[Josephine Gowing]

The 2 pics are obviously of different subjects.

Pic 1 - This is the lord scamp ruler of all scamps.

Pic 2 - A cross between an Orc and a Daedra.

[Louise Dennis]

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9262/daedra2.jpg

Just pointing out some things in the armor design of the creature. For me, the claws and multiple eyes being present in the helmet are too much not to think of Herma-Mora, especially when we put the creature into the context of Skyrim, where we know he is a prominent deity in the Skyrim pantheon, albeit an antagonistic one.

And, I don't know if anyone noticed, but the creature's left pauldron is indeed reminiscent of Madness armor from Shivering isles, since it is very much a face.

Also, the helmet very much resembles http://members.shaw.ca/rado907/armor/light/mor-glassarmor.jpg from Morrowind, both in shape and coloring (If that was where you were getting deja vu from, Lady N!).


EDIT: White hair present in the restored picture (thanks GothObservationist!) is further evidence of the creature being the same as the armor-less one.

[i grind hard]

And, I don't know if anyone noticed, but the creature's left pauldron is indeed reminiscent of Madness armor from Shivering isles, since it is very much a face.

Nah, that's just an illusion created by the layering/shapes of the plates, along with the angle

[Dawn Porter]

Nah, that's just an illusion created by the layering/shapes of the plates, along with the angle

Agreed. I don't see a face at all on an unedited image.

[Andres Lechuga]

Nah, that's just an illusion created by the layering/shapes of the plates, along with the angle

Well, there isn't any layering, as far as I can tell its a single piece. And I don't know how the angle has anything to do with it. Remember, this isn't a piece of toast that just happens to look like Jesus. This is a designed artifact. If it looks like a face, you can be 99% sure it was intended to look like a face.

Agreed. I don't see a face at all on an unedited image.

I was pretty shocked when neither of you could see what clearly appears to me as a face. The lips are really clear to me, then the nose and eyes, then the brow and cheek bones and chin....hell, there's even an ear on the darn thing!

[lauren cleaves]

Well, there isn't any layering, as far as I can tell its a single piece. And I don't know how the angle has anything to do with it. Remember, this isn't a piece of toast that just happens to look like Jesus.

I was pretty shocked when neither of you could see what clearly appears to me as a face. The lips are really clear to me, then the nose and eyes, then the brow and cheek bones and chin....hell, there's even an ear on the darn thing!

I can see a face in it, what I'm saying is the face is not intentional, rather a side effect of the angle the armor is viewed at.

If we were to look at it from the side, or straight on, it probably would no longer look like a face.

And what I mean by layering is how the shoulder appears to be made up of overlapping plates.

[Jonathan Braz]

I was pretty shocked when neither of you could see what clearly appears to me as a face. The lips are really clear to me, then the nose and eyes, then the brow and cheek bones and chin....hell, there's even an ear on the darn thing!

I see what you see as a face, but I don't see it as a face. I see the eye as a dark spot, either a dent, pixelation from the low resolution, or a shadow from a fold. I see the mouth as two folds in the armor, as they're a pretty similar shape to the bottom edge the the pauldron. The fold you see as a nose is much too wide to be a nose, as it comes clearly out to where the eye is, and seems to go beyond it as well to the other edge of the pauldron. The chin's just a pointed corner.

[dean Cutler]

Hey there people. I want to know something. If this pic turns out to be a concept art of something, like a scamp, then what? We get some cake?

[Isabell Hoffmann]

Hey there people. I want to know something. If this pic turns out to be a concept art of something, like a scamp, then what? We get some cake?

We get nothing. vsions gets a beating though, and that's reward enough for me!

[Tai Scott]

We get some cake?

The cake isn't the reward. It's the journey. Speculation is fun!

[Umpyre Records]

The cake isn't the reward. It's the journey. Speculation is fun!

Portal 2 moral.

[kelly thomson]

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9262/daedra2.jpg

Just pointing out some things in the armor design of the creature. For me, the claws and multiple eyes being present in the helmet are too much not to think of Herma-Mora, especially when we put the creature into the context of Skyrim, where we know he is a prominent deity in the Skyrim pantheon, albeit an antagonistic one.

And, I don't know if anyone noticed, but the creature's left pauldron is indeed reminiscent of Madness armor from Shivering isles, since it is very much a face.

Also, the helmet very much resembles http://members.shaw.ca/rado907/armor/light/mor-glassarmor.jpg from Morrowind, both in shape and coloring (If that was where you were getting deja vu from, Lady N!).


EDIT: White hair present in the restored picture (thanks GothObservationist!) is further evidence of the creature being the same as the armor-less one.

That helm crossed with the cephalopod. Could the armor be made of Dreugh parts?
http://images.uesp.net//9/99/MW_Armor_LightSpecialHelms.jpg

http://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/beast_Dagger_Dreugh.gif
http://www.uesp.net/tamriel/monsters/images/mdreugh.jpg
http://social.bioware.com/uploads_user/1880000/1879525/42694.jpg
http://images.wikia.com/oblivion/images/f/f3/LandDreugh.jpg

[Lexy Dick]

I can see a face in it, what I'm saying is the face is not intentional, rather a side effect of the angle the armor is viewed at.

