Skyrim's Opening Scene Gets Immortalized As Classic Oil Painting

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A fan of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has rendered the game's opening cutscene as an oil painting. Skyrim's opening scene is one of gaming's most enduring memes, being the center of countless jokes in the decade since release. It's hard to overstate the endless meme potential of Skyrim's opening scene, which has become one of the more common targets of reposting in recent years.

The strength of its popularity comes from the endless videos that splice Skyrim's opening dialog into a wide variety of situations, from real-life blackouts of some kind to being knocked unconscious in other games. If the screen can go black, then somebody on the internet has most likely inserted Skyrim's opening into that moment. In some cases, the screen is simply obscured in some other way, such as a bright orange haze descending due to one of the many sandstorms in Forza Horizon 4, which makes for perhaps one of the strangest crossovers to have ever come from the meme.

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Now, Skyrim's opening dialog has been immortalized by one artistically-inclined fan. Reddit user macvodka has revealed an oil painting of the scene, showing the moment the Dragonborn first awakens to Ralof's "Hey, you. You're finally awake." The Imperial driver of the prisoners' transport wagon is seen to one side, with other mounted soldiers leading the way to Helgen in the background. Much like in the original cutscene, the colors are dull and muted, a reflection of the Dragonborn's tiredness and the dour atmosphere as the wagon brings them to their intended execution. The punishment is notably steep, especially as the Dragonborn may not even have done anything to warrant it, though perhaps the Imperials are simply