#stormhold

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Corrupted One

Art Asset for The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold

Art by Mark Jones

[actual-skyrim-quotes]

Anon asked if I could make this poll, so here we go! Very good poll, Anon, I'm glad to post it!

I recommend looking up what each game was about (or would have been about) before voting!

Which of the older Elder Scrolls games do you most wish you could play?

Arena (all of Tamriel, the one that started it all)

Daggerfall (immeasurable swag of 7 canon endings)

Redguard (uprising against Tiber Septim!)

Battlespire (the Oblivion Crisis v0.5)

Shadowkey (mobile game for a defunct model of mobile phones)

Stormhold (does anyone even remember this)

Eye of Argonia (we could have had it all)

Dawnstar (pick a traitor, any traitor!)

Paradise Sugar (canceled just like Eye of Argonia)

Voting ended onApr 24, 2024

I mostly kept to what Anon wanted as the options, but I added the last two myself (with anon's permission) because it felt fitting considering the other games listed

For those who don't know, Eye of Argonia and Paradise Sugar were the canceled sequels to Redguard. They would have had Cyrus go on quests in Black Marsh and Elsweyr, respectively.

[moonpile]

A Tea House for Azandar - at the Ample Domicile | ESO Housing

Tucked away at the quiet outskirts of Stormhold sits a quiet, cozy greenhouse-teahouse. Styled in a mix of Ayleid and Clockwork, with bits of Redguard, Apocrypha, and Fargrave (Azandar's favorites), and stocking teas from all over Tamriel!

Azandar the Arcanist is my favorite companion, he's hilarious. While traveling around he always says, "Keep your eyes open for a good tea shop. Always happy to try a new blend." I love tea too, but there isn't a single actual tea shop in all of Tamriel that I know of. So... I decided to build one!

And Finally... Khajiit's secret introvert corner ...to get away from Azandar sometimes ;3

Khajiit: "So, Azandar, how do you like the teahouse we custom-built for you?" Azandar: "Quite a blissful environment here. Not quite sure it's how I would have decorated the place, but it's … mmm. Yes. Nice." Khajiit: ... T_T

That's one of his actual lines as a houseguest. I didn't know until after I'd built it lmao 😹

Visitor Info:

MoonPile, PC NA

Link: |H1:housing:11:@MoonPile|h|h

Built primarily for 3rd person view.

[best-nun-tournament]

Round 1, Match 3

Krauss, Eva, Rudolf and Rosa Ushiromiya (Umineko) vs The Princes of Stormhold (Stardust)

Who are the worst siblings (inheritance dispute edition)?

Krauss, Eva, Rudolf and Rosa Ushiromiya

The Princes of Stormhold

Voting ended onApr 18, 2024

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Krauss, Eva, Rudolf and Rosa Ushiromiya

The four children of billionaire Kinzo Ushiromiya. Every year, they return home to Rokkenjima Island for a family conference. With Kinzo's health declining, to the point where he hardly ever leaves his room, the only topic on their minds is how to carve up his fortune.

Krauss is the eldest, and Kinzo's successor. Even if he's not the smartest of the siblings, his position as heir and imposing physique let him push them around. He even used to beat his younger siblings. Now, they suspect him of abusing his position as Kinzo's caregiver to embezzle their rightful share of the family fortune.

Eva is the second child, and incredibly resentful about it. She despises the fact that despite being so much more intelligent than Krauss, he's always above her just because he's older and a man. She's devoted her whole life to usurping Krauss' position, and then devoted her son's life to becoming the next heir instead of Krauss' daughter. When not scheming against her brother, she loves finding ways to torment and cruelly provoke her siblings, sister-in-law, and the servants.

Rudolf is the third, and with little hope of becoming heir, became a conman and a playboy (though he eventually settled down as a married man and white-collar criminal). Suffering from his sibling's bullying, he turned all their physical and emotional abuse on his sister Rosa. Though unlike Eva, he's stopped being cruel to her as an adult.

Rosa is the youngest sibling, and she's had a terrible life. Even as an adult, she's still terrified of Eva and acts dumb around her for fear of provoking her. But if she was given the opportunity, she could easily make them pay for what she's suffered.

The Princes of Stormhold

(Primus, Secundus, Tertius, Quartus, Quintus, Sextus and Septimus)

The last male descendant of the King gets to become the next king. So the brothers all go off killing each other so they can inherit the kingdom. they are pretty terrible to each other in that respect, but also a kingdom based on such succession is not going to be thriving like it could be.

(luckily they have a sister)

[wc-of-dnd]

The Kingdom of Thunder and Storms

The Kingdom of Thunder and Storms is not really a kingdom. It's a town with a Queen and a royalty-ish system. When the magical resurgence started, royalty escaped to the north and attempted to stay at what would later become Castle Brimstone and the surrounding townhouses. A curse was placed on this land by a powerful sorcerer seeking revenge against the rich who'd refused to aid their community and instead fled in their time of need. The town's surrounding area became a blasted heath that would never naturally grow flora.

