As much as I have played dress up while making stock series for my other account *
Eirian-stock, I don't think I have actually ever tried to cosplay any specific character. I have played a lot of Skyrim lately (yeah, no surprise there), this time more with Skaila, and suddenly I felt an urge to try how her signature war paint would look on my face. It was fun so I decided to go all the way and shoot a portrait which - hopefully - has some Skyrim atmosphere in it even though I didn't manage to recreate any of game's armors or such. Appropriately, we still had some snow left here in the north, so the background should be fitting enough.

So here it is, me as my own Skyrim character, nord girl Skaila Skaran. Here are some other pictures of her for those of you who wish to compare
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For more The Elder Scrolls fan art take a look at
here!
Excellent stuff.
What Skyrim race (human only) would fit for an Albanian? I may go with Nords, since our origins start from the Illirian people, a tribal/barbarian country west of Macedonia, but compared to all Europe it would end as Imperial for being located in a Southern zone. Little help, pretty please?
or maybe breton ?
Maybe Redguards could be those albanians with turkish origins (hence the possible dark complexion), but I have my doubts about Bretons: they're taken off of Celtic lore, nothing about Albania or the ancient Illiric people, from what I know :/