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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 31

What do you know, I have a very old painting of her being cured of blight by a Tribunal Temple associate. There's a quest about it in the game.

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 29

How about Spellforce: Conquest of Eo?

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tarquin and Lucretia: the blood that he threatens to spill is displaced as red paint over his white clothing, while she remains pure. Late great painting by the great Titian, whose day was today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 25

Cheetah being encouraged by two Indians to attack a stag in quite confusing-implausible hunting scene by George Stubbs, born on this day in 1724.

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 24

Women messing w/ men's heads du jour: Judith, doing a little dance step as she deposits head of Holofernes in Abra's sack. By Lavinia Fontana of Bologna, born OTD 1552.

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 23

Menta Na, lieutenant of Molag Bal embarrassed his master by taking a prolonged leave of absence to Mundus - to Vvardenfell of all places - to do not some destruction on the mortals but to lazy about in the cavernous ruins of Kora Dur. Eventually Bal employed a mortal champion to hunt Menta Na down.

Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Punishment Of Daedroth Menta Na
#morrowind #ElderScrolls #skyrim #oblivion #daedra #baroque #art #noai #eso #daedric #tamriel #chiaroscuro

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 22

Some wine, some tobacco, and somebody's already asleep. Evening gathering in 1643 by the Le Nain brothers, whose day has been today.

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Punishment Of Daedroth Menta Na
#morrowind #ElderScrolls #skyrim #oblivion #daedra #baroque #art #noai #eso #daedric #tamriel #chiaroscuro

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Bryce @brycenote.bsky.social · Aug 21

Some Jeffrey Catherine Jones book covers
(from back when paperbacks looked nice)

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Garrot @garrot.bsky.social · Aug 2

blue ass dwarf

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 22

Still harping on Greuze with his lovely portrait of Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully.

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 21

Uupse Fyr, Fourth Wife Of Lord-Wizard Divayth Fyr
"Remarkable for its authentic depiction of a skooma pipe and Shalk (i.e. Black Beetle) resin in its natural container."
#morrowind #telvanni #baroque #art #ElderScrolls #skyrim #dunmer #oblivion #elves #noai #vvardenfell

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ten portions of ectoplasm, to be exact. Restocking. Deuce knows where he gets it from. Used in fortify agility potions.

Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excommunication of Tivam Sadri
"The dissident priest now resides at Holamayan, handling the monastery's food and alchemy stocks, the latter singular for its prodigious amounts of ghostly ectoplasm.. "
#morrowind #dunmer #skyrim #oblivion #baroque #fanart

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 19

Mistress Therana of Tel Branora
"Depending on how much you zoom in on the image, Therana may appear smiling or scowling. I'm proud of having painted this illusion, but sadly, few people notice it."
#morrowind #telvanni #dunmer #ElderScrolls #oblivion #skyrim #baroque #fantasyart #tes

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excommunication of Tivam Sadri
"The dissident priest now resides at Holamayan, handling the monastery's food and alchemy stocks, the latter singular for its prodigious amounts of ghostly ectoplasm.. "
#morrowind #dunmer #skyrim #oblivion #baroque #fanart

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 17

An Altmer Sorcerer With The Staff Of Magnus
"Should not the legendary staff drain your own magicka if you don't wear gloves? I say it should.."
#morrowind #oblivion #skyrim #elderscrolls #fantasy #art

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 16

No. I've been painting for 15 years. I 'post' the works here.

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ashlander playing fetch with his pet nix hound.
#morrowind #dunmer #elder_scrolls #skyrim #oblivion #tes

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 15

Lord Indoril Nerevar and Lady Almalexia
"I like to speculate how an existence of mortal descendants would complicate Morrowind's political landscape.."
#morrowind #elder_scrolls #oblivion #skyrim #almsivi

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 15

Morrowind: Aengoth "The Jeweler" of Ald'ruhn.
"We had a good laugh leafing through this pillow book Aengoth nipped from under some Councilman's daughter..."
#morrowind #skyrim #redoran #bosmer #elderscrolls #tes

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Quinn Red @quinnred.bsky.social · Aug 14

#warframe

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To be Hewn is the sacred dream of all Scolpirenauts, to earn their true divine shape after a crucible of glorious combat with a worthy “sculptor”.

The end result is a holy hulk molded by extraordinary physical trauma and a deeply mad faith.

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To be “Hewn” is the euphoric sacred dream of all Scolpirenauts, to earn their true divine shape after a crucible of glorious combat with a worthy “sculptor”.
Every cut, puncture, dent, burn, corrosion, infection, frostbite, poison, and warp afflicting them influences their metamorphosis, developing in opposition to the dominant elements.

The end result is a holy hulk molded by extraordinary physical trauma and a deeply mad faith, with images of the hallowed Progenitor and "The Hand of Command" expressing across their strange-metal shell.
Compared to the Warframes that inspired them, they are slower and more plodding, but their unmatched resilience allows patient and strategic strikes to indulge in revelrous combat. New abilities blossom in the Hewn form, including control over personal gravity and the manipulation of energy inherited from their early form’s abuse, weaponized in the left arm in various types.

A Hewn Scolpirenaut reveres the Warframe who acted as their sculptor, dedicating poems of violent gratitude or even part of their form to the carver that whittled them into divinity. After one last battle to test their new body against the Tenno, the Scolpirenaut gives them a choice:

1. To slay the Scolpirenaut for a good death (not wishing to stagnate in victory as the modern Grineer have) and “living on” as weapons for the Tenno to use.

2. To live on as an ally that can be inhabited much like the Warframes themselves, in hopes of either freeing the Grineer from The Twin Queens’ rot, or to finally see Tau and begin the stillborn crusade.

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 13

Morrowind: A missive from Tholer Saryoni
"In time, the giant leonine Khajiit came into the confidence of Archcanon himself.." #morrowind #almsivi #vivec #baroque #elder_scrolls #skyrim #oblivion #art

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 11

Portrait of Goris the Maggot King
"I cannot fathom how is it that my client knew so much about the secretive necromancer and the events in Venim Tomb.."
#morrowind #dunmer #skyrim #elder_scrolls #baroque #art

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 10

Trebonius Artorius, Archmage of Vvardenfell
"Alas, with his departure I lost my best-paying client."
#morrowind #elderscrolls #vivec #tes #cyrodiil #baroque #art

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Igor Levchenko @igorlevchenko.bsky.social · Aug 1

Finally an artist who has the courage to see if those chitin helmets actually fit all the features. But what about the ears?

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