First Look at Province: Cyrodiil (a Morrowind fan-expansion)
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Let's bring Oblivion to Morrowind! Exotic cultures! Social conflict! Ancient elven ruins! Ghosts with swords! Fake mermaids! There is a bunch of stuff for us to discover on the island of Stirk. Support the channel: / warlockracy
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"Later this year" funniest joke in the video
I want 2 believe.
@@Warlockracy One thing I wanted to mention was that your complaint about Ayleid ruins is addressed by the ones in the Anvil release. Catacombs, dining halls, houses, King rooms.
In 2121
Yeah I chuckled at that. This does make me want to explore Stirk when I start my Kung Fu character; from an old American TV show, unarmed and searching the world for enlightenment.
@SACarrow Ah... yes, Grasshopper. Excellent idea!
One of the reasons why Cyrodiil felt so bland in Oblivion was because Bethesda didn’t have a dedicated concept artist. Kirkbride sort of filled that role in Morrowind, his sketches are amazing. It was only during Shirvering Isles that Adam Adamowicz joined the team and my god, that guy was a MACHINE! One of the best concept artists ever, you can see how he gave the following games a very unique look.
Shivering Isles fucking owned.
Shivering Isles is the only part of Oblivion I can actually remember. Definitely the best thing and part of Oblivion.
Most issues with Bethesda past Morrowind were due to yeeting the entire roster and assembling a new one every time they started working on a new game.
Yep His work on Skyrim is superb as well.
@@mrdoormat6809 Yeah, for all its faults, Skyrim has some of the best concept art I've ever seen.
I love the building design, very much more "Mediterranean" to match the Empires Roman aesthetic.
Actually somewhat similar to the Anvil style from Oblivion. Which makes sense, as Stirk is just off the Gold Coast and close to Anvil.
Yeah the shot of the bay at Stirk in the intro was legit breathtaking, this team had such an eye for detail
I feel like they should've made Oblivion in High Rock, at least then, the more medieval aesthetic could've stayed the same there and they could've saved Cyrodiil for a much later game where we get to see a more Mediterranean/Greco-Roman Cyrodiil (the one described in previous lore before the release of Oblivion).
Ah but did you know that in Morrowind there are 2 books that describe the province of cyrodiil one describes it as the very roman inspired Mediterranean style nation we all expected but there is another that describes it as having lush rolling hills like england. Both books contradict each other by design as this gives Bethesda an easy out should they ever feel the need to change lore they can just use the unreliable narrator trope. They do this a lot in fact if you look at any in universe lore in a given game be it in book form it told to you by a character odds are you will find another source in that game that contradicts it on some way. Its a lazy writing trope that most writers claim give a world a sense of realism but usually means they couldn't settle down on an idea and so just said fuck it and did both.
@@exilestudios9546 Yeah, but it still seemed to emphasize heavily on the notion of a Mediterranean province as opposed to one more like Western France or Britain (which is obviously what we get with the Bretons in Highrock from TES II: Daggerfall). My last name (Ashford) is even a farm that you can go to in TES II. Each individual province in the Elder Scrolls Series is unique in its own way and is either based off of a certain landscape with peoples based off of a multitude of cultures from our world. So it would be out of character for Bethesda to make a landscape similar to that of previous games. That being said however, I don't expect 100% consistency and I understand why the change was made during the time. Long story short, all I'm saying is that it would be pretty damn cool to see this version of Cyrodill.
The sort of Medieval thing would have made sense in the Colovian west, where Nordic culture is more prominent, but Oblivion just didn't do anything with the Colovian/Nibenese divide
Would've liked to see more diversity in the Imperial people of Cyrodiil, there isn't much to set the Colovians and Nibenese apart except for their names, and only a handful Imperials look like brown Mediterranean Europeans while the majority of them just look like white Europeans, if it wasn't for the different voices and heights they'd be indistinguishable from Nords and Bretons. Plus it would've been cool to see some Asian-looking Imperials because of the Akaviri potentate and the intermarriages between Akaviri and Early Nedes/Cyrods and how it further builds upon Cyrodiil being the diverse melting pot of Tamriel, they should at least be somewhere throughout the cities, considering how the Blades try to stick so rigidly to Akaviri architecture and aesthetics.
