Who is your character inspired by?!?

Tariq9898 · November 2025

Is your character inspired by another fictional or non-fictional character/person?? If yes, then who??

For me, it’s Clive Rosfield from Final Fantasy XVI!! I enjoyed the entire game and I find his story extremely relatable. I personally resonate with many of his traits such as having great ambitions, drive and an unassailable resolve for victory and success.

Clive would totally be a Dragonknight if he’s in ESO! You can’t tell me that doesn’t look like volatile armor and molten armaments!! 🔥

Anyways, who is your character inspired by??

AllenaNightWood · November 2025

My Bosmers archtype through the years is kinda like Aragon From LOTR from mysterious shadowy recluse to hero

kargen27 · November 2025

Only two of my characters did I have a specific person/character in mind when I created them. Most I just had an idea how I would play them and tried for an appropriate look. Okay I lied there were three characters I tried to make like specific people/characters from outside the game. I wanted a Necromancer that looked as anti-necromancer as possible so I tried to make him look like a Ken doll.
THe other two I tried to make one look like Snake Plissken from Escape From New York and the other I tried for Grace Jones character in Conan the Barbarian. I've changed her attire since this to something more like the movie. I don't try and play the personalities just wanted the look.

AScarlato · November 2025

I have an orange Khajiit named Garfiel-Dar whose inspiration may be a bit obvious.

My Imperial City noble Paris has a backstory inspired by Paris of Troy, but onscreen post-planemeld takes things far more seriously and is played a lot closer in personality to Hector. Little bit of Orpheus thrown in also.

Various pets and mounts of mine tend to be named after greek/roman mythology figures.

frogthroat · November 2025

My main is a tall, skinny guy with a golden skin and wears a black and white Fool outfit. He's my Beloved.

If that didn't already tell you who that is made after, I have another character called Althea V.

Danikat · November 2025

I don't currently have any ESO characters inspired by other characters. I have 3 who are ESO's versions of characters I make in multiple games - one is my standard TES main, one is my main in most other western RPGs and one is my 'experimental' character who started out as a one-off in Dragon Age Origins and stuck around.

I used to have a character based on Link from Legend of Zelda. I wanted to see how a character who doesn't use magic (so basically no class skills) would work, then realised for quest purposes they'd have to use magic items given to them by other people and at that point I realised I was basically making Link...so I did.

(If anyone's curious the short answer is it works, as long as you keep healing potions handy, but it's a bit boring, which is why I didn't keep him around.)

frogthroat wrote: »

My main is a tall, skinny guy with a golden skin and wears a black and white Fool outfit. He's my Beloved.

If that didn't already tell you who that is made after, I have another character called Althea V.

That's cool! Which race did you pick for Althea? I'm imagining Imperial because of the emphasis on trade in past TES games, or maybe a Breton?

I started thinking about how I'd make Fitz, and immediately ran into my on-going problem that I need wardens to be able to summon a wolf instead of a bear.

AvalonRanger · November 2025

1. My main character orc female.
--> Just I took her name from TES name generator AI in 2014
My main character is most... nameless.

But she is ancestor of my Skyrim Dragon born.

2. My female white fur cat name.
--> "M'aiq thinks the snowflakes are pretty. (Skyrim)
My muscular female orc took kitty orphan from SummerSet Island.

3. My female Argonian name
--> "Reiwa no dara san" (Japanese comic book female lamia character)
Because her face look like this comic book character.

4.My female high elf name
--> "Edo mae elf" (Japanese comic book main character)
Because I like this comic book's lazy elf character.

5. My female dark elf name
--> "Hien" from Dungeon meshi (Japanese comic book's female ninja name)
Because she is night blade class.

6. My female wood elf name
--> Lyudmila Dragunov (Pavlichenko) (female sniper of WW2 soviet union red army)
Because wood elf is good at bow shooting.
　
7. My female red guard
--> Mel Medarda from Arcane anime character.
Because I like Mel Medarda.

frogthroat · November 2025

Danikat wrote: »

That's cool! Which race did you pick for Althea? I'm imagining Imperial because of the emphasis on trade in past TES games, or maybe a Breton?

