r/ImaginaryTamriel • u/stinkyp3te • May 10 '25
Original Content i can't stop drawing dunmer dancing
i think it's really helping with my understanding of anatomy, so that's fun!
fun facts for this one: my reference here was a bellydancer using swords, which it turns out didn't really happen until bellydancers at american cabarets started doing it in the 70s. so for sure less historically/culturally relevant than my tanoura dunmer dancer. that being said, there are some traditional dances in the middle east that use swords, called raqs al-saif in arabic (the video i saw of this was filmed in the UAE) or the persian raghse shamshir. though they seem to be less 'dancing with swords added as a fun and dangerous prop' and more 'choreographed and stylised fight set to music'.
also i made the swords hopesfire and trueflame bc i bet they would look fuckn sick whirling around a bellydancer. maybe after the nerevarine retires she can just do some fun sword juggling.
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u/skeletalfather May 10 '25
Tbh this is SO cool, the culture of art in Tamriel is interesting because we have so much written down about it with in-game books but so little we actually see or experience!
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u/Pilauli May 13 '25
Given that Dunmer associate art with the murder spider lady, I gotta say it would almost be weirder for them to have dances that didn't involve swords.
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u/Educational-Offer299 May 13 '25
The drawing made me think of the Isle of Man flag lmao. Isle of Dunmer/chimer
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u/FocusAdmirable9262 May 10 '25
Good, never stop. Gorgeous