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Thanks for all those ideas! I actually really like the large idea you've given me, but as you said yourself, it is a bit too large for a side quest. However, I could add the quest line as an expansion afterwards. I'm already planning a guild expansion for Rochebere after the initial release, so it would be pretty cool to have 'The Rochebere Trilogy', with something similar to your idea being the final part. Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. Probably better for me to focus on the initial release first! ;)

Glad you're looking forward to it, and thanks for the quest suggestion! The similarities between the architecture of Syerscote and Rochebere is pretty much because I quickly slapped together Syerscote using some slightly modified Rochebere models so that I could show people what the general 'feel' of Rochebere will be like, but on a much larger scale.

Thanks, I suppose...?

No worries! :thumbsup: I've also spend this evening putting together a map which shows the total area that the city covers, and it has been neatly divided into regions for you too! At the moment the total area of the city is something just below half the size of Whiterun hold! Not bad in my honest opinion. :P http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7217/rocheberemap.jpg

Thanks for the message, I liked the idea!

So it's a long forgotten city. How's about the trading in Rochebere? Can the people produce all of their own goods? Are there merchants from Skyrim? Or maybe is there only one greedy merchant who kept the city's existence in secret for his own good (and mostly for his wealth)?What do the citizen eat? Fish from rivers? Wheat from farmlands? Are there any temples in the city? Could the player join any cults? Is there any chance to gain political power by ranking up in different factions? Is there any bigger graveyard around the city? If so It sholuld be quite big (probably bigger than the 'biggest' one in Falreath). Let's collect the factions for the quest. You have probably planned the City Guard already, and the city should have it's own rats beneath the surface. Maybe there is a court wizard in the town, for mage quests. That's a lot of questions, so I'll do my best to answer them all without filling the page! First off, I'm going to try and explain the city's history to you. Rochebere was first established in 3E 352, when Imperial travellers set up a small trading site on the borders of Skyrim, Cyrodiil and Hammerfell. By the time of the Oblivion crisis the city had expanded to the size of a village, but unfortunately during this time the daedra attacked the settlement, leaving only rubble and a handful of survivors in their wake. Later this year, a family of Nordic and Imperial heritage, the Thesian's, flee from Cyrodiil seeking peace. After days of travelling, they arrive at the ruins of the village and learn of the devastation that occurred there. Sympathising for the townsfolk who lost their families and homes, the Thesian's ignite the rebirth of Rochebere. In the year 4E 04 the settlement had been rebuilt into a small, peaceful city. The townsfolk who resided there elected the honourable Thesians' to rule over them, to show their gratitude towards the family. A year later, the city made an alliance with the Imperial Empire, which stated that Rochebere would be recognised as a city and would abide by their laws, on the condition that the city was not exploited for the benefit of the Empire. Over the coming years a flood of new life came to Rochebere, seeking new opportunities, which led to the city expanding into the metropolis it is today. By the year 4E 31, the Imperials had become concerned with the power the city now held, and had begun to feel that the city could become a potential threat if Rochebere continued to expand at this alarming rate. To solve this, the Empire planned to overthrow the current ruler of Rochebere, and enforce oppressive and unfair new laws on the people of the city hoping that it would decrease their prosperity. After a failed assassination attempt on Caspius Thesian, the cities' current ruler, the loyal citizens of Rochebere successfully pushed Imperial forces from the city in an attempt to claim their freedom. However, this was just the tip of the iceberg. The Empire sent a new wave of forces to the city, resulting in a brutal conflict which took place for four years. Eventually, in the year 3E 45, The Imperials' abandoned their war with Rochebere. However, the empire destroyed any prior knowledge of Rochebere out of spite after this, leaving the city to become forgotten to the people of Tamriel. Caspius Thesian was titled the first 'Jarl' of Rochebere, honouring the families Nordic heritage. Now... onto your other questions... Q)How's about the trading in Rochebere? A)The city is divided into 3 main districts- Central (also commonly referred to as simply 'Rochebere'), Residential and Countryside. A large river, named the river Wolven, flows from the Countryside district all the way through to the end of Central Rochebere. Many supplies, such as wheat, vegetables and meat are produced in the fertile soils of the countryside, and are transported along the River Wolven to the docks in central Rochebere, ready to be unloaded and sold by the various merchants in the city. Q)Can the people produce all of their own goods? A)Often the citizens have no need to produce their own goods, and instead purchase them from the merchants in the city, who either produce/craft their own products or buy them from farmers in the countryside, as mentioned above. Q)Are there merchants from Skyrim? A)The merchants in the city are from all parts of Tamriel, but many of them were born and raised in the city, with only the occasional travelling trader stumbling across the city. Q)Or maybe is there only one greedy merchant who kept the city's existence in secret for his own good (and