The TES thread

I liked it. It's better than Dawnguard, but still very illogical. At one point an ash yam seller tells your that "growing food in the ashlands is difficult and requires patience and the right ingredients", and yet you find ash yams growing everywhere in Solstheim. It is said that the island was used as refuge for the Morrowindians after the eruption of the Red Mountain and the Argonian invasion, and yet we find no evidence of settlements round the island. Apparently Ald'Ruhm, Balmora, the East Coast etc were destroyed and the people migrated, but Solstheim is still underpopulated. It is commented repeatedly that Skall culture is dying and must the studied, but nothing is mentioned about the Ashlanders of Vvardenfell. So, many holes and inconsistencies.


They are clearly using the Morrowind feel to seduce players, but there's no real Morrowind there. Apart from brief quotations, easter eggs and very few similar items, there is no true revival. Perhaps it's the ash demons/whatever and tentacled monsters that ruin it, perhaps it's the feeling, just like in Skyrim, that the province is dead and ruined.

But some things are interesting. You do feel an outlander there. Everything is slightly weird and foreign. But that is only superficial. I haven't found daedric scripts yet, and the temple is very weak and doesn't scared me anymore. There is also no Hlaalu architecture.

And the Dunmer speak some sort of Australian or Irish English. So instead of having rasping voices, earned after breathing so much sand and ash, they speak with a clear and seducing Game of Thrones-y accent.


That said, the main quest seems interesting enough. So far it has been quite creative and has added a lot to the lore. I doubt that I will be able to destroy the world, even if lorewise my character could.