Rob Mulholland: Vestige (2009)

Something I don’t see mentioned very often (or indeed see that it’s gotten wrong and misunderstood) is that the Vestige does not have their own body.

From UESP, “Molag Bal's lust for the enslavement of mortal souls is such that at the moment of their death, he employs various methods to divert a mortal's soul from its journey to the afterlife to imprisonment and slavery in Coldharbour, his realm of Oblivion. Once the soul arrives in Coldharbour, it is exchanged for an essence commonly known as the vestige. The vestige attracts to itself a shapeless but energetic material called Chaotic Creatia. In Coldharbour, this creatia takes the form of a substance known as the Azure Plasm - ubiquitous pools of blue slime. The Azure Plasm coalesces around a vestige and forms a corporeal body with the semblance of the shape it wore in life. The process is similar to how lesser Daedra reform on their respective planes of Oblivion, after they're banished or slain.”

Before they get their own soul back they are, effectively, a Daedra. They have a Daedric “soul” and a Daedric body. This is why most of the Soul Shriven we see are half decayed, they’ve lost their souls so the Creatia doesn’t know how to hold their body’s together right - The Vestige being the exception to the rule.

Like, don’t get me wrong fanfic where the Vestige has their body are still good, I still love them, but where is the angst of not having their soul or their body? Where’s the existential dread of whether or not they are they still themselves?

Is it possible that the Vestige has to fight their own body, reanimated by the Work Cult?

How does everyone else react to the Vestige not being Mortal in the most basic senses, body and soul?

Idk. I just think it’s interesting and would love to see more people explore That Can Of Worms (TM)

As much as I'd love an actual Miraak cameo in Necrom, I know it won't happen for obvious reasons, the main one of course being that Hermaeus Mora, Prince Of Spying On People, should know Vestige "my favorite hobby is helping people escape daedric realms :)" Last Name well enough by now-

Untitled,

2023,

mixed media on cotton,

30 x 22 cm

The Elder Scrolls Online - Vestige 3/?

Eso is such an aesthetic game 💖

so i started playing ESO again...

(uncensored ver)

finally I finished it

now it definitely didn’t turn out the way I originally planned with watercolor imitation, but I like it

and well I liked how in my last post with WIP my two OCs looked together so I think to make them brothers (они на ебла почти одинаковые и оба белобрысые лол) especially since they are in the same timeline and this will not be a problem

a kagouti do not reupload

Little feli has drawn something for Vanus :3

my vestige is getting bullied </3

full image;

It's time again for some Elder Scrolls doodles. Albus young and fresh out of Coldharbour mostly.

to me Juno is the example of nordic beauty no i don’t take criticism

Untitled (Quail),

2023,

mixed media on cotton,

30 x 22 cm

The Elder Scrolls Online - Vestige 4/?