Dwemer in the desert

I said this before when I was here in beta with my cute-as-a-button Orc Nightblade, Delirium-who-was-Delight: I’m loving the unexpected combo of Dwemer ruins with the North African landscape and architecture. About as far as you could get from the way the Dwarven Steampunk aesthetic interfaces with the Nordic environs of Skyrim, but I think both are […]

Thy fearful Symmetry, level 5 Templar

We kind of hate the jack (torso armor) but it’s significantly better than anything else we have. Digging the two-handed greatsword, though.

Tamriel’s answer to Morocco

Yes, back in Stros M’Kai to do the starter islands to completeness this time. Though in terms of the Northern Africa references, I am curious to see how this little island is similar to, or different from, the Alik’r Desert, when we get there. Posing for a picture by our favorite giant statue: Runnning. Galloping. Running […]

Daggerfall City, and our first game post-beta

I really appreciate the traditional British Isles / Northern Europe flavor of Glenumbra at least (and I kind of assume, all of High Rock?); there’s just such a range of styles they’ve deployed in this game, to really make each country, race, and alliance feel unique and specific. We had a bit of a shock […]

Our pleasure to introduce Thy fearful Symmetry, Khajiit Templar

So through a series of accidents and overcompensations, we ended up with an extra copy of the Mac/PC Imperial Edition of ESO, and after a small amount of pondering (very small, to be honest) we decided “Ah, fuck it” and we’re playing ESO now on my MacBook Pro, until the PS4 version comes out at […]

3rd beta: Delirium-who-was-Delight resurfaces

We were having a ton of fun in the AD, and playing Vladimir Estragon the Dragonknight was a lovely thing; but it was also still a beta test and it was beaching clear that an increasing number of quests were buggy and impeding progress. (For what’s it’s worth, a bit of reading on the internets […]

Everybody Wang Chung tonight

Out of the mist

It’s like the Flying Dutchman made a wrong turn at Brigadoon and ended up in Tamriel.

Flirting (again) with Dark Anchors

We still haven’t really figured out what the deal is with them, when the become active or what triggers them. Maybe we aren;t high enough level? Maybe it’s not turned on in the beta (though I’m pretty sure that’s NOT true)? But anyway, we still feel a little frisson whenever we start poking around one, as if […]

Dead guy.

This is the kind of detailing and productive mystification that has always been part of what makes the worlds of Tamriel feel alive and like the have an existence beyond the game. Just a body lying in the path on a side of a mountain near one of the Dark Anchors. A mage’s staff by […]