Breton. I don't think I had Imperial when I made the character.

Danikat wrote: »

I started thinking about how I'd make Fitz, and immediately ran into my on-going problem that I need wardens to be able to summon a wolf instead of a bear.

If we could morph the bear into a wolf I would have to consider deleting one character to make space for Fitz. The hair would be a bit of a problem. Warrior's braid is possible in ESO, but not sure if I would want to make pre-Tom Fitz or if I wanted a badgerlock.

Oooooh, and now I have an idea of a tiny wood elf named Bee.

Tandor · November 2025

Some of my characters are ESO versions of characters I've played in CRPGs for 40 years, others are totally new. A few of the new ones are also now played in other more recent games. I don't base any on NPCs in games, films or books etc.

AcadianPaladin · November 2025

My character's name is Buffy. . . . so, yeah.

LalMirchi · November 2025

My first ESO character was based on our wise and powerful Gandalf. I knew nothing about this game but chose a Sorcerer to start off with.

Then in my very first playthrough I met Lyris and it was love at first sight. After many futile hours in the editor I realized that there's no way to get that tall. Thankfully I did not spend any IRL money on those experiments.

My cat however is based on the fine feline asleep on my lap.

Syldras · November 2025

I prefer to make up my own characters. Just random people from different regions of Tamriel. Though I've been playing my ESO main since TES3 now, so over 23 years.

Calastir · November 2025

My Khajiit character Boymans van Beuningen (Stam Warden Bowzerker) is based on my cat Joy who died back in 2016. His official name was Joy, but when my wife and I adopted him in 2002 at age 4 we affectionately nicknamed him Boy, which grew into Boy-man, which turned into Boymans van Beuningen because that's the name of a famous museum and it sounded like nobility to us.

When I started playing ESO on the PC EU in 2021, I created the character in remembrance of him.

old_scopie1945 · November 2025

Of my ten, only two have been inspired my others. My Dunmer chap is inspired by TES 'Indoril Nerevar'. One of my two Khajiit lasses is in dedication to my late beloved moggy 'Sassy'.

CatoUnchained · November 2025

Me.

SilverBride · November 2025

My characters are inspired by themselves. I create a look and their personalities develop as I play them.

Calastir · November 2025

My character Dusk Doublespeak (Breton Magplar Werewolf) is based on the character Alice Cullen from the The Twilight Saga movies (2008-2012)

In the movies she's a very optimistic vampire, my character is an optimistic healer who got turned into a werewolf because she's careless and just too darn trusting.

Calastir · November 2025

My character Flynt Westwood (Bosmer Magicka Dragonknight) is based on the 'Man with No Name' character from Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy (1964 - 1966) played by Clint Eastwood.
Just look at them, the resemblance is uncanny.

Since there are no guns in Tamriel he carries double daggers, and wields a staff like a rifle. He's also a pretty good Tales of Tribute card player. Or tries to be.

Calastir · November 2025

My character Capt Peach (Nord Stamcanist Crux Cannon) is based on the character Anne Bonny from the Black Sails TV series (2014 - 2017).

They're both female pirates. Also a pretty good Tales of Tribute card player, Captain Peaches' ship house 'The Fair Winds' is docked at Vastyr off the coast of Galen.

colossalvoids · November 2025

My ESO main is more or less a collective image of a dunmer that's my usual protagonist in TES games since Morrowind, both in looks and the tool kit. Same for some others, like one nord was basically a recreation of a Skyrim one I had a really good playthrough with.

kargen27 · November 2025

AScarlato wrote: »

I have an orange Khajiit named Garfiel-Dar whose inspiration may be a bit obvious.

My Imperial City noble Paris has a backstory inspired by Paris of Troy, but onscreen post-planemeld takes things far more seriously and is played a lot closer in personality to Hector.

Various pets and mounts of mine tend to be named after greek/roman mythology figures.

