#hero of daggerfall

took a plunge into pixel art to give my Agent her own unique face and I should have done this ages ago, she's SOOO cute!! ;;__;;

custom vs vanilla face I edited for reference:

Okay so here's some important context for Minia, my Hero of Daggerfall:

She's grandmaster of the Blades

She was once Uriel VII's lover but isn't anymore

She's Martin's mama

So one thing you need to understand is that I hate the way the Dragon break is triggered. Personally I think rather than giving the totem to someone and then getting the Mantella, they should have gotten the Mantella FIRST which should immediately trigger the Dragon break. It's about the only thing that makes sense in my head.

With that said the agent just sort of dying or disappearing is so boring. You know what would be even cooler?? BECOMING A GOD. Not a big one but a God nevertheless. I don't remember if this is fan theory or confirmed canon somewhere but I love the implications of the Mantella being made up of the souls of Tiber Septim, Ysmir, and Zurin Arctus, and that by freeing the Mantella from Aetherius you have essentially brought Talos into existence and rewrote his place in history among the Nine Divines

I've decided that by the mere act of touching the Mantella, Minia dies and has her soul split into a hundred pieces. These pieces become different, lesser aspects with their own unique names and identities, and each of them brings the Totem to someone else. People remember A hero of daggerfall, but her existence as they knew it is basically wiped from their memories and replaced with these lesser aspects (this is how I'm handwaving Gemile into the picture as she did not exist at the time I made Minia Martin's mom.)

But even though her name has been written out of time itself Minia still maintains her consciousness and uses the totem with the Mantella to ascend to her own aspect of Godhood, which I decided was incredibly easy to do by virtue of it happening in Aetherius. She becomes a sort of folklore God among the Bretons and Redguards as the God of Sacrifice, as everything she did she did for her empire. And it killed her.

She sometimes takes the form of a two-headed sacrificial black sheep