What motif is this sword?

zdkazz

Hey, just picked up this sword(stole it off the rack) and it looked different to me, went to collections tab and attempted to find the motif but no dice, unless I am missing something? It looks like a Breton blade to me but has some different carvings and a slightly different design, help please?

https://imgur.com/a/msjqyit

VaranisArano

It's an unreleased tier of the Breton motif. Scroll to the Breton Greatsword picture here:
https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Tier_5_Racial_Styles

Here's an old discussion talking about it. Basically, we can craft up to Tier 4 in terms of appearance change, but the tier 5 is still available in some places, like stolen weapons. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/392857/what-style-is-this

The "Ancestral X" motifs being released now kinda fill the same niche as the Tier 5, but I don't think they are identical.

zdkazz

VaranisArano wrote: »

It's an unreleased tier of the Breton motif. Scroll to the Breton Greatsword picture here:
https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Tier_5_Racial_Styles

Here's an old discussion talking about it. Basically, we can craft up to Tier 4 in terms of appearance change, but the tier 5 is still available in some places, like stolen weapons. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/392857/what-style-is-this

The "Ancestral X" motifs being released now kinda fill the same niche as the Tier 5, but I don't think they are identical.

Cool so that is likely a Breton tier 5 blade then? Thank you very much that is quite helpful, sorry for posting here when there was another thread I could have asked on.

VaranisArano

zdkazz wrote: »

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VaranisArano wrote: »

It's an unreleased tier of the Breton motif. Scroll to the Breton Greatsword picture here:
https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Tier_5_Racial_Styles

Here's an old discussion talking about it. Basically, we can craft up to Tier 4 in terms of appearance change, but the tier 5 is still available in some places, like stolen weapons. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/392857/what-style-is-this

The "Ancestral X" motifs being released now kinda fill the same niche as the Tier 5, but I don't think they are identical.

Cool so that is likely a Breton tier 5 blade then? Thank you very much that is quite helpful, sorry for posting here when there was another thread I could have asked on.

That's an old thread, so no problem asking here!

Here's the Tier 5 Greatsword pic: