New Blackwood homes

TheImperfect · January 2021

What does everyone think of the tiny preview of the new homes. One looks like a Daedric ruin type home and another is an Ayleid looking place?

They both look very intriguing to me. I'm particularly interested in the Daedric looking one because I love the view of Ashalmawia from the Ald Velothi Harbour house. I think the Ayleid one looks pretty big from the image unless it was only part of the picture. They both look very interesting and something we haven't had before. I wonder what or if we get new furnishings and antiquities too? I hope to get on the Pts tomorrow but I want to see the new CP system and possibly dungeons if I get the time but probably not if late UK time.

Syldras · January 2021

TheImperfect wrote: »

I wonder what or if we get new furnishings and antiquities too?

Nothing confirmed so far, but I would guess so. How else would you furnish a Daedric ruin?

Interesting choice of themes for the new houses, definitively.

bluebird · January 2021

Those are Q1 homes, coming with the Dungeon DLC. We don't know what houses we'll get with the Blackwood Chapter. Though based on the Leyawiin preview it will be a slightly revamped Imperial style, but nothing ground-breakingly new. And probably another Argonian house. Though I would like to see the new Imperial furnishing style. Those streetlamps in the city looked really elaborate.

I'm not interested in the Daedric ruin, as there are barely any Daedric furniture ingame, and we'll probably get something more Daedric in the Deadlands around Q4-ish or something. I'm curious about the Ayleid ruin, although if it doesn't have a nice underground section, I won't be buying it just for the open-air ruins. Here are some pictures though if people missed the announcement:

Aptonoth · January 2021

Your right these arent the expansion but dlc. I am not going to lie disappointed a vardenfell house slot is being taken up by a deadric ruin house but no ashlander home. I get there is no hard limit but I imagine map clutter is a real thing. I'll have to wait for telvaani peninsula year. I hope for a truly gigantic telvaani estate and ashlander home.

Syldras · January 2021

Aptonoth wrote: »

disappointed a vardenfell house slot is being taken up by a deadric ruin house but no ashlander home.

They could camp in the ruins?! They worship the "good Daedra" after all.

Zypheran · January 2021

Oh great... more ruined homes!

Aptonoth · January 2021

Syldras wrote: »

Aptonoth wrote: »

disappointed a vardenfell house slot is being taken up by a deadric ruin house but no ashlander home.

They could camp in the ruins?! They worship the "good Daedra" after all.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god that is neat. Very very neat now depending on how it looks I might get it and squirrel it away. Still I would like to see a crab shell home like the ashlanders live in but by the coast and with the lush coast nearby with a small area to build a daedric shrine either indoors or out.

SOLDIER_1stClass · January 2021

I just want Hunters Glade to return! I'd pay like 200 dollars at this point for it

Olauron · January 2021

The Ayleid ruins look good. I'll look closely on PTS (hopefully the house will be available there), but for now it seems like an instabuy for whatever price.

TheImperfect · January 2021

bluebird wrote: »

Those are Q1 homes, coming with the Dungeon DLC. We don't know what houses we'll get with the Blackwood Chapter...........
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Here are some pictures though if people missed the announcement:

That's a point, there will be more houses to come. Thanks for the pictures, it really helps.

StabbityDoom · January 2021

Zypheran wrote: »

Oh great... more ruined homes!

*sigh* agree

Aptonoth · January 2021

With Blackwood basically being an Argonian chapter I'm going to assume there will be two or three houses and one of them argonian. I'm definitely waiting until the next chapter before grabbing anything.

Araneae6537 · January 2021

I’m excited for anything and everything Ayleid!

moonsister · January 2021

are they accessible on PTS yet?

bluebird · January 2021

moonsister wrote: »

are they accessible on PTS yet?

PTS is still under maintenance. But they should be accessibly later today / early tomorrow, and the client is already downloaded with all the data, they just haven't brought the server back up yet.

Taris · January 2021

Excited for the Ayleid home. Waited for it long enough.

btw there is a datamining thread in GD: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/559384/6-3-0-datamine-flames-of-ambition-dlc-on-pts#latest

seems like lots of ayleid furniture is coming too!

bluebird · January 2021

Taris wrote: »

seems like lots of ayleid furniture is coming too!

