doodledump

Very headcanon-heavy First Council lineup from my bf and I’s Elder Scrolls roleplay. I’m insane about Morrowind.

He said I should post my art so I hope my slop is enjoyable. :smile:

Clothing is hard.

but the subsequent two games really fail in this department. as far as i remember oblivion fails completely, with cyrodiil being truly culturally homogenous, which i see as a major failure of world design. in preexisting lore cyrodiil was known to be nearly as diverse as morrowind, with each city-state county unique, with a division between the colovian estates and the nibenese tribes. but oblivion's failure of the imagination is a well-documented issue with the game, being known more or less as "the elder scrolls: lord of the rings edition".

skyrim rectifies this issue, but only somewhat, and clumsily. you'd think that the whole "imperials vs stormcloaks" divide would give an interesting heterogeneity to the setting, but it's not so much a cultural divide as an ideological/political one. at the end of the day, these two groups are fundamentally just nords. you do get a little bit of a breather with the stronghold orcs, but they don't matter much in the grand scheme of things; they're just set-dressing. the game takes two of the potentially most interesting and skyrim-relevant cultures, the reachmen and the falmer, and reduces them to arrow-fodder, just bandits and goblins with fancy names. it took them an entire dlc to introduce an actually different (friendly) faction distinct from mainstream nords, the skaal, and we already met them in bloodmoon ten years ago.