#the elder scrolls blades

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Steel armor

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls: Blades

Art by Lucas Hardi

#lucas hardi #the elder scrolls #art #concept art #tes #blades #the elder scrolls blades #steel armor #armor design

[villasukkahaha]

I’d rather die than make a human elder scrolls character /j (I used all my power trying not to do another khajiit)

Anyway, this is Swings-His-Blade 😎

#art #traditional art #fanart #commissions open #sketch #elder scrolls fanart #elder scrolls #the elder scrolls #the elder scrolls blades #blades #tes #tes blades #argonian #furry

[elderscrollsconfessions]

Confession: I really wish Blades weren't so rife with difficulty spikes that need you to either have extremely specific gear for every one that crops up or spend real life money to get past. I've been swapping out what I have equipped on a situation to situation basis and getting better stuff/enchanting/upgrading when I can and it still never matters because it's still not enough. I'm tired of giving it more chances. Maybe the game is just fine and it's me that just sucks, I don't know anymore.

#Blades #The Elder Scrolls Blades #The Elder Scrolls #TES #ESC

[shandars-sorrow]

It. Just. WORKS.

#tes #the elder scrolls #elder scrolls #shitpost #tes: blades #elder scrolls blades #tes blades #the elder scrolls blades #elder scrolls shitpost #tes shitpost #tes shit post #elder scrolls shit post #meme #tes meme

[aeterna---amantes]

|| This theme is so so so so so good! 🥰👏🏻🖤

#asgard to earth 💚 (ooc) #Blades #The Elder Scrolls Blades #mun plays Blades #Spotify #|| The drums the DRUMS

[catboyinchief]

just realized I can make a blades guild with myself since I have two playthroughs. idk what that does but now Samhain and Bellona can be besties 💖

ah god I have to fuckin think of a name and description for them :(

#schrodinger's chatterbox #blades #the elder scrolls blades

[crysdrawsthings]

#tes #the elder scrolls #tesblr #skyrim #oblivion #daggerfall #arena #eso #elder scrolls online #tes redguard #tes blades #crysandthings

[skyrim-forever]

rip Blades Questline, imagine what you could of been

#skyrim #the elder scrolls #tes #tesblr #meme #this user #paarthurnax #the blades #delphine skyrim #I have ideas on how to fix the blades questline

[mirthandir]

I also love how there hasn't been a single, solitary game where the Blades haven't been the most useless fucks on Tamriel

#the elder scrolls #the blades #skyrim

[uesp]

The UESP has a new random page which gives you easy access to specific types of random pages. Want to only get results related to a specific game? Well now you can do that easily.

#uesp #the elder scrolls #lore #elder scrolls online #skyrim #oblivion #morrowind #legends #daggerfall #arena #redguard #castles #blades #battlespire #shadowkey #dawnstar #stormhold #and so on

[moodcrab]

Fixing Delphine

This bitch.

I actually like that they made a character that is on your side but is somewhat unlikable, Delphine is Team Dragonborn, but she's not really one of the good guys. And that's cool, conflict means drama. So what's the problem? Well unfortunately, this drama is surface level and isn't used to drive the story, so It's kind of just annoying.

People oversimplify their hatred of Delphine into "She wants you to kill Paarthurnax," because unlike Delphine, people actually like Paarthurnax. Understandable, but barely scratches the surface. We'll get to The Paarthurnax Dilemma in time, but that quest is a symptom, not the illness itself.

If I could sum up Delphine in a word it would be "inconsistent." For example, she's a fugitive waging a one woman war on the Thalmor from the shadows, who's only survived this long from sheer paranoia - but she also uses her real name and leaves a note in Ustengrav for whoever happens to pick it up with directions and a pass word to her secret hide out.

She needs to go through her super secret contact Farengar to use the Jarl's resources to go into Bleak Falls Barrow, a tutorial level dungeon she can see from her house, and she's impressed that you did it - but she also goes personally to the other side of the country to delve alone into the massive Ustengrav to steal the Horn of Jurgan Windcaller, no issues, just a quick in and out twenty minute adventure.

She takes the fact that you found her Ustengrav note as proof you're the Greybeard's new guy and not some Thalmor plant even though she herself, a non Dragonborn, had also completed Ustengrav and taken the horn proving it's totally possible. She even points this out in her own dialogue then demands we prove who we are, even though that was the whole point of the Ustengrav note. It's also a pretty big assumption that just because I'm the guy the Greybeards call Dragonborn that I can't ALSO be with the Thalmor.

We are left with this awkward sense that the writers are flailing to make us think this woman is competent and objective, without actually having her do anything that clever. Just act like the dumb thing was smart and have her act like a cocky brat if questioned about it.

Inconsistency. It's her thing. Does she hate the Thalmor? That would make sense given what we know about her. But that gets dropped half way through the main story and suddenly she hates The Greybeards, for absolutely no reason at all. She gives a reason, but it's bullshit.

In her own words, "If the greybeards had their way, the dragonborn would sit on a mountain talking to the sky." But that's not true is it. We know The Greybeards, they encouraged us to fulfill our destiny. Even if you say you want to follow their Way of the Voice, they'll be glad to hear it but warn you not to let it get in the way of what needs to be done. Delphine even uses Tiber Septim as an example, which is even stupider because The Greybeards actively encouraged Tiber to conquer Tamriel. Have I read more in game books than the dialogue writers??

