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✨ In my Elder Scrolls canon, the vestige is a blank slate using the body of a person sacrificed to the Worms.

Serpensilles (Pen for short) was a nomad (raised a member of Brackenleaf’s Briars) who he met Bastian the same way you meet him in ESO, and basically their relationship is his ESO questline but moved in my canon to be earlier. TLDR, they were married.

After a spit, Pen was out running a job for some extra coin when a member of the Worm Cult lured and murdered them. Their body would become “the vessel” and the vestige would be as if a different person to them. Bastian finds the vestige while desperately trying to search for his wife, and travels with them so their soul can come back to them. (Yearning 9000 that’s your wife but not your wife at the same time and you have to accept that to GET your wife back and huhhgggg-)

However at the end of the campaign, Serpensilles’ body does not survive the ordeal and the soul returning to their body essentially slowly kills them before leaving Coldharbour. Bastian emerges with neither vestige nor vessel, and he’s lost them forever.