it. Many of these amulets, and also the magic to create them, was lost during the Red Year. House Dunmer refugees were treated bad enough, but fleeing Velothi we're even more lost. Spurned by their own people still, unable to unite in the grief of losing their homeland. Many Velothi wandered in fragmented groups, broken clans and tribes coming together in attempt to form new ones, but so many lost if they had no wise woman to guide them. It was the cause of many Velothi people assimilating with House Dunmer. They had no where else to go. It was hard enough to keep their lands fighting with House Dunmer, but competing with the House Dunmer trying to find new homes in distant lands meant many Velothi were forgotten and ignored.

But in other places, in these new Dunmer communities, so far from home, Velothi living among them became a blessing. They try to bring their home with them, inspiring a new wave of Nostalgia for how their people lived before ALMSIVI. Dunmeris started being picked up again in spoken word, and attempts to collect surviving written accounts of it (mostly Temple religious books and many of them had been defaced or destroyed after the fall of ALMSIVI), as ushered in an attempted renaissance of reconstructing the Dunmeris language. But as a people changes, so do their words, their slang. A common one that almost every person knows quite well, would be the disdainfully spoken, nose upturned, word of "Outlander."

Outlander. Definition: one who is not from Morrowind, whether by birth or raising. In the two hundred years since Red Year and the diaspora of the Dunmer people, many, many people have become Outlanders. In some communities it's become the new word to refer to the Youth, to the younger generation forced to live outside of a homeland they may never get to see. Some people take pride in being an Outlander, their family surviving the horrors of Red Year and successfully starting anew. Others despise to be called it, because they feel they are insulted by such a phrase when they have had no choice but to live so far from home. In some areas, Outlander has also become synonymous with anyone living outside of a Dunmer community. Dunmer in Windhelm's Grey Quarter turn their nose up at those who have given up their culture and values to live alongside the Nords outside the Quarter, calling them Outlanders. Many Dunmer living in Cheydinhaal, a hop, skip and a jump from the Morrowind border, frequently refer to the Dunmer born outside the city as Outlanders, as many refugees settled there, building up a new community surrounding the city. Much of the original city has been all but officially renamed "old Cheydinhaal", and many folks have come to call the Dunmer community that rose up around it "New Kragenmoor", in honor of the city across the border.

In a completely unrelated note and my inability to segue to it succinctly, after the red year there was a loss not only of course in life of people and animals, but the plant life struggled as well. Scathecraw was a plant commonly used for fabrics, much like a linen or hemp. It was cheap and easy to make, easy to weave, and held dye very well, which was a large setting point for the beautiful vibrant colored fabrics common in house dunmer and Velothi cultures alike. There were few fabrics that held color as vividly, and in dunmer communities the only thing to rival it was silk. Oh the multitudes of silk the Dunmer made. The benefit of the many insectoid creatures of Morrowind (and Vvardenfell specifically) came the many silk bearing creatures. The most common and widely used silk in Dunmer communities was silt strider silk, harvested after they exit their cocoons. The breakage of the silk for the striders exit wasn't of much concern, because the large size of the striders meant there was still plenty of strong, smooth silk left over to be used.

The rarest and most coveted of silks in Dunmer communities was that of daedra spider silk. Not only is it quite dangerous to collect, but the act of doing so is often reserved to followers of Mephala, trusted explicitly to collect the silk from her spider daedras. Daedric spider silk has difficultly holding dyes, so any use of it is often sparing for a plain white statement piece, to slow clearly you have the power, influence, and money to obtain such rare silks. It has been known to be used in blend fabrics, weaving it alongside others to make a strong, durable fabric. It has been used in many underlayers of armor, and is a well known fact that many Morag Tong uniforms have heavy usage of Daedric Spider Silk. The strength of the silk is so renowned, not only does it resist piercing better than many silks (which are known to do so well already) but it can resist slashing, and even certain magic at time. Working with daedric spider silk can be a hell scape of bent needles and regularly sharpening fast dulling blades, but then end product always presents a beautiful swath it fabric, so light and thin, and even sheer on occasion that one would think it's the lightest organza, not the strongest fabric known on Tamriel.

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“But the Tribunal had become as greedy as Kagrenac upon hearing of the power of the Heart and they coveted it. They made ritual as if to summon Azura as Nerevar wanted but Almalexia used poisoned candles and Sotha Sil used poisoned robes and Vivec used poisoned invocations. Nerevar was murdered.” -Michael Kirkbride

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Did You Know: You can build pillow forts in Morrowind?

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UESP Out of Context

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rule number one of making lore accurate TES OCs is to do whatever the fuck you want

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writing a tes fic and having to deep dive into the lore to make it accurate be like

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Me and my friends in a group chat were discussing our fantasy settings and characters and one came back with this pic 💀

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Finally, after a computer death, a reload, a redo and another reload I have finally finished this rendition of Nerevar. Finally!

He has fun hair, fun, fun hair. Nerevar deserves a Muffin Button, a Goku comeback and the love of Voryn. Poor guy.

This was fun, too many moons and stars.

[igorlevchenko-blog]

Portrait of Tholer Saryoni, the Patriarch and Archcanon of Tribunal Temple, praying. City of Vivec. Year 3E 427.

Digital painting. Krita. Feel free to repost. Looking for commissions.

[stupid-tes-nerd]

What’s up nerds. There’s a new Morrowind Monday on my channel! Today we learn about a new enemy named Dagoth Gares, and save a couple from a pack of Nix Hounds!

[trickstarbrave]

actually im convinced kirkbride wrote the songs of wulfharth specifically to fuck with me personally. god fucking dammit. im doing this right now

why the fuck does vivec say in the 36 sermons that nerevar had keening WHILE going to fight the dwemer. that doesnt make any sense right? we could dismiss this as metaphorical language...

EXCEPT!!! the nords ALSO mention that nerevar had keening during the battle of red mountain. there is a change though in that nerevar is fighting ALONGSIDE the dwemer this time, which makes a LOT more sense why he would have keening--because dumac would give him keening.

but does that necessarily make sense? why would he fight alongside the dwemer when they were using the tools to tamper with the heart of lorkhan and made numidium? its impossible to say. i genuinely dont know. but vivec has already proven that after the red moment (the time the tribunal became gods) they have fucked around with nerevar a lot to make him their champion instead of remaining as his advisors and vassals. regardless of how much they loved him.

is it possible in one timeline nerevar sided with the dwemer and almsivi+dagoth ur wanted to erase that timeline because they cant stand the thought of their beloved nerevar siding with traitors? its very possible. we can't confirm it though because its not like dumac is still around--only one dwemer remains and he sure as shit wouldn't know, his mind is kinda going thanks to the corprus, and he seems more occupied with the disappearance of his race than who nerevar was buddy-buddy with during the battle of red mountain. the only people who would know are almsivi and dagoth ur, and in the only account of nerevar siding with the dwemer during the battle of red mountain they were both SO opposed to it they would rather work with the nords, so why would they ever want to admit that?

but then what would azura say to that? if nerevar really wanted to use the tools on the heart of lorkhan, that would leave very clear marks in that he would be influenced by the heart becoming a god in some form like ALMSIVI or dagoth ur. but he doesnt have that. or perhaps his nature becoming the nerevarine is what resulted when he used the tools? maybe something else? maybe he was lorkhan during the nord account in the songs of wulfharth because nerevar IS a shezzarine???

[fastafeijoa]

The old cup whispers.

[jaypilledsquared]

guys who is this diva...

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Did You Know: Similar to our Earth, Nirn also has two moons?