General fortress ruins
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:08 pm
We still need a general fortress ruin type for newer nord? fortress ruins.
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We are lacking variety of ruins for the area beyond the Reach and obviously we cannot fill everything with caves, barrows or merethic era fortifications. We could use the impruin assets for general ruined or semi-functional fortresses across the province. Maybe prefer the quadratic structures for the general fortifications and only use the Oblivion-esque circular tower ruins for fortresses that are clearly coastal fortresses of the second empire.
Looking at the list of ruined fortifications in TES V makes me want to re-evaluate our fortress locations. There is the Fort Sunguard in TES V, situated at the border between Falkreath, The Reach and Whiterun Hold, which is occupied by the Forsworn at the timeframe of TES V. This probably clashes with our planned Fort Tiber. We can ignore it or search for a compromise between our version of Skyrim and TES Vs. Maybe we should work out a complete location map like the one Infragris has made for P:C. With all the micro-detail planning going on lately, I keep forgetting about the overall picture.
We could also make nord fortresses by using the wallset originally made for Markarth. Though that set would ideally become more nordified yet. It looks great, but there is nothing making it distinctively nordic in appearance.
Back in the days when Lestat remade the imperial fortresses from Oblivion, the plan was to additionally use those for nord fortress ruins anyway. But I forgot about that later.
http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Military_Forts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (many of the fortresses herein are of imperial origin, though)
We are lacking variety of ruins for the area beyond the Reach and obviously we cannot fill everything with caves, barrows or merethic era fortifications. We could use the impruin assets for general ruined or semi-functional fortresses across the province. Maybe prefer the quadratic structures for the general fortifications and only use the Oblivion-esque circular tower ruins for fortresses that are clearly coastal fortresses of the second empire.
Looking at the list of ruined fortifications in TES V makes me want to re-evaluate our fortress locations. There is the Fort Sunguard in TES V, situated at the border between Falkreath, The Reach and Whiterun Hold, which is occupied by the Forsworn at the timeframe of TES V. This probably clashes with our planned Fort Tiber. We can ignore it or search for a compromise between our version of Skyrim and TES Vs. Maybe we should work out a complete location map like the one Infragris has made for P:C. With all the micro-detail planning going on lately, I keep forgetting about the overall picture.
We could also make nord fortresses by using the wallset originally made for Markarth. Though that set would ideally become more nordified yet. It looks great, but there is nothing making it distinctively nordic in appearance.
Back in the days when Lestat remade the imperial fortresses from Oblivion, the plan was to additionally use those for nord fortress ruins anyway. But I forgot about that later.