#Elder scrolls snake race skin#

These sea serpents serve as King Orgnum's guards and occasional mounts. The Maormer practice a powerful form of snake magic, and with this they have tamed the sea serpents of their island for use as steeds and warbeasts. Orgnum is a deathless wizard who it seems is not only immortal, but grows more youthful by the century, and he is said to be the Serpent God of the Satakal. King Orgnum is the Maormer ruler of Pyandonea. It is likely that the Maormer are descended from Aldmeri ancestors, much like the Altmer.

#Elder scrolls snake race skin#

Their skin also has strange, chameleon-like properties, an involuntary process similar to the Bosmer's forest-coupling skills, which enables the Wood Elves to walk into the shade of a single tree and vanish. The Maormer are known to possess blank, white eyes, and skin that is entirely colorless, as though their flesh is made of white limpid jelly. It was said that the storm brewed by the Psijic of Artaeum so annihilated Orgnum's fleet that he was never again able to muster together enough of a force to dare another battle. The united alliance of the kings of Summerset, Antiochus Septim, and the Psijic Order, combining the Imperial fleet, the royal navies of Summerset, and the Psijic's magical powers, succeeded in destroying the Pyandonean invading armada. The last documented appearance of the Maormer was the War of the Isle in the year 3E 110. The Second Aldmeri Dominion made allies of the Maormer, although the Dominion allowed the kings of Colovia to eliminate Maormer outposts that had been established along the western coast of the mainland. Most of the Alinori navy was destroyed, but a single warship returned to Summerset, a testament to the maritime genius of the Altmer. The navy followed the ships through uncharted waters, into an ambush in Pyandonea itself. In the year 2E 486, a small Maormeri fleet was sighted off the coast of Alinor, and King Hidellith ordered his navy to give chase. Every attack launched by the Maormer against Summerset has been led by Orgnum himself, and despite the number of wars and strategies employed by the Maormer, each of these attacks has proved to be an ultimate failure. The Maormer were relentless in their drive to conquer Summerset, and there is scarcely a year throughout the First or Second Era when they did not ravage the coastlines of the Altmer. This boundary proved so effective that the followers of Orgnum never again disturbed their former countrymen in Aldmeris. He and his followers were banished for this to a place separated from Aldmeris by an impenetrable mist, Pyandonea, 'The Veil of Mist'. According to the legend, Orgnum was a phenomenally wealthy Aldmer nobleman, who used his finances to launch a rebellion against the powers of the land. However, translations of tapestries in the Crystal Tower tell the tale of how the Maormer were likely separated in their original homeland of Aldmeris.

It was once believed that the Maormer of Pyandonea were originally exiles from the Summerset Isles.