danielj97 Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 (edited) imagine...a place...a place, of nature...a place, of life... a place, like...Saltehold Official Website Saltehold, one of the most beautiful cities in Cyrodill. Sitting at the top of the Topal Sea, on an island just south of Leyawiin, the city has some of the best views that anyone could ever see. Located not far from Leyawiin, but in the middle of the Topal Sea, the area is spectacular. A city, with it's own architecture, which looks even more beautiful when the sun shies down. It's inhabitants being a mixture of every race, the city accepts almost any race. It's huge wooden palisade wall's, make the city look spectacular from the outside. But, it gets even better when the gate's open, and you walk into the spectacularly designed city, you will be engulfed by the kindness of the people, the embellishments that the city is covered in, and when you reach the Castle, you will be truly amazed. Saltehold is the richest, and the second most powerfulest city in Cyrodill. It is even more richer than the Imperial City, due to it's amazing views, and the strength of the industries located there. As with any city, not the whole settlement is the same. The slum's of Saltehold are disgusting. Sick and human droppings lie around the streets. House's are packed tightly, and most house's are old, abandoned and boarded up. The alley's are filled with homeless, and the streets are filled with criminals, and other outcasts. The slum's, are lightly guarded, but, there is a number of traders working on market stands in the area. At night's these stands are often robbed, so, the owner's have taken to hiring guards or moving the stall away at nights. Most people, live in the slum's, due to the extortionate price's of the house's in the nicer area's of the city. One of the most defended area's of the city is the prison. Most of Cyrodill's criminals are brought here, and the prison is huge. It is one of the only areas in the city, with the huge stone wall's you see around cities like Skingrad, and Bruma. The prison take's up a huge area, and because each prisoner must have his own cell (according to prison regulations), the prison has been extended underground, creating over three-hundred new cells. These underground cell's are the worst in the prison, because, they are just little cave's where the prisoner's are thrown in, and locked up. The hardiest prisoners are kept at the bottom, meaning they will have a harder escape, and the least dangerous are kept in the nicer cell's, which are built outside, in seperate blocks. Cyrodill's biggest bank is also located in Saltehold. This bank hold's the Royal Treasury, and is also the location where all of the Elder Council's money is kept. Many institutions, choose to store their riches here, but so do many regular people. Whole room vaults can be rented, and are heavily guarded. The Elder Council has posted a large force of it's soldiers to defend the Council Vaults, and the Emperor even posted a small group of Blade's to guard his personal vault. The regular cell's, and vaults owned by smaller insitutions are guarded by the bank's own guards. The Market and Industrial District's are built together. This means goods, can go straight from the factories, to the stands and shops. A large caravan loading area sit's beside the exterior gate, so that trading caravan's can go straight into the city, load up, and leave. No house's sit inside this district, (except from the shop owner's apartments), and the back alleys, are filled with factories. The main streets look beautiful, and are incredibbly colourful, but when you turn off of them, you see the state of the factory streets. Graffiti is all over every building, and human waste lies in the streets. Fire's in this area can be incredibbly hard to put out, because of the tightness of the alleys. Then you see the residential district, this is the area where the rich people live. House price's here are un-believably high. Not very many house's actually are sittuated here, and not a single poor (or middle class) person is let in. The guard's are very strict about who is allowed into this area, and you require a permit to actually get through the gate's. Every house here has a large garden, and some have outer buildings. There is about four estate's actually inside this area of the city. These estate's have huge gardens, and numerous outer buildings. The center of this area is a large fountain-like statue, at which the "finer-folks" of the city gather, and communicate. "The Keep" is a magnificent structure, rising high above the city, meaning that it's walls can be seen from anywhere in the city. The Keep is where all the Empire's Office's are. House, Land, Tax, Military buildings are all located in the Outer Area of The Keep. The Inner area is where the count and his family live. A huge tower rise's high above the skyline, and the building looks amazing from wherever you stand. On the very, very top of the tower, sit's a large orb. This is where the Empire's Magician's watch Cyrodill's Borders, and make sure that they are safe. Outside the city wall's lies a small number of buildings. A large stable area takes up most of this space, and the rest is cluttered by Travel Agents. These Travel Agent's offer you a ride in their cart's for a fee. Sometime's the fee's can be quite dear, but at other agents, they can be very, very cheap. _______ Anyway, out of the "in-mod" mode, and onto my normal self. :P Saltehold is the mod that I've always wanted to make. And, it's gonna require a lot of work! Because of the fact there's gonna be a lot of interiors, the mod's gonna be released in a few different stages. Stage's (Including Website, Forum Threads, and Actual Mod Releases);Ϫ1 - Mod announcement via Nexus Forums ~ DoneϪ2 - Mod Website Release ~ Ϫ3 - No-Interior Version Release ~Ϫ4 - Some Interior Version Release ~Ϫ5 - Full-Beta version Release ~Ϫ6 - Actual Mod Release ~ As soon as I have them, screenshots will be uploaded. :) Keep an eye on this thread! (: Update - 7 / 03 / 11 City has been moved onto an island in the Topal Sea. The Website is under construction.&The mod will require Borderless Cyrodill, or an edited Options.ini file (which will be provided in a separate download) Edited March 13, 2011 by danielj97 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielj97 Posted March 5, 2011 Author Share Posted March 5, 2011 Thats the thread updated again. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielj97 Posted March 7, 2011 Author Share Posted March 7, 2011 please note location change. the city is now located in the Topal Sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielj97 Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) The website is now up and running. (pages may take a while to load) LINK also, if you notice any bugs, then please send me a PM Edited March 13, 2011 by danielj97 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielj97 Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 Also note: Forums for the mod can be found at this address: http://yellowmountaingaming.freeforums.org/post66.html#p66 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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