TheRimOfTheSky wrote: »

Also, Nerevar's sword in the hologram should be Trueflame, which was already established as being his legendary sword. In 2014, there was once a replica of it that people could find, but has since been removed. Here's the model, which can just be re-used for Nerevar:

Aigym_Hlervu wrote: »

TheRimOfTheSky wrote: »

This post is 4 years old now but I think that just further proves my point; Zenimax should have updated it to look properly already. They made a bust in antiquities that has a perfectly good appearance, and now they can just copy over what the bust is going for onto Nerevar's armor.



The Trueflame model still exists in-game, they could at the very least give it to the Nerevar model too.



And last but not least the model uses a Dunmer race instead of a Chimer one, so Nerevar has red eyes? They were just incredibly lazy all-around with it

The bust you reference here is an unreliable source - we don't know the exact date or the historical period this bust was created in for sure. It can be a late artifact just as well as it can be a thing contemporary to Nerevar himself. Speaking of possibilities, we do have tenets supporting the first idea and no tenets supporting the latter:
Verita Numida assumes it to be created 2100 - 2200 years after the events at Red Mountain - "The sculptor may have spent some time in the Imperial City. I see similarities to Bruma School works. 1E 2800's perhaps?".
Also Amalien is not sure of how should be depicted in it's colors - "Speaking of skin, I wish this bust included color! Dark Elf portraiture leans toward monochromatic, abstract compositions. I'm desperate to know if they conceptualize Nerevar with gold or ashen skin. I bet it's gray. Dark Elves are master revisionists."
Since we know nothing of it for sure, this bust should not be referenced as an original appearance of Nerevar. It is completely beyond of our cognition yet.

I wrote about Nerevar's 3D model here too previously. First, look up at Amalien's words - the Dunmer sculptors are said to be master revisionists and we have no proper statements about the opposite. The model we see the Clockwork City is a projection of Nerevar, not a video of a certain historical event. The official Tribunal Temple's views on the Hortator are stated in a short Temple pamphlet for Western readers - "Nerevar died not long after of his wounds, but he lived to see the birth of the Temple, and to bless the unity of the Dunmer into the safekeeping of Almsivi, the Temple, and all its communion of saints". Since the Clockwork City acknowledges Almsivi, since they follow the Apostolic branch of the Triune faith with only several liturguc and religious differences (I wrote much on it in my Guide to Religions of Tamriel. Tribunal Temple Section), then it is no surprise Nerevar is depicted as a Dunmer there - it fully reconciles with the official Temple teaching.

I also have my own theory of why is Nerevar a Dunmer in an Ayleid armor there. This is a subtheory of my New Elven Chronology theory - it's a Chinese Wall of text, and I don't even remember if I have written or rewritten it there according to my newest research data. Feel free to read, if you would be interested. In short, that version of the NEC theory says that he wears the Ayleid armor because the Chimer are the descendants of the Ayleids who perfromed their Exodus either shortly after the Nerfinsel Schism of Late Merethic Era -1E 198 or after 1E 243 when the Alessians rebelled. The theory also supports the idea that it was not Azura who made the Chimer turn into the Dunmer, but the event was actually a direct consequence of the usage the Tools of Kagrenac. It also explains why did the Dagoths became Dunmer too. Anyway, it's just my theory I've been developing alone all along, so you don't have to stick to it.

In conclusion, I suppose the traditional explanations based on the Tribunal Temple teachings and the opinion of the scholars of the University of Gwylim that I have given above would be enough. Let's leave that Elegiac Replication's Nerevar as it is. It's a Sotha Sil's creation, an artificial one as everything in his realm, so it's only up to him to decide how should it look like. The developers have already corrected the appearance of those Chimer soldiers we see in the flashback during the story of the Brothers of Strife (those ones referenced above) as well as other things they have changed. They have written those certain texts regarding the bust's colors and the dates instead of writing about something else, and my decades long experience in TES universe makes me believe that the lore team knows quite well of what it is doing - if you find some inconsistencies, don't be quick to accuse the developers in not knowing the lore by implementing things like that Nerevar's model. In many cases things can be explained pretty well lore-wise if you know the details of that lore. And in order to know them, you'll need to wish to know them, to ask yourself certain questions and answer them.

TheRimOfTheSky wrote: »

LickingHistSap wrote: »

Giving Nerevar hopesflame is a rad and seemingly easy-to-implement idea, as is an armor change to something more fitting.

Complaining the datamined Nerevar is 'dunmeri', however, is dumb as hell. You only see him as a golden projection, and the Chimeri models are identical to dunmer aside from skin tone. The fact the ripped models skin tone doesn't match isn't an oversight, thats just something that doesn't need to be modeled, and so wasn't done. He's still a Chimer, chill.

Naw yea, its not very noticeable and would only be visually different in a minor way but I mentioned it cuz of how its quite blatantly an oversight ( same with sotha nall's projection ), if Zenimax redoes it they should fix his race too while they at it is all I'm sayin