I love the new visual interpretation of the cliff racer, it looks exactly like what I'd expect a high-def version of the Morrowind model to look like, except this one is without feathers. Maybe there's a difference between a cliff racer and a cliff strider, the former having feathers and this variety not so much? Alternatively, I could be misinterpreting what a "racer plume" was, but no matter, still quite in the right direction. !
Balmora means "Stone Forest", y'know. I don't think its supposed to have deciduous woodland around it.
True enough. I think Balmora is late First Era. What even is a "stone forest" anyway? At least Sadrith Mora (mushroom forest) actually makes sense.lordrichter wrote: »
dwemer_paleologist wrote: »you have made it "look" and "appear" as if morrowind is lush with vegetation and forest like.
it is Not iether of those things.
Vvardenfell and morrowind's landscape is dusty and dry everywhere. ash, is constantly present, and it simply is not forest like, nor lush with vegetation.
dwemer_paleologist wrote: »you have made it "look" and "appear" as if morrowind is lush with vegetation and forest like.
it is Not iether of those things.
Vvardenfell and morrowind's landscape is dusty and dry everywhere. ash, is constantly present, and it simply is not forest like, nor lush with vegetation.
Several areas such as the swamplands of Bitter Coast were easily identifiable as lush and forested, given all the trees and swamps that were present. Then we have the grazelands, which were, you know, grassy as heck. The area around Vivec City had a boatload of green, as I recall, plus a bunch of giant mushrooms to jump on if you were acrobatic or had a decently-powered jump spell. It was not all dusty and dry everywhere, but had a range of biomes. Further, Red Mountain and the Blight, it can be assumed, were not omnipresent issues in every era. I see no reason to not explore how those areas may have looked before Dagoth Ur's rise and the increased activity of Red Mountain.
It is perfectly within the right of the storytellers to give us a lush forested landscape around Balmora since it already supported a decent amount of plantlife, all things considered. Remember the bittergreen and scathecraw around the gates of Balmora? Those hardier species are likely all that's left of the once-great forests, decimated by the third era due to blight and ash. And let's not forget the chokeweed, the roobrush, the fire fern, the comberry, and actually you know what just have this giant list of Vvardenfell flora still growing as of the 3rd Era.
dwemer_paleologist wrote: »those screen shots are the Vvardenfell original build, not tainted by horrible modds and addons.
i think alot of people remember morrowind with the modds they had and not what came with the original game.
dwemer_paleologist wrote: »dwemer_paleologist wrote: »you have made it "look" and "appear" as if morrowind is lush with vegetation and forest like.
it is Not iether of those things.
Vvardenfell and morrowind's landscape is dusty and dry everywhere. ash, is constantly present, and it simply is not forest like, nor lush with vegetation.
Several areas such as the swamplands of Bitter Coast were easily identifiable as lush and forested, given all the trees and swamps that were present. Then we have the grazelands, which were, you know, grassy as heck. The area around Vivec City had a boatload of green, as I recall, plus a bunch of giant mushrooms to jump on if you were acrobatic or had a decently-powered jump spell. It was not all dusty and dry everywhere, but had a range of biomes. Further, Red Mountain and the Blight, it can be assumed, were not omnipresent issues in every era. I see no reason to not explore how those areas may have looked before Dagoth Ur's rise and the increased activity of Red Mountain.
It is perfectly within the right of the storytellers to give us a lush forested landscape around Balmora since it already supported a decent amount of plantlife, all things considered. Remember the bittergreen and scathecraw around the gates of Balmora? Those hardier species are likely all that's left of the once-great forests, decimated by the third era due to blight and ash. And let's not forget the chokeweed, the roobrush, the fire fern, the comberry, and actually you know what just have this giant list of Vvardenfell flora still growing as of the 3rd Era.
here is the graze lands
all dry and dead
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dry and ash
dry and barren, no lush areas of vegitation.
swamp lands, dry and barren
Vvardenfell, Dry and Ash!
Wherever those are, they all have trees in. They look a bid dead, and dead trees can stick around for a long time, but not a very long time. 50-100 years or so ago those would all have been alive. Particularly that last one could easily have been a thriving forest 700 years beforehand. I just don't think it should be near somewhere specifically named after the stone.dwemer_paleologist wrote: »
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True enough. I think Balmora is late First Era. What even is a "stone forest" anyway? At least Sadrith Mora (mushroom forest) actually makes sense.lordrichter wrote: »
I was thinking about this a bit more, and maybe Balmora was built on the site of a petrified forest. Still though, that would imply that there's no forest there now.Maybe long ago before it was settle all the vegetation was covered in ash, so those who first arrived saw it as a forest of grey stone, and as such named their new city "Stone Forest".True enough. I think Balmora is late First Era. What even is a "stone forest" anyway? At least Sadrith Mora (mushroom forest) actually makes sense.lordrichter wrote: »
Wherever those are, they all have trees in. They look a bid dead, and dead trees can stick around for a long time, but not a very long time. 50-100 years or so ago those would all have been alive. Particularly that last one could easily have been a thriving forest 700 years beforehand. I just don't think it should be near somewhere specifically named after the stone.dwemer_paleologist wrote: »
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Wherever those are, they all have trees in. They look a bid dead, and dead trees can stick around for a long time, but not a very long time. 50-100 years or so ago those would all have been alive. Particularly that last one could easily have been a thriving forest 700 years beforehand. I just don't think it should be near somewhere specifically named after the stone.dwemer_paleologist wrote: »
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