But that's not the end of it, when it becomes convenient for the plot this hatred is flipped once again from The Greybeards onto dragons. Not Alduin. All dragons. Despite the fact that, as a Blade, she should know about Nafaalilargus, a dragon ally of the Empire and the Blades for thousands of years, and the Blades don't just indiscriminately kill all dragons no matter the circumstances, and that Tiber Septim himself almost certainly met Paarthurnax at some point, she suddenly seems to be acting like she has a personal grudge against dragons. Which brings us to the Paarthurnax Dilemma...

See here's the thing, you could easily write off the frustration everyone feels towards this quest as Bethesda's crappy design, where there is no conclusion other than to kill Paarthurnax, or else leave an unfinished quest languishing in the menu. Bethesda apparently didn't consider the idea that anybody would actually prefer to turn on the Blades, even though the Blades have become a bit of a running joke among the fans, or that anyone would take umbrage with Delphine giving out orders and ultimatums.

But no, it's so much worse than that. Delphine being a surly unlikable c u n t from the day we met her is one thing, but the fact that she has been wrong about almost everything she's ever said in game, and still having the AUDACITY to treat us like her work bitch and us never, not once, getting the opportunity to put her in her place... That's not poor quest design, that's the game gaslighting us.

Let's do a quick list of every one of Delphine's theories, and how many were actually correct shall we:

You are not the Dragonborn ❌

The Greybeards shouldn't be trusted to identify a Dragonborn ❌

The dragons aren't just coming back, they're coming back to life ✅

The Thalmor have something to do with the dragons returning ❌

Esbern is dead ❌

The Greybeards just want the Dragonborn to sit on a mountain and meditate ❌

The Greybeards wanted Tiber Septim to just sit on a mountain and meditate ❌

Paarthurnax, having lived in exile for thousands of years, deserves corporal punishment ❌

As ACTING Grand Master of the Blades, she gets to boss around the Dragonborn ❌

She deserves a seat at the peace negotiations ❌

And these are just the things that are factually wrong, leaving aside opinions on her morality and shitty attitude. This is the woman the game presents to us as a shrewd strategist.

BUT I CAN FIX HER!

Like I said I like the idea of a character who is on your side but is somewhat unlikable. It actually won't take much to make Delphine endearing to the fans. We have to do a Boromir on her. A Lot of people dislike Boromir throughout the Fellowship of the Ring but weep at his death. We have to tweak three things to have the same thing happen to Delphine:

1. Make her actually competent and useful so that while we don't agree with her we can see why she does the things she does, and desire to keep her around.

2. Have her mistakes called out and have consequences.

3. Have her redeem her mistakes with a badass honourable death.

#skyrim #elder scrolls #delphine skyrim #skyrim ulfric #tes 5 skyrim #elder scrolls memes #skyrim memes #elder scrolls morrowind #truestl #elder scrolls oc #oblivion #tes6 #morrowind #the elder scrolls 6 #the elder scolls online #the blades #the elder scrolls #tes #tes 5 #tes lore

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Ayleid Lich

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls: Blades

Fallout Shelter/Blades crossover event

Art by Xuen Feng

#xuen feng #art #the elder scrolls #concept art #tes #blades #the elder scrolls blades #cyrodiil #enemy design #monster design #lich #undead #magicka

[feykrorovaan]

You would think with the amount of time I've invested into Skyrim, that I would know my way around the Ratway,but I,in fact, do not.

#feykrorovaan #I can finally leave. Miraak I'm coming home sweetie. I'M BACK IN THE ROOM WITH THE AXE AGAIN?!? #elder scrolls #tes #skyrim #tesblr #Riften #The Ratway is my least favorite part of the Blades portion of the main quest after dealing with Delphine. #The sewers and Dwarven ruins are my two least favorite places to be.

[ehlnofay]

how many murder robots can there realistically be in dwemer ruins? I understand it from a game making perspective but like... they're meant to be cities. people lived there. I suppose the animunculi would have some use as an army and maybe as guards but aside from that what's the point?

most of the automatons have to be much more benign. cleaners and errand-runners and assistants in laboratories. I want to see those robots. elder scrolls six get on this

#I'm not even going to TALK about the spinning blade death traps in the main streets #the dwemer (presumably) did not KNOW they were going to become a vanished culture with their home bases viewed as resources #even if they meant to disappear #they did not build their cities with defending shit they would no longer need from nosy adventurers millennia later in mind #I'm ruminating on the defence systems of dwemer cities. considering. rotating in my mind #fay talks #fay talks dwemer #skyrim #tesblr #the elder scrolls #tes

[shandars-sorrow]

Started playing Blades again. I finally squeaked my way into level 17. But dammit if this game isn't really difficult sometimes. It really does look good for a mobile game though. It's pretty fun for some mindless gaming.

#the elder scrolls blades #tes blades #tes #the elder scrolls #elder scrolls #the elder scrolls: blades

[elderscrollsconfessions]

Confession: I dislike Delphine as much as any Skyrim fan but I also think the hate for her is overblown. She’s definitely a jerk, but the way some people talk about her, it seems like she’s done far worse than force you to do some tasks and refuse to help you if you don’t kill Paarthurnax, and you can just ignore her request with no real consequences in gameplay.

#Delphine #Skyrim #The Elder Scrolls #TES #ESC #The Blades