#Daggerfall Overlook

[moonpile]

The Journey – a druidic reskin of Daggerfall Overlook | ESO Housing

Follow the lights …and watch your step ;) [The groundskeeper gently advises visitors to stop inside the hut (let light and Hermit guide you) and help themselves to a towel and healing potion before attending the sacred pool. And take care not to step on the worm, please!]

Visitor info:

PC NA Currently on Home Tours /script JumpToSpecificHouse("@MoonPile", 38)

Past the entrance, a flexible 3rd person view is highly recommended – better to see scene compositions and parts that can easily be missed vs 1PV.

Be sure to pause for the views along the way, and at the pool for your untimely demise uh, perfectly safe blessings. Yes.

Thank you for visiting!

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SPOILER: What happens when one does not heed the groundskeeper's advice:

[hircines-hunter]

Liselle’s Tea Garden

[nientedenada]

Mages Guild Morass: A Mix-Up over Vanus Galerion's Final Fate

Also posted on r/teslore. A couple months ago, my friend @akaviri-dovah asked a question about Vanus Galerion's timeline.

Ok so I’m reading up on Vanus uesp page again and apparently there was a point wherein he abandoned his guild and left Tamriel?? […] "Over time, Galerion grew bitterly disillusioned with the contrived hierarchies and sinister political environment that the Mages Guild had become. He grew regretful for establishing the guild in the first place, as it had become monster of its own, and was too late for him to fix. After denouncing the guild, Galerion elected to leave Tamriel entirely to travel to other lands. For many years Galerion wandered around Nirn. Eventually, after long his abandonment of the Mages Guild, Galerion claimed that he had found the virtue of magic in his solitary travels." [This description] probably wouldn’t line up with how he still managed to gather so many mages and Lamp Knights (guild specific) in his battle against Manni right?

This question completely confuddled me at first, because it turned out I didn't know my Vanus Galerion lore very well at all. But now I know a lot more and I am here to share a very niche lore puzzle with you all.

I think we're all aware that when the devs imported lore books into ESO, they didn't always make certain the books' contents fit into the previously established timeline. Sometimes that can be explained by Hermaeus Mora moving books about through time, but often books are edited for ESO but some detail is overlooked. This is what appears to have happened with Vanus Galerion.

Origin of the Mages Guild, written by Ted Peterson, has been in every big TES game since Daggerfall except Skyrim. It’s been edited for different games, but the last paragraph is the same in all versions.

One need not be a member of the Mages Guild to know that this carefully contrived hierarchy is often nothing more than a chimera. As Vanus Galerion himself said bitterly, leaving Tamriel to travel to other lands, "The Guild has become nothing more than an intricate morass of political infighting."

In Daggerfall and Morrowind, that is the last heard of Vanus Galerion. This version is backed up by a role-playing thread from 2001 in which Ted Peterson, posting as Tedders, has an exchange with Vanus Galerion (also played by himself)

Tedders: Thank Mara for Vanus Galerion for freeing the Old Ways and founding the Mages Guild. Vanus Galerion: For many long years I did regret that very deed, as it seems I created just another monster of sinister politics. The virtue of magic I found in my solitary travels, many years after I abandoned the Mages Guild and ventured on my own. Tedders: Poor Trechtus. It's too late now.

Oblivion, though, adds a new version of Vanus Galerion’s fate. In Mannimarco, King of Worms, it’s explained that Vanus never did peace out on the Mages Guild. He actually died leading Mages Guild Lamp Knights against Mannimarco.

They say Galerion left the Guild, calling it 'a morass,' But untruth is a powerful stream, polluting the river of time. Galerion beheld Mannimarco's rise through powers sublime, To his mages and Lamp Knights, 'Before my last breath, Face I must the tyranny of worms, and kill at last, undeath.' He led them north to cursed lands, to a mountain pass.

(Short interlude: this is not quite as bad as Mannimarco's own poetry, but it ain't good)

In this text, Vanus Galerion is killed in the fight against Mannimarco

A thousand good and evil perished then, history confirms. Among, alas, Vanus Galerion, he who showed the way,

This version is supported by Mannimarco’s claim in Oblivion that he had Galerion’s corpse in his possession.

I must say, I expected Arch-Mage Traven, rather than his star pupil. I am disappointed to see that he could not face me himself. I have met so many of his predecessors over the years. I developed a particular fondness for Galerion, ill-preserved though he may be.

So, depending on whose version you believe, Vanus either left the guild calling it a morass or led the guild in a final battle against Mannimarco.

In comes ESO to complicate matters.

The ESO Devs did not include Mannimarco, King of Worms in the game, since Vanus Galerion is still alive in ESO. But they didn’t ignore the text. A lot of the details of Vanus and Mannimarco’s early life from Mannimarco King of Worms are fleshed out in the Summerset expansion via. Vanus’ ESO autobiography: Artaeum Lost, as well as in ESO flashbacks to their time with the Psijics.

