#dwemer

I love how the Elder Scrolls series had a race of hive-minded steampunk elves that were so aggressively anti-theistic that they built a synthetic god to act as an existential negative integer to all creation just to test the hypothesis that it could be cancelled out. But upon powering this synthetic god on, the inherent illogic and irrationality of apotheosis spread through the hive-mind like an atomic blast wave, and these elves who based their entire worldview in logic and rationality could no longer justify their own existence, and so they cancelled themselves out of the universal equation, in part proving their hypothesis in the process.

I keep forgetting that the sole reason I fell in love with TES elves back in the day was because they have weird as fuck facial features and the games make little effort to make them look conventionally attractive. The only exception I can think of are the cinematic ESO trailers, which is a bit unfortunate. Like, why can't elves just be straight up ugly sometimes. I want the awful supremacist elves to look weird and creepy and nonhuman. I want the carnivorous forest elves to make me think of bugs. I want the elves that live in ash and ride insects all day to look like it too. They literally look alien and that's cool as fuck. Shoutout to everyone who draws elves that actually look strange and otherworldly. Nothing wrong with drawing your blorbos with more human features but whoever vibes with ugly elves is goated asf