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[mALX]

Lopov: Persephone actually has a weakness to fire, thanks to her Deadwalker race. But it is still not enough to keep a dead girl down.

I love the shipwrecks in Morrowind as well. Except when they are tilted at extreme angles. Then I have trouble navigating through them without getting stuck on things.

It helps that all the Ash Spawn sites are barely lit, with nothing but a few red candles. I am currently working on a mod to improve the lighting, since its almost impossible for me to see the game when the afternoon sun shines into the room.

Oh noes! Persephone has Snake Eyes!


Acadian: The sheer number of slaughterfish in the water around Vvardenfell is enough to make most people say Ewwww. OTOH stepping into the water is one of the best ways to level up fast.

The Daedric Shrines are pretty simple on the inside. Most have a little corridor that runs from the door to a single large chamber with the Daedric Prince's statue. Some have a rooms beyond. But for most that is all. In fact, all of Morrowind's dungeons are small. Most are just 3-4 rooms total. Multi-level dungeons are usually only quest-related, and even those tend to only be a handful of rooms each.

Persehphone has her eye on you...

Hanging out with Other Brother Larry

More of the Acadian Isles

Red Mountain

A closer look beyond the Ghostfence

The Redoran city of Ald'Ruhn can be seen in the distance

"A den of stinking evil. Cover your nose, Boo, we will leave no crevice untouched!"

I meant to say something in the last set of screens, the "Larry" shot = about Persephone's expression on her face in that shot - she has the same expression in this shot, and it reminded me I had meant to mention it.

One of the things I loved so much about the other shot and this one both is her expression, while looking at that freaky bonelord - you could write a story just off her expression and the setting; that horrible looking bone thing with no neck - that is a spectacular shot because her expression is so intriguing in it; you have to wonder what she is thinking!


Those Acadian Isles are gorgeous - I haven't found them yet in my game, not that I know of l (but it has been a couple years since I played Morrowind)


Oh, this is so exciting! I never got even near Red Mountain in my game, I have never even seen screens of it! AWESOME !!!!!!!


Wow, the Ghostfence looks really good in this shot! Is it like a City Wall or something? I really would like one day to play Morrowind through and see all these things I've only heard about on forums!


And the red sky in these shots is really setting the scene for meeting Dagoth-Ur; like those ones in the tunnel in your last set when you were fighting an ascended sleeper or ash vampire (I don't know what it was) - but the redness accentuated the feel of being so near that volcanic core!

In ESO, I have really come to love Red Mountain; and the ash storms even. But after seeing these screens, I kind of wish they had put a little reddish tint to the sky near the lava flows there. I mean, I am sure they didn't because red uses up so many resources and with so many people and NPC's in such a vast open cell - it would probably cost them if they did in the playability around Red Mountain. But what a nice touch it would be!

They did use red in the core of the volcano where you battle the 'Brothers of Strife'; but it is a separate cell with only a handful of NPC's and you are the only player there.

To me, it just adds to the whole feel of being that near an actively erupting volcano.

OMG, Larry looks like he is wiping his brow here! That is so funny!!!!

Awesome update !!!!!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: My guess is that the Bonelords did not have those giraffe necks and extra arms in life. They are probably 'features' added on afterward...

Red Mountain is pretty ominous up close. From a distance it just looks like a lump of rocks though. That is the problem the ES games have with all long distance objects.

The critter in the distance of the Ald'ruhn pic is a Guar, its a not very dangerous wild animal native to Morrowind.

The critter in the skeleton pic is another beastie entirely. That was was an Alit, which is a more dangerous monster.


Lopov: "Once I was a young girl picking flowers. Now the dead come to me, and call me their queen..." That was a wonderful quote on a goddess site about Kore/Persephone. To be certain, my Persephone did pick flowers once upon a time, but that was back in the First Age.

The Ascadian Isles are one of the nicest parts of Vvardenfell. While I love the Bitter Coast, I would not want to live there. Flies, heat, swamps, muck, yuck. But I do love a game set in that environment. But the Ascadian Isles seem to have it all: abundant water, fertile fields, shade from sun thanks to those Emperor Parasol mushroom trees, etc...

I could not pass up the Minsc quote when I saw Larry was covering his face in the ash storm!


mALX: At least they did not name that area The Landing Strip...

I don't think there was any underwater treasure outside of that particular shipwreck. But I believe there were some floating barrels. I don't really remember. I always explore every shipwreck I come across.

That Daedric Shrine was not from any of my recent Where Am I? posts.

The Acadian Isles are at the very south end of the map. They are where Vivec and Ebonheart are. It is the area with the giant mushroom trees.

