One thing Oblivion did which was pretty clever was screenshotting an NPC and slapping a watercolor filter over it to make it look like a painting

It's a cheap but fairly effective way of adding a historicity to the spaces you're playing in. And I wish they would've done it more throughout the game

We have been granted access to even more from the estate of the Father of The Elder Scrolls, Julian LeFay. There is still even more we want to explore in-depth, and even more that we're working on preserving down the line, but today we wanted to share some high quality art scans.
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me levitating across the seas to High Isle on this donkey

Man I'm getting pretty tired of all these CGI fungal/sand/floral/barf tv intros that are entirely deficient in narrative protein

It was cool when Daredevil did the original goop version a decade ago, but now every other show is doing it.

Please stop sending goop to my television, I beg of you

Funnest of facts: The 'The Elder Scrolls Chapter One: The Arena' video game has a bunch of temples dedicated to mega obscure deities and subjects of Tamriel.

And @jeffperryman.bsky.social did up a bunch of neat wall art and iconography for all the various temple types across the world's biomes.

Begin rant: Something I've become quite fond of in long-form fiction is characters that come from actual families and have family trees. That's easily my favorite setting feature of A Song of Ice & Fire

Witness below the incredible McCallister family tree lore from the small indie film Home Alone!

Something that has been lost over the years is the original "solar system" Julian LeFay created for the planet of The Elder Scrolls: Arena. It features a number of coloured blue and red stars, as well as a bunch of planets that have yet to re-appear in the series

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en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:S...

As someone who has spent a not small amount of time digging into Julian's works and legacy, this news is painful.

I met Julian in person last month and phoned with him couple times before that. He was generous, honorable, and nothing short of a craftsman.

My best wishes to his family and friends.

Yo! I just found a new digital Daggerfall press pack found from mid 1994, earliest pics of Daggerfall around!

@tedpeterson.bsky.social

Besides all the really important work that the IA does for politics, health, history, and culture in general, the study of Elder Scrolls lore would suffer an irreparable damage if the Wayback Machine were to disappear. Old threads, websites, and manuals are all hosted there.

Pitch in, if you can!

A suburb post by @drnightstone.elderscrolls.social detailing the roots of TES mythmaking

"No point in being part of history if you're too ignorant to understand it."

Through some way crazy interneting via archive.org, I found a press pack with the raw screenshots from very first Elder Scrolls game back in 1993.

Behold yo, the very first glimpses of Tamriel to the public:

After playing through Oxenfree I can no longer casually listen to ukulele music of any sort without a small but significant part of my brain thinking there's a spooky demon ghost plucking the strings