I had the pleasure of drawing for the wonderful @ohmyarda again of one of her characters from ESO

If you haven't already please go check out her lovely art! She's amazing~

#almalexia #yeyeyeyeyeyeye #morrowind #dunmer #elderscrolls #pretty arts

eso bringing back the stolen fanart to profit from it

apparently this december 7th, 2023, zenimax is bringing back the ragebound crown crates. this is the crate that features the real-dollar-costing body art cosmetic lifted from a fan's art.

originally, the body art was labelled as relating to almalexia, despite the stolen artwork clearly depicting sotha sil. the item itself was renamed later after sotha sil at a MUCH later date.

is this decision to bring back ragebound crates (unprecedentedly quick, considering they JUST came out earlier this year) an attempt to re-market the STOLEN art under this new name? Probably.

will the item instead be taken out because holy fucking shit it was snatched from a fan artist who was 'compensated' with a goddamn non-speaking non-questing npc hanging around the barren outskirts of the newest dlc? Probably not.

either way. don't buy it. don't waste your money and time.

#eso #elder scrolls online #zenimax #zos #art theft #ode to clockwork body art #mercymother's body art #mercymother body art #stolen art #sotha sil #almalexia #teso

bam-monsterhospital

where's Almalexia?

so... eso's continuing its ongoing trend of only acknowledging/giving tongue baths to sotha sil when it comes to the tribunal, it seems. Is almalexia in the necrom expansion at all? if not that means we've got yet another dlc with sotha sil making a guest appearance (the quest at kemel-ze) to the exclusion of the other tribunal.

Vivec is in his own dlc (only because you can't have vivec city without vivec). Otherwise he does not appear anywhere else.

Almalexia appears a little in the main quest of the base game deshaan zone. Otherwise, she has not appeared anywhere else since.

Sotha sil on the other hand...

is a main character in his dlc zone --clockwork city--.
has a major role in the summerset dlc main questline
has a sidequest in the telvanni peninsula, despite mainland morrowind not falling under his perview
is constantly mentioned and appraised by mages and dimensional-meddlers all over the place.

Relegating vivec to only vvardenfell is unfortunate but understandable, seeing as the island is his realm.

However, what is extremely disappointing --but not surprising-- is the fact that the chief member of the tribunal, the one who holds domain over the entire mainland of the dunmer, "mother morrowind" herself, is pushed to a dusty forgotten corner so the game can continue to idolize and misinterpret sotha sil. AGAIN.