dedicated Skyrim silliness

I'm Dart — nice to meet'cha!

This here be my TES blog, so I can nerd out and not bend my partner's ear about it constantly xd

I've only played Skyrim so far, and actually didn't vibe at first...

Then I got into the LORE and here we are. Advanced brainrot. 🫣

Feel free to yap OCs with me and tag me in your TES-art WIPs!

they/them | ace | grown-up | actually just some cats in an overcoat

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I've played all the factions, but most interesting was turning the story upside-down to be a (non-dragonborn) Justiciar.

Therefore the party, such as it is: oc: Ntalym/Captain Nat, Advisor Ancano, and Agent Sanyon

B(ask) in their company? 🙄

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Common tags

#Dartpost — everything that isn't a reblog — I love making polls for your OCs!

#my art — character portraits; the odd comic; CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, do not feed the AI!

#Skyrim screenshots — for when I haven't any art to share but do have maybe-interesting screenies.

#updated — I edit sometimes, or repaint something.

Other recurring tags: Antalym; Art WIP; Dartpoll; D'asks; Krita; Morvas Sadri; ocnatwrites; oc: Zanuluth; oc: Zhar, Personal; tesblr; Sussy Elves; Thalmor Thursday

RB art always has "[handle]'s art" somewhere.

Fabulous Pakistani tile-work; a jali screen; casket overlaid with mother-of-pearl (Gujarat, 1590–1600); an early game of Snakes and Ladders; burial urns; the Lord Chancellor's purse (for keeping the Great Seal in) ^

I found Voryn. ^

...AND his spare mask... ^

...and the perfect urn to deposit 5—10 gold in. ^

So, I was tagged by @anilliscarts , @theoneandonlysemla and @scribeofskyrim about...three-and-a-half million Tumblr-years ago -- thank you!

I had to wait and write about them more before the relationship was clear enough to put on a chart! This is accurate for 4E 201, anyway, after at least half a century of will-they-won't-they* BS.

I figure they're openly affectionate in most circumstances — mostly due to Nat's zero-fucks attitude (shading into outright "or WHAT?" aggression), which I think Ancano gains confidence from.

You'll absolutely find them snuggled up together off-duty.

Elves, man. ;___;

*audience of like, three other Altmer who give a damn

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I don't know whom to tag other than @beastboost, as you've all made one, I think, but here's the blank, feel free to ping me if you make one for your TES OCs, I wanna seeee 💕

I so enjoy watching other people's paintings progress, so I'm trying to get braver at sharing things as I start them, too!

"Nightmare Fuel"

...But him smol:

Tarot cards for a bit of character fun.

Huge disclaimer: not an expert in Tarot or TES lore, these are just my feelings, right now, with this deck and the meanings I happen to have for them.

I'm not super into occulty thingz but I enjoy thinking about the archetypes the cards represent! =^.^=

Absolutely do your own version/tell me what you'd have gone for? 💖

Assigned 2–3 cards based on vibes, whilst not thinking too hard about it:

Ondolemar:

Emperor for the responsibility of his position as Commander of the Thalmor in Skyrim; Devil for the more metaphysical "chains of office" that go with that kind of career: the moral quandaries and hard choices and no-way-out situations.

Elenwen:

Took these pretty damn literally. She's in the driver's seat. She handles logistics and communications; she has a lot of knotty problems to cut through on the daily...and often finds herself stabbed in the back for her efforts.

Ancano:

'Nuff said. 😔

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Wot reckon? Might do more NPCs out of curiosity...

No-pressure tagging people who write about or otherwise interact with these three 😸:

Me, writing fiction: Away, faithless, doubting cur! Away with thy craven counsel, Document de Worde!