Skyrim's troubles will have trouble with me.

Dealing with Dagoth Ur threat? Great! Undermining the Tribunal? Even better! Setting the Nerevarine against anti-Imperial / separatist elites (e.g., Orvas Dren, Bolvyn Venim, Gothren)? Excellent!

And if our pocket heroes start to misbehave, we have enough blackmail material to destroy them. They come to Morrowind as prisoners, and it’s rather easy to fabricate the proof that they were convicted for raping corpses or something equally disgusting. This is pure speculation on my part, sure…

However, the game itself gives us much more tangible proof of the Blades’ conspiracy: the very first missions Cauis gives us look suspiciously like some sort of stitch-up. The Nerevarines start their spy career with scavenging from Dwemeri ruins, which is indeed a crime against Imperial law.

But the next step - the deal with Sharn gra-Muzgob - is much, much worse. The woman asks us to desecrate a Dunmeri ancestral tomb and steal a particular skull for her rituals, which is one of the most dreadful, wretched things we could do in the eyes of local population. Moreover, Sharn is lying: she says that Llevule Andrano was a simple wizard while in reality he was a canon of the Tribunal Temple, and well-loved by lord Vivec on top of it.

Caius knows perfectly well that the woman is a necromancer, and the information she’s able to provide us with is pretty trivial. Why endanger your precious agent so much? Stealing a skull of a god-blessed mer? How scandalous! And if the Nerevarines try to pull some anti-Imperial trick, well…

“I am whatever the people need me to be. A guardian. An oppressor. For some, too distant. For others, too meddlesome.”   

TES-Legends: Aspect of Hircine

Had a pleasure to make some illustration for Bethesda TESLegends, really fun gig. Hope you like it!

Other Daedra:

-lycanthropy gives human races pointier ears and teeth. most human lycanthropes grow long hair to cover their ears, and some grow facial hair to obscure their mouth somewhat.

-lycanthropes are extraordinarily loyal to their loved ones. even a previously unfaithful person will become trustworthy after conversion.

-lycanthropes can eat raw meat even without using their beast form.

-most lycanthropes that don’t seek a cure also don’t willingly transform often, as the process is painful.

-lycanthropes have incredible hearing, which sometimes results in symptoms similar to that of selective sound sensitivity or hypersensitive sensory processing disorder.

-their sense of smell is the same way.

“Boe,” Cereza jolts, having been avoiding the other like they carried the plague for the better part of a week now. “It— it is not you, you have done nothing wrong… I simply… needed space,” she explains lamely, not yet willing to jeopardize their relationship with her secret.

so I’m playing ESO Summerset and doing this real neat and clever quest where this lady is liked “my twin bro gave up the chance to train with amazing mages to join an acting troupe. this is the worst decision he ever made on top of ditching me. please help me find him because all the actors wear masks.”

so i go through the motions and find a dancer who has a scar like the lady mentioned and he said he used to be a mage. but the troupe leader convinces me that I should think about the brother and what he wants and we put a stop to the sister’s plan to unmask the actor to get him kicked out.

sister pisses off and is going to be thrown out of town. So i go to the troupe leader and she confesses that SHE’S the twin! Now she had said briefly that I should be careful in picking whom I thought was the bro because some people hide their gender on top of hiding their faces, so it’s not quite 100% out of the blue.

 I convince her to talk with her sis and she reveals herself to be her twin and apologizes for lying, but she just didn’t want to be something she wasn’t anymore–mainly a mage.

AND THEN the troupe leader/twin says to me “hey, if you want to ever stop bythe troupe house, I’d love to chat more” and that is after the quest. it’s pretty rare for there to be stuff to do/learn after the quest, but with Morrowind, there have been a few things. So I go and find her because I have aa feeling I know what it’s about. anyone who doesn’t quite catch what the quest is REALLY about might not think much and just think “ya she probs just will say ‘hey thanks for helping me out” because that how most of these quests go. NPCs give you like 3 lines about what they’re up to know and then just rinse and repeat.

but I went and it got a whole lot better. This convo was clearly meant for people who knew what the end of the quest was really about.

Not only does she admit that  she was uncomfortable living as a man so she transitioned she also explains that there are plenty of trans folk across tamriel and some go about their self learned identity in different ways.