I named all my mounts Woe so I can joke whenever I say his name he stops. All my pets but one are named Bucket after a dog I once had. The one unique pet is the Chub Loon and I named him after a politician but won't say which one here, no need to stir up anything real world.

Arboz · November 2025

My character is inspired by Arthas (the famous Death Knight in WoW) and Lord Soth (a Death Knight in the older D&D universe).
Thus, I created a tanky Frost-and-Decay (Dots) based Death Knight.

(EDIT: pictures deleted due to scaling issues)

magnusthorek · November 2025

My main character — and, sadly, the only one I care to play nowadays — isn't based on a specific person/character as a whole, however, half of her name is in memory of a known character from Skyrim: Brelyna Maryon from the College of Winterhold (the one who transforms you into a cow during a side-quest).

That choice came from the silliest of the reasons: after modding Skyrim (specifically, "Bijin Warmaidens"), Brelyna Maryon goes from a hideous Dark Elf to one of the most beautiful among the potential followers (and women in general, "rxkx22" did an awesome job). Though, unlike Brelyna, I made my Maryon as a member of the House Telvanni because of all the Great Houses is the one which fits her best: rude, agnostic and hungry for powah

Chili_Pepper · November 2025

Reverse situation. THIS Targaryen dude inspired by my main, i'm telling you

Xarc · November 2025

Chili_Pepper wrote: »

Reverse situation. THIS Targaryen dude inspired by my main, i'm telling you

hahaha nice one

wolfie1.0. · November 2025

My characters are inspired by puns and jokes about myself. Some examples (too many to bore yall with):

Wolfies Knight Light: templar based on saber from fate series
Over your dead body and magical recycling expert: necromancers.
Youcantseemeimaflower: nightblade and internet meme
Tolkien a break: Arcanist, favorite author
Holly Tossis: stamina DK
Ware Wolfie: werewolf build
Right to Arm Bears: warden
Sir Falls-Off-Cliffs-A-Lot: and Sleeps-On-Keyboard, Out-of-thyme: if you know me you know.
Alec Tricity: Sorc build
Cochaillín Dearg: Gaelic for "little red ridinghood", nightblade base, werewolf. ZOS please add cloaks to the game...

Sapphire_Lily · November 2025

My Baandari Khajiit Grimoire was inspired by my real life culture! I’m Romani so an itinerant Khajiit with nomadic proclivities was sufficient analog for me to project part of myself into her.

Then came Sister Scholastica inspired by my religion and Catholic Nuns. Scholastica is a warrior-nun of Akatosh and the divines. She also had some conflict with Mora and the loss of her eye. And who doesn’t love a little foray into Ancient Roman history when creating Imperials?

Finally, a Shadowscale called Xutha-Tshel or Death-Rattle was inspired adoration of all things Dark Brother/sithis and the macabre joy of worshiping the void.

Tryxus · November 2025

I guess Kilik from Soul Calibur kinda served as the template for Tryxus.

I was trying to create my own character a long time ago and I came up with the name "Tryxus", but I had no idea what the character would be like. Back then I had also just gotten Soul Calibur 2 for the PS2. So I entered the name Tryxus in the game's Weapon Master Mode and after some deliberation, and also because I liked Kilik's artwork, I picked him as my avatar.

So began Tryxus' journey.

Now he's my redemption-seeking druid.

bmnoble · November 2025

No one really at most I pick some character last names by looking at the movie/TV show name titles among my DVD collection for inspiration.

noblecron · November 2025

I tend to use a mix of different sources. I tend to pull from mythology, folklore and a lot of different fiction to make them.

My khajiit has classic paladin/cleric tropes for example combined with some egyptian bastet flair.

My breton I have inspiration from Raven from teen titans, Magik from DC and a few other characters.

BretonMage · November 2025

I've been playing the same character since TES Oblivion, a dark-haired Breton mage. In Skyrim, she specialised in elemental magic and daedra conjuration, so I was happy to have found an almost perfect fit for her in ESO's sorcerer class. I miss Icy Spear though, that with Impact perk made her pretty much invincible.