In July 2020, artist Relan Daevath drew a piece of Elder Scrolls Online fanart and posted it on their Tumblr account. Now, three years later, they’ve discovered that seemingly the exact piece has appeared in the game itself, only they had nothing to do with it.
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Writing on Twitter, Daevath says:
Here’s the art as it was posted in 2020:
And here’s a screenshot of the game from April 2023, showing a character skin called Mercymother’s Body Art. If you look across the skin’s shoulders you can see the face and head from the left of Daevath’s art above, flipped and then mirrored across both sides:
There’s also a hand within a triangle, same as Daevath’s art as well, though in the skin’s case it’s not as similar in appearance as the shoulder, which appears to be literally pasted from the 2020 fan art.
Daevath’s tweet quickly gathered traction online, leading to a popular Reddit post, and as a result the developers of the game have been made aware and subsequently issued a statement which reads:
