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ESO Homes: Black Vine Villa

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  • Member
    July 31, 2018

    I finished my Homestead project, thought I'd leave it here before starting another, not quite sure what that'll be yet. This is my attempt at converting Black Vine Villa into a chapel of Stendarr...

    But first, let me take a selfie:

    Hadlanter. Templar and Priest of Stendarr

    The garden as we walk in. With the confirmation that Tsun in Nordic myth is the Bear in their totemic religion, his brother Stuhn is the whale. The aquatic theme is like a nod to that.

    The other side of the garden is more humble and monastic, a vegetable patch and a trough for the Psijic Domino Pig.

    Nocturnal remains because it's pretty cool. I view it as something marking a victory. Also, it's sexy.

    The entrance to the chapel. I crafted that Orator statue there, stuck a candle in his hand to make him seem as if he's welcoming a visitor in.

    Books to read, mostly Altmeri or religious in theme. It's cool, once you complete a set of lore books found in the world, that set can be purchased from a mystic at Mages Guild Halls for about 5k gold.

    A small study by the fire.

    The shrine. Praise the ancestors, the Aedra.

    An Altmeri sarcophagus beneath hanging, Nordic banners. This is sort of a centre-piece and important to the character's backstory. As a priest of Stendarr, he spent many years in Skyrim while still an acolyte. There he met a Nord priestess of Kyne, fell in love. They were due to meet in Summerset once the boarders opened but, inspired partly by the bardic song "My Star-Eyed Bride of Alinor", she never made it. He becomes a Psijic Monk so as to gain powerful scrying magic in order to locate her. All he sees is her ship getting wrecked - which is the start of the Morrowind tutorial. His overarching story in my head is to find her, or her body, to be interred here.

    Golden fool helped get the stairs positioned nicely for access to the sleeping and eating area.

    Upstairs is a modest dining area. Hadlanter's diest is mostly fish, fruit, and veg. His favourite food is Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl, favourite drink is Markarth Mead. Volumes of The Song of Pelinal and Monomyth are dotted around.

    He sleeps alone until he finds his love. Unless she's dead, 'coz that would be too Dunmeri.

    A few Daedric volumes remind Hadley of his days with Valaste, Shalidor, and old Uncle Sheo.

    That's it, my little chapel of Stendarr in Malabal Tor.

    TYFR

  • July 31, 2018

    Looks cool. You have a cat and a pic and a ghost dog of some sort. I love your statue you made and the sword guy in the shrine who looks like he's challenging me to a game of wizard chess. Also, does your priest have a bedazzled beard? 

  • Member
    August 1, 2018
    Thank you Ilani :) Wizard chess is definitely what's going on now, ain't no turning back from that. Try not to lose, that sword looks painful! Yeah the ghost dog is a Psijic Wolf Exemplar, sort of an embodiment spirit of the collective lupine unconscious. "To gaze into the eyes of the Wolf Exemplar is to look into the eyes of every wolf back to the Dawn Era, when the tribes of mortals still huddled around their campfires at night, staring at the glowing eyes of the wolves prowling around the perimeters." As for the beard, a bedazzled one is new to me. Not heard that before. I guess hair dye is hard to come by so to get a bedazzled beard one must make do with shiny things :D
  • August 1, 2018
    Lol, back in the 80s in the US there was this thing called a bedazzler. The commercials were hysterical. But it basically added shiny metal beads to denim jackets. ;) https://www.google.com/amp/www.liketotally80s.com/2011/10/bedazzler/amp/
  • Member
    August 1, 2018

    I was looking for this discussion yesterday and wondered what happened. Glad to see the final version posted up. You really did an amazing job with this little spot. Visiting and seeing it in person is even cooler. Looking forward to seeing what you have in story next. :)

    PS- The laurel looks good on ya. 

     

  • Member
    August 1, 2018

    ilanisilver said: Lol, back in the 80s in the US there was this thing called a bedazzler. The commercials were hysterical. But it basically added shiny metal beads to denim jackets. ;) https://www.google.com/amp/www.liketotally80s.com/2011/10/bedazzler/amp/

    I see, with you now :D Bedazzling the shit out of everything is absolutely something we all should be doing. Has this made a comeback yet? If not, shame.

    Edana said:

    I was looking for this discussion yesterday and wondered what happened. Glad to see the final version posted up. You really did an amazing job with this little spot. Visiting and seeing it in person is even cooler. Looking forward to seeing what you have in story next. :)

    PS- The laurel looks good on ya. 

    Thank you Edana :) I'm not sure what's next, need to be inspired. Argonian things seem to keep cropping up in the oddest places, almost as though there is a collective gathering of momentum for Murkmire. Like, a few nights ago I watched a housing showcase and jumped to a random spot. It was a 'Gonian home in which someone had that waterfall in my pad, turned it sideways, and sort of buried it to make a small creek. It was really cool, very imaginative. Then there's that Ceremonial Drum which is a really cool little item. A few other things keep popping up in my periphery, and I don't believe in coincidences. So maybe Humblemud or the Ample Domicile.

    All that said, I'm eying the Imperial Edition and the Cyrodiilic Jungle House, another small house across the road from my own, or Domus Phrasticus which would be a step up from small to medium. Then there's Autumn's Gate, a nice little cottage for my Nord which would be fun to do.

    So yeah, tldr I'm not sure where to go from here so it'll be a surprise to me, too.

  • Member
    August 2, 2018

    Setting up that second floor was interesting, especially those two stones that just decided they didn't want to move... It's a good thing you were eventually able to convince them. And yes this comment is almost a day after I saw you'd put this back up :P

  • Member
    August 2, 2018

    Golden Fool said:

    Setting up that second floor was interesting, especially those two stones that just decided they didn't want to move... It's a good thing you were eventually able to convince them. And yes this comment is almost a day after I saw you'd put this back up :P

    Fun times! For a while I thought I'd be stock with those slabs floating there forever. Thanks again for the help :)