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Yup, Nelke's necklace is exactely what you think it is: The TES Online logo :D

But before I am accused of ripping content from some super secret place...

This is a low poly mesh of the logo that I found. The rest is just clever texture work by yours truly XD 
I totally revamped the UV map and re-textured the entire thing from scratch. Which took almost the entire day. I have no idea where that idea came from, but I have always loved the logo a lot.

I love the idea of an ouroboros (the term describes an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail) as a logo or amulet - and the TES Online version is like the Auryn on crack xD

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  1. hentai1234
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    what is that race and hair mod?
  2. Room207
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    It is a cool necklace indeed. Looks good on Nelke.
  3. Zella
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    A fabulous piece! I love it also.

    The Ouroboros is one of those symbols that has meanings within meanings. For example the serpent eating its own tail represented the Creator Being who creates everything from It's mind. The creation proceeds through time & returns with all the experiences of the material universe for the Creator to digest to recycle to form more of creation. Thus the universe continually evolves. Cycles & evolution being the founding principles of the material universe. The Ouroboros containing the pent-alpha was the symbol for the Pythagorean school I believe.
    1. Myst42
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      It's also one of the Dark Elite's favorite symbols xD
      Kinda like Yin-Yang which is the complementary nature of opposites always destroying and creating each other in an eternal cycle of balance, birth, death and rebirth... but in this case with serpents or dragons which remind the Elites of their non-human nature...
      If you believe that sort of stuff xD
      That and the clan symbol of the Tscimizce on Vampire the Masquerade
      They are some truly evil folk those ones lol
    2. chakaru11
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      Well if you see this from an alchemists/philosophers/mathmaticians point of view, the ouroboros is neither good nor evil, it simply represents a closed circle of evolution/transformation that keeps repeating itself.

      And then of corse the pop culture references XD May it be VtM or The Neverending Story, I love it :O
    3. acorntwo
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      I had a cat that frequently chased, caught and sometimes chewed on his own tail. Does that have a philosophical context, or was he just weird?

    4. chakaru11
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      Cats are their own category, science does not apply to them XD
    5. Zella
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      Ha,ha, ha! You have a cat! ;-D
  4. maczopikczo
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    This is one necklace that may actually make me wear trinkets Great job.
  5. Dennywood
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    I really love this design. Beautiful textures and great work again.
  6. papp263
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    That looks fantastic... nice work!