So far I have tapped Alfgar, Ahtar, an unnamed orc, and Marcus the badly behaved to model armors, but I haven’t used Cyrelian or Erdi much. That’s an oversight.
Cyrelian the Doleful is in Journeyman Healer by RefurbMadness. Erdi’s dress is probably Apachii Divine Elegance; but it looks like she’s borrowed his beautiful cloak.
Well, maybe this one is.
I may have to come up with a name at some point, but these were just some shots I took to play around with a new house mod and some pants.
The pants are from Skybroom and the armor in the last shot is me working on a green recolor of the Thalmor Armory.
I had to wonder what those mer must have been like, at the very end of the 3d era– the ones who within a couple of decades changed everything about the Altmer social structure and government. Even after the shock of Crystal-like-law, that had to have been one hell of an effort.
This is Cyranrir, my protagonist Cyrelian’s father. If I had to hazard a guess, I would say this shot is from early in the Oblivion Crisis before they knew just how bad things would get.
He’s been deceased about three decades at the beginning of Cyrelian’s story, so this meeting never would have occured.
Heavy armor is Robbie’s Fireglass Armory and the green armor is my green recolor of Thalmor Armory.
These were more modeling shots that I had up on the Nexus previously.
As you can see, Ahtar is a much better sport than Marcus was about the whole thing, and I don’t have to worry about Mehrune’s Razor.
This is him about twenty years previous to the events in Cyrelian’s story.
Who’s that with him?
Most shots are RefurbMadness’ Dark Brotherhood ensemble; the pants and chainmail are from Skybroom.
More pictures of Ahtar modeling various armors. These were pictures I put up on Nexus as player-provided images for the mods in question. Here we have my older version of Ahtar and his younger self below.
Credits to Refurbmadness for the Iron and Wolf armors and to Skybroom for the Witcher leather pants.
So awhile back I had gotten to thinking about the paradox of a long-lived race involving itself in two major wars back-to-back. The Thalmor refer to the events of thirty years prior as “The First Great War” which suggests they are ramping up for the second.
How exactly were they planning on doing this? In thirty to fifty years the human population could be nearly recovered. Has theirs? It seems they must have lost thousands in the First Great War, males and females alike.
Bear in mind that this a culture which pair-bonding is sancrosanct and monogamy is the norm. Women aren’t seen as necessarily inferior or homebound– which means they’re right up with their spouses taking the same risks.
Mornaraeyliiwyn has considered this.
She’s doing what little she can about it.
Morna is a high-caste mage. She has an unprecedented number of children for any woman, much less an Altmer. How? It’s presumed it’s due to her magical research efforts. Or a barbarian aedric totem. Or some Khajiit herbal substance. Or a pact with the Daedra. Or her own libidinous nature.. it is a regular topic of discussion amongst the neighboring high society, at least when she or Joral are not present.
Desperate Altmer ladies — and not a few of the gentlemen– write her letters to beg advice.
Joral is her third husband. He’s also high-caste and rising rapidly through the landowner ranks. Marriage to the widow of one of the revered founders of the Thalmor state has been a great assist to his career.
Not that this explains why he elected to marry her– he did that with very little negotiation– almost upon first sight.
Set in time shortly after their marriage, just about the turning of the year 4e 180.
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