mostly for his wealth)? A)In many cases the merchants that come across the city choose to stay there, as they tend to make lots of money by selling their goods to the vast amounts of people in Rochebere, and thus have no need to keep the city secret (since they live there). Q)What do the citizen eat? Fish from rivers? Wheat from farmlands? A)Everything is grown in the countryside and transported into the main city ready to be sold. So that can include wheat and fish, yes. Q)Are there any temples in the city? A)The Rochebere chapel stands in the outskirts of the city. The priests there encourage the worship of all the nine divines. Q)Could the player join any cults? A)There are currently no 'cults' in the mod as such, however I am planning to add a small mysterious group inspired by the Freemasons in reality. If I add this little faction, there will probably be only one quest which will be to join the cult. However, once you are a member they will be able to help remove your bounty or criminality using certain methods, and there will probably be radiant objectives for the player to eliminate a randomly generated guard or target to remove another members bounty. There is also the secret guild 'The Guardians', who are the benevolent defenders of the people and do their best to top unlawful deeds that the guards cannot always prevent, such as murders, slavery and rape. The Guardian's guild will have a full length questline released as an expansion after the initial release of the mod. As you can guess, there is a contrast between these two groups, so it will be likely that I shall make the player only able join one of the two. Q)Is there any chance to gain political power by ranking up in different factions? A)The player can become a wealthy landlord by purchasing certain property in the city (and change the way a few key NPC's react to you) but as it currently stands there is no way to gain 'political power'. Q)Is there any bigger graveyard around the city? If so It sholuld be quite big (probably bigger than the 'biggest' one in Falreath). A)There is a creepy and isolated graveyard just off the countryside district, but is is blocked off during the events of the Rochebere questline. I don't want to spoil it too much for you, but the player has to get there via the sewers as part of the main quest. Q)Let's collect the factions for the quest. You have probably planned the City Guard already, and the city should have it's own rats beneath the surface. Maybe there is a court wizard in the town, for mage quests. A)Like I mentioned, the main 'Faction' is the Guardian's guild, which is joinable. There is obviously the guards too, but they are not joinable. Another faction is this contraband-y sort of group that have a small hideout in the sewers where they can trade illegal things (notably drugs). They are non-hostile and willing to trade with you, but if you report anything to the guards or decide to attack a member of the gang, they will become hostile to you and no longer trade with you. There is also a building in central Rochebere where fighters can go and boast about their deeds, but at the moment there are no quests, but a couple of radiant miscellaneous objectives. As for mages there is no group, but the owner of the spell book shop has a basement sanctuary dedicated to wizards, which can be entered for a small fee, and once inside the player can speak and learn with other mages who reside there. There is also a similar feature for archers, but this can be joined for free. There is a run down basement in the residential district where people can go to compete in the fully functional archery range and earn money from doing well. *Phew!* Was that enough information? ;)

I'm not going to lie, I absolutely love that idea! It's a convient way to put all the lore and backstory I have into the game in an interesting way that the player will want to partake in. Thanks!

Thanks! Like I've said before, it really helps to keep me motivated when people give me support to carry on! The voice actors are all wonderful people who Ikve enjoyed working with- they've put in a lot of work to make the characters perfect. There are hundreds more lines in the mod itself, not to mention the other voice actors' characters, so hopefully you will like what you her in the final mod! Oh, and I'm not sure if I'm being stupid, but what do you mean by rationale? Like lore and backstory? Yeah, just a little backstory to explain why the city's built up vertically. Is there a geographic limit on space? Is there a river which made it more convenient for people to stay in the city? Was there some brilliant architect which established the city's concept for such tall homes (from typical standards). Things like that. That's fine then! I have a whole timeline of the important events of the city dating back to the third era, explaining its culture, architecture and independence. Feel free to send me any ideas you have via PM or post them on this thread. I'm sure everyone else would love to hear your ideas too! Shame you never made your mod, sounds like a nice idea! Anyway the city is build on a large piece of land on and around the borders of Skyrim, Cyrodiil and Hammerfell. You would think that this would make it a well known city, but after the battle of independence took place in the city at the start of the 4E, the Imperial Empire wiped almost all knowledge of the city from existence, meaning as generations passed, the city became forgotten, despite its size. Regarding the questline, there are several moral-choices in the questline, which I have tried to make affect lots of other things, but it's pretty hard when you want to players to get as much content out of the mod as possible. As an example, I originally considered making the 'bad' ending so that it leaves no NPC's in the city, and it is left in ruins. Although it was a cool idea, the city would be worthless to the player afterwards. :thumbsup:

