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Featured Images are images the wiki's users deem to be of the highest quality and should be held up as an example for other images. Images are nominated for this status below. Users then review the nominees, keeping in mind UESP's image standards, and place their vote.

For an image to be eligible for Featured status, it must be used in a UESP article. This is to prevent specially taken beauty shots from stealing the limelight.

A gallery of older Featured Images can be found here. Similarly, the archives of previous nominations can be found here. Note that not all failed nominations are included. High-quality articles can be nominated for featured status at Featured Articles.

Featured Image Process

Nomination

Any registered member (once autoconfirmed) can nominate any image at any time. Nominated images should be of high quality and meet the wiki's image standards.

To nominate an image, list it at the bottom of this page with a three-tier heading, (===Example===), and briefly explain why you think the image should be given featured status.

Example:

SR-quest-Dragon Rising 05.jpg This is another great image. It appears cinematic, which is rare for the Elder Scrolls series. Support as nominator. — Example 13:11, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Voting

After an image has been nominated, any registered member (once autoconfirmed) can vote to support or oppose each nomination. Each member can only vote once for a given image, but a member may change their vote by striking out the original vote and replacing it with the revised vote.

To vote on an image, state whether you support or oppose the image for featured image status. A vote should be in bold, and all votes must be signed. For example:
* '''Support''': <Comment> --~~~~ or
* '''Oppose''': <Comment> --~~~~

Commenting with your vote is optional, but if you oppose a nomination, please state how the image must be improved to get your support for featured status.

If you are not yet ready to vote but would still like to add your thoughts, you may use:

* '''Comment''': <Comment> --~~~~ or
* '''Question''': <Question> --~~~~

And fill in your concerns or questions.

Decisions

UESP Administrators will periodically make decisions on image nominations. Decisions will only be made if:

• The image has been nominated for more than seven days.
• Five or more votes have been placed.

Nominations not meeting these criteria will be left open until a decision can be reached.

Images whose nominations pass will receive featured image status on the front page for two weeks (which may be extended up to one month if there is a shortage of images), and receive a small bronze star () on the top right corner. If an image achieves featured status before the present featured image's time expires, it must wait its turn.

Current Featured Image

The Boatman's Tail (ESO)
20 December, 2024 - 20 January, 2025

Next

• ON-place-Vivec's Antlers Land-Coral.jpg
• ON-creature-Cell Haunter.jpg
• ON-creature-Phoenix Moth.jpg
• DF-place-Aldcroft.png
• ON-creature-Primordial Shattered Titan.jpg
• ON-quest-Half-Formed Understandings.jpg
• OB-quest-The Path of Dawn 03.jpg
• ON-quest-Dawn of the Exalted Viper 05.jpg
• ON-skill-Enkindled Flames.jpg

Nominations and Votes

TR3-quest-Hunting an Ogrim.jpg

Great action shot for Morrowind (actually Tamriel Rebuilt) against an enemy you don't often see and an encounter you less often witness. With this side-by-side battle posture, it looks all but hopeless for the Dunmer to kill the hulking ogrim, but we're hoping he pulls it off.

• Support: As nominator. —Dillonn241 (talk) 04:26, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
• Support: A compelling scene that's pretty well framed: I dig it! -MolagBallet (talk) 19:37, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
• Comment: Not to sound like a stickler, but have we ever had a mod image featured before? Is there precedence to keep doing these, and is the requirement solely that it was an image taken for the wiki and not somewhere else? The Rim of the Sky (talk) 19:41, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Reply: We have not from my perusal through the galleries yesterday. I see no reason why we can't or shouldn't. Tamriel Rebuilt has well over 1000 articles on the wiki and the Modspace Project has effectively removed all restrictions on documentation of mods. This is a good way to lightly feature that. Without digging deeper, you wouldn't even know this isn't vanilla Morrowind. —Dillonn241 (talk) 20:18, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose: The use of graphical mods has been a sticking point in the past. Featuring an image from a gameplay mod takes this a step further, and it's a step I'm not particularly comfortable with. The wiki is still primarily dedicated to documenting official content. —⁠Legoless (talk) 13:16, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose: As has been said. Mindtrait0r (talk) 21:23, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

ON-quest-Planemeld Obverse.jpg

I enjoy the composition on this one. The pose and angle are pleasing, and the background provides a glorious sense of negative space with the jagged rocks and the anchor against the grey sky in the background. The blurring of the background provides focus on the foreground while giving us the vestige of interesting scenery. The background is visible, but it doesn't outshine the foreground. There's also more of the background on the right, and less behind the portal: the portal is bright, so it draws our attention, but the visual weight of the blues on the right balances that out. The portal anchors our sight, but the glowing crystals, the portal in the sky, and Sister Terran's face provide landmarks for us to soak in, guiding our vision across the canvas with eye-catching ease. The warm lighting from the portal also contrasts nicely against all the blues and greys.

