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alyson (they/she)
- art blog link - pansexual, aromantic, nonbinary-woman. intersectional feminist. existentialist. human. - a tag for head-thoughts - my sister
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falmerbrook
sharffffff asked:

Regarding ayleid specifically, their skin is darker than that of altmers and their eyes are more consistently lighter, almost always with blue tint. Yeah, they still look like a generic elf, but their appearance is clearly separated from that of altmers

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falmerbrook answered:

(slapping the other ask on this one since they're related)

Yeah I like that there's something visually different about the Ayleid's from the Altmer/Aldmer (and by eso design standards, skin tone is about as far as they can significantly go). It's mostly based on how Dynar looks, but I also like to imagine they are more square and boxy-er looking than the Aldmer/Altmer (less like your stereotypically tall and graceful fantasy elves) to set them apart.

And I agree I like the yellow Dunmer lol. I mentioned it briefly when I did the ear headcanon thing, but I pretty much picture Chimer as a mix of Dunmer and Altmer characteristics, so it works for me!

Speaking of, when I did the ear headcanon thing I also did this skin tone thing for my own reference as a sort of mapping of general trends. Might as well post them while we're here

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bam-monsterhospital

these tags are everything to me. THANK YOU. i thought i was alone!

#eso#elderscrolls#elves#altmer#ayleids#dunmer#aldmer#maormer#falmer#orsimer#dwemer#chimer#ALL THE MER#gib non-human elves!#gosh#hey eso give us the ability to make our elves darker skinned plz?#bosmer#you're allowing altmer and bosmer to be white human looking#can we get some darker human skintones then too? no?#no? oh#only greys and greens... only the 'ugly' mer huh?#only the dunmer with their harsh features#and orsimer with their orc-i-ness#oh i see#fuck zos#fantasy stuff#fantasy#rpg stuff#it's racism
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merethicera

i’ve talked before about how the dwemer being blamed for the falmer’s fate is a poorly-written cop-out and intended to take the blame off the nords that are still activey favorable towards the genocide of the snow elves and the player who is forced to kill falmer unless they have a high sneak/illusion skill. this is true, and i stand by it, but the other thing that this does is it creates a scenario where the problem cannot be addressed in a meaningful way.

by putting the blame on the dwemer, who no longer exist, the elder scrolls allows the genocide of the snow elves to go untouched. the dwemer, having been wiped off the face of the earth, can’t make amends with the falmer, free them from their servitude, or do anything that you might expect or want the preparators of racist subjugation to do.

that’s not true of the nords. the nords still exist, and the companions COULD cast off wuuthrad, denounce their historical ties to the falmer genocide, and strip ysgramor of his status to them as hero. if they were acknowledged as the descendent of the cause that drove the falmer underground and transformed them, you might even, and rightfully so, expect them to do so. but they aren’t, and they don’t. and the game tries to make it so they don’t have to, by pinning all the blame on a non-existent society that can never fix anything on account of being non-existent, rather than acknowledging the driving force behind what happened to the falmer for what it is.

#elderscrolls#skurrurm#dwemer#fuckin nords#nords#falmer
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