Rochebere needs you! http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8112/propaganda01.jpg A very fitting image indeed! I am in need of some imaginative people to give me some creative ideas regarding the side-quests in Rochebere. I have better ideas when it comes to large, dramatic quest-lines, but as for little singular quests my mind has run dry. Watch the end of the video below for more information! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJGVFmDdRL8

Ignore this post. (Double post!)

Thanks, glad you like it! :thumbsup:

Episode 6! Sorry about the slight delay. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJGVFmDdRL8

Thanks! Like I've said before, it really helps to keep me motivated when people give me support to carry on! The voice actors are all wonderful people who Ikve enjoyed working with- they've put in a lot of work to make the characters perfect. There are hundreds more lines in the mod itself, not to mention the other voice actors' characters, so hopefully you will like what you her in the final mod! Oh, and I'm not sure if I'm being stupid, but what do you mean by rationale? Like lore and backstory?

Oh boy, there are probably more NPC's in the city than all the ones from the Vanilla cities added together, is that enough for you? ;) Most of them will have something to tell you about themselves or have something for you to do. I am actually in a stage of getting more Voice lines at the moment. I've got all of the lines for important characters and the main questline, but I'm working on scripting the minor NPC's at the moment. If you like, feel free to send me a PM with some samples of your voice :thumbsup: I'm happy to hear that you like the medieval look that I'm trying to perfect! I agree that I missed it in Skyrim after Morrowind and Oblivion, but I suppose that kind of Architecture doesn't suit the Nordic culture. As for guard armour, you can see the set that Frankdema (who is actually the creator of all the custom armour sets in Rochebere, since that is one area I'm not experienced in) made for me a couple of pages back. Like I said to DJD2010, you can send me some samples of your voice via PM if you are interested in acting. :)

Episode 5 is up for all of you to enjoy! Had some real fun making some bits of this episode... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz2DS43WpQg&feature=youtu.be

Spent a a few hours of the past two days doing a bit of work on some marvelous vistas in the Countryside, and I've got a couple of screenshots straight out of the Creation kit for you! http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/3401/countryside01.png http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6029/countryside02.png http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/910/countryside03.png

Thanks! I'm probably not going to include the white Windows bar at the top of the final thing, I just put it there because it looked cool! :D Like you said, I can use that space for something else. It's entirely possible, since I haven't fully planned a lot of the side quests. You'll just have to wait and find out on release. ;)

Around Summer time is when I hope to be finished, glad you are looking forward to it! I also created a DLC style cover today to test out ArtStudio for the iPad, so let me know what you all think! :thumbsup: http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/3992/imagerrm.jpg

Episode 4 is up for you to all enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBIIRia9o60

Had a bit of a delay this time round folks- busy weekend! Got a message of apologies for you though. :thumbsup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W8_a2DpSCk

Thanks! Thanks for that! I may be able to look into the script and use a similar idea. Great, glad you like it!

Thanks, hearing everyone's support and comments always helps to keep me motivated!

Great, thanks for the tip! I have the Dragonborn DLC (haven't played it much though) so I should be able to look into this. :thumbsup: Glad you like it! Unfortunately no one other than myself has played the mod or seen anything other than my trailers and screenshots.

Already got a florist in there. There's already an arena in planning stages just outside the city, called the crucible. :thumbsup: I suppose a bookshop could be added as well as a library.

So at the moment I'm thinking: A menagerie/pet shopMore instances of certain stores (Bakery etc.)Various training buildingsA small fighters' Guild type-thing where anyone is welcome to come and share their successes and get the occasional questBlack market store(s)