Sometime later, the survivors of the lower continent arrived. Using newly rediscovered magic some areas were saved from the curse, at a price. The fortress- Castle Brimstone- proved to be the easiest place to hold an entire town in the event of a dragon attack. The survivors settled in the abandoned heath and renamed the town to StormHold.

Camp image below:

[Image description: A simplified map of an overhead view of a camp. The camp has a fortress represented by simplified shapes to the top left, labeled 'Castle Brimstone'. Within the castle is an area labeled 'Warrior training ground'. To the top right is a rectangle labeled 'Healer's House', connected to a dashed line representing a fence. Behind the Healer's House is an area labeled 'Graveyard + Herb Garden' where in tiny almost illegible text 'King's Memorium' is written. Below the Healer's House is a rectangle labeled 'Warrior's Barracks'. Beneath that is a house labeled as 'Family Housing' and below that 'Tailor/Menders.' To the left of that is a building labeled 'Blacksmiths/Butchers' and to the left of that another 'Family Housing'. Finally, the last building on the bottom left is labeled 'Elder Community Housing'. Stretching from the fortress are orangish red footpaths that are shaped to look vaguely like veins or possibly a tree. They connect to each house and major building. Between the fortress and the elder community housing is a campfire.]

[Sorry if that is terrible, I'm not good at image descriptions!]

Unfinished sketch of The Kingdom's territory:

(NOTE: The camp is represented with less houses than are actually present in camp on the larger map. This is because it's still work in progress, and more buildings will be added.)

[Image ID: A colored unfinished map depicting the town seen in the previous image in a more 3-d style, with paths leading out from the camp to various locations. One leads to a cliff, one leads to a strangely shaped pyramidic mountain, one leads to a deep and long forest. A river runs close to the path between the mountain and the camp.]

Major Locations in The Kingdom:

Camp

See above.

The Forest

Since the Blasted Heath doesn't grow much other than herbs (Without magical intervention), most food is foraged from the nearby forest. Patrols of warriors (in times of war this job is done by blacksmiths, menders, butchers, and those not fighting.) go out daily to the forest. They hunt and gather edible plants and vegetables.

HighPeak

HighPeak is the mountain that holds the MoonLight, a mysterious effect of the light that allows Healers and those seeking it's guidance to speak to their past relatives and ancestors.

Charged Rapids

The Charged Rapids are a river that runs perpendicular to the path between Camp and HighPeak. It's a big source of clean water, and occasionally fishing for the kingdom.

The Old Hag's Grave

The Old Hag's Grave is a small grove of a few trees surrounding a large and warped stone. It was named by a group of children, and doesn't serve any specific purpose for the kingdom. Every time someone asks who the Old Hag is, a different answer is given.

[tastesoftamriel]

Coin Brothers' Cornerclub

A time-honoured Stormhold institution for good food and drink.

Starters and light bites

Battered frog legs, with sweet butter sauce

Scrib and saltrice arancini, with lime and swamp tomato salsa

Deep fried whitebait, with tartare sauce

Boga and Zander roe and wickwheat crackers, with wasabi and sour cream

Mains

Combwort flatbread tacos, with grilled grasshoppers and spicy smoked mole

Fried Quillback fish, with jasmine rice and sweet-and-spicy saltrice treacle

Chicken and scrib pie, with pepper scuttle gravy

Guar shawarma, with comberry vinaigrette and our secret sauce duo

Desserts

Kwama egg and sweet scuttle soufflé, with shein flambé (allow 20 minutes)

Stormhold scuttlebloom sorbet, with maraschino comberries

Marshmerrow cake, with mango konjac jelly

Caramelised scuttle curds, with wickwheat flatbread

[lifewithaview]

"What do stars do?"

Stardust (2007)

The passage from this world to the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold is through a breach in a wall beside an English village. In the 1800s, a boy becomes a man when he ventures through the breach in pursuit of a fallen star, to prove his love for the village beauty. The star is no lump of rock, it's a maiden, Yvaine. Tristan, the youth, is not the only one looking for her: three witches, led by Lamia, want her heart to make them young; and, the sons of the dead king of Stormhold want her because she holds a ruby that will give one of them title to the throne. Assisting Tristan are his mother, the victim of a spell, and a cross-dressing pirate of the skies. Will Tristan win his true love?

[merelyspecters]

I'd like to think that Stormhold's castle used to be known for its dinner parties. The former king made a grand show of things, showering visiting guests with opulence—and giving his peasants the scraps that remained. Some citizens theorize that he wanted a legacy to set him apart from his murderous sons. They'd be wrong. He just wanted to flaunt his power.

After he dies, though, the dinner parties cease altogether. At first, the citizens believe it to be mourning—and it certainly is, in a sense. There aren't any princes in the castle who could plan a dinner, anyways. But then Tristan's coronation happens, and the citizens wait... and wait... but they don't return.

What the kingdom doesn't know is that the dinners haven't stopped: they've just shrunk. The grandiose throne makes Tristan uncomfortable, so he and Yvaine eat dinners away from the grand hall. Sure, they still host diplomats, but they do so far from all the grandeur. The intimate setting lends itself to more meaningful conversation... and, of course, frees up their treasury to fund programs for the needy.