The Ghostfence is a big magical wall that surrounds Red Mountain. The Tribunal created it to keep Dagoth Ur in. Of course it isn't working...

That sounds cool about ESO. It would be great to see Morrowind in an updated game. I keep hoping for Skywind to come out sometime.


Meet Darryl

Persephone and Darryl vs. vampires

Darryl has some kind of fire-looking attack that lowers his victim's attributes

Darryl gets medieval

Ald'ruhn skies

[Lopov]

Darryl is definitely the scariest of the bunch.

I 'love' vampires in Morrowind, partly because they're rare and partly because they have the most creepy eyes of all vampires in TES series. You don't need to make them like emos to make them look scary.

[Acadian]

Nice to see Darryl evolving. I see he’s been bulking up and adding some muscle to his bones - Perhaps someone else’s muscle, but muscle nonetheless. He just needs to rip some glowing blue eyes out of someone’s head to replace his own and he’ll really start looking quite draugrish.

The magic effects look pretty neat.

I chuckled over ‘medieval’. It looks like that vampiress in the back has a pink ‘thought cloud’ over her head. I imagined she was thinking, ‘Oh pooh!’

[mALX]

I first saw these screens from my email notice; which either gives links or words, but not both. Well, this time it gave me the links so I was ablel to see the screenshots but no caption.

So what happened is, I see this first screenshot and I'm thinking, "GAAAAAH!"

So then Lopov's comments hit my email, and he mentions "Darryl." So knowing you, I know "Darryl" is like "Larry;" he is most def going to be a follower for your character.

So, I go through the screens again, and I see that Chimer guy - I'm thinking HE is Darryl - till I got on the page just now,


All I can say is, "GAAAAAAARGH, URGH!" I'm sleeping with the lights on after seeing Darryl!


I have to agree with Lopov on these vampires being awesome to look at; and their eyes being creepy!

I found this on Google, man = they look much freakier than Oblivion's vampires!


http://www.worldofelderscrolls.de/morrowin.../VI_Vampire.jpg



Oh yeah, Fire on vampires = I'd say it would lower their attributes !!

Man, this fight is amazingly long, and two of them are still fighting!!! Did the Khajiit go down first?

Alld'ruhn skies is Awesome !!! The banners on the building; that little chinese type lantern so decorative - just stunning how well Morrowind was made; if they had only put as much effort into the animations and combat!

One thing that got me - characters can't sit. So Princess Stomper made a mod that added legs to a chair when you activated it; and your character still stood but it would appear they were sitting for screenshots, lol.

AWESOME SHOTS !!! Despite his gross appearance, Darryl has most def impressed me with his defense of Persephone !!!

[SubRosa]

Lopov: Darryl has always been the biggest, baddest undead you could summon up in the game's he is in.

So far I have only come across vampires twice. The first time they almost killed Persephone. Thankfully I was more prepared the second time around. Persephone had Darryl around by then, and he helped thin the vamp herd.


Acadian: I think Darryl has been taking Dragon Growth Hormone! Or maybe he really did rip that muscle off of someone else!

That pink thought cloud over one vampire is the Absorb Health effect from Malediction. It really helps out tremendously in the big fights.


mALX: Darryl (and his other brother Darryl) has always been Persephone's summon undead warrior. They are Draugr in Skyrim, and Skellies in Oblivion (named Larry), and whatever there is available in the other games I have played Persephone in. He was an actual full NPC in Pillars of Eternity, but that was a first for him. Most of the time he is just a summoning.

I have always thought that Larry, Darryl, and Darryl were people Persephone knew while they were all alive. Perhaps even her brothers from back when they were all slaves of the Ayleids. She calls them not because she has enslaved them with arcane power, but because they are her friends. Even though they are dead, they are still just a spell away.

TBH, the resoloution is so low in Morrowind that my first time fighting vampires I did not realize what they were until I moused over one and it said "Vampire". So I actually prefer the more recent ones. Though I have never been overly thrilled with them either. You need mods to have decent vampires in a Bethesda game.

I love the paper lanterns in Morrowind, and a lot of the other little 'stuff', like the redware pottery, and building styles.

I didn't even notice that you cannot sit! But there are so many things you cannot do in Morrowind that you can in other game. Even the TFC command is not really there. There is only an early version that starts up the vanity mode, turning the camera around your character. But you cannot control the camera, it tuns in the speed and direction it wants to.


Solstheim looms in the background

Ready for northern dangers

Exploring a dwarven ruin

Persephone has a big girl bow now...

