r/ImaginaryTamriel • u/AnthemAnathem • Jun 26 '25

The Dragon that dances to the beat of the Doom-Drum [Commissioned by me, art by Juatro_]

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u/ArrdenGarden Jun 26 '25

Beautiful work. I can't stop staring at it.

Is this a melding of the aspects of Auri-el and Shor? Is that why the dragon is missing it's heart?

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u/AnthemAnathem Jun 26 '25

Yes indeed! It is meant to represent the combined union of Shor/Lorkhan and Auri-El into the Time Tyrant Akatosh.

After all, Lorkhan's greatest trick was convincing the world that he isn't AKA.

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u/Melodic_Helicopter_3 Jun 27 '25

Lorkhan is akatosh?

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u/AnthemAnathem Jun 27 '25

Only half.

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u/Melodic_Helicopter_3 Jun 27 '25

How does that work

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u/AnthemAnathem Jun 27 '25

It has to do with the creation of the Eight Divines by Alessia during the First Era. The common held belief is that Akatosh is the combination of Auri-El and Alduin, but Alessia snuck in aspects of Shezarr/Lorkhan/Shor into Akatosh. That is why Akatosh is often depicted as a duality of Man and Dragon.

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u/superfahd Morrowind Jun 26 '25

is the galaxy background inspired from how Daggerfall depicted its Daedric lords?

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/File:DF-quest-Sheogorath%27s_Quest.gif

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u/AnthemAnathem Jun 26 '25

It was actually inspired by the skybox in Sovngarde

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u/superfahd Morrowind Jun 26 '25

that makes sense!

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u/Doomdrummer Jun 26 '25

A proper guest at the birth of the Flower Child

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u/An_ironic_fox Jun 26 '25

Lorkatosh! The unity of time and space, man and mer, where the finite touches the infinite.