I feel like these passages are particularly revealing:
believes weapons are made for miserable people who don’t have enough inlelligence and willpower to master the magic. There is no weapon more natural and elegant than the pure power of Aetherius
The only weapon he ever owned is an Elven dagger which he uses for more mundane things than battle.
he cannot imagine an act as boring and useless as reciting the facts of his own biography, which, otherwise, can be easily learned, for instance, from his Thalmor dossier or from the records regarding his noble House, [...] And if one’s rank or status doesn’t allow one to access any of those documents, it is quite apparent that none of this information is of one’s concern.
His mother, albeit not as famous, was an icon of immaculate manners and natural dignity befitting a true Altmer lady and a scion of one of the most ancient and powerful noble Houses, carrying an unbroken bloodline ascending to the Aldmeri ansectors whose tombs used to be at the Crystal Tower.
All these passages paint a picture for me of someone who is concerned with reputation and appearances, as well as a bit of a superiority complex. But in an accessible way, right? It's not the Faceless Evil Thalmor escorting a prisoner again and again that we're used to. It's very tangible. You've done a good job of breathing life into Nalfien.
I feel like these passages are particularly revealing:
believes weapons are made for miserable people who don’t have enough inlelligence and willpower to master the magic. There is no weapon more natural and elegant than the pure power of Aetherius
The only weapon he ever owned is an Elven dagger which he uses for more mundane things than battle.
he cannot imagine an act as boring and useless as reciting the facts of his own biography, which, otherwise, can be easily learned, for instance, from his Thalmor dossier or from the records regarding his noble House, [...] And if one’s rank or status doesn’t allow one to access any of those documents, it is quite apparent that none of this information is of one’s concern.
His mother, albeit not as famous, was an icon of immaculate manners and natural dignity befitting a true Altmer lady and a scion of one of the most ancient and powerful noble Houses, carrying an unbroken bloodline ascending to the Aldmeri ansectors whose tombs used to be at the Crystal Tower.
All these passages paint a picture for me of someone who is concerned with reputation and appearances, as well as a bit of a superiority complex. But in an accessible way, right? It's not the Faceless Evil Thalmor escorting a prisoner again and again that we're used to. It's very tangible. You've done a good job of breathing life into Nalfien.