Making good use of levitation

[Acadian]

Despite the game’s limitations, you have certainly done a magnificent job bringing Persewind to the Dunmeri province. Her face is amazing.

Very cool how, in ‘Exploring...’, the pure vertical angle of Persephone’s sword matches that of the spires around her.

Woah! That is an Artillery Bow!

Levitation looks like great fun!

[mALX]

"Solstheim" - It may look intriguing here; but I can't see the name without hearing it being said in Vilja's sulking voice, I think she mentions Solstheim several thousand times per day.


In "Ready," is this the same strip of water northern border in the Skyrim game?


"Exploring" = my favorite shot; this place is Awesome! I never saw it in my game, it is amazing!


"Big Girl Bow" = 2nd favorite shot. HOLY COW! That ballista is HUGE !!!! Awesome Shot!!! But ... can it be shot or is it a static?

Ooooh, Levitation !!! Okay, now I have to ask: How does it end? Can you be up in the air and just plummet to the ground? Is there a warning when it is going to run out? Can you cast it repeatedly or can you only do it once per X time? I've always wanted to try it; did not find it yet in my Morrowind game. Holy Cow she is high up, though. A fall from up there - urgh!

All Awesome shots !!!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: Levitating is very helpful in Morrowind. Some areas in dungeons are specifically made to only be reachable via levitation. The landscape of Vvardenfell is split up by mountain ranges, which I think was a clever way to make the game world seem larger, along with the omnipresent mist (which I got rid of asap). But even though the mountain ranges are barriers that restrict your sight across the province, the peaks are also populated with monsters. So Beth must have been expecting people to use levitation to get up on top of them.


mALX: The Ready pic is that same sea along the northern coast of Skyrim. It is just a bit to the east. So you could follow it to Skyland.

Morrowind spells don't have a timer showing how long they have left. So Levitation spells and potions end with no warning. So one moment you are walking on air. The next you are plummeting to your death. If you are quick, you can recast your levitate spell or drink another potion. If not, that is what the quickload key is for! You can recast or drink another potion before you fall of course. You just have to guess when to do it, and have the magicka of course. Persephone found a pair of boots of levitation early on, which she has kept to use for the rest of the game. It makes life a lot easier.


Looking north from the foothills of Red Mountain

North Shore

Azura's Coast, with the city of Vivec in the background

Sunset on a Telvanni Tower

Corprus Stalker

Facing an Ascended Sleeper

Umbra. It is everything!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 14 2016, 08:46 PM

[Acadian]

Wow, Persephone really steals the show - she just looks so darn good in MW. Particularly since the background there is . . . less vibrant than some of the other games. Umbra! Oh my, that blade sure has a long history. I'm just so glad you're enjoying MW and were able to get Persephone looking so good there.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: I think you mean Jennifer Garner looks so darn good in Morrowind! I would not have thought that Umbra would work with Persephone's look, but the sword is more silver than black. So it fits in with the rest of her outfit.


Exploring the ashlands of Molag Amur

Persephone and Larry take on a Golden Saint

Dealing with a Cliffracer above the Ghost Fence

Persephone meets a Storm Astronaut

[Acadian]

Persephone's still looking good!

Love the golden saint shot - and what a great view of Persephone's beautiful ponytail!

So that's what a cliffracer looks like. Never encountered one.

The stormie looks pretty good in MW. More. . . alive looking than his successors in newer games.

[mALX]

Acadian: Levitating is very helpful in Morrowind. Some areas in dungeons are specifically made to only be reachable via levitation. The landscape of Vvardenfell is split up by mountain ranges, which I think was a clever way to make the game world seem larger, along with the omnipresent mist (which I got rid of asap). But even though the mountain ranges are barriers that restrict your sight across the province, the peaks are also populated with monsters. So Beth must have been expecting people to use levitation to get up on top of them.


mALX: The Ready pic is that same sea along the northern coast of Skyrim. It is just a bit to the east. So you could follow it to Skyland.

Morrowind spells don't have a timer showing how long they have left. So Levitation spells and potions end with no warning. So one moment you are walking on air. The next you are plummeting to your death. If you are quick, you can recast your levitate spell or drink another potion. If not, that is what the quickload key is for! You can recast or drink another potion before you fall of course. You just have to guess when to do it, and have the magicka of course. Persephone found a pair of boots of levitation early on, which she has kept to use for the rest of the game. It makes life a lot easier.


Looking north from the foothills of Red Mountain

North Shore

Azura's Coast, with the city of Vivec in the background

Sunset on a Telvanni Tower

Corprus Stalker

Facing an Ascended Sleeper

Umbra. It is everything!

