Work in progress alchemical and arcane laboratory in the back of my Psijic house in Artaeum. I'm happy with how this house is coming together. Looking forward to showing y'all the magical chaos! ✨️
*My houses are always subject to change 1,000,000 times, because I'm picky like that, lol
For me, housing is one of the best parts of the game. Besides fighting and fashion, of course 😎💁♀️
So happy we have a crown seller in the guild cause I so desperately wanted the Merryvine Estate 😍
I just don't know if I should (eventually) make it my primary home after I furnish it, Serenity Falls estate has been my primary since forever 😭 even after I got the Alinor Townhouse & Sweetwater Cascades
Today I learned that remodeling the entrance zone of the Grand Psijic Villa with a more natural groundcover takes 32 (thirty-two) copies of Boulder, Large Mossy Limestone.
ZOS, can we please have grass and soil furniture already?
I can’t believe ESO gets away with charging 100 or more dollars for some of these houses. LIKE THAT IS SEVERAL WHOLE ASS VIDEO GAMES YOU’RE CHARGING FOR A SINGLE H O U S E 😭😭 (and yes, I am posting this because I’m extremely jealous I can’t justify buying the Grand Psijic Villa in Artaeum)
(I finished this area of my Psijic Villa all the way back in December, but with everything else going on the last few months I’d forgotten all about posting the screenshots and video (all taken while using ReShade.)
“The Glimmering Grotto” is an indoor garden with a pool for bathing, and IC is Valien and Kathariel’s (my altmer ice mage and half-altmer priestess of Auri-el) special project they like to work on together while at Valien’s family country estate on the slopes of Eton Nir.
The glowing crystals provide suitable light and heat, and the plants (often with interesting magical properties they glow a lot) are collected both from the Summerset isles and from Valenwood, where Kathariel recently visited for the first time with Valien to meet some of her extended Bosmer side of the family; they sent her back with several gifts including several interesting plants from their home village.
Apart from the fact that Kathariel is very fond of the garden, the other reason Valien loves the grotto is because it would, no doubt, count as scandalous to many of the more traditional Altmer he has met in his lifetime, being very wild and untamed in its design compared to the manicured lawns and carefully curated greenhouses of other Altmer estates, and this delights him greatly (Valien has little time and even less patience for many of the more traditionalist views of Altmer culture).
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)
Recap of our latest housing contest where the challenge was to design an entrance to an in-game Dungeon instance! The entrants were limited to use 200 items and max!
Some of the aesthetics I've been trying to combine in my Grand Psijic Villa
The airy, fresh, romantic spring atmosphere of Summerset; pastel hues and blooming trees; cherry, ginkgo, wisteria
The mysterious wilderness with tall trees and blue shadows, like Ebon Stadmont and Indrik Frolic
The refinement and artificiality of Altmer culture and that of Clockwork and Dwemer
White stone contrasted with warm-colored metal, like in Markarth; dark wood of Alinor + dark brass of Clockwork and old Dwemer + bright gold of Markarth Dwemer and Leyawiin
The Alinor/Altmer -> Psijic -> Clockwork cultural genealogy
An Alinor-style "Psijic Villa" as a site moved from Nirn together with Artaeum — a suitable place to study Clockwork things in solitude
The bright metal of fabricant trees and the light from Clockwork streetlights filtering through them