1 & 3 for the best boy: Martin Septim.

1- Why do you like or dislike this character?

elder scrolls is a flower-picking simulator to me so I was pretty indifferent to him and the main quest up until he gives you a book to help with the daedric artifact quest. something about that just charmed me.

When I make a character I always impose a few limits on myself in the beginning, to give them a personality and add a little challenge to the gameplay. For this one, I decided the character is illiterate, so I would only pick up books/journals if forced to by a quest, or to sell the expensive ones. Couldn't bring myself to sell Modern Heretics tho.... just packed it around until the next time I returned to Cloud Ruler. like, he's trapped in one place and can't really do anything while you go out and risk your damn life, but he tries to help you in the only way he can I'M????? so that happened, and then a ~story~ began spiraling around my head and now i have this accursed blog.

3- Least favorite canon thing about this character?

where he like, helps you kill enemies in the game... i'm just not buying it. i view it as a game contrivance, bc he's a forced follower during part of the quest. i will maintain till my dying day that martin septim does not know jack shit about fighting.

you wouldn’t last an hour

in the asylum where they raised me

Dances with Fish celebration!

The anniversary confetti horse is literally the most joyful creature i have avalable in game, i'm not even joking it makes me SO happy

Every time it appears it's like a little birthday

Oc: hok Venasa

Aderyn, to Martin after a particularly stupid security breach: Remind me to write 'OpSec' on something heavy and hit you over the head with it.

Blade of Hope

Read on AO3 

Context: Because apparently, doing 50k in 4 days wasn’t enough writing, I decided to finish off a fic I started on 29 Oct 2020. This is one-shot side-step from most of the established Genderless!HoK universe, and is basically a self-indulgent Martin-lives-fix-it. I’d seen some stuff floating around about “What would happen if Martin wasn’t Uriel’s heir?”, how would everyone react, etc, and thought, “that could be fun to write”. Then, in the process of mulling it through, realised I’d set it up perfectly (though unintentionally) for Rowan to be Uriel’s child instead (partly because of the prophetic dreams). And then I figured out I could make it a fix-it, kinda. Jauffre and Baurus are still dead (at some point I will write about that), but Martin lives – and isn’t that the important thing here? Words: 5021 TW: Blood, injury, death, minor angst

Read on AO3

(I’m being lazy; I’ll post it in full here on Tumblr at some point…)

Taglist (ask for +/-):

@corkytheguar  @viawrites-andacts @strosmkai-rum @arcane-elder-scrolls

I think you should draw..... a little man. A guy if you will. You can decide which Guy.

He knows many things :]

the old guys' anniversary (date that i posted the first piece that i wrote about them lmao) was yesterday apparently. missed it

doppelgänger

Casual Dunmer Chair

In-game asset for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Dragonborn DLC

Modeling and texturing by Jason Muck

"In the event that your rare first editions or vital academic texts have gained a tenant, simply befriend the tome via ample spine massages and a gentle ruffling of its pages."

--Description of an Albinoscript Fangtome from ESO.

the lavender field

i have no oc to do knights of the nine so yk what? BAURUS knights of the nine. BAURUS can do it

Journey Through the West Weald

Just my Hero of Kvatch traveling through the wilderness with Martin on their way to Weynon Priory 🫶

La Pietà di Neravar

and 50+ hours later, it is done! Thank you to everyone who followed the process, this is the most ambitious project I've ever done and having kind friends to follow the journey really helped <3

Especially thank you to: @dirty-bosmer @lucien-lachance @thequeenofthewinter @kookaburra1701 @throughtrialbyfire @its-christmas-probby @ladytanithia and @letuce369

i thoroughly enjoy the idea of orcs with genderfluidity depending on what their duties are in the stronghold . just give me genderfluidity

just finished this ink drawing of Dolora, my Dunmer girl from ESO; wish i was better at photographing art on paper. the parts that look white on her outfit are metallic silver ink 😅

i was really faithful to the screenshots for the background/interior she's in, but i redesigned the dress almost completely. idk why but so many of the costumes in ESO that are meant to be just clothes still look like armor??? this was supposed to be the "Necrom Evening Attire" gown, but....

here is a screenshot of Dolora wearing it in-game, and...it feels like it's just overly complex just for the sake of being overly complex, the design doesn't flow, WHY DOES EVERY SINGLE ESO OUTFIT HAVE TO HAVE A LOINCLOTH-LIKE ELEMENT HANGING DOWN IN FRONT, i can't explain why but the gloves are giving cleaning/utility gloves not evening gloves...it's just a super hot mess as "evening/formalwear." maybe it could work as mage armor but it wasn't supposed to BE mage armor and everybody in Tamriel does not wear exclusively armor all the time 😒 plus it bugs me extra bc i sew and i know how clothes go together, so garment designs where i am looking at them and can clearly see that there'd be no actual way to construct it as shown are just...🙄

so i kept the red/blue combination and the mixed patterns and some of the basic elements and tried to draw something that felt more like an elegant formal gown. my design was probably also influenced by the fact that i modeled the pose and composition of the whole drawing after "Madame X" by John Singer Sargent:

anyway, it was fun and good drawing practice 😊