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Concept art for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Battle for Bruma ⚔️✨

This year's Setsubun fell on February 2nd.

👹What is Setsubun? 👹

Thank you VERY much to @salad-sauce for commissioning me! Their design for Moath is so tasty and I had a lot of fun with it ^w^

Transparent version + progress below!

I was looking at @\salad-sauce’s art (thank you for making such good battlespire stuff!) and got inspired to draw my redesigns for Dagon’s failkids

hands are kinda bad this time but whatever. imago looks short but he’s 7’2” lol, the twins (faydra and moath) are just 7’8” and they will make fun of him for being the shortest. it definitely doesn’t bother him though what.

their weapons have names! imago has the sword of the moon reiver (I headcanon it’s his and he just lets people borrow it), moath’s halberd is called glacier’s edge, and faydra’s scimitars are called cataclysm and paroxysm

version w/ my oc + individual shots below

Summons and variety

In Conjuration they are pitiful amount of Daedra summon there is in total

Flame Atronach

Frost Atronach

Storm Atronach

Dremora lord

And that's it, a truly pitiful amount and now let's compare to oblivion

Scamp

Flame Atronach

Frost Atronach

Storm Atronach

Dremora

Dremora lord

Clanfear

Daedroth

Spider daedra

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You SEE THE ISSUE?

there is such a lack of the variety and choice

But let's give Skyrim it's best chance and add dlcs and creation club

And in that case the list goes

Skyrim

Flame Atronach

Frost Atronach

Storm Atronach

Dremora lord

Seeker

Dremora merchant

Dremora butler

Golden saint warrior/archer

Dark seducer warrior/archer

Staada

Daedric horse

Oblivion

Scamp

Flame Atronach

Frost Atronach

Storm Atronach

Clanfear

Dremora lord

Dremora

Spider daedra

Daedroth

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Hungers

Flesh Atronach ( Which while also very necromantic has a Daedra in so it counts)

Golden saint

Dark seducer

Even with DLC and the creation club it's such a big downgrade, while I love being able to summon two things in Skyrim I wish the options to pick from to make full use of it.

Also I didn't mention any necromancy here because both games did it pretty well, Skyrim with actually being able to revive bodies early on and oblivion with its vast options of skeletons,zombies, ghosts and even lichs, Skyrim even adds 19 new necromantic summons (including a fucking bone Colossus, ESO sweep) with DLC and creation club and a bonewolf pet and a skeleton forge, but to be fair if I'm.count the bonewolf then I should count the manic and Demented elytra Nymphs ( wait are elytra Daedra?)

Either way my point is that simplification of the magic system in Skyrim has caused lack of depth in more ways than just mysticism being taken outback and being shot and spell-crafting with it.