• Support: As nominator. —MolagBallet (talk) 02:33, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
• Support: I can't take much credit, the framing is all due to the dialogue window. I just had to hide the UI for this shot. It's an interesting composition all the same! —⁠Legoless (talk) 18:05, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
• Support: Great effects. —Dillonn241 (talk) 02:11, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
• Comment: Oh my, it appears I replaced the image mid-nomination without realizing it. The new version is higher resolution but lacks the same lighting that makes the original look cool. Should I restore it? I'll try to check my 2015 hard drives for something closer to the original lighting while having an HD resolution. The Rim of the Sky (talk) 20:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

ON-npc-Ithelia and Torvesard.jpg

This is my favorite shot that's come out of the Elder Scrolls in a while (Spoiler alert for those who haven't played Gold Road yet). This is a very somber, bittersweet scene, I won't go into it too much but the dialogue is gutwrenching, its a very sad moment and even if its the "good" ending it really makes you sympathize with the villains. The way Ithelia holds her glowing palm upon the side of Torvesard's head as if she is an angel smiting him, yet invokes a serene nurturing sense of care towards him. Torvesard bowing to her and becoming enveloped in a red light has a familiarity to Aang's removal of Fire Lord Ozai's powers from Avatar, and the whole positioning of the scene invokes the same emotions as Michelangelo's Pietà. On top of being beautifully shot, this photo really just encapsulates the scene perfectly and all the depth that goes with.

• Support: As nominator The Rim of the Sky (talk) 07:39, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support: I don't know anything about any of this but I do think it's a pretty good capture of an action moment. Weroj (talk) 16:01, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support: I think it is a really nice story image.--Talyyn (talk) 06:01, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose: It's good to feature something from the new Chapter, but to be honest, it's hard for me to tell what's happening here without the context. —Dillonn241 (talk) 23:57, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose: A lady with some indistinct mass behind her is putting her hand on the red man's head. Blowthemandown (talk) 00:50, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
• Support: Very cool moment from the DLC. Tarponpet (talk) 01:29, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose: A good capture, but very busy and Ithelia's face is very blurry compared to the rest of the image. Mindtrait0r (talk) 21:23, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

ON-place-Skyreach Hold.jpg

A foreboding capture with great lighting and weather.

• Support: As nominator. Mindtrait0r (talk) 21:37, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
• Support: The amazing visuals of Craglorn have long been etched into my mind, I'm surprised we haven't featured such a good shot already The Rim of the Sky (talk) 22:52, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

SR-npc-Golldir 03.jpg

A dynmaic combat image with no floating weapons or clipping.

• Support: As nominator. Mindtrait0r (talk) 21:37, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
• Support: I love a good combat pic! The Rim of the Sky (talk) 22:52, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
• Support: There is minor clipping on the boots, but not enough for anyone to notice without immense scrutiny. The visual motion in this shot is pleasing: the viewer's eye is naturally drawn from the assailant on the right down the axe-swing. Everything but the tip of the defending draugr's greatsword is in frame: a solid action shot. —MolagBallet (talk) 23:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

ON-quest-Silk and Shadow 02.jpg

I'm quite fond of this shot. Not just because of the framing and lighting, but the circumstances it was taken under. You're supposed to view this scene from a grate way high above the boss arena. By having one person stand by the door while someone else kills the boss and pulls the lever, you can waltz right on in and watch this meeting up close.

• Support: As nominator. —MolagBallet (talk) 00:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
• Support: I remember 9 years ago I tried to take this same shot but couldn't figure it out haha. Difficulty aside, the framing and contents of the shot are all very nice, its quite cinematic. The Rim of the Sky (talk) 00:23, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

ON-place-Western Skyrim Ice Fields.jpg

A border location in northern Hjaalmarch. It's not the epitome of the region: most people's first thought when prompted to describe Hjaalmarch would probably be "that swampy stretch of land between Solitude and Labyrinthian, and Morthal is there". Frozen, but not desolate. There's a guy in the foreground enjoying the sunrise with a bellyful of fish. It's cold, but alive, and that's all you can really ask for sometimes. Most of these little bits of land between quest locations in ESO don't seem to have anything worth stopping to look at if you're just speeding by on your horse, but there's always something to see if you stop to pick the bugloss.

• Support: As nominator. —MolagBallet (talk) 00:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
• Support: Excellent candid environment shot. The Rim of the Sky (talk) 00:23, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

ON-place-Stirk 11.jpg

Wonderful photo, the way the ruins and boat are framed combined with the sunrays and palm tree, its all around a nice shot to look at.

• Support: As nominator. The Rim of the Sky (talk) 00:23, 14 January 2025 (UTC)