If you ever wanted to know what the skeletons of Skyrim looked like before you died, now you have your answer. A Twitter user has indeed used facial reconstruction technology to determine the “human” face of these enemies that we meet everywhere in the game, with impressive fidelity.
Skyrim was released almost 12 years ago and yet Bethesda’s cult game still fascinates its community. Its incredibly rich world continues to be explored by fans today, with great fanfare of mods of all kinds. Despite this relentlessness, some questions still remain unanswered… such as the true face of the skeletons before they die.
Okay, we admit that it is very likely that you have never asked yourself this question. After all, they’re one of the weakest enemies – unlike the far more aggressive draugr – that you’ll be quick to eat even in the early game. But, if you are part of a collective of anthropologists who strive to discover the true face of our ancestors, this question is not so trivial as that.
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It recreates the real face of the skeletons in Skyrim, it’s bluffing
That’s good, that’s precisely the case with Sulkalmakh, a Twitter user who analyzed the faces of skeletons in Skyrim to come up with an impressive reconstruction of their pre-death appearance. Beyond simple curiosity, the project has a real utility to better understand Skyrim and its history. As Sulkalmakh explains, the analyzed skeleton is “an ancient Atmoran from Saarthal, having lived during the Metheric era”.
Put more simply, this skeleton is quite simply an ancestor of the Nords who now inhabit Skyrim. However, all this is no coincidence, since Jonah Lobe himself, in charge of the design of the skeletons in Skyrim, underlined the quality of the work carried out by Sulkalmakh. “I wanted them to look brutal, to have thick jaws and eyebrows and to look a bit like Neanderthals. That’s exactly it”explains the latter… before specifying that he unfortunately has no information on the progress of the development of The Elder Scrolls 6. Nice try.