Those are just 2 Ayleid furnishings that will be in the Ayleid Crown Crates for gems or gambling; and the special well that refills all your resources that they mentioned for parsing purposes, I expect it will be a Crown-exclusive like the Atro target dummy or the Vampire Well/Thrall pack. In Q1 patches they don't generally add new furnishing styles or much of anything except a few leftover writ voucher furnishing recipes maybe, so I wouldn't expect much Ayleid stuff tbh.

Taris · January 2021

Okay maybe i was a bit too excited when i saw it

But on the other hand why add a ayleid home but no furniture? The stuff is already in the game.

Aptonoth · January 2021

These are on the pts how come no video's about them yet? The daedric ruins are Sheogorath themed of all things so my idea to make it an ashlander home are bust. I'll have to keep waiting for a proper ashlander home or an azura house somewhere.

bluebird · January 2021

Aptonoth wrote: »

These are on the pts how come no video's about them yet?

The PTS maintenance was today; they brought the servers online literally 10 minutes ago

On that note, everyone: PTS is up now!

SDKTJ · January 2021

Is anyone else scared of the Ayleid home? I'm scared of the Ayleid home, 700 slots to decorate a house the size of a delve? Good luck with that.

bluebird · January 2021

SDKTJ wrote: »

Is anyone else scared of the Ayleid home? I'm scared of the Ayleid home, 700 slots to decorate a house the size of a delve? Good luck with that.

Depends what you want to do with it. The interior isn't that large, there is only a giant hall and a medium sized room, and a small side-room in the corridor on the first floor. Considering how chunky Ayleid furniture are, and how good a bunch of vines and statues would look there, I think you can decorate it well with a less crammed layout.

The outside area is mostly flooded or ruined beyond reasonable human use, so I think a natural garden with some pillars, statues, benches, and some plants would look best there. Of course, if you want to densely furnish every square meter of it, then yeah it's impossible. Still, I'm quite happy about the interior (only wish it was a more extensive indoors ruin like most Ayleid delves, rather than the huge openish chamber).

Syldras · January 2021

Aptonoth wrote: »

The daedric ruins are Sheogorath themed of all things so my idea to make it an ashlander home are bust.

That's a pity, really. Where are they located, by the way? On that island north of Vvardenfell?

bluebird · January 2021

Aptonoth wrote: »

The daedric ruins are Sheogorath themed of all things so my idea to make it an ashlander home are bust.

It isn't really Shaeogorath 'themed' as such. There is 1 Sheo statue furnishing that can be freely (re)moved. If anything, the red portals and volcanic area (since the house is inside Red Mountain) give more Boethia or Dagon vibes than Sheo.

I think this house was meant more as a Chimer house than Ashlander (for that, I would have expected a yurt here and there or one of those shell-houses). But there is enough area outside around the volcano that you can set up an Ashlander village with the Vvardenfell achievement furniture. You can also expand the buildable surface over the lava by adding boulders or platforms (the ancient Elsweyr stone platform is big enough and worn enough to be a decent match I think).

Also, you can actually walk on the hardened lava without incurring damage, and it's quite a large area there too. There is a lot of outside space even if you want to ignore the daedric structures. Could build something fun for sure. Here's a quick ashlander village mock-up (just quickly thrown together as an example with other races furnishings - obviously you'd want to use the ashlander yurts and boundary-totems and thrones and such, I just can't get those on NA character copies).

Syldras wrote: »

That's a pity, really. Where are they located, by the way? On that island north of Vvardenfell?

seecodenotgames · January 2021

Looks like there's plenty of building space. It's almost a shame I already built my evil lava submarine base in Bastion.

Aptonoth · January 2021

bluebird wrote: »

Aptonoth wrote: »

The daedric ruins are Sheogorath themed of all things so my idea to make it an ashlander home are bust.

It isn't really Shaeogorath 'themed' as such. There is 1 Sheo statue furnishing that can be freely (re)moved. If anything, the red portals and volcanic area (since the house is inside Red Mountain) give more Boethia or Dagon vibes than Sheo.