Well, since I know you were in the West Gash; I would be guessing the boots of the Apostle; but before you posted those screens I thought I remembered seeing some of Persephone going into Divayth Fyr's. Could they be those boots you get from Yagrum Bagarn?

I would give anything to watch you play, wish you made vids of your Morrowind gameplay!!!




Holy Crap, that is some rough looking land!




But the Northern shore is the total opposite; just gorgeous !!!



Azura's Coast is pretty too!


Ooh, Telvanni = Divayth Fyr! I hope you get a screen of Persephone talking to him!


Geez, that Corprus Stalker doesn't look as scary as Darryl,


But those Ascended Sleepers = GAAAAAH!


Oh cool, Umbra! And what a gorgeous area you are in there!


These are Awesome!!!

Wow, Persephone really steals the show - she just looks so darn good in MW. Particularly since the background there is . . . less vibrant than some of the other games.

It really does look that way in the screens; but actually in game it does not look as bleak as it does in the shots. I think trying to get enough distance to show background in Morrowind causes the graphics to go kafluey (technical term). But in game looking around, it is much prettier than it appears on film.

Acadian: I think you mean Jennifer Garner looks so darn good in Morrowind! I would not have thought that Umbra would work with Persephone's look, but the sword is more silver than black. So it fits in with the rest of her outfit.


Exploring the ashlands of Molag Amur

Persephone and Larry take on a Golden Saint

Dealing with a Cliffracer above the Ghost Fence

Persephone meets a Storm Astronaut

Now you're talking! I used to hate the Ashlands, but have really come to love them in ESO!


That Golden Saint looks amazing !!!


Holy Cow, she is fighting a Cliffracer while levitating? GAAAAAH !!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1EpmaDbrLM



OMG!!! They really knew how to make a horrid looking monster back then! The ones that come later don't even look scary!


Awesome Shots !!!!!!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: Hope you never do encounter a Cliffracer! Bethesda made a mistake when they were placing the spawn points for monsters, and literally set 100 times more of them to exist than they had intended. In some places you literally cannot walk ten feet without being attacked by yet another Cliffracer.

I noticed that the Storm Astronaut has a human-like face in the middle of his rocky body. The ones from other games lack one that looks that anthropomorphic. I think the Oblivion ones are my favorite. I love how the rocks in their body will all fly apart and then come back together again.


mALX: Persephone does have the Boots of the Apostle. At first I thought they were just another pair of levitation boots. But I have not found any other ones in the game. I looked them up recently and found out that they are actually an artifact. They come in very handy.

I never liked the Molag Amur region in my previous playthroughs. But this time I am really enjoying the black, volcanic landscapes.

Persephone has not gone to see Divayth Fyr yet though. She has barely done any of the main quest. She has just been exploring.



Persephone decided to take a break from Vvardenfell, and took a ship to Solstheim. So far she has explored the eastern half of the island, and gotten involved with the Fort Frostmoth quests, and the Skaal. She started fixing all the All-Maker Stones, and so far has done three of them. She still has not gotten to Raven Rock, and I doubt she will want to do the East Empire quest from either side. In her mind, the island is better off without the Empire there.


Welcome to Solstheim

Looking back on Morrowind

I forget what that big stone arch is, but you can see it from Morrowind

Under the arch

Land of the Moose

and the Horker

Persephone has healed the Good Beast

Persephone vs. The Wampa

[mALX]

Acadian: Hope you never do encounter a Cliffracer! Bethesda made a mistake when they were placing the spawn points for monsters, and literally set 100 times more of them to exist than they had intended. In some places you literally cannot walk ten feet without being attacked by yet another Cliffracer.

I noticed that the Storm Astronaut has a human-like face in the middle of his rocky body. The ones from other games lack one that looks that anthropomorphic. I think the Oblivion ones are my favorite. I love how the rocks in their body will all fly apart and then come back together again.


mALX: Persephone does have the Boots of the Apostle. At first I thought they were just another pair of levitation boots. But I have not found any other ones in the game. I looked them up recently and found out that they are actually an artifact. They come in very handy.

I never liked the Molag Amur region in my previous playthroughs. But this time I am really enjoying the black, volcanic landscapes.

Persephone has not gone to see Divayth Fyr yet though. She has barely done any of the main quest. She has just been exploring.



Persephone decided to take a break from Vvardenfell, and took a ship to Solstheim. So far she has explored the eastern half of the island, and gotten involved with the Fort Frostmoth quests, and the Skaal. She started fixing all the All-Maker Stones, and so far has done three of them. She still has not gotten to Raven Rock, and I doubt she will want to do the East Empire quest from either side. In her mind, the island is better off without the Empire there.


