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Gonfalon Bay Statue (Don't click if you haven't done High Isle's Questline)

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Can we please fix this already? It looks awful and no breton ever would be willing to leave it like that.
  • Treeshka
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    They can add a quest that requires you to do certain things so it gets repaired after you complete it.
  • BenTSG
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    It would be nice if they added little optional 'quests' to repair damage caused to something during a quest or questline. Some sort of sink could be cool. Donate X amount of materials, or gold, and it'll repair whatever and set it back to how it should be. Or it could just be a big standard quest of "Go here, fetch X items that have been stolen/is needed, return", though personally I'd like a sink of sorts for it
  • Seraphayel
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    This thing will never get restored unfortunately. Breaking it down made sense for the storyline, but I absolutely hate its demolished state. It was such a cool vista in the distance and now it's this mess.
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  • Maitsukas
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    It's not something that can be done overnight in a medieval fantasy world. Same thing applies to the Vastyr Cathedral, Tower of the Wolf (in Solitude) and Vivec City.
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  • FrancisCrawford
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    Seraphayel wrote: »
    This thing will never get restored unfortunately. Breaking it down made sense for the storyline, but I absolutely hate its demolished state. It was such a cool vista in the distance and now it's this mess.

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  • Arcturus
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    Maitsukas wrote: »
    It's not something that can be done overnight in a medieval fantasy world. Same thing applies to the Vastyr Cathedral, Tower of the Wolf (in Solitude) and Vivec City.

    It's been years and my character could fix it with a single magicky lift of his fingers, I mean come on.

    We're in a universe where a single mage can build a city with magic and the more powerful ones can literally own their private pockets of Oblivion. Fixing a statue is not an issue.
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    I'm glad I read a forum post about this some weeks back, because I am not going to do the High Isle questline if I have to stare at this view every time I'm in Gonfalon Bay.

    Until they add an epilogue quest about repairing the statue, I have no intention of getting far enough in the main questline where it's destroyed.
  • Seraphayel
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    Anumaril wrote: »
    I'm glad I read a forum post about this some weeks back, because I am not going to do the High Isle questline if I have to stare at this view every time I'm in Gonfalon Bay.

    Until they add an epilogue quest about repairing the statue, I have no intention of getting far enough in the main questline where it's destroyed.

    I mean... you don't miss anything interesting by not doing the High Isle main story. I did it some weeks ago and it was pretty terrible (although I really love Arabelle).
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  • KiltMaster
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    I agree it would be so cool to have quests to fix things. We usually 'save the world!' and leave. I'd love to be able to have the option to stay and help rebuild sometimes :)
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  • cyclonus11
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    I would like to be able to go back and fix things as well. Too many things are left broken.

    LET US RETAKE BLEAKROCK ISLE!!
  • katanagirl1
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    I would have liked for it to be repaired somehow during the quest, and it bothered me for a while. I rarely go to the zone any more so it’s not a big deal for me now.
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  • vincentxavier
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    cyclonus11 wrote: »
    I would like to be able to go back and fix things as well. Too many things are left broken.

    LET US RETAKE BLEAKROCK ISLE!!

    I was about to type the same thing. I really liked that town and now it's totally messed up. #restore Bleakrock.
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  • Alphawolf01A
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    I think something may have been planned at one time. I've noticed that after I completed the story, a scaffold can sometimes be seen around the statue, like it's being repaired, but the scaffold disappears when you get closer.
  • TheNuminous1
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    Maitsukas wrote: »
    It's not something that can be done overnight in a medieval fantasy world. Same thing applies to the Vastyr Cathedral, Tower of the Wolf (in Solitude) and Vivec City.

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  • OgrimTitan
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    Statue of Bendu Olo destruction was so far one of the most shocking deaths in the pretty big game. 3 cute little islands in the boundless ocean guarded by a rising giant had a cozy feel about it. It made High Isle quite iconic in it's look - quite an achievement.

    Destroying it was kind of a shooting yourself in a leg in terms of worldbuilding

    The story or a narrative of the Legacy of the Bretons won't really be diminished by statue's restoration, what should be the main concern here. It's not that relevant to a plot.

    How I see it: on the Legacy of the Bretons anniversary event we can hire the craft-mages, mage-artisans and stone carvers to restore a statue. Plain and simple, but already more impactful and memorable than a typical anniversary event.
  • Mik195
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    OgrimTitan wrote: »
    Statue of Bendu Olo destruction was so far one of the most shocking deaths in the pretty big game. 3 cute little islands in the boundless ocean guarded by a rising giant had a cozy feel about it. It made High Isle quite iconic in it's look - quite an achievement.

    Destroying it was kind of a shooting yourself in a leg in terms of worldbuilding

    The story or a narrative of the Legacy of the Bretons won't really be diminished by statue's restoration, what should be the main concern here. It's not that relevant to a plot.

    How I see it: on the Legacy of the Bretons anniversary event we can hire the craft-mages, mage-artisans and stone carvers to restore a statue. Plain and simple, but already more impactful and memorable than a typical anniversary event.

    That would be nice. Doesn't the game already have something similar with rebuilding Orsinium? Haven't been there in a while, but thought the more money you donated, the further the building progressed.
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    It makes me sad and I never want to complete the questline on any other toon (granted, the story itself warrants never touching that line ever again)
  • jle30303
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    Thing is, Bretons probably do want to repair it, but building or rebuilding a statue that size is going to take YEARS. And a pile of money that, right now, Houses Dufort and Mornard even between them (as the two senior houses in the Systres) don't have, and are going to have to save up for.

    So, rest assured, it WILL be rebuilt... unlike, for instance, its real-world equivalent, the Colossus of Rhodes, which was destroyed in an earthquake and its remains lay there for 800 years, following an oracular warning not to rebuild it because it was an offence to Helios (and the fact that Rhodes regularly suffered earthquakes sufficient to topple a statue of that size, its design being sufficiently unstable that it could only have existed for longer in a truly stable tectonic region.) Eventually, following an Arabic naval conquest of Rhodes, such stone and bronze as remained from its construction - basically, its legs up as far as the knees - was apparently eventually sold to a merchant from Edesa, and it took 900 camels to carry it all away.
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    A few years ago there was an event in which the more dragons people killed, the more money ZOS would donate to a cat-related charity (up to a limit). Devs could set up something similar involving volcanic vents, with the bonus that the statue gets repaired a bit everytime a milestone is reached.
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  • TaSheen
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    A few years ago there was an event in which the more dragons people killed, the more money ZOS would donate to a cat-related charity (up to a limit). Devs could set up something similar involving volcanic vents, with the bonus that the statue gets repaired a bit everytime a milestone is reached.

    Oh, I LIKE that idea! Let's do it ZOS!
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  • Zyva
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    I really wish there was a way to fix the statue.
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