However, base game ESO stumbled with their version of Origin of the Mages Guild, which still ends

One need not be a member of the Mages Guild to know that this carefully contrived hierarchy is often nothing more than a chimera. As Vanus Galerion himself said bitterly, leaving Tamriel to travel to other lands, "The Guild has become nothing more than an intricate morass of political infighting."

When you bring this book into ESO, you get the implication that Vanus got into a snit at the Mages Guild, left Tamriel to travel other lands, AND THEN came back from abroad for the events of ESO where he’s very involved in Mages Guild business again.

So to sum it up

Version 1: Daggerfall to Morrowind: Vanus is said to have called the guild a morass and left Tamriel at some unspecified date. That is the last mention of him.

Version 2: Oblivion to Skyrim: It's suggested that story is untrue and he actually died leading the Mages guild in a fight against Mannimarco but many believe he instead left Tamriel after calling the Guild a morass.

Version 3: ESO: Doesn't go into Vanus' death because it's not happened yet but keeps details from that Oblivion/Skyrim Version about his earlier life with Mannimarco. ESO devs miss the detail of the morass line referring to Vanus Galerion's permanent disappearance in both Versions 1 and 2.

I think if we go with Version 3, which is the most up-to-date, we would conclude that he did get into an earlier snit with his subordinates, went globetrotting, and then came back to guide the Mages Guild. Centuries later, someone misattributed the morass remark from the earlier situation to the latter disappearance.

Or you could go with time-travelling books.

Or you could just shrug your shoulders and ignore the obvious developer error and continue with the timeline established by the previous games.

UESP has cobbled all these sources into one timeline: ESO Events -> Morass Remark and Exit from Mages Guild -> Leading the Mages Guild against Mannimarco/ Death. But unless we go with the time-travelling books theory, this doesn’t seem possible.

End of Morass Gate.

[tamrieldrifter]

The border keeps

My journey back to my homeland is a spiritless one, for my only available passage back into Cyrodiil turned out to be through the gates belonging to the Daggerfall Covenant. Their Northern and Southern Highrock Gates are a misnomer of course, for the lands of Hammerfell lie between these gates and High Rock proper. It is a slight King Fahara'jad is prepared to overlook it seems; though I guess if you are wiling to let the murder of your second-daughter pass without repercussion, then what's a misnomer or two between Kings.

These border keeps offer all the amenities of a small town; stables, crafting stations, merchants, guilds, and even inns. Whilst I do appreciate the Covenant’s welcome, I reject their solicitations for my sword arm in their Banners War. I feel under no obligation, as with the service I have already given to Emeric and his Covenant I have more then earn’t this little hospitality.

At least the Covenant leadership seems to have learnt from the foolish actions of their High King in Bangkorai, where Emeric irrationally lead the charge against Septima Tharn’s retreating legion, and became lost to Tamriel for a time. So it is from the relative tranquillity of these border keeps that the Breton leader of the Covenant forces in Cyrodiil, Grand Warlord Dortene, plots and schemes from a very safe distance.

Meanwhile the conflict spins ever on and on in an unending pirouette. It is a tactical war fought with little or no strategy. The great keeps and forts of the Empire are sieged and traded, the esoteric Elder scrolls have become corrupted into little more than weapons, and all sides make insouciant use of the Mad God’s toys.

Once refreshed I head south through the great gates of Alma Ruma into the Heartlands to offer what help I may to the people who bravely still call Cyrodill home.

S.K

[ithisatanytime]

