Good morning, Windhelm

At some point I really want to do some compare-and-contrast (or “then-and-now”) images of key locations in ESO and Skyrim or Oblivion. Windhelm would definitely be a great choice. Riften even more so—I’m pretty impressed with what they did there to kind of rewind time on that city, to ungrow it in a way and […]

Plato’s Republic of Tamriel

Thessaly illustrates the Allegory of the Cave.

If I were a Lich Queen this would be my lair

Looks pretty spooky eh? Did the lighting myself. Let me set the scene: The tendrils of mist glowed with an unearthly backlight on the terrifying but beautiful monster of undeath who glided, silently, from the crypt where she wandered in eternal wakefulness. Eldritch runes— One always has to use the word “eldritch” in stories like […]

By the light of a fairy ring

I was actually picking Nirnroot, but the camera swung around in just such a way and well it was a fortuitous screen grab. Ah, some more glowing plant life, this one from a ways back in the Crow’s Wood:

Horsie fall down go boom

Ok, the horse didn’t really fall down, at least not all the way. It’s just…leaning… However, nothing would do anything about the fact that I got myself stuck in that there crevasse, no Skyrim-style climbing and jumping and climbing out some more to scale high peaks etc.

I hate white rabbits, I hate white rabbits