I think this house was meant more as a Chimer house than Ashlander (for that, I would have expected a yurt here and there or one of those shell-houses). But there is enough area outside around the volcano that you can set up an Ashlander village with the Vvardenfell achievement furniture. You can also expand the buildable surface over the lava by adding boulders or platforms (the ancient Elsweyr stone platform is big enough and worn enough to be a decent match I think).

Also, you can actually walk on the hardened lava without incurring damage, and it's quite a large area there too. There is a lot of outside space even if you want to ignore the daedric structures. Could build something fun for sure. Here's a quick ashlander village mock-up (just quickly thrown together as an example with other races furnishings - obviously you'd want to use the ashlander yurts and boundary-totems and thrones and such, I just can't get those on NA character copies).

Syldras wrote: »

That's a pity, really. Where are they located, by the way? On that island north of Vvardenfell?

I thought the statue was permanent in that case this looks way more promising now. I'm still not entirely sold on it as this style of deadric architecture isn't what I envision for an Azura themed or one of the "good" deadra. I'll consider it though.

Araneae6537 · January 2021

bluebird wrote: »

SDKTJ wrote: »

Is anyone else scared of the Ayleid home? I'm scared of the Ayleid home, 700 slots to decorate a house the size of a delve? Good luck with that.

Depends what you want to do with it. The interior isn't that large, there is only a giant hall and a medium sized room, and a small side-room in the corridor on the first floor. Considering how chunky Ayleid furniture are, and how good a bunch of vines and statues would look there, I think you can decorate it well with a less crammed layout.

The outside area is mostly flooded or ruined beyond reasonable human use, so I think a natural garden with some pillars, statues, benches, and some plants would look best there. Of course, if you want to densely furnish every square meter of it, then yeah it's impossible. Still, I'm quite happy about the interior (only wish it was a more extensive indoors ruin like most Ayleid delves, rather than the huge openish chamber).

I LOVE that main room — and the pools! I had been trying to make over Mathiisen Manor in Aylied fashion and getting frustrated with light passing through walls and floors so now I’ll just relocate everything to this more perfect location — when can I buy?

Aigym_Hlervu · January 2021

bluebird wrote: »

Aptonoth wrote: »

The daedric ruins are Sheogorath themed of all things so my idea to make it an ashlander home are bust.

It isn't really Shaeogorath 'themed' as such. There is 1 Sheo statue furnishing that can be freely (re)moved. If anything, the red portals and volcanic area (since the house is inside Red Mountain) give more Boethia or Dagon vibes than Sheo.

I think this house was meant more as a Chimer house than Ashlander (for that, I would have expected a yurt here and there or one of those shell-houses). But there is enough area outside around the volcano that you can set up an Ashlander village with the Vvardenfell achievement furniture. You can also expand the buildable surface over the lava by adding boulders or platforms (the ancient Elsweyr stone platform is big enough and worn enough to be a decent match I think).

Also, you can actually walk on the hardened lava without incurring damage, and it's quite a large area there too. There is a lot of outside space even if you want to ignore the daedric structures. Could build something fun for sure. Here's a quick ashlander village mock-up (just quickly thrown together as an example with other races furnishings - obviously you'd want to use the ashlander yurts and boundary-totems and thrones and such, I just can't get those on NA character copies).

Syldras wrote: »

That's a pity, really. Where are they located, by the way? On that island north of Vvardenfell?

What a familiar place that Kushalit Sanctuary is! If it is the place I'm thinking of, it can be a Sheogorath themed one, indeed, Bluebird. Assalkushalit, a Daedric shrine dedicated to Sheogorath and located on the northern slope of Red Mountain is a place of the Nerevarine's possible passage in 3E 427. The house will be located inside the Ghostfence in 741 years, below is it's picture from future. Does the Kushalit's interior somehow correspond to the one of the Assalkushalit's one?

SidraWillowsky · January 2021

Cygemai_Hlervu wrote: »

bluebird wrote: »

Aptonoth wrote: »

The daedric ruins are Sheogorath themed of all things so my idea to make it an ashlander home are bust.

It isn't really Shaeogorath 'themed' as such. There is 1 Sheo statue furnishing that can be freely (re)moved. If anything, the red portals and volcanic area (since the house is inside Red Mountain) give more Boethia or Dagon vibes than Sheo.

