
Maybe the eternal muddy swamps would get on my nerves at some point. I don’t know whether it would really be that dark, wild, exotic and adventurous in the end. So far, Black Marsh exists almost exclusively in my imagination. Would I have wished for more courage in the setting? Maybe. Sure, it’s a safe bet for a large single-player role-playing game. Incidentally, the same area in which The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall was set. We already know that The Elder Scrolls 6 is set to take place in Iliac Bay – the desert province of Hammerfell and the European medieval high rock. You can see how the team behind the Mod Schwarzmarsch introduces itself in their video:īeyond Skyrim: This is what the exotic Black Marsh looks like in the huge mod Because Beyond Skyrim opens up the borders from Skyrim to all of Tamriel. So much potential for exciting stories!īy the way, in the greatest Skyrim mod of all time, we will be able to visit Black Marsh. The coastal town of Kleinmottien was completely wiped out by the flying hell city from the Elder Scrolls novel of the same name. Due to the soft mud and the weather conditions, cities like to change their position or are flooded – and the dwellings are therefore simply replaced with new ones. The Argonians have a wild and unexplored culture – it is said that the Hist trees can communicate telepathically with them and have swarm intelligence. The Elder Scrolls Online Concept Arts give a glimpse of what the heart of Black Marsh might look like.īlack Marsh is unlike anything we know from Tamriel. I want to visit the disused Argon Assassin Academy in Archon and break out of the safest prison in Tamriel – which goes by the innocuous name “The Rose.” I want to dive into the black heart of the jungle, meet the living trees, be attacked by poisonous plants and be surprised by the mysterious putrid mud rain. Sure, we can hang out a bit near the northern border and the DLC Murkmire sends us to the southernmost tip near the coast – but as a real adventurer, I want more!

Even in The Elder Scrolls Online, which actually makes the whole world of Tamriel accessible, Black Marsh remains a dark spot on the map so far. But I’ll take the liberty of factoring that out. In 1994 in the boxy MS-DOS world of The Elder Scrolls: Arena. Okay okay Strictly speaking, the home of the Argonians Black Marsh has come before. She is particularly fond of the gloomy homeland of the Argonians, which has been neglected by the games so far. So she can talk about all the places she still wants to visit in The Elder Scrolls. Instead, she’s a GameStar editor – good too. If Géraldine had devoted as many hours to guitar lessons as reading Elder Scrolls Lore, she might be a member of a respected rock band today.
