#orsinium

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Orsinium

Concept for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Mathew Weathers

[tastesoftamriel]

The Greedy Gut

Welcome to Orsinium's best tavern for food and drink!

Starters

Smoked Vorkhiposh fish-and-chive terrine

Served with home-baked brown bread and sliced bitter goat cheese

Echalette carpaccio

Sourced from Shatul Range, served with snow truffle oil and balsamic vinegar

Battered chub loon wings

With blue-veined echatere cheese dip and wrathberry-chili jam

Echatere-milk burrata

Served with sliced glacial tomatoes, pickled bittergreen, snow truffle oil, and sourdough flatbread

Mains

Echatere ribs

Slow-roasted with a sticky plum brandy and honey sauce, served with spiced red glacial tomato rice

Black Scabbardfish pepper steak

Served with buttered mashed potatoes

Meat pie in a flaky, buttery puff pastry crust

Choose between: horker and ale, horse heart and blood-gravy, spicy chub loon, and echatere bacon with bitter goat cheese

The Greedy Gut's famous lasagna

With heirloom glacial tomato sauce, minced horker, and smoked echatere cheese

Desserts

Wrathberry trifle

With echatere marscarpone, maraschino wrathberries, and cocoa cream

Shaved yoghurt-ice bowl

With your choice of caramel sauce or blackberry sauce, topped with chewy toffee bits, chocolate chips, and wrathberry raisins

Hot gorapple pie

With whipped vanilla cream or echatere-milk ice cream

Crème brûlée à la Wrothgar

Made with Shatul Range echatere cream and harpy eggs, and topped with the crispest sugar crust!

[orsinium-scholar]

Orsinium headcanon:

Due to it's remote location and firm extradition laws, Orsinium has become a popular choice for Altmer refugees. Those who survive the perilous trek find the city cold, often frightening to those with no familiarity for Orcs, but ultimately far safer than back in Alinor.

Most of them congregate in the outskirts of Orsinium Minor, in an area called "Little Alinor" or "the golden district". Though many struggle with poverty, a few have thrived by setting up businesses, the more flexible minded elves modifying traditional recipes to Orcish tastes and selling them as street foods. Of particular note is a variety of steamed bun, originally made as a small finger dish filled with sea food, now made large enough to fit in the hand and filled with cabbage and pork, which has become a staple breakfast food for blue collar orcs working stupid long hours and needing a hot breakfast.

However, many Altmer immigrants, whether intentionally or not, avoid interactions with Orcs, and as a result, have a reputation for being snooty at best, or outright suspicious at worst. They are also notorious for being skittish, shy, and particularly distrustful around strange Altmer, who might be Thalmor agents. Those of a more anxious disposition struggle between the fear of other Altmer and the fear of a people they are told are violent and dangerous.

However, the newer generation often adapts well, young flexible minds taking in the culture, making Orcish friends and picking up the language and trends. On the other hand, Altmer countercultures also arise, with some young Altmer clinging to their parents old ways, and looking down their nose at the other "corrupted" youths. Street fights are not uncommon.

Little Alinor is a place caught between two vastly different cultures, being dragged kicking and screaming out of rigid conformity. Though despite the cold stone and Wrothgar weather, it's still a safe home. As Arlith Urayel, purveyor of Arliths Gifts and known dissident to the Third Aldmeri Dominion states: "I live in a place where a single poorly chosen word can get my nose broken, and I am safer than I've ever been my entire life."

[charmirthir]

I FUCKING HATE HATE HATE HATE HAAAATE how they yassified orc women in Elder Scrolls Online and I'm not even kidding

Compare Skyrim (left) to ESO (right). A complete obliteration of identity in favor of Yet Another Elf Race Of Smooth-Faced Fantasy Babes. Skyrim's women NPCs were already yassified, how did you get even worse?

Look at this shit. This isn't a fucking orc. This is a wood elf you shoved some plastic halloween vampire fangs into the mouth of. This isn't even just about the monsterfucker angle, they literally took a culture of rugged and hardy women and sanded down the edges to appeal to reddit dudes who never leave their house. God forbid a woman who works in a blast forge all day have a crinkle in her nose

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Fancy Nuzbawir has a list of opinions that just keeps GROWING

This was found tucked away by remains-silent in the Orsinium thieves guild

[umbral-paladin]

In the Elder Scrolls universe there is a place called Orsinium, which is the city that Orcs live in , and it literallt means City of the Orcs.

It's Orc City

It gets sacked a lot as well

Its orc city under a knuckles depth of ash and blood

Orc City

[allthingstamriel]

Wrothgar

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The Wrothgar Mountains have been home to northern Tamriel's Orcs since the beginning of recorded history. Invading armies have marched into these peaks countless times to suppress the fractious Orcs, but the clans always rise again.

"You go ahead. Just watch yourself. Those Vosh Rakh maniacs aren't going to stand aside and let you march in there. I'll go gather some other allies in the city. If you run into problems, meet me outside the keep and we'll figure something else out." – Chief Bazrag

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[alandrosul]

i know bethesda seems to prefer going to single provinces since mw and oblivion but i'd love it if tesvi is iliac bay 2 electric boogaloo. there's a lot of interesting cultural diversity in that region, not just between the bretons, redguards, and orcs, but within each of those groups as well. you could have different cultures for each of the bretic tribes (refer to the morrowind savant class talk on high rock), plus the different major citystates like daggerfall and wayrest; the crown vs forebear dichotomy, plus the alik'r nomads (please including the ash'abah); the dichotomy between orsinium proper, satellite cities/towns/villages belonging to the orsinium capital, and independent strongholds around the rest of the region; and different reachmen clans in the reach, and i'd love a more diverse approach to this, similar to what the morrowind mod "skyrim: home of the nords" does