Its explained in Commentaries of the Mysterium Xarxes why Cyrodils jungles disappeared
As a former founding member of the Province: Cyrodiil Team, I recall I'm probably the one that came up with the idea for the alchemist with the "Dwemer Greenhouse". My original idea involved him using a miniaturized version of the Weather Machine from Tribunal to simulate environments from various regions of Tamriel with the goal of creating the ultimate alchemical garden. The idea would be to somehow integrate other Project Tamriel mods in a mega-quest to gather ingredients across Tamriel to add to his garden. Probably a bit too ambitious (and tricky to implement dependency-wise) so it's just as well they scaled it down. I'm also responsible for designing the Province: Cyrodiil logo which is something I'm particularly proud of.
Incredibly happy to see founding member of one of my favourite modding projects! Stirk in its current form is incredible, I hope you will feel proud and happy when Anvil release drops this year, seeing how beautiful it is too
@tom_stephen WE NEED ANVIL
@@Warlockracy I just repeat "later this year" to myself over and over as the years progress.
10:49 Ok, so I have an answer to this. They're necropolises. We see this IRL with many ancient cities. When a city is abandoned and not rebuilt, almost nothing remains of the above-ground structures, while the underground necropolises often survive mostly intact. This is because above-ground structures are exposed to weather, looting, and natural decay. And also because most ancient buildings were made of wood and clay, not solid stone. Even when stone structures were present, people often tore them down to reuse the stone in new buildings. This is what famously happened to many Roman ruins during the middle ages. This is also why Saarthal in Skyrim is just a giant crypt, because all that remains of the ancient city is the underground necropolis, while the above-ground city has long since been destroyed and torn down. And conversely this is also why Dwemer ruins are full of living spaces with bedrooms, kitchens, etc. Because the Dwemer built entirely underground, so their cities were protected from the weather and from extensive looting.
Holy shit that makes so much sense I always wondered why saarthal was not only just a crypt, but also why the hell Nords would live underground
I love warlock's appreciation for world building and dedication to roleplaying. I bet he'd be amazing at D&D, both as DM or a player
A dark elf calling you and outlander in an island they don't own is just fckd up
Still more lore friendly than their voices in Oblivion. Bleurgh.
@@TrollDragomir I personally like the idea that their voices are different because of their living conditions, I just wish that some of the Dunmer in Oblivion had the voice of a man that smoked 50 packs a day, so you could easily tell which one was raised in which province instead of having all the Dunmer sounding the same.
Nwah
@@lamedrawings ikr, Dark elves in Vvardenfell sounds like heavy smokers because of all the ashes from Red Mountain
Maybe they're acknowledging that they're also Outlander and using it as a term of camaraderie, like "What's good, my n'wah?"
Oh hey Cyrodiil is finally set as a jungle biome!
Since when is the Mediterranean considered a jungle because ya know that's the vibe Bethesda originally wanted for cyrodiil since it's a roman inspired nation.
@@exilestudios9546 Have you...even looked the original lore of the place? ya know, their "Rome but in jungle swamps with canals and gondolas" idea?
@@exilestudios9546 bro it was a jungle before talos transformed it into plains with his god powers
@@juwebles4352 that was retconned in ESO, Talos wasn't a god at that time but cyrodill is still a generic looking european temperate forest
@@arturnicaciodeandrade9861 Never played Eso But wouldn't put it past bethesda to play so fast and loose with their established lore
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@@Warlockracy we all know you follow famous neo-Nazis like Thought Slime and HBomberguy.
@@jlaw131985 Internazis, Nazis, whichever.
Those birds gave me a heart attack for a second; looked like cliff-racers.
Later this year... Later this year... Later this year...
This is really cool, like a comedic documentary almost. really awesome stuff. Also I died at cliff racer ghosts.
Thanks!
19:10 it would make sense that they don't have prejudice among khajiits since their differences aren't genetic. As far as I know, the diference in the type of Kahjiit depends only on wich moons alignment you are born
Uh oh, astrology x100. This would have a whole different rabbithole of repercussions to a society
@@plushie946 People would have control over which one their children are born as. I'd expect it to be seen as fashionable to be one type, rather than any kind of prejudice.
As someone who looked into Khajiit breeds/subraces/whatever a few years ago, I recall this aswell. It's entirely determined by the moons, and some are house/giant cats. Not sure if they time their births, though.
Oblivion was a good game but its depiction of Cyrodiil _really_ gives off the vibe of the writers not being confident enough in their own lore and worldbuilding and thinking they had to make a generic fantasy in order to sell copies. Skyrim has a similar issue though to a lesser extent. They really did the reachmen dirty in Skyrim.
I saw this comment but honestly, this channel is a real hidden gem. Nothing makes me wanna play morrowind more than your videos.
Than you!
