#mephala

after a whole year of avoiding this task, i have finally drawn jyggalag, the only daedric prince my redesign project was missing! the gang's all here!! i also updated vaermina's and sheogorath's colors a little.

I thought about it for a long time, and now I have created a redesign of Mephala. I will gradually work on references for the entire triad.

"There's a reason Mephala is referred to as the "Webspinner," though modern Dunmer seem to ignore this appellation and instead project the sympathetic qualities they associate with Vivec—art in violence, cunning, enlightened poetry—back onto the Daedric being that "anticipated" him. This tendency serves to conceal much of Mephala's nature, which is exactly what the Prince would desire. Mephala taught our ancestors the ways of secret murder, to be used against our enemies and even against our own in the place of all-out war, certainly "good" for our predecessors as they migrated across Tamriel and came into often-fractious contact with the Nords and Dwemer. We learned meticulous plotting and how to lie, ways to lure and trap our foes, how to manage complexity and predict outcomes. But few ask why this Daedric Prince would champion our people. The gullible fancy us chosen for our superior qualities and the cynical believe us a mere amusement for the Daedra, but these are both woefully simple-minded theories." -Divayth Fyr, A Telvanni Lord's musings on the Daedric Prince of Secrets

Mafala (not playing with a ball of yarn, but with a web!)

I have no clue how far I'll get with this but I had a strong urge to redesign some of the princes to fit how I imagined them, I might stick to just doing the Reclamations though, we'll see :D

Seryn belongs to RoteHaare