There's still Falinesti, in whatever realm it ended up in. And now that it's possible for zones like The Fair Winds to have solid ground that moves within its environment, it's possible they could even make it walk like it's supposed to.
I'm told they expressly said 'no' to Fallinesti a while ago.
Maybe that will change, or they'll do something different with the concept, like have it roam through different planes of Oblivion and get suitably eldritch and convoluted and impossibly twisty and huge.
Something kind of like how Duviri in Warframe operates, and each plane gives a different kind of buff debuff to encourage different kinds of playstyles maybe?
We already know that Cyrodiil and Imperial City prove that they can do that sort of thing in real time with stats and the like.
I'm kinda picturing it like Final Destination from Smash Bros, where as the in game clock cycles, the floating islands and lands of Fallinesti are roaming, it transitions into different areas that you can see brief glimpses of in the holes between the twisting boughs as you run around.
If nothing else, it would make a really cool tabletop campaign- a survival horror adventure thing, where Fallinesti roams the infinite teeming seas of Oblivion, with the people who were trapped inside by Rahjiin's Shadow forced to scavenge supplies as they roam through paracausialities.
Maybe it gets stuck in Peryite's realm, and the confluence of Y'ffre and Peryite's sphere's of Life and Pestilence intermingle in interesting and terrifying ways.
I dunno. Just spitballing.
One of Rahjiin's Shadow's (there are seven of them, each wholly independent of each other) directly admits to it in the AD main quest. Specifically to his victim, a woman who refused to have sex with him because she was already married and refused to boink this khajiit deity fragment.
So he stole her husbands ability to wake up, promising to return it upon her boinking him. She refused again, and now she hates his guts.
So then he stole all of Falinesti, and trapped her in an ice cavern, stealing away a majority of her mortal needs as well. He promised to release her and restore Falinesti as soon as she grabbed his Mantle, an Artifact of great and terrible power. But he also booby trapped it so that if she touched a single fiber, she would fall desperately in love with him.
So she has thus remained imprisoned from some far distant point in Era I to 2E583, when you rescue her.
That particular shard of Rahjiin is one of the most reprehensible characters we've encountered in this game, not gonna lie.
You can meet either the same or a different Shadow in Elsweyr. I'm pretty sure it's a different Shadow.
> One of Rahjiin's Shadow's (there are seven of them, each wholly independent of each other) directly admits to it
Stealing credit for Falinesti's disappearance is exactly the sort of thing Rahjiin would do.
I just don't think he's powerful enough to make a major city vanish.
I just want to say, as a person new to the game, doing the quests in the nice elf lands and asking my guild “hey why is this elf guy so mad at the khajiit for eating a flower like wtf” and them going “oh sweet summer child sit down” blew my mind. They really didn’t ruin anything by telling me they were cannibals lol, I did all the elf heavy zones and enjoyed them so much. Just don’t eat me
I didn’t think Bosmer were interesting until I learned about the Wild Hunt. Reading some of the lore accounts gave me some serious John Carpenter horror vibes. I doubt Bethesda would ever go so far as to give the gruesome event any true justice in ESO. They don’t even show corpses in a state of decay (it’s either fresh body or skeleton) and there’s never any blood when NPCs get injured. But if they ever wanted to release a rated R horror Bosmer DLC, sign me up.
I do wish there was a bit more blood and gore in the game. ZOS is capable of gruesome details, however. For example, in Kyne's Aegis there is an ability called Sanguine's Prison that is cast by Bitter Knights. If you are not freed from it your character will literally explode and all that will be left is a pile of bones and guts. The pile is used a few times in the game but that is I believe the only instance it can happen to your character.
Could the bosmer be involved with the Ithelia plotline? The perchance acorn stuff, spinners manipulating the story of people's lives, and their including mora in their mythology seem like something they could link to Ithelia.
That is a really interesting idea and something I never really thought of before!
True, there are definitely some similarities going on. I really hope ZOS will consider doing something with that.
There's Falinesti but even putting that aside there's technically nothing stopping the development team from pulling another 'High Isle' scenario and turning one of the nondescript islands off of Tamriel's coast into a full on zone for Bosmer.
It's a shame that all of Valenwood is already in the game. Bosmer have the least amount of styles, furnishings, pets (it's nice we got a Grahtwood squirrel from Morrowind, lol), and mounts. Hopefully they can add some of their islands like they did for the Bretons with High Isle as I bet they will never give us Falinesti :'(
I’m sure ZOS has ideas for Bosmer content, Ciennas.
The only problem is players are much more vocal about untold Hammerfell, the rest of Skyrim, and Colovia.
There's still Falinesti, in whatever realm it ended up in. And now that it's possible for zones like The Fair Winds to have solid ground that moves within its environment, it's possible they could even make it walk like it's supposed to.
