#orismer

For Altmer theirs is golden but bc their etiquette it’s never seen unless they absolutely need to probably considered very rude to show them when not needed showing them during a convo is like rolling your eyes at someone

Dunmer have red lids it’s a lot more accepted in their culture to close the 3rd lid especially after the red year

Bosmer have greenish brown ones they use when hunting to help camouflage their eyes since the 3rd dominion takeover they’ve had to adjust to Altmeri social norms of only using when needed previously they were very casual about their lids showing

Orismer have green ones they use when fighting eachother contrary to Altmer it’s rude for an orc not to use their lids when fighting eachother ESPECIALLY when battling a chieftain

Falmer have white pre blindness they had similar standard to Altmer though a lil more lax post blindness they use them all the time

Dwemer hove more golden bronze I imagine a lot of them used them after a long day of working on robots to help relax

Personally, roleplay is genuinely my favourite part of any game. I love creating a character, giving them a backstory, and *only* making decisions in-game that I think they would make. I even limit fast travel because I want to traverse the map with them and picture their ponderings between plot points and dungeon crawls. But especially because of moments like the one I just experienced.

Currently, I am playing an Orc named Morga the Grey. She is a Wise-Woman who abandons Orisinium after a crisis of faith triggered by the "honourable" deaths of all of her adult sons. (I love playing as morally grey old ladies.) Here she is!

I realised early on that she would have never seen the ocean before, as Orsinium is in the mountains. Being in her late 60s, I figured that encountering something completely new and so vast and existential as the ocean would be a very novel experience for Morga.

And so, I decided to travel along the coast, down near Anvil. For the first time in her life, She has no clear purpose. I figured she'd meditate on life down by the waves.

Now this is my first time playing Oblivion in years. I have genuinely forgotten most of it, and I'd certainly forgotten where everything was on the map.

So imagine how stunned I was to be deep in the mindset of this character. To see a marker appear on my compass, to turn and to find the Shrine to Malacath waiting for her.

It's astounding how easily meaning and story can be found when you just sit back and let your character lead!

Just imagine. You've spent your life first as a mother, then as a priestess to a warrior god. You've never known anything different. You are devoted. Then one day your sons die. They have "good deaths" and will live in the afterlife with your god. You should be happy, at the very least consoled, but your children are dead and perhaps, if they'd been cowards, they'd be alive.

So you leave the life you've led for 60 years, and for the first time, you are without purpose and everything is foreign. You decided to follow the first thing you find that is new (and it is beautiful and powerful and awe-inspiring and could lead anywhere), and it leads you straight back to a shrine of your former god.

"I'm walking backwards into my own myth. I was trying to walk out."

Dunmerkin

Chimerkin

Altmerkin

Aldmerkin

Bosmerkin

Orismerkin

Dwemerkin

Falmerkin

Ayleidkin

Maomerkin

Kanuryaikin

im alive, just scuttling under rocks like a bug. Picking up skyrim again here and there and last night worked on my shy pouty orsimer girl Yazara. She's a student mage and a book worm who I made soley as an excuse to wander round skyrim and read all the books.

Elder scrolls online original characters i did for funsies of some pals!