Made Me With The Adrisona Maker ----> ♥

i still really hate ppl saying vivec is a liar or a historical revisionist bc the 36 sermons aren't 100% factual historical accounts. its extremely obvious they are not supposed to be. they are not called "the life of the god vivec" they are SERMONS. they are meant to teach religious and moral lessons, not give you an accurate, objectively correct, factual account of real historical events. his parents are not named. he was an 'egg' in the womb and then when he was 'born' he was a fully grown being. its cloaked in poetic language because what you are supposed to take from them is not a historical lesson but a religious or spiritual one.

like. lets say you wanna communicate how a traumatic event has impacted you. and that you have only two options to do so: one that is as factually accurate as you can make it with a limited perspective told unbiasedly, or a creative project like a poem or novel that is designed to evoke an emotional reaction in the reader. the first one will give an accurate account of the event but not how it impacted you. by nature of how its being told you are giving only the cold hard facts because your emotional state might involve leaving out important factual details to get an accurate view of what happened. the other one is not telling someone exactly what happened to you, but is communicating something that might be much more important: how it impacting you emotionally, mentally, and physically by making your audience relate to, sympathize with, or even empathize with those feelings. it is also not a 100% factual historical account and cannot be used to paint an accurate picture of the events that effected you, though someone could infer many details.

the 36 sermons are about trauma and achieving divinity and what that divinity even means. vivec is a person who was deeply traumatized. abusive family, ran away, ended up joining a gang selling both his body and hard drugs. he was then picked up off the streets by nerevar (a mer significantly older than him), and learned a lot from him, before likely killing him in at least one timeline, breaking his oath to not use the tools in all others. those are the details about vivec's life we can infer from the sermons or from other lore texts or in game dialogue. there are reasons why he made nerevar HIS student in the sermons and why he never names his parents (at least in the in game ones) and why he describes seht and ayem as both his siblings and parents simultaneously. but if you go "this isn't factually correct, vivec is a liar" you are straight up not going to understand the sermons or vivec or take away any important lessons from them.

she is a questionable teacher

Not shaving and not wearing make up are literally nonbehaviors. They’re a complete lack of action. But doing nothing is considered masculine because women are not allowed to just be. this goes double for trans women.

Arcana fandom can you please

Please stop misgendering nonbinary characters

Don’t call Asra a man, just because he’s fairly masc and uses he/him doesn’t make him a man he is never referred to with gendered phrases like boy, son, or sir in the story

Valdemar is nonbinary and uses They/Them pronouns, they do not have a gender please do not call them a boy or man

Same goes for Vulgora

Nazali is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, even though they are referred to as a sister like the other satrinava children please refrain from adding other gendered phrases

HEAR ME OUT ARCANA DEVS PLEASE

I’m not asking for courtiers with romantic routes. I know that’s not right and it’s very unhealthy (well maybe not Volta-).

And the devs are probably rlly uncomfortable thinking that a bunch of us (me included) want to fuck a demonic doctor who not only has the form of an eldritch horror monster, but also zero actually positive/healthy human emotions. And I don’t blame ‘em, I can see where I’m fucked in the head very well. (Hint: it’s not just at one place)

I KNOW.

What I am asking for is an antagonist route. Just a little something for us villain lovers. Some of us are just like that; we like the thought of a dark side, a different perspective. Personally, I’ve been like that since I was a kid. I always imagined myself helping the villain; chilling with Maleficent, roasting the hyenas with Scar... fuck, dude, Ursula was and still IS one of my role models to this day.

BACK TO THE SUBJECT. I’d just be really hyped if they gave us at least one route in which MC gets to choose the wrong side; you know, Angst and all that good jazz. We get more interactions with the courtiers, yes, but I’m not asking for romance. Just some twisted sense of complicity. And getting on the Devil’s good side for ONCE.

An antagonistic MC.

An MC who was hurt by the fact that Asra kept secrets from them. Who’s sick of not knowing their own past. It’d be so fun to see that, to see the dark side of magic for once, you know?

Like I said; angst purposes. And courtier “friendships” (even though it’s probably gonna be fake as fuck for some of them).

You get my vibe?

Edit: ALSO CAN YA’LL IMAGINE IF WE COULD GET MORE CHAOTIC SCENES WITH ALL THE COURTIERS THAT’S TOP-NOTCH ENTERTAINMENT RIGHT THERE

Another Edit: also, to quote one of my favourite authors, “some things are better off dead.” Because Asra bringing MC back to life is a Pet Semetary move and we all know that it doesn’t end well, usually. Again, angst purposes

(Mild flashing/eyestrain warning for the second half! I'll post a slower version below that's less flashy and let's you see the details)

A short Morrowind animation for a MAP (Multi-Animator Project).

It was fun trying different methods of animation (no reference for Nerevar, rotoscoping a 3D model for the ring, and a video reference for the hand) and letting myself use a loose sketchy style!

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Version with the second half slowed down (link because Tumblr is dumb about having more than one video in a post):

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BWBW Slower

shout out to scribs, gotta be one of my favorite creatures <3

<3 reminder!