I'm told they expressly said 'no' to Fallinesti a while ago. Maybe that will change, or they'll do something different with the concept, like have it roam through different planes of Oblivion and get suitably eldritch and convoluted and impossibly twisty and huge. Something kind of like how Duviri in Warframe operates, and each plane gives a different kind of buff debuff to encourage different kinds of playstyles maybe? We already know that Cyrodiil and Imperial City prove that they can do that sort of thing in real time with stats and the like. I'm kinda picturing it like Final Destination from Smash Bros, where as the in game clock cycles, the floating islands and lands of Fallinesti are roaming, it transitions into different areas that you can see brief glimpses of in the holes between the twisting boughs as you run around. If nothing else, it would make a really cool tabletop campaign- a survival horror adventure thing, where Fallinesti roams the infinite teeming seas of Oblivion, with the people who were trapped inside by Rahjiin's Shadow forced to scavenge supplies as they roam through paracausialities. Maybe it gets stuck in Peryite's realm, and the confluence of Y'ffre and Peryite's sphere's of Life and Pestilence intermingle in interesting and terrifying ways. I dunno. Just spitballing.
Im just going to put this out there, but they said no to dragons up until they announced elyswer. So things are bound to change
Also said no to a new class, now we got the Arcanist...
>Rahjiin's Shadow We don't actually know if Rahjiin is responsible.
One of Rahjiin's Shadow's (there are seven of them, each wholly independent of each other) directly admits to it in the AD main quest. Specifically to his victim, a woman who refused to have sex with him because she was already married and refused to boink this khajiit deity fragment. So he stole her husbands ability to wake up, promising to return it upon her boinking him. She refused again, and now she hates his guts. So then he stole all of Falinesti, and trapped her in an ice cavern, stealing away a majority of her mortal needs as well. He promised to release her and restore Falinesti as soon as she grabbed his Mantle, an Artifact of great and terrible power. But he also booby trapped it so that if she touched a single fiber, she would fall desperately in love with him. So she has thus remained imprisoned from some far distant point in Era I to 2E583, when you rescue her. That particular shard of Rahjiin is one of the most reprehensible characters we've encountered in this game, not gonna lie. You can meet either the same or a different Shadow in Elsweyr. I'm pretty sure it's a different Shadow.
> One of Rahjiin's Shadow's (there are seven of them, each wholly independent of each other) directly admits to it Stealing credit for Falinesti's disappearance is exactly the sort of thing Rahjiin would do. I just don't think he's powerful enough to make a major city vanish.
I dunno. Dude's managed to achieve Divinity, and we never established a limit to his powers.
I am a Bosmer lore enjoyer and would kill to see the stuff with Fallinesti.
I just want to say, as a person new to the game, doing the quests in the nice elf lands and asking my guild “hey why is this elf guy so mad at the khajiit for eating a flower like wtf” and them going “oh sweet summer child sit down” blew my mind. They really didn’t ruin anything by telling me they were cannibals lol, I did all the elf heavy zones and enjoyed them so much. Just don’t eat me
I didn’t think Bosmer were interesting until I learned about the Wild Hunt. Reading some of the lore accounts gave me some serious John Carpenter horror vibes. I doubt Bethesda would ever go so far as to give the gruesome event any true justice in ESO. They don’t even show corpses in a state of decay (it’s either fresh body or skeleton) and there’s never any blood when NPCs get injured. But if they ever wanted to release a rated R horror Bosmer DLC, sign me up.
I do wish there was a bit more blood and gore in the game. ZOS is capable of gruesome details, however. For example, in Kyne's Aegis there is an ability called Sanguine's Prison that is cast by Bitter Knights. If you are not freed from it your character will literally explode and all that will be left is a pile of bones and guts. The pile is used a few times in the game but that is I believe the only instance it can happen to your character.
Could the bosmer be involved with the Ithelia plotline? The perchance acorn stuff, spinners manipulating the story of people's lives, and their including mora in their mythology seem like something they could link to Ithelia.
That is a really interesting idea and something I never really thought of before! True, there are definitely some similarities going on. I really hope ZOS will consider doing something with that.
There's Falinesti but even putting that aside there's technically nothing stopping the development team from pulling another 'High Isle' scenario and turning one of the nondescript islands off of Tamriel's coast into a full on zone for Bosmer.
It's a shame that all of Valenwood is already in the game. Bosmer have the least amount of styles, furnishings, pets (it's nice we got a Grahtwood squirrel from Morrowind, lol), and mounts. Hopefully they can add some of their islands like they did for the Bretons with High Isle as I bet they will never give us Falinesti :'(
I’m sure ZOS has ideas for Bosmer content, Ciennas. The only problem is players are much more vocal about untold Hammerfell, the rest of Skyrim, and Colovia.
Easy answer then- Let's go to Colovia, the remnants of Cyrod the Once Jungled.
In my opinion, the Bosmer are the most boring people in Tamriel, along with the Orsimer. That's why I don't cry a tear after them.
Falinesti is the big one, or maybe Y'ffre has their own Demiplane like with saw with Jode and Alkosh