Tel Galen coming July 7, but who else is still creeped out by it?

Holycannoli · June 2022

I was excited to see it was returning but then I remembered what it looks like: a giant exposed tumor. I've seen Dr. Pimple Popper remove things from people's bodies that look like this tower.

Anyone else creeped out by this tower? Inside is little better, with all this exposed fleshy tumor everywhere.

Now I'm debating whether I should get this and try to turn it into something acceptable-looking or wait for Highhallow Hold. I know it has mold on the walls but the architecture and setting are so beautiful, while Tel Galen looks like a massive cancerous lump of flesh but hearkens back to Morrowind and still retains that odd alien feel that that game had.

Vehlir · June 2022

Idk about creeped out but I was and still to a degree am heavily disappointed they went the route they did versus the Telvanni Architecture we seen in TES3. Which is so weird for me because I LOVED their architectural styles in all the other aspects of Vvardenfell, especially Vivec City which I thought was a massive improvement architecturally.

There's been a lot of attempted excuses to explain it over the years, the mage's not being talented enough yet, the craft not perfected yet etc etc but none of them really felt satisfying enough to make up for the fact that we could have gotten one of the most unique, beautiful, iconic architectures in all of TES and instead got something that is far inferior in my opinion.

They feel less like a mastercrafted amalgamation of magic mastery & fungal beauty and more like a regular stone tower that got randomly overgrown by a combination of mushrooms & flesh atronach body pieces.

The differences in quality were night & day in my opinion:

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RaddlemanNumber7 · June 2022

Still creeped out.

seecodenotgames · June 2022

I blocked it off and built a village over the water at the back.

katanagirl1 · July 2022

I too am freaked out by it, if it wasn’t flesh colored it might be better.

Also you pay top Crown price (unless it’s really on sale, didn’t notice) for such little usable space inside. That’s almost an equally bad turn-off.

SkaraMinoc · July 2022

Not sure what the fascination is with this house. It's one of the most disgusting houses in the game.

Holycannoli · July 2022

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

Not sure what the fascination is with this house. It's one of the most disgusting houses in the game.

It really is. it's such a shame. The mushroom towers in TES III were magical oddities but in ESO they're disgusting fleshy growths.

Aelorin · July 2022

@Vehlir

The Bosmer homes look more like the Telvanni ones from Morrowind, I tried to make a sort of Telvanni Tower from Bouldertree Refuge, allways welcome to take a look on PC-EU.

But I couldn't resist to buy Tel Galen either. Somehow it fits my Necromancer

TaSheen · July 2022

It's - rather obscene - I find.... I would never waste money on it. This is not how I envision a huge mushroom at all.

maximusrex45 · July 2022

The mushroominess of it doesn't bother me as much as it is overly filled with mushroom leaving too little interior floor space.

I think people are fascinated by it because of a total lack of interesting mage tower homes for players.

fizzylu · July 2022

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I too am freaked out by it, if it wasn’t flesh colored it might be better.

Holycannoli wrote: »

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

Not sure what the fascination is with this house. It's one of the most disgusting houses in the game.

It really is. it's such a shame. The mushroom towers in TES III were magical oddities but in ESO they're disgusting fleshy growths.

THIS. I probably would have loved Tel Galen if it was a nice blue shade or something on the mushroom bits.... but nope

Hotdog_23 · July 2022

Agree with everyone to ugly to buy.

Stay safe

SianTamzin · July 2022

Not my cup of tea, tbh, but I don't get the horror it evokes in some people.

DarcyMardin · July 2022

I hate it, too. It’s one of the few pieces of artwork in ESO that I haven’t loved.

LadyHeloise · July 2022

It's ugly and too fleshy - urgh.

Katheriah · July 2022

It's crrreeeppy. If I would be better at building in TESO, I would build my own mage tower. Some people make really inspiring towers.

Lugaldu · July 2022

I find this brain or tumor like thing pretty disgusting too, but my love managed to make a cozy place out of it. But I wouldn't buy it myself.

Syldras · July 2022

It's weird from the outside, but with the right lighting the interior looks more like rootwood than anything else.

WraithCaller88 · July 2022

Vehlir wrote: »

Idk about creeped out but I was and still to a degree am heavily disappointed they went the route they did versus the Telvanni Architecture we seen in TES3. Which is so weird for me because I LOVED their architectural styles in all the other aspects of Vvardenfell, especially Vivec City which I thought was a massive improvement architecturally.

There's been a lot of attempted excuses to explain it over the years, the mage's not being talented enough yet, the craft not perfected yet etc etc but none of them really felt satisfying enough to make up for the fact that we could have gotten one of the most unique, beautiful, iconic architectures in all of TES and instead got something that is far inferior in my opinion.
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Aelorin wrote: »

@Vehlir

The Bosmer homes look more like the Telvanni ones from Morrowind

That's why Telvanni mushrooms look the way they do; ZOS gave their aesthetic to the Bosmer, so they had to come up with something new.

Honestly, if they had just went with a more brown/grey color palette rather than pink, it wouldn't be an issue at all. Though I'll also say I've seen a few pictures of fungus & mushrooms that look frighteningly like human flesh, so... they weren't totally off-base here.

HappyTheCamper · July 2022

Also worth considering we may be headed to the Telvanni peninsula in the next year or so, based on some dialogue at the end of the High Isle main quest.

Vehlir · July 2022

HappyTheCamper wrote: »

Also worth considering we may be headed to the Telvanni peninsula in the next year or so, based on some dialogue at the end of the High Isle main quest.

Yeah I've had my eye on this as well. Not even speaking on the architecture, it's by far one of my most anticipated areas to see! Super hyped for that one day, hopefully it is coming next year!

However speaking on the architecture, hopefully it comes with some improved Telvanni architecture. Could make sense lore-wise, the more advanced of the Telvanni having better mastered the art of it.

WraithCaller88 · July 2022

Vehlir wrote: »

HappyTheCamper wrote: »

Also worth considering we may be headed to the Telvanni peninsula in the next year or so, based on some dialogue at the end of the High Isle main quest.

Yeah I've had my eye on this as well. Not even speaking on the architecture, it's by far one of my most anticipated areas to see! Super hyped for that one day, hopefully it is coming next year!

However speaking on the architecture, hopefully it comes with some improved Telvanni architecture. Could make sense lore-wise, the more advanced of the Telvanni having better mastered the art of it.

I am READY for the Telvanni Peninsula Chapter with Port Telvanis & Firewatch, new Telvanni manor home, ancestral Telvanni motif, new Telvanni furnishings, Telvanni-themed antiquities, Telvanni crates with new Telvanni cosmetics, and Telvanni-themed mounts.