#skyrim valerica

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

Happy Tyranny of The Sun

[fallen-faerie]

Skyrim Scenery: The Soul Cairn

[nauteno]

There was definitely love (TES:V)

[modeus-the-unbound]

My Dragonborn: Soooo, Serana your mom....Valerica right, is back in castle Volkihar now?

Serana: Yeah, it's nice having her around again. Even if I usually have to go looking for her in her garden.

My Dragonborn: And...would you say, now that Harkon is gone...does she seem lonely?

Serana: In what way do y-

Serana internally:

[stonecoldaries]

somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

My mom said we can hide in the woods, cast ancient spells, be embraced by moss, and befriend eldritch creatures if it's okay with your mom.

Serana, maybe

[ludinusdaleth]

imogen temult 🤝 serana volkihar

more-than-human laura bailey characters deemed as monsters due to the actions of their parents who are part of a larger plot controlled by an ancient traumatized pale long-white-haired elf who is the last of his kind who seeks vengeance against the gods with an ominous red astral body that requires said laura bailey character, or her mother, to unlock the potential of

[thedarkkitten]

Haven't changed my mind since I was eleven

[noxcorvid]

think I’m almost done deciding when serana gets bank chuted w her elder scroll, sometime between 1E 2331 and 1E 2703, the end and beginning times of the alessian and reman empires, bc the main hangup in figuring out when that happens is her line of “cyrodiil’s the seat of an empire?” when you wake her up. I decided against it happening during the interregnum in the 2E, bc while Cyrodiil doesn’t have a solid cohesive empire at that time, it still was kkkkkkkind of an empire? it was nominally an empire (the empire of Cyrodiil) so I decided against it, and then that segways right into Tiber septim septiming all over the place into the 3rd era, so 1E it is. Considered before the Alessian Empire, but that began 1E 243 and for the sake of keeping the story relatively cohesive (for perspective, the Dwemer getting thanos snapped and chimer->dunmer happened around 1E 700, and the yokudans began sailing en masse for Tamriel in 1E 792), and I initially didn’t want serana to be so violently out of the loop... I was gonna save that level of dissonance for a potential miraak doesn’t die in apocrypha arc but the ideas been growing on me. Like a fungus. ALSO, re: language: I don’t care what the official lore (or at least uesp) says there’s no way all of tamriel was using high elvish for legal documents continent-wide, serana would speak primarily old Nordic either way, but at least with the Alessian empire having already happened it makes sense if she at least spoke a little bit of old cyrodilic ……… but also very early 1E serana so. Hm.

[smalllady]

[yennethan]

Lord Harkon, Valerica, Serana

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

A collection

[monstersandmaw]

Courtyard moondial and Valerica's Garden, Castle Volkihar

(feel free to use for reference etc)

[nauteno]

"Chasing Echoes" at Volkihar's Ruined Tower(TES:V)

[castlevolkihar]

there is a bloody tankard on the balcony outside of valerica’s study, at one point she was enjoying the view from her balcony and i am going to sob

[whitegoldtower]

More Volkihar Hurt/Comfort. Here’s what happens if you hug them.

Serana: initially tries to push you away, but then holds onto you so tightly that she starts shaking. You feel all of her rage and heartache, all of her fear of intimacy, all of her longing for connection.

Valerica: you connect with her mind and feel a mother’s guilt and heartbreak as she lets you in. She imagines that you are her child, that she can fix you as she combs her fingers through your hair.

Garan Marethi: Does nothing. He lets you hug him, and you just feel his tiredness wash over you. You feel his appreciation, but also his longing to just be left alone.

Ronthil: starts crying as soon as your hands touch him. He doesnt put his arms around you, but he curls up with his hands against his chest and allows you to hold and sway him like a baby. He misses his mother.

Vingalmo: Acts like the hug means nothing to him, like he’s used to it. But he hesitates when you wrap your arms around him. You feel mistrust radiating from him, and when he realises you’re not trying to kill him or hurt him, he melts. He wraps his arms around you and presses his face against yours. His eyes begin to well up, and he scrunches his face up to fight the intensity.

Feran Sadri: He sighs and gives you a gentle squeeze, resting his head on your shoulder. You feel a calm resignation washing over you as your minds connect. A sad sort of understanding connecting you both. He doesnt look you in the eye when you pull away, but he does thank you.