If we were to look at it from the side, or straight on, it probably would no longer look like a face.

And what I mean by layering is how the shoulder appears to be made up of overlapping plates.

I believe if we were to view that character from the side, the pauldron would look something like http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc469/lolwutnao/armorshoulder.jpg?t=1303520453

Apologies, not a very good mouse artist, tried my best to illustrate what I meant, though.

[djimi]

the helmet very much resembles http://members.shaw.ca/rado907/armor/light/mor-glassarmor.jpg from Morrowind, both in shape and coloring (If that was where you were getting deja vu from, Lady N!).

Wow, that is a great observation, Fiore!

Certainly looks like the glass armor helmet to me.

I think we have now identified what the helmet is.

[Kaley X]

Like I said when the image first came out last night, I believe it's a spider cultist of some kind. Look at the picture name, it says "Spider Hero" and it's obviously wearing armor made from a frost spider carapace. What is wearing the carapace, I don't know. Possibly a frost goblin or something along those lines.

[Shannon Lockwood]

Like I said when the image first came out last night, I believe it's a spider cultist of some kind. Look at the picture name, it says "Spider Hero" and it's obviously wearing armor made from a spider carapace. What is wearing the carapace, I don't know. Possibly a frost goblin or something along those lines.

If you go back to the main website and move your mouse of the picture with Dovahkiin and the giant spider, it says "spider hero." The picture we saw last night was in the wrong place, it was accedently in there.

[alicia hillier]

Like I said when the image first came out last night, I believe it's a spider cultist of some kind. Look at the picture name, it says "Spider Hero" and it's obviously wearing armor made from a frost spider carapace. What is wearing the carapace, I don't know. Possibly a frost goblin or something along those lines.

to put the final nail in the coffin of the Spider Hero theory....

if you do some google searches or take a look at the official pics on www.elderscrolls.com

- you will find that every single pic labeled "SomethingCreature" Hero has the Skyrim nord hero in the pic fighting said Creature.

Examples

Draugr Hero (Nord hero fighting Draugr)
Spider Hero (Nord hero fighting Spider)

The hero isn't describing the creature, it's the Nord PC in each case who is fighting the "Draugr" or fighting the "Spider"

In the case of Pic#1, it seems that the vaguely arachnid aspect of the helmet resulted in someone making a huge OOPSIE and putting this thumbnail in the slot that was supposed to be reserved for the http://thefinalcastle.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/dc274_SpiderHero-620x.jpg

[Ashley Clifft]

Looks very much like some kind of Mer, in/out of what seems to be Daedric armor. I wouldn't even rule out Dunmer, given the color.

As ive been saying i thinkk its a dunmer, because of the dark skin, but the only thing that is off to me is the mouth.

i dont see why they would make scamps wear daedric armor, given the nature that daedric armor is made, why would they be wearing it?

vampires sounds good to me too

[naana]

@ the last two people. Well I hadn't checked back on this topic since last night so I had no idea that this had been resolved, my mistake.

With that in mind then, it looks like a scamp in daedric armor. It's got similar features to a scamp and has pale skin, that's my guess. I don't think it's a falmer mainly because what we know of falmer, they had ice crystals on their body, possibly as armor or naturally. Frankly, it looks mostly like a scamp in daedric armor.

[Mackenzie]

I dunno about the whole scamp idea, unless scamps have been greatly made-over from Morrowind and Oblivion.

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/17166/1550550-morrowind_scamp_large.png

http://www.tesmagic.ru/foto/ingr_oblivion/daedra_scamp.jpg

[Da Missz]

@ the last two people. Well I hadn't checked back on this topic since last night so I had no idea that this had been resolved, my mistake.

With that in mind then, it looks like a scamp in daedric armor. It's got similar features to a scamp and has pale skin, that's my guess. I don't think it's a falmer mainly because what we know of falmer, they had ice crystals on their body, possibly as armor or naturally. Frankly, it looks mostly like a scamp in daedric armor.

Lady Nerevar pointed out that the icy blue-white skin is based on a single account from some Nord. There's no evidence beyond that for what their skin looks like, so it shouldn't be taken too seriously.

I still want to know why he and this buddy seem blind. I've also said before that his posture is all wrong for Scamp, and his proportions are more like a human or mer. The second image is hunched over like a scamp would be, but looks really nothing like a Scamp. I'm accounting for the hunched posture with age.

[luis dejesus]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4lrm97dBqNo/TUFlxQiW7CI/AAAAAAAAAZM/n_xn6TWnSA8/s1600/artofskyrim_013_femmonster.jpg appears to be a possible female variation of the creature in the second picture, leading me to believe it's probably an ice vampire.

[Mr. Ray]

Pic 2 is more than likely a beast style of vampire, kinda like how they are in Van Helsing and Underworld.

Hektas, I think the Female is an Ice Vampire but I don't think pic 2 is the same species.

[clelia vega]

In my opinion:
I think the first is a Falmer. The second looks like some kind of daedra or demon. The 4th looks like the exterior of a Nordic Ruin. And I'm not sure what helmet it is, but I don't think it is any of the ones listed.

[JESSE]

Seeing the first pic in larger detail, I have to say it does look like some manner of scamp in scavanged parts of Daedric Armour.