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My Dovahkiin, shyly averting her eyes from Teldryn’s gaze.
Teldryn Sero, the only Dunmer to ever set foot in Sovngarde.
(A glitch caused by a follower mod. Made the last battle way more meaningful having my followers with me!)
Headcanon:
The occasional discrepancies in the ordering of Dunmeri names is easiest to explain if you remember that the people of Morrowind are only kind-of sort-of used to how Imperials work, and only infrequently give a fuck.
Your clan is more important than you as an individual, and your House more important than your clan, so the traditional naming convention is House-surname-name. Imperials do not really know what to do with this, but they are still an Empire, and empires are always obsessed with record-keeping.
Shenanigans ensue. Eg:
In an early attempt to translate Dunmeri names into the standardised name-surname census format, an Imperial census taker finds their paperwork filled with whole pages of new citizens all apparently named ‘Indoril’, every one from a different family.
Local mer giving a grudging but good-faith attempt to be accommodating to Imperial transplants, introducing themselves to each one with multiple different rearrangements of their name because no one can remember which one the Imperials understand.
Local mer giving absolutely no attempt to be accommodating, changing their name order on purpose just to be difficult.
So, so many false accusations of tax fraud due to paperwork inconsistencies.
Several quite accurate accusations of tax fraud due to same.
Families borrowing each others’ given names depending on which Imperial trader they’re visiting, with whom their family has an account but whose ledgers have taken down the wrong name and now it’s just easier to go with it than to correct it.
Aside: Possibly some mer view men as selfish due to putting themselves ahead of their family, clearly a very suspicious habit.
Headcanon:
The occasional discrepancies in the ordering of Dunmeri names is easiest to explain if you remember that the people of Morrowind are only kind-of sort-of used to how Imperials work, and only infrequently give a fuck.
Your clan is more important than you as an individual, and your House more important than your clan, so the traditional naming convention is House-surname-name. Imperials do not really know what to do with this, but they are still an Empire, and empires are always obsessed with record-keeping.
Shenanigans ensue. Eg:
In an early attempt to translate Dunmeri names into the standardised name-surname census format, an Imperial census taker finds their paperwork filled with whole pages of new citizens all apparently named ‘Indoril’, every one from a different family.
Local mer giving a grudging but good-faith attempt to be accommodating to Imperial transplants, introducing themselves to each one with multiple different rearrangements of their name because no one can remember which one the Imperials understand.
Local mer giving absolutely no attempt to be accommodating, changing their name order on purpose just to be difficult.
So, so many false accusations of tax fraud due to paperwork inconsistencies.
Several quite accurate accusations of tax fraud due to same.
Families borrowing each others’ given names depending on which Imperial trader they’re visiting, with whom their family has an account but whose ledgers have taken down the wrong name and now it’s just easier to go with it than to correct it.
Aside: Possibly some mer view men as selfish due to putting themselves ahead of their family, clearly a very suspicious habit.
tired boy
bruh(save this poor boy) for @nerywen <33
My original dunmer man and his parents 🌾
I love them so much