I installed it aswell after tamirel rebuilt video xd
With the clean haunted crypts, I've had this theory since Oblivion that the ghosts don't attack proper clergy.
This is really cool. Glad to see the modders taking the lore and running with it. Choosing a small out of the way place is an excellent choice for a choice for a community project
it's interesting what lore they're running with, too. a tropical climate is going to be used for mainland cyrodiil too, because they're following the lore as of morrowind, not in oblivion, so cyrodiil is gonna be a jungle, not a generic fantasy setting. they're making all of the provinces of tamriel the way they were imagined back then, irrespective of how they developed in later games, which i think is extremely cool
10:23 “Redguard Fargoth”
Redgoth. Farguard?
It seems they put a lot more care and detail into this than Oblivion did to cyrodiil
You are not wrong!
Never forget: Bethesda is a commercial company. With time pressure, release pressure, and limited finances. Modders are hobbyists and can take 20 years for a mod if they wish to. Of course the result will differ.
@@AFCAWorldBodybuildingArchive lie
@@AFCAWorldBodybuildingArchive so were is elder scrolls 6?
limited finances? are you a moron?
"SHUT THE FUCK UP LUCIUS. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY ROOM." I don't know why that slayed me so hard.
Having put 20 years into Elder Scrolls in various formats including Skywind itself, I am really, really happy to see a channel like this exploring GREAT Morrowind craftsmanship in mods, with good personality, video editing, and flavour. I think I'll subscribe! I know this video is kind of old now, but I'm here, and that's what matters. Cheers mate
PS: I may have watched one of your videos on Karthwasten already, I am not sure though.
So I guess fans are kinda like looking to make all the Elder Scrolls games connected... in every generation of the Elder Scrolls since Morrowind. XD Super cool. I'd never have the patience to do this. Thanks to all the devs that have this patience.
End of the Video... Lucien: "I hope we will meet again soon." Computer crashes... "Ok... that was unnessesary Lucien!"
Your computer had a contract
The Aelyid ruin on Stirk is a fun dungeon but of course I fail to see how even the most talented mod team can make Aelyid ruins look like they were dwellings or fortresses. But the one on Stirk is fun to explore all the same. NPC pathing AI is indeed much better in OpenMW these days FYI, since you referenced that in your SHOtN video.
I know ESO basically handwaved the Ayleid thing by saying that most of the ruins were never actually settlements but more like stargates for the ayleids magic subspace travel system
Tbh I'm of two minds. On one hand, a functional ayleid ruin would be incredible, but on the other hand, I think they should lean into the necropolis idea. Walls of skulls, catacombs with skeletons posed as art, etc. The Ayleid were freaky daedra worshippers, so their burial culture should reflect this. For example, something I've been working with in various fanfiction works was the idea of a necrotic family history. Every family has a tomb, or poorer ones a place in a public tomb, where the skeletons of their ancestors are displayed in a position which most reflected their life. So a carpenter would be posed with a saw made of bone, a warrior with a spear and shield, both also made of bone. The bones used for props and such are taken from their enemies. Every crypt should feel like a museum or a history lesson.
The hired muscle should unionize too, not like the nobles could do anything if the enforcers don't cooperate
You are like the civvie-11 for Morrowind content
Thanks!!
High compliment, and I agree.
This feels like watching the History Channel from a better dimension. "Today, on 'Awesome Anthropology'..."
Usually when meshes dissapear when you come close to them it has to do with the Morrowind Optimisation Patch. Reinstall it without the MGE XE and regenerate distant land afterwards and it is probably solved. Sometimes you also need to rearrange which esp you include in the distant land generation of the mod that is giving you the disappearance issue but most of the times that's not needed
I Find your love for the TES universe... refresching. Takes me back to beeing a teen and overthinking why the hell in the german version of Morrowind the gold is called "Draken".
This is awesome. I can't wait to explore the Imperial City in its lore friendly glory. :)
Hell yes. The akvenfture continues.
Great video. The book and dialogue typos made my cheek twitch but Stirk is almost too pretty. Anvil is going to be incredible.
11:00 in ESO a few quests say that the Ayleid's mainly lived in a few cities in the mortal plane that have since been built over (like the imperial city) and in a massive network of pocket dimensions. The ruins functioned as gates into and out of these pocket dimensions
I love that your videos are not definitive places for answers. You ask what we think, say that you don’t know, or admit you don’t remember. Kind of funny since you obviously can look it up, but the human ambiguity of knowing, not knowing and forgetting gives your writing a unique quality that is refreshing… over the know-it-all video essayists.
