u/VerySpicyLocusts

Behold: the greatest and best piece of Elder Scrolls fanart ever to be made in the history of forever, possibly the greatest piece of art ever to be made period. Anyway you have no idea how long it took me to figure out how to make the Argonian face, but it worked. Perhaps one day if I am feeling severely unhinged I will make one that’s less innuendo and more explicit but that is a story for another day, possibly never.

Hey friends, so a while ago I popped this out in Scriptorium, making an illuminated manuscript page for one of the in game books. This one describes the creation of the Amulet of Kings and according to lore is a mere excerpt from a greater work. It’s mentioned to be part of the liturgy of rekindling the Dragonfires but I also imagined it to be a holy text of the Imperial religion as well.

So the first picture I made on the left page was St. Alessia, using some of the assets I did with my other piece. She’s on her deathbed talking with the God Akatosh, but since the Gods in Elder Scrolls tend to be a bit more reserved with their manifestations on Nirn I elected to just have the shiny looking sun thing I used in the other picture to represent the Amulet of Kings coming to her.

On the other page I drew the Dragon God himself, Akatosh. I was debating whether giving him the classic 4 legs 2 wings look from DND and other stuff or the Wyvern 2 legs 2 wings, but I thought the former looked better. I wasn’t sure how to depict him keeping the Gates of Oblivion shut so I opted for a more metaphorical depiction of him enveloping demons (daedra) in holy fire, which is why I used a slightly more golden color for the flames. I also like what I did with the two demons on the bottom right, I woulda tried to make something that looks like the in universe daedra, like a dremora or something, but I’d been working on this for a while and I just kinda liked how they had faces on their butts.

Anywho I’m pretty proud of this, lmk if it’s good, if you have any constructive criticism, or if you have any suggestions/recommendations for which elder scrolls book to illuminate next!

So here I made a little bit of art around a line from the Songs of Pelinal featuring Morihaus the man-bull rallying an army of Nedes (Humans). I drew them in the Legion type armor that the later Cyrodiilic Empire would be familiar with as possibly a kind of anachronism, sort of like how some medieval paintings depicting scenes from antiquity in garb more common to the current day.

Alessia’s the centerpiece of the painting, I’m not sure what to consider that sun thing I had her hold, maybe you could consider it something like the Chim-el Adabal or just a vague magic of the Gods.

Pelinal and the Ayleids (Elves) I’m especially proud of, someone in the discord had done Pelinal before so I took a bunch of hints from how they drew him. And with the Elven soldiers he’s facing off I first tried doing something like their depiction in ESO which is why I kept the golden color but they kinda transformed into something vaguely resembling bronze age warriors which I also kinda like.

Anywho this my first piece in sandbox I hope it look good