Aaron's Skyrim Pics: Kothringi test

unnamed Kothringi in the Alternate Start cell

Testing an unnamed Kothringi character. He's actually an Imperial, recolored in RaceMenu. He probably looks more gray than silver, but it's the best I can do without installing or creating a custom race mod.

head-and-shoulders view of Kothringi character, with RaceMenu skin tone sliders on the left

Skin tone: FF517082 - A255 R81 G112 B130

Pics and backstory below the jump. (Male nudity, NSFW.)

The Kothringi

The Kothringi were a silver-skinned race of humans, native to the Black Marsh. They usually went naked, although some wore clothes when visiting other lands and cultures. They are thought to have gone extinct from the Knahaten Flu of 2E 560 - 2E 603. The last known Kothringi in lore were a shipfull of (infected) plague refugees in 2E 563; turned away at every port, they sailed west, away from Tamriel, and were never seen again.

Likely backstory

A few small tribes of Kothringi escaped the plague by fleeing into a remote part of the Black Marsh, inaccessible even by Argonian standards. For more than a century afterward, they refused all contact with the outside world. Though they eventually started trading with a few remote Argonian tribes, they remain wary of outsiders, and refuse to let any Argonians into their territories. As of 4E 201, few people outside their part of the Black Marsh even know they exist.

Around 4E 150, an Imperial trader (and occasional East Empire Company contractor) got hopelessly lost in a remote part of the Black Marsh. The trader was rescued by Kothringi, gained their trust, and eventually married into their tribe. This character is that trader's grandson.

After growing up on stories of the world beyond the Black Marsh, he decided to explore it for himself. He tried wearing clothes but never felt comfortable in them, so he goes without whenever he can.

Exploring Skyrim in the summer of 4E 201, he was hunting around Falkreath and Helgen...