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Falmer Foundling by HideyHoleOfCrimes
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, Original Work
30 Mar 2025
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As an author, the society of the Falmer has always fascinated me. Usually, the player/dragonborn is an outsider and the Falmer only serve as blade fodder in the context of the story. So, being a helpless nerd, I went through skyrim, used some console commands to make my dovakiin invisible to enemies, and watched the falmer in their caves. Despite the programming being absurdly simple, I caught some interesting interactions between falmer--things that hinted at a society. I looked at their little totems and watched how they moved within their little villages and how they treated their chaurus. They have specialized huts for alchemy and enchantment, huts for weapon-making. By god, they're capable of making advanced tools, why isn't there more on them???
I wish that the vanilla game had offered these creatures more leniency, had allowed the falmer to have agency beyond "well, they used to be snow elves, how tragic." They've lived in the caves, they've survived for centuries, they have a society of their own!Here is my interpretation of what could have been.
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