i find that the "vanilla" unity daggerfall install is almost more accessable than morrowind is for newcomers as long as you know to buy a cart. when i walked into that dungeon i felt my enthusiasm for daggerfall waning, but walking out in almost full dwarven gear with elvish to supplement the rest i felt i could play it forever. i find daggerfall is most similar to skyrim of all the bethesda games ive played. havent played arena or shadowkey or redgaurd, none of the mobile games or elder scrolls online. man i fucking hate elder scrolls online with a passion, because i just feel the lore is fake, its fake lore and it taints everything else. dragons could have carried skyrim, i think one overlooked fact is that skyrim feels unfinished, there are hints of something great with wolves attacking rabbits for food in set piece encounters like there is a working eco system, you come accross burnt out villages, and in the trailers dragons were seen in gameplay picking up mammoths and flying off with them. but in practice i have never had a dragon pick me up ever, nor seen one pick anything up, and dragon encounters feel static and largely infuriating. they dont feel like animals, nor do they feel like godly beings, they feel like cliff racers, honestly this is forgivable. dragons do attack towns sometimes, thats kind of neat, they did some cool stuff with dragons in general but they are too numerous, but the main issue is i feel the game intended for the player character to be able to use dragons as a means of transportation and combat aid, you are learning their language, you talk to a dragon who just chills in a specific spot, you even ride a dragon in a cutscene to the final boss area of the game to eventual fight the boss who is a dragon, you get a dragon shout that lets you summon the dragon you flew in on, hell yes, then you kill the boss your reward is TRASH ITS NOTHING, the shout just makes the dragon show up on the overworld and kill badguys flying around for a minute its useless basically, the dlc comes out and you fight another ancient dragon born who flies dragons, it unlocks the ability for you to shout and summon a dragon to fly on but its fucking trash, if flies around in circles that you sort of control, you cant use it for transportation basically and its just an overworld summon. but the point is that was CLEARLY the intended end game all along they just couldnt make it work, imagine at the end of skyrim after defeating alduin, your blades quest isnt so much a radiant sort of randomly generated dragon slaying quest, but the remaining dragons become a larger and more constant overworld threat, and you come up with a reason for the ground forces to become more threatening in the overworld as well, how about this they ally with the giant camps across skyrim and more spring up, the formerly nuetral giants are now fully hostile and have strange ancient weapons from their weird culture, and now you can actually ride your own dragon as transportation to take on this increased threat from both the air with other dragons and on land, you can just make them set pieces like the civil war slop, and one buy one with the help of your new endgame abilities you wipe out the remaining dragons AND giants, until there are none left. or how about a shout that summons some dude

[paladinofthelantern]

[tamrielhomes]

Dropstitch’s Daggerfall Overlook

Player: @Dropstitch

House: Daggerfall Overlook

[lady-sleepless-gaming]

Finally! ^__^

[darling-leech]

Man I really wish there was a way to earn ESO Crowns beside having to pay real money for them. 😭😭😭😭

[ace-memelord]

I’ve been officially selected to be the host of my main guild’s PVP house. Turning my Hall of the Lunar Champion into an awesome hangout/dueling arena is gonna be fun!!

[moonpile]

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With few exceptions, I don't use Home Tours. My houses are accessible on PC NA via the visit script, or search via addons: PTFH; EHT Housing Hub.

Directory (new to old):

The Celestial Gardens – at Moon-Sugar Meadow

The Journey – a druidic reskin of Daggerfall Overlook

100-Slot Hideaway – at Snugpod

Khajiit's Pocket Winter Realm - at Proudspire Manor

The Blackfeather Court - at Hakkvild's High Hall

The Cursed Crow Cafe - at The Ebony Flask Inn Room

Little Cabin in the Woods - at Ravenhurst

The Moons-Blessed Springs at Willowpond Haven

Autumn’s Gate - an autumnal garden in The Rift

Khajiit’s Tenmar Retreat (v1) - at Serenity Falls Estate

M'aiq’s Melon Shrine - at Barbed Hook Private Room

For the Love of Fantasy - at Ald Velothi Harbor House

An Apocr-awful New Life - at Velothi Reverie

A Tea House for Azandar - at the Ample Domicile

Khajiit’s Garden of Curiosities at Sleek Creek

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Why MoonPile?

Unfortunately(??) that's the @ I made 10 years ago when ESO beta launched. Not at all related to the cookie – it's about a bit of Khajiit lore I enjoyed; AKA "the khajiiti space program":

"Khajiit will stand tall as Alkosh, cat upon cat upon cat. And in doing so, it will climb to the moon as it has been told so many times." ... Khajiit saw reason in these words and so it climbed and climbed, cat upon cat, for a hundred days. Much sugar was brought there to support the climbers and in the end Khajiit climbed high, so very high that it was in fact closer to Jo'Segunda than to Nirni below."

– Pocket Guide to the Empire, Second Edition

Why Khajiit?

Because we are "the fastest, cleverest, most beautiful people" ;3

[hircines-hunter]

Why is the lighting in ESO housing so horrible??

Before is with extra candles; I don’t want to see what it looks like without my extra candles. And the after is with enchanted lights.

I’ll reblog later with more pics. 10 image limit on mobile is gonna kill me.

[njadastonearm]

it may be time to call Gardner House mostly done and finally buy Forsaken Stronghold. hm.

[freya-theirondragon]

Unfurnished Daggerfall Overlook

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4

[feykrorovaan]

If you could live anywhere in Tamriel (or the Aurbis because why not?) Where would you want to live? Have a specific city or house in mind? I'm curious what people's answers might be.

For me it would be one (or all, who cares? I make the rules on this post. 😂)of the following:

1. Alinor Crest house, Summerset

2. Colossal Aldmeri Grotto, Summerset

3. Grand Psijic Villa, Artaeum

4. Hall of the Lunar Champion, Northern Elsweyr (yes even though dragons are right outside of the city)

5. Daggerfall Overlook, Glenumbra

6.Earthtear Cavern, Craglorn

[paladinofthelantern]

Home is where the heart is, but adventure is always waiting.🌲⛰️🌊