hey, y'know elder scrolls online's racist whitewashing of vampire player characters with darker skintones that's been going on for four entire years unchanged now?

i might have found a temporary solution.

i was aiming for eventually working up the endeavors to get the deadlands excoriated skin, since the root of the white-powdered-donut vampire look is the fact it's an opaque skin applied to everyone... so I thought "okay i need a 'skin' cosmetic that shows a lot of the characters' actual skintone", and that one was the closest i could get to not covering up my char's face.

however

i also just recently got the maormer fish scale skin...

HOMYGOSH I CAN SEE HER AGAIN

It's just a temp solution however, since the scales don't match what i want from her look, and the facial ones cover up the scar i gave her ;n;

but for now? paired with some vampire-adjacent eyes?

it'll do.

god this game makes the fuckin worst aesthetic decisions you have to fight tooth and nail to find workarounds for jeebusfuckingfdjsaklf;sa

don’t you just LOVE how antithetical the eso atronach mundus stone effect is to its lore? in previous elderscrolls games, the atronach was an interesting sign that gave spellcasters a hardmode of sorts: you don’t regenerate your own magicka anymore, BUT in exchange your base pool of magicka is larger AND you get to absorb a portion of magic from any spells that hit you.

what does the atronach sign do in eso?

the OPPOSITE. the exact OPPOSITE of what it should be doing.