The long awaited second episode of Neon Genesis Kvenfmarion (or mayhaps Kvenfangelion?). The hype is real!
My skooma drinking blades master better be in this after hé gets called from morrowind
Hey man, just wanted to say that its a pleasure to be able to watch some of these first videos of yours and be among your first few hundred subs, you will totally blow up soon or someday man, your voice is epic, and the way you structure your vides very entertaining. Keep it up Swaglord. :D
Here before this channel gets huge.
Another great video. Really looking forward to TR one. They are called Varla Stones.
Unionziation, truly great, think I'm subbing already
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Your videos are really well made, I enjoy watching them. Keep up the good work!
Thank you
Your channel seems to be one of the hidden gems of youtube! I just subscribed my good man 👍🏼
I love so much the atmosphere of your Morrowind videos that I watch them again and again regularly ! Great work man ! I wish you could do more of these, even if you have basically covered most of the game content.
That series is not over!
The divine algorithm has brought me to this video, and truly blessed do I feel. Keep up the quality work, I know more of us are sure to come!
A refreshing take on the mod review format. Keep it up, my man!
love your style of presentation bro - new sub!
Your channel is CRIMINALLY underrated. You have another new subscriber keep up the good work sir!
Thank u!!
Your channel is great! Can't wait to see what else you do! Just like the skyrim mod for morrowind, this looks and sounds awesome.
This is seriously one of the most impressive looking Morrowind mods! Very nice job! Would love to one day play it :). Hell in general I need to return again to Morrowind, I have it installed but I haven't played in a while hehe. It's great that this mod is so full of TES lore.
Looks like I found something hidden and beautiful. Awesome
Thanks for the video! I didn't even know people were still doing mods like this for Morrowind. I'll have to load up the game again and have another run at it.
Been meaning to get into morrowind for the longest time. This video series just might push me to actually do it lmao.
love your narration btw!
These Elder scrolls mod reviews are great dude, thank you!
Very in-depth video for a first look!
I love big mods like this that are like entirely new games. Morrowind is my favorite game of all time so this will be fun to explore.
Another amazing video 😍
Immediately subbed love your videos
Wow! Amazing quality for a Morrowind mod. The town reminds me of Harbour Town from Risen.
i could not for the life of me find any potatoes for the lighthouse keeper
They are sold in town, but I ended up stealing them from the grain silo (potato silo).
If the Imperial City ever gets introduced, it'd be amazing if Caius Cosades appeared there after leaving Vvardenfell
Interesting fact, he didn't go to the Imperial City (it was a deception).
It'll be very awkward if you didn't finish the main quest
I love your videos. Although I play Skyrim on my channel, TES3 is my homeland. Will be watching your videos attentively. - Merlin
Wow... The artstyle and general presentation is legitimately significantly better than what we got in TES4. Cyrodil is an interesting, compelling location. Instead of whatever the f*** Oblivion was.
Cyrodiil in oblivion was great fun, not sure what your problem is.
@@MonstertruckBadass It's not the jungle biome as mentioned in lore books and Bethesda fans reeee over lore inconsistencies even though ES itself has tonnes of lore justifying inconsistencies. Also, BTW, I beleive Tiber Septim transformed Cyrodil from a jungle to a fertile Mediterranean climate.
@@triplehmafia6556 I've always thought Mediterranean Cyrodiil made more sense anyway since it's meant to be the center province Jungle Cyrodiil is an interesting concept on paper, but I think a more mild environment thinks the heart of tamriel much more
@@MonstertruckBadass It was dull generic and a massive downgrade from Morrowind in most ways... It was proto-skyrim and and benefits *greatly* from it being a lot of peoples first open world RPG and Bethesda game... Just because it popped one's cherry, doesn't mean it was amazing. Though it wasn't awful either. A real 5 or 6/10.
Great content, instant sub
The Lamia you killed is actually is different species of Argonian, but that's only according to the game that came after TES3. Argonians now work a little bit like Khajiit in having side/sub-species instead of sub-races, you have Human, Naga, Lamia, Behemoth, and alot more unnamed like the kind you can play in Morrowind... This is why you can't wear boots as in Argonian like in the other games, since you're not the same species anymore. The Hist probably mixed the ancestor lizard with the now extinct fox race of Blackmarsh instead of Humans to make them.
Lamia aren't argonians. That's just straight up wrong.
i don’t think any of that is true
Amazing how confident people can be talking about things that literally aren't true.
Wow, what a BEAUTIFUL mod!!!!