Welcome to Solstheim

Looking back on Morrowind

I forget what that big stone arch is, but you can see it from Morrowind

Under the arch

Land of the Moose

and the Horker

Persephone has healed the Good Beast

Persephone vs. The Wampa

If I'm not mistaken; those two are the only levitation boots in the game without mods. I wonder if there is any difference in the enchantments on the two levitation boots? The pair you get from Bagarn is Dwarven, so probably heavy armor. Are the Apostle boots medium? They look pretty on the internet pictures.

If we see Vilja in the Solstheim screens, I'll scream,


Oh, I wish the Morrowind Khajiit were as cute as that Argonian is!

The water in that "Looking Back" screen looks fantastic!

I think it is on a barrow.


Wow, it is huge up close!


D'Aww, what a cute moose !!! And I am surprised; Solstheim is really pretty!!!!


Are the Horker friendly? Why is that one missing its tusks?


This next is my favorite of the group; the look on both Persephone's face and the bear's !!!! Love that shot !!!!


Well, Bethesda didn't go all out on graphics on the Wampa, but it does look scary!


Awesome Shots !!!! Thank you so much for sharing these Morrowind shots, I haven't seen this much of Morrowind in my game! I am loving seeing it!!!

[SubRosa]

mALX: I did not even realize that Bagarn gives you a pair of levitating boots. Persephone has not been doing the main quest, and the last time I did was years ago. So I forgot all about it.

No worries, no Vilja here!

I love the water in Morrowind. It looks great from the surface, and does not get all green or foggy underwater (unless I changed that with a mod/.ini tweak and forgot!).

That big arch is on top of one of the barrows. It is the one with the young Skaal warrior who wants your help to kill a draugr. Persephone agreed to be a punching bag for him.

The moose were added by a mod. Guess who created it!

The horker are friendly. I think they are the only vanilla animals on the island that don't attack you on sight. The waters around Solstheim are filled with them.



Persephone found a crashed airship

On deck

Teaming up with a draugr

Battling Grendel The Uderfrykte

Luke didn't make it...

The hall of the Frost Giant

Facing off with King Karstagg

Persephone is the Ice Queen now

Werewolf

Hircine the Hunter

[mirocu]

Commented in the Morrowind Update thread but I´ll do it here too


Liked seeing Solstheim from Persephone´s point of view as well as parts I haven´t seen at all due to MQ avoidance. But that is what other gamers are for, right?

[Acadian]

How neat to see Persephone in Morrow Solstheim after spending a fair amount of time in Skyrim's version. Very cool to see the differences. MW's version appears to be. . . less bleak and more alive maybe. Fun to see the UdderFreak! You know I love Persephone's hair and look I think because I tell you almost every time you post.

[SubRosa]

Lopov: The snow is a nice change from the swamps and ash of Morrowind.

Fort Frostmoth does not stay in one piece for very long if you do Solstheim's main quest! It does not look much different than the Dragonborn version once the mq gets moving.

I thought beating someone with a severed limb was hilarious. It is a regular weapon too, so you can keep it and use it yourself!

I read up on the glacier bug, and you are right, it is a glitch in the distant land generation that happens if you use MGE (which I do). To fix it, there is a mod you can download that you have to select in the distant land generation, and create the distant land using it. But then of course if you start another character who has not done that particular quest yet, you have to run the distant land generation again without the mod. It just seems like more bother than it is worth, seeing that Persephone is done with Solstheim, at least in this game.



mirocu: You have to make sure you get all the animal entries. The bears and wolves are leveled, so there are 5 or 6 actors for each. The most powerful are named things like Blight Wolf, etc... which make them sound diseased or mutated. But they are just regular animals with higher stats. You also need to give the world time to reset after you activate your mod. I went inside a barrow and waited for 73 hours. After that your changes will work.


Acadian: I modded the weather of Dragonborn's Solstheim to eliminate the ash storms and bleak skies. So it always has an icy blue sky and polar sun. That makes it more appealing than the Morrowind version to me.

It was neat to fight the Unidentified Mutton's son, and to meet Svenja Snowsong. both bring back memories of Dive Rock.


Inside the Ghostfence

Red Mountain ruins

Persephone plumbs the secrets of Red Mountain

Persephone plans to give the dreamer a long dirt nap...

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 27 2016, 12:12 AM

[Acadian]

That bleak Ghostfence background really highlights how spectacular PerseWind looks.

I love the mysterious towering spires of those ruins.

Dreamer? At first I thought it said Dwemer. Lol. Who is the dreamer?