[Mr. Ray]

Heres pick 2: http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd115/starclaps/thumb2_720.jpg

Let me explain my process, and what I encountered.

- The skin on the original's hunched back, matched almost identically with the color of pic 1. They were the same on my pallette. The reason pic 2's face wasnt is because it is in light.

- Pic 2, when i was darkening shadows and wrinkles, shows that it has the same ear-rivets on the inner part of the ear as pic 1 did.

- In addition to the hair, there seems to be small bits of hairy-green (almost like grass) in patches on the figure, i brought them out a bit.

- Upon closer inspection of pic 2, i noticed that the nostrils stream down VERY close to the mouth, and i think that in pic 1 i either mistook the nostrils to be connected to the mouth, or the artist was trying out different upper-lip methods. After all, pic 2 IS an i-depth face study of pic 1 (since in pic 1, the only thing that is covered is the face, and would be the only thing needing additional information for modelers to put it in-game)

I already proved it as the same creature... by cutting the two faces up and putting 'em together with eachothers parts...

[Gaelle Courant]

Honestly don't know where the scamp idea is coming from for the first one- makes no sense for a scamp to be wearing armor, and the face is all wrong. Really makes no sense if the first two pictures are in fact the same creature, which seems likely.

[Logan Greenwood]

Pick 5 is simply another one of these

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o212/scottypma/Skyrim5.png

which I think is probably some sort of giant.

[Jerry Cox]

They're all Gary Busey! :ahhh:

Not enough teeth.

[louise tagg]

I think it's a scamp. Why? Well since Falmer is an elf, their ears don't go all like "turned" like they go for a scamp.

Centuries hiding in dark caves could have affected their appearance and health.

Plus we haven't gotten a good look at any elves in-game (okay, "seen" any elves, hahahaha). There's been a Dunmer bandit-looking guy in one gut-stab image, and what looks like a Bosmer or High Elf from a distance in the lute shot. But vsions dropped the hint that he's working on an elf race (not related to this image) which leads me to believe that none of that was final yet.

[Sebrina Johnstone]

i have one suggestion for the poll, another option for the "What do you think the helmet from Pic #1 is?" question:

a re-design of the chitin armor.

Added to poll

[Petr Jordy Zugar]

The mouse over text said spider hero, maybe the armour is made out of the remains of a giant spider.

And if its a Mer its been seriously f'd up by something.

[Fluffer]

The mouse over text said spider hero, maybe the armour is made out of the remains of a giant spider.

And if its a Mer its been seriously f'd up by something.

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

[Motionsharp]

Is it too much to ask that someone from the dev team own up to these pics? It's driving some of us mad trying to figure them out.

It would be great if someone can at least say officially, yes, these were thumbs from Skyrim posted accidentally.

Or are we supposed to pretend they don't exist until they are revealed along with some E3 screens in June?

[Pawel Platek]

It's driving some of us mad trying to figure them out.

Thats the point.

[Danielle Brown]

I missed pic 3? What was it?

[CHARLODDE]

I missed pic 3? What was it?

Pic 3 was old concept art, so we didn't include it.

(the thumbs were numbered 1 - 5, and we kept the same numbering)

[Marquis deVille]

bump

Kind of surprised the discussion on this one died out. It's potentially new data! I think it's a scamp personally, they were due for an improvement and it looks about right, I always thought the Daedra you could summon were always kind of weak.

[Emily Jeffs]

I still think it is a undead wood elf

That is the one thing that really bothered me was there were no orc zombies.

[Evaa]

I'm also starting to doubt that pic 1 and 2 are the same subject, it's all in the nose, although admittadly the mouth and ears are the same.

[Trevi]

it looks like an elf face made by the random OB face generator

I kid

maybe its a scamp or a new deadra or a new non playble race

[Andrew Tarango]

That is the one thing that really bothered me was there were no orc zombies.

maybe because all orcs die gruesome deaths usually involving beheading or losing limbs and stuff

[x_JeNnY_x]

And i still think its a Dunmer.

[Tasha Clifford]

And i still think its a Dunmer.

I hope not.
if it is they have made a the Dunmer some of the uglyist race ever created in Elderscrolls and ruined them in my opinion

[Brian LeHury]

The one in the armor is pretty much what I imagine when I think of what a Kamal looks like. Maybe not quite as buff as what I imagine.

[Strawberry]

Imo, they are so small that they cannot be official pics from Skyrim, or skyrim at all. (imo).

[Shianne Donato]

Imo, they are so small that they cannot be official pics from Skyrim, or skyrim at all. (imo).

They were thumbnails of concept art, and considering that 3 of them depict stuff we've seen before, they were certainly for skyrim.

It would be great if someone can at least say officially, yes, these were thumbs from Skyrim posted accidentally.

I believe Pete has confirmed this. Plus, they were in a folder labeled to_delete.

[Mandy Muir]

1 and 2 i think are aliades, from oblivion, or how ever its spelt, those old elf that ruled tamriel before humans

[Daddy Cool!]

1 and 2 i think are aliades, from oblivion, or how ever its spelt, those old elf that ruled tamriel before humans

Ayleids? It's possible.... Maybe an undead Ayleid, or cultist?

[Ashley Hill]

Pic 3 was old concept art, so we didn't include it.

(the thumbs were numbered 1 - 5, and we kept the same numbering)

Oh really. I thought something like that. Can I get a link to what it was?