ESO Mournhold

Bozrah

Im terribly sorry if this has already been discussed but im quite curious. My first Elderscrolls game was ES3 Morrowind along with the Expansion Tribunal. I have VERY fond memories of the City of Mournhold/Almalexia, so when reaching Mournhold in ESO, i was quite surprised.
I know that ESO takes place nearly 1000 years before the other Elderscrolls games but im curious as to why so much seems to have changed with this particular area? There are other areas within ESOs Tamriel that seem quite familiar and not too different from previous games.
Is there perhaps any lore surrounding why this is and not just a simple matter of the Dev team not wanting to make it a 1 on 1 replica?

Thank you

Kronosphere

completely agree. mournhold was soo amazing and beautiful in tes3 (city of light, city of magic!) and its catacombs were insanely huge and fun (and creepy) also almalexia was kicked from her temply by a few lesser daedra that IIII could kill. shes a god ffs she should disintegrate them on a whim weakened state or not. i really do hope they fix mournhold

Cyberdown

the 1000 year time difference between this game and all the others is really a good enough excuse for any differences...

im not really for ideas that wont add anything to the game but will require lots of developer resources...just so those who remember can get a spitting image city that they remember from another game....which imo would be more unrealistic than some of the current cities....a lot changes in 1000 years...

This is like the addition of children in the game protest in my eyes. a LOT of work for developers just so a small portion of people can go "ahh" for whatever reason.

Ill take more npc guilds, more weapon types, more class types, more skill lines, more areas opened up with content, more enemy types, ect...before they start putting their resources into stuff like kids running around and nostalgic city editing....which again makes no sense given the time differences in the lore.

Kronosphere

i get what your saying but atm the "capital cities" of each alliance are effing jokes. they arent that oooooh pretty, and other than resets no one has any reason to be there. the cap cities should have the best layouts for crafting/banking (all close together like people like) and/or be the last zone of each alliance

Holycannoli

and Daggerfall needs a ghost roaming around yelling "vengeance!" Screw the fact that that's in the future.

xxslam48xxb14_ESO

Well a lot can change in that many years. Ask yourself what would your hometown have looked like close to a 1000 years ago? Probably wouldn't have even been built yet right? Remember the old city under mournhold in the sewers? Thats probably the mournhold we are currently in. Or maybe thats the one mehrunes dagon destroyed in the first era. Idk whatever, point is nothing stays exactly the same for 1000 years.