Esmerelda- Hagraven Form- Skyrim OC

Yes, THAT Esmerelda, from A Night To Remember. A (formerly) stunningly beautiful Breton with heterochromia, stole a mind control staff in "Unreliable Narrator" to achieve fame as an illusionist, later conned her way into the hagraven ascension ritual based on the reputation she built with the staff.

Had the distinction of being in one of the longest running relationships with Karin as well as becoming a surviving minor canon character later.  Also one of the few Karin baddies who's not an arrogant SOB.  Notably, has a Breton form which I'll link to. Write up for flavor later below.

Feel free to download my dataset, see what you're working with, get some ideas.

Aside from being a hagraven, also has heterochromia, but if you'd rather not deal with all that, you could always do either "matching black matte eyes" or "matching brown eyes".

The Breton Esmerelda lora has had issues defaulting to a sort of anime/moe style and lacking consistency, it also strongly leans towards sepia/monochrome. Looks like this one works better surprisingly, and frankly, better on the furry models, prompting "hagraven" may help in general.

So, sample prompt for Hagraven Esmerelda:

Natural matte black eyes with left eye (viewers right_ heterochromia brown iris. Heterochromia, one pure black eye, one black eye with brown iris, necklace, no ears, colored sclera, black scera. Long blond hair, black feathersFeathers from shoulders blades, not head, pointy nose, skyrim hagraven. Bird claws and feet.

Negative prompt: Eyes same color, beautification, red eyes, fangs, exaggerated nose tip, human or elf ears or animal ears, eye correction, yellow eyes, orange eyes, glowing eyes, earrings (otherwise it'll give her ears, unless you WANT those, birds don't have ears man!)

Things I can tell you from tagging:

Her default clothing/body is similar to your typical hagraven, with intertarsal jointed legs (bird legs), ending in bird feet with claws/talons, and long forearms ending in bird claws. You might get 3 talons to 5 depending, so you may want to specify if thats important to you. Prompts like long nails, claws, talons, will probably help, as well as scales (but be specific) for the legs or arms. Outfit (unless you specify dress), will show midriff, legs and shoulders. Her body is more gaunt than her Breton form but she still has the greatest cleavage you'll ever see on a hagraven. Hair is long and blonde, you can mix this with black feathers or put "black feather ornament", in particular has black feathers sprouting from shoulders like a natural mantle or shoulderpads.

If you want more feathers, you can specify something like wings or winged arms, or feathers sprouting from body. I don't have it written stone how much feathers she actually has on her body, particularly if you're doing NSFW, so results might vary.

My samples tend to be either really haggy (still way better looking than most hagravens) or fairly pretty, so putting "scars" or "wrinkles" will give her more of your classic hagraven face, I'm hoping we get something in the middle. Besides specifying age, you can also try lipstick, braids, monster girl, monstergirl, harpy (but be careful on that one),

I figure she's like the Hagraven equivalent of that one busty secretary who can't figure out Outlook who all the female coworkers hate and who the guys around the office make excuses to talk to.

You may also want to neg out "sepia", "monochrome", "one eye closed" and "one eye missing", as the hagraven eyes are pure black so they're easy to mistaken for an "eye socket". I like to also specify "black bird eye", I find it gives it the right look.

I DOUBT this will work, but there's a pretty decent sample of both Breton Esmerelda and Hagraven Esmerelda together, you can try 2girls and "Breton Esmerelda" and maybe the prompts from my Breton Esmerelda lora.

Got some samples of her in a ruin, bedroom, cave, beach and wedding dress/veil, you want to try those. I've got a few of my placeholder male elf, he's blonde, glasses, brown eyes, so if you want to try to do something with that, give it a shot.

Ready for some flavor?

It was a wise woman who once said something to the effect of "Love is more the capacity in one’s self than anything particularly lovable about the other person."  That’s why it’s important to be forgiving of ourselves when it comes to first loves.  They are so often ill thought out and so rarely lead to happily ever after.  We are always at our most naïve, innocent, and vulnerable and least discerning.  My first love was only exceptional in the sense of how colossal a mistake I made.

Her name was Karin, and she was an assassin, brigand, murderer, and still worse.  An abuser of every spirit and substance known in Tamriel.  You may have even heard of her by reputation.  I occasionally still hear stories of her doings, some so depraved as to be fantastical.  Idle tongues embellish colorful tales, but when it comes to Karin, it’s never wise to dismiss them.  She’s one of those women who continuously flits from disaster to disaster.  I know consequences have to catch up to her one day, but they just never seem to in any lasting way. 

When I think back on her what I remember most was her smile.  Most people just express joy or humor, and of course so did Karin.  Yet for her the slightest pull of cheek and quirk of lip meant something else entirely, if one learned to read all the little variations as I did.  Her smile could fill one with confidence, fear, longing or revulsion.  That smile could be beatific at times, for she usually was in good humor even when she said or did monstrous things.  One only ever knew otherwise by watching her eyes.  

She would peer at me with that look that I thought was adoration but I’ve now come to associate with appraising stolen goods.  She would laugh off the most painful failures and become murderously furious over a careless word.  Her enthusiasm and mania were infectious, in the worst sense of the word.

Karin was insane without a doubt.  That makes the wounds a little less painful.  You could say she didn’t know any better.  When we think of that word though, “insane”, we think of someone who has lost touch with reality, someone who can’t control their impulses.  For her it always felt like a deliberate choice.  Sometimes, I’ll be perched in the Drudarch Mountains, just admiring the Reach as far as I can see and out of nowhere I’ll try to imagine sharing the moment with Karin.  I can’t do it.  In a way it’s a blessing.

That isn’t to say she didn’t have her genuine moments.  Karin was what she was.  Though she didn’t exactly lie to me it was silly of me to think she could be anything else but breathtakingly selfish. I suppose it’s a testament to both our efforts that I managed to bring her out of that if only the slightest bit.  From all I’ve heard Karin doesn’t have many ex lovers I can commiserate with.  Most seem to be dead and the rest don't want to talk, though a few want to kill her on sight.

I often think of tracking her down myself and finally taking revenge for her betrayal of my love and trust, but it feels like that would be admitting she was right.  Her lifestyle will eventually be the end of her, it has to be, but somehow each year a new story finds it’s way to my ears.  Despite Karin’s view as I understood it, in this writer’s opinion, it’s not simply a world where everybody is just waiting to slip the knife in.  The one who strikes first is not always the winner in life.

Let’s now literally turn the page on that business and I’ll prove that statement.  Let me tell you of a dear former friend of mine, Moira, who became a bitter rival yet finally found love with a famed adventurer.

Esmerelda Andrelle

Confessions of a Hagraven