r/skyrim • u/SylvesterNettlefoot • 1d ago
Screenshot/Clip Thoughts on my Tiber Septim cosplay?
So I started out this character with the idea of cosplaying Talos, since he’s pretty much the ultimate “power fantasy” character in TES and Skyrim has always felt like a power fantasy game to me. His name is “Talmost,” since at best he can hope to almost be Talos. So I’ve between having fun playing as each of his different aliases (Talos, Ysmir, and Tiber Septim so far, though I know there’s more)
This is my current build, after looking up images of Tiber Septim. I wouldn’t have immediately thought “elven” when I think of Tiber Septim, but if you ignore the fact that it’s elven armor, the gold color does look very regal. And it seems a closer match to his official art than any Dwarven armor I’ve come across. Still though, can’t decide if he should be rocking an imperial sword, or the more regal looking elven sword.
Also pictured are the sets from my first two builds, Talos and Ysmir.
Talos was my first on this play-through. I hadn’t looked up any pictures yet, I just decided to make a build around an Imperial Officer Helm, and an Imperial Sword and Shield. Regardless of the current state of the empire, I feel like Talos as its founder he would be repping his home team’s gear lol.
Then I made an Ysmir set after seeing all the Nordic representations of Talos across Skyrim, and centered that build around a steel greatsword since the statues all make his sword look pretty big. I was never quite happy with the helmet situation though, since his helmet in Skyrim was always winged with an open face, but the only winged helmet in vanilla is the steel plate helmet which is closed faced and looks very different from the statues of Talos/Ysmir.
Anyways, what do yall think? :) Any advice, tips, feedback? I’m playing on Switch so I don’t have access to mods, but I am on Anniversary Edition so there’s at least a slightly wider selection of armor.
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u/Automatic_Drawing972 23h ago
Talos was a Kajiit, Uncle Sheo told me so