I think this house was meant more as a Chimer house than Ashlander (for that, I would have expected a yurt here and there or one of those shell-houses). But there is enough area outside around the volcano that you can set up an Ashlander village with the Vvardenfell achievement furniture. You can also expand the buildable surface over the lava by adding boulders or platforms (the ancient Elsweyr stone platform is big enough and worn enough to be a decent match I think).

Also, you can actually walk on the hardened lava without incurring damage, and it's quite a large area there too. There is a lot of outside space even if you want to ignore the daedric structures. Could build something fun for sure. Here's a quick ashlander village mock-up (just quickly thrown together as an example with other races furnishings - obviously you'd want to use the ashlander yurts and boundary-totems and thrones and such, I just can't get those on NA character copies).

Syldras wrote: »

That's a pity, really. Where are they located, by the way? On that island north of Vvardenfell?

What a familiar place that Kushalit Sanctuary is! If it is the place I'm thinking of, it can be a Sheogorath themed one, indeed, Bluebird. Assalkushalit, a Daedric shrine dedicated to Sheogorath and located on the northern slope of Red Mountain is a place of the Nerevarine's possible passage in 3E 427. The house will be located inside the Ghostfence in 741 years, below is it's picture from future. Does the Kushalit's interior somehow correspond to the one of the Assalkushalit's one?

Yes! I came here to mention that- this is the exact same structure as the Daedric shrines in TES III, though typically for the "bad" Daedra, with few exceptions.

bluebird · January 2021

Cygemai_Hlervu wrote: »

bluebird wrote: »

Aptonoth wrote: »

The daedric ruins are Sheogorath themed of all things so my idea to make it an ashlander home are bust.

It isn't really Shaeogorath 'themed' as such. There is 1 Sheo statue furnishing that can be freely (re)moved. If anything, the red portals and volcanic area (since the house is inside Red Mountain) give more Boethia or Dagon vibes than Sheo.

I think this house was meant more as a Chimer house than Ashlander (for that, I would have expected a yurt here and there or one of those shell-houses). But there is enough area outside around the volcano that you can set up an Ashlander village with the Vvardenfell achievement furniture. You can also expand the buildable surface over the lava by adding boulders or platforms (the ancient Elsweyr stone platform is big enough and worn enough to be a decent match I think).

Also, you can actually walk on the hardened lava without incurring damage, and it's quite a large area there too. There is a lot of outside space even if you want to ignore the daedric structures. Could build something fun for sure. Here's a quick ashlander village mock-up (just quickly thrown together as an example with other races furnishings - obviously you'd want to use the ashlander yurts and boundary-totems and thrones and such, I just can't get those on NA character copies).

Syldras wrote: »

That's a pity, really. Where are they located, by the way? On that island north of Vvardenfell?

What a familiar place that Kushalit Sanctuary is! If it is the place I'm thinking of, it can be a Sheogorath themed one, indeed, Bluebird. Assalkushalit, a Daedric shrine dedicated to Sheogorath and located on the northern slope of Red Mountain is a place of the Nerevarine's possible passage in 3E 427. The house will be located inside the Ghostfence in 741 years, below is it's picture from future. Does the Kushalit's interior somehow correspond to the one of the Assalkushalit's one?

Yes, the ingame lore description of the house specifically says: 'The recently abandoned Sheogorath shrine that locals call Assalkushalit features a statue to the Mad God within its stony hall. Whether you revere this Daedric Prince or want a home nestled in Red Mountain, this portal-ridden sanctuary can be yours!'

But apart from that 1 removable statue there is nothing Sheogorath-like about the place, if people don't want it to be. All Chimer ruins in ESO use the same models so it can be whatever people would want. People can just use the outside to build something custom as well, as the overland area is much larger than the interior.

Aigym_Hlervu · January 2021

Great "house", indeed. Thank you, @bluebird! Looking at the Vvardenfell global map you have attached, I also see they've additionally reconstructed something on the slopes - those two new foyadas and some new stronghold at the place you are there? It looks like to be Tureynulal, though it should be in a bit different location. Perhaps, some old ruins that won't make it to the Third Era. I only hope they won't reconstruct something else that has been existing there for years, and I'd prefer not to mention it here..