/tes/ - The Elder Scrolls Discussion

>What's your favorite region/town in any elder scrolls game?

it's difficult deciding which is my favorite part of Vvardenfell because every region has something I love, but I think the Ascadian Isles region is right up my alley because of its vibrant flowers, the musrooms and the calming sight of lake Amaya.

As towns? there's something about Gnisis during a rainy day which just makes me confy and happy. I'm writing a short story from a dunmer thief born in gnisis, might post it some day.

>>8895

n'wah, skyrim did a lot of things right and one of those things was the regions.

I dont particularly like the cities (solitude's architecture was comfy) because they feel small and dead, but other than that most places are well achieved. The tundra near whiterun is genious.

>>8891

Windhelm, Whiterun

Sadrith Mora, Vivec, the Vos's

can't name any from Oblivion, that game aged like milk

>>8900

bruma was pretty cool.

>>8907

I think that you're always supposed to pretend like cities are actually cities, like they're BIG, but this is difficult to achieve when you can see most of it.

Cities in oblivion offered a better illussion in that regard

Raven Rock.

Dragonborn really captured the frontier town feeling, with the huge wall and the constant ash spawn attacks.

>>8937

i think bloodmoon was better i loved watching the town grow

>>8937

I honestly didn't like the brown tint over raven rock, i can understand why its there but I still didn't like it.

The Imperial City, but not the dumbed down version of course. The Imperial Palace is just too small, and acessible for a seat of a continent spanning empire, for example.

>>8940

Watching it grow was great but the town itself was shit

It was just a generic imperial settlement, the only good part about it was that comfy ass tavern

The Telvanni regions in Morrowind. I love the mushroom houses, they look so comfy to live in.

Betnikh.

It's rare to see somewhere so populated by Orcs, so right off the bat it was a nice surprise. You get off the boat, think "Oh this looks generic as fuck" but as soon as you go round the docks, you get this scenery reminiscent of Altmer land. Greenery is everywhere and it gives off a sense of peacefulness. Quite ironic considering the islands current inhabitants. But I suppose that was the intended effect. The island used to be for the Bretons. And the land reflects that. And like the loss of Bretons, the land is lesser for it. There is nothing to find. Only one settlement and nothing more. There are the occasional vision setups, but that's about it. It also gets you thinking about how different Betikh looked before the Orcs conquered it. Was it more populated? Were there not so many trees? Have the old Breton structures been torn down?

The only surviving relic of the Bretons of Betnikh is their graveyard. And that is fucking morbid. It's like an insult, the only memory of them that the land has is their corpses.

Betnikh is a beautiful island with such an ugly underbelly. And that's why it makes me love it.

>>8997

Daily reminder that ESO takes place in one of the shattered timelines caused by the Dragonbreak.

Please let me believe it.

>>8998

No. And I have quads so what I say goes.

>>8999

Trips, derp.

I need sleep,

>>8999

>>9000

double trips

>>9001

BEHOLD FOR I AM A GOD

>>9002

A real god would be able to actually get quads.

Only reason I'm sticking around in /tes/ is cause I wanna get that 9999 and 10000

>>8891

out of all games?

region: molag amur region.

it has a real sense of forlorn to it that makes one feel like a pilgrim struggling against impossible odds.

city: mournhold.

>>9043

>Seyda Neen on Vvardenfell.

>In Skyrim, Morthal

>Winterhold, if I didn't starve

SHOR'S BONES BOY! THOSE ARE QUITE HONESTLY THE WORST CHOICES ANYONE COULD MAKE! MORTHAL IS A BACK-WATER BOG DWELLER CLAY AND POSSIBLY IMPERIAL LOYALIST TOO, I WAS ONCE THERE AND THIS ORC SAVAGE SANG IN THE TAVERN WITH HIS GUTTURAL ELF-BEAST VOICE, IT WAS SO AWFUL I COULD NOT BEAROF MARKARTH TO BE THERE ANYMORE AND HAD TO PERFORM UNHOLY RITUAL SO THE DARK BROTHERHOOD WOULD STOP THE ORC FROM DEFILING ANCIENT SCALDIC TRADITIONS.

I GET IT, YOU ARE NOT FOND OF PEOPLE, YES? SPECIALLY FOREIGNERS? THOSE FILTHY FOREIGNERS WITH THEIR IMPERIAL AFFECTATIONS WHO COME AND GO THROUGH NORD CITIES AND POLLUTE OUR CULTURE WITH THEIR MILK-DRINKING. PROBABLY IMPERIAL SPIES THE LOT OF THEM.

MAYBE YOU DO NOT LIKE BIG CITIES EITHER, YES? THEN WHY DON'T YOU CHOOSE SMALL TRUE NORD VILLAGES WITH RICH HERITAGE AND ACTUAL TRADE ROUTES? THERE IS A COZY VILLAGE IN THE RIFT CALLED IVARSTEAD; MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD OF IT? IT IS LAST STOP BEFORE HIGH HROTHGAR. TRUE NORD VILLAGE SITTING AT THE FOOT OF KYNE'S SACRED MOUNTAIN.

ONLY TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE GO THROUGH IVARSTEAD: TRUE NORD PILGRIMS WHO CLIMB THE SEVEN THOUSAND STEPS TO LEAVE SUPPLIES FOR GREYBEARDS AND SUPPORT THE STORMCLOAKS QUIETLY; AND TRUE NORD DRAGONBORN WHO WALK SEVEN THOUSAND STEPS TO TRAIN WITH GREYBEARDS IN THE WAY OF THE ANCIENT NORD ARTS AND SUPPORT STORMCLOAKS SHOUTING LOUDLY.

NOW, IF YOU'RE EVER IN THE CRAVEN, DECADENT IMPERIAL PROVINCE, THERE IS ONLY ONE TOWN YOU WILL FIND THAT IS NOT ENTIRELY TAINTED BY MEDE DECADENCE, AND THAT TOWN IS CALLED BRUMA. LET'S JUST SAY THAT THEY HAVE FINE MEAD AND FINE YOUNG LASSES WHO KNOW HOW TO TREAT A TRUE NORD. GOOD PLACE IF YOU DO NOT MIND THE OCCASIONAL CYRODIILIC ACCENT PESTERING YOU AT THE TAVERN.

IF YOU INSIST ON GOING TO VVARDENFELL, BE SURE TO AVOID CONTACT WITH THE TREACHEROUS DARK ELVES AND THEIR DISGUSTING BUG-EATING WAYS,YOU MUST GO TO A PLACE SHELTERED FROM THE GREY MENACE AND THEIR UNHOLY WITCHERY. I KNOW THIS VILLAGE WAY UP NORTH CALLED DAGON FEL. ANY TRUE NORD LIKE YOURSELF SHOULD FEEL RIGHT AT HOME IN SPITE OF THE CONSTANT THREAT OF LOUD SKY-VERMING KNOWN AS CLIFFRACER, BY SHOR I HATE THE DAMNED THINGS.

>>9047

10/10

>>9047

You raise great points. I'll still stick with Morthal. But I've also made notes to do a pilgrimage to Ivarstead every 5 years.

>filthy and overpopulated Bruma

No, just no.