I laughed pretty hard when that ghost drew his blade and tried to shank your ass! :D (7:26) Reaction to the ghost drawing his shank = priceless
It looks gorgeous!
I have waited for this mod since the first days of Morrowind, and now 3 major games later, it's finally a reality.
If you end up doing a tamriel rebuilt video, I really recommend the temple questline. It's really long but has some of the coolest quests I've seen in morrowind.
I’ll probably end up doing the Company, FG, MG and much much later House Telvanni quest lines. Heard many good things about their Temple quests, but joining a dunmer religious instruction would not be fitting for a nord merc.
Hi
Looks like Kven found his potential retirement home.
YES
Reminds me of ESO for some reason. Pretty sure Stirk is in ESO.
I dont think stirk is but Stros M'kai is and the Gold Coast is, and both look similar to this mod
@@bluexephosfan970 I just checked and Stirk is a location in ESO. This mod looks a ton like the ESO version.
Cool! Subscribed for more Morrowind!
Have you a modlist or something like that for us ? I'm impressed how your game looks. Stay very vanilla friendly but everything upscaled.
Glow in the Dahrk, Remiros' Groundcover, Animation Compilation, MET 4.1, Weapon Sheathing. And MGEXE. That's it for graphics!
@@Warlockracy Ho MET is really different from Intelligent textures, really interesting, I though it was close, but it's not the case. Thanks for the list.
Thanks for tell about your mod list us! Hey ¿Why not you review Morrowind rebirth when its new version come out? the mod no give proper quest, but make a lot of the world fresh and add very well made dungeons and artifacts arround the vvardenfell
Actually, afaik Intelligent Textures is basically a better version of MET, you can see comparisons in the image section of IT.
@@Warlockracy Please excuse the late reply, but what mod did you use that keeps track of how cold and tired you are?
Nice work man, you are very underrated. Keep doing MW mods
Thank you!
You are the Anthony Bourdain of TES youtubers, watching this really feels like going on vacation
Awesome. You going to do another one of these when the Gold Coast one is released?
That’s the plan! Next in this series is gonna be TR content, since Anvil has no release date.
@@Warlockracy You got your work cut out for you there. Lots of content to explore!
@@asgoritolinasgoritolino7708 Yeah, it'll be a while before it is released though. Probably not this year, more likely next year.
7:18 Honestly reminds me of my favorite bit about the Dunmer tombs. They just seem cozy. Like either the guardian undead or visiting family try to keep them clean. ESO Morrowind fucked that up hard and made them dank and gross.
Scrumptious content, simply scrumptious.
Not sure if it's yours or not, but either way that artwork you've used for the thumbnail is really cool! And great video! I really liked how you kept stopping to take in the environment.
The artwork is by someone from Project Tamriel and yeah, it looks awesome.
My ultimate dream for a elder scrolls game is a fully explorable Tamriel in morrowind with everything given the same level of thought and care to lore accuracy as this.
Feel free to join the project and bring this a bit closer to reality! :D
Just played this. Pretty decent mod. Looks like you missed the coolest place - a half-submerged ruin that's about 5 minutes of water walking southeast of the island. It's barely visible in the distance with Open MW's Distant Terrain pushed to the max.
I love it
Dude, thanks! :D
Neat seeing you figure out that something is up with the Khajiit ship just by going through their cargo and finding stuff missing!
Awesome!
"For a thief, every house is an adventure." I am definitely using that line.
Stirk had a decent mod on Oblivion as well.
3:30 that's based on real life roman apartment buildings where poor people lived. I shit you not, the romans had apartment buildings called "insulae", aka "islands".
What's with all the morrowind stuff recently, looking like a contender for game of the year 2021
Morrowind GOTY 2040 when Province: Cyrodiil is finally complete.
>Later this year Ay carumba
The thumbnail reminds me of those guys standing in front of the "Beyond Chicken" sign.
This is pretty cool
10:40 The Ayleids were a race of Elves that worshipped daedra, similar to the Chimer, but instead of worshipping only the good daedra, (Azura, Mephala, and Boethiah) they worshipped ALL daedra. Human slaves were kept, for labor and for sport. Similarly to the Dwemer (or Deep Elves) they built their strongholds primarily underground. TL:DR It's just an old and fancy dungeon, simple as
Cool channel
3:18 TIL that Cyrodiil´s Empire is actually the moonsugar-induced fever-dream medieval fantasy version of... the Soviet Union...
more like Talos the Vanguardist am I right
@@Warlockracy NOW I get why the ultra-nationalist pseudo-fascist based Cammona Tong crime syndicate were so pissed at them all the time
Best channel