Camilla and Palamedes are just… everything to me. God. I don’t read them as romantic or platonic or QPR, though I can totally see all of those readings. To me, they are the perfect embodiment of the necromancer/cavalier ideal. They did it. They got it right.
Think about it. Think about all the duos we see throughout the series. The Second House feels more like coworkers than anything. They work together very well, but there’s not enough devotion. The Third House is a mess. Coronabeth and Ianthe have got one flesh down, but not one end. They care about each other like hell, but they don’t agree with each other. And let’s be real here, neither of them care about Babs. The Fourth House are just siblings, the Fifth House are married, the Seventh House… well, we all know what happened to the Seventh House, and the Eight House necromancer is eating his cavalier alive. Gideon and Harrow get the closest at the end of Gideon the Ninth, but their also very traumatized teenagers, and more codependent than anything else.
But Camilla and Palamedes? They did it! They got it right! They understood that the cavalier can’t be the only one to sacrifice, that the necromancer must be willing to do anything for their cavalier too. They’d kill and die for each other, they’d do whatever necessary to keep the other one safe and happy. They’re so in sync and so in love. They ate each other like binary stars to keep their love intact even if they as individuals couldn’t be.
I just. I love them so much. I would actually die for them.
my favorite thing about Elder Scrolls is how goddamn fuckin weird it is
like on surface it’s just some dnd game but like even a cursory glance shows tis fucking insane like:
The moons is the corpse of a god
the stars are actually holes in reality when alot of primordial spirits hates that mortals were a thing and fucked off
The demon lord of forbidden knowledge/resident Cthulhu stand-in might also be the beta version of the whole fucking universe made sentient when it wasnt chosen to be the used reality
theyre are cat ppl that take the form of furrys, lions ,and regular cats, so you can have a cursing Pirate legend whose an alcoholic and wanted in 5 countries but is also a like basic tabby cat
the wood elves are so pro-nature they’re canniabls and also they.murder vegetarians for blasphemy
Vampires came from the Lord of Rape doing well ya know..
Werewolves came to exist bc the lord of hunt got bored and is a fueey
sex is treated like a fucking ip copyright contract on what aspect of sex is happening and what god it’s under. There’s had been many religious wars about this
The lizard ppl are part tree
the dwarves all fucked off somewhere and disappearwd from the universe bc they were so atheist they did math to break relatity and literally no one has any idea where they went God or mortal (except maybe Cthulhu and hes not telling)
Said Cthulhu treats hiding your grandmas secret cookie recipe & hiding a spell that will end the universe and can kill a god the exact same and will murder you for either
Everyone wants to fuck the Orc but will never admit it and they got so bent out of shape that a demon god killed the og orc god and ate him bc she couldn’t deal with everyone completing them all the time so now all Orcs are cursed to be hated but they’re all still sexy & so is their god
For the Dragonborn dlc I Fr don’t think it makes totally sense that the player can only learn bend will from Hermaeus Mora especially since the only about dragons don’t know is dragonrend.
This is heavily based off of the speculated tree from UESP: Ehlnofex Languages featuring my own speculations.
Notes: Old Cyrodilic is partly based on Ayleidoon, Nedic and Tsaesci. Old Cyrodilic can be thought of as a pidegonlanguage or possibly a lingua franca.
*Dwemeris is spoken by some scholars, but not in a speech community.
**I speculate Ashland is a dialect of Dunmeris.
+Spoken by Gelebor and known by some scholars.
The choice to call something a language versus a dialect is largely political so I went based off of my judgments.
I chose to call Snow Elvish, Snow Elvish over Falmeris because Gelebor prefers to be called a Snow Elf :)
@uesp I’d love to hear your thoughts! Particularly on the dialects! (Also Tumblr killed the image quality so DM me if you want to see the clearer image)
In Valenwood, horned animals have great cultural significance. Though specific traditions vary widely, many Bosmeri communities have coming-of-age traditions surrounding the hunting of “true wild” deer or antelope from the deeper, more uninhabited parts of the Green. Animal horn is sometimes used in the crafting of furniture, always used in the crafting of traditional bows, and often used in the crafting of body decoration – most particularly headpieces, which the Bosmer are known for. Horn and antler headpieces carry a number of associations, from simply beauty and maturity to strong connotations of cleverness and wise instinct or a deep connection to the Green. These can be hunted or gifted, or under some circumstances stolen, but never bought. Typically children don’t wear these headpieces, but no-one would bat an eye as long as they were made to be worn pointing to the ground.
i looove babette i’ve been meaning to draw her for a while now. proper alchemy practice should probably require some more sanitation but…what’s a little human blood when youre mixing up deadly potions?
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