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Rodan
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It's a funny thing but where do the building material for all the
buildings comes from? So I've come up with an idea that may be used for
all the mods, stone quarries, saw mills, stonecutters, etc. For
example, you could import mortar from Silgrad Tower, rock from the
Velothi Mountains, wood from the forests near Cormaris View, etc.
Would like to know your thoughts on it. 
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17.01.2006 05:29 |
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noremorse
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Sounds perfect! I dont' think anybody has ever really though about that. Opens up new jobs as well. 
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17.01.2006 06:33 |
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Rodan
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Also another idea, paper mills. Where else can our scrolls come from?
Of course there can be places where Oblivion cider, juices, and fresh water are bottled and transported as well. 
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17.01.2006 08:59 |
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Razorwing
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Rodan:
I did some quick research and it would seem there are three major
contenders that can theoretically be used as writing material in an
Elder Scrolls-type setting; papyrus, parchment and paper.
Papyrus was made from weaving together the leaves of a particular
plant, and was mostly popular during ancient times. Real-life scrolls
were made in papyrus, like the Dead Sea scrolls, but I wonder if the
scrolls in TES are supposed to be made of it... personally I would
guess they're made from parchment, while book pages are made from paper.
Parchment was made from treated animal skins, usually sheep or cow. It
was quite popular in medieval times because of its durability.
"skins were usually soaked in a lime solution in wooden vats or in
stone-lined pits. They were kept there [for 3-10 days] and were
occasionally stirred and turned. Finally they were washed in water.
Each skin was then stretched on a frame--traditionally circular, but
occasionally rectangular--and scraped with a lunellarium, a circular
knife."
(source)
However paper gained popularity as time wore on because it was much
cheaper to produce, easier to write on, and came in fixed sizes unlike
parchment. In today's world paper is made from wood pulp, but that
technology didn't exist in the middle ages when I think it was instead
made from linen (a fabric made from plants).
"By the thirteenth century there were established paper mills in
Spain and Italy [...] By about 1400 it become a relatively common
medium for little volumes of sermons, cheap textbooks, popular tracts,
and so on."
(source)
Both the sites I quoted from has some rather decent descriptions of how
the processes work when parchment and paper was created in medieval
times, which might be helpful in setting up a parchment/paper-producing
location.
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17.01.2006 12:21 |
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dwemer lizard
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maby we can make an industrial erea 
that will be nice
I can see it now....
the boss of the place has used dwemer tecnollegie....
a combo of dwemer an imperial....
I think it will look great
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18.01.2006 17:34 |
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KuKulzA
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corkbulb is used in the northern regions and on Vvardenfell where wood is scarce
and stones can be quarried from Velothi Mts., and wood from forests if needed
but where do Redoran traditional buildings come from?
from exctint giant crab shells covered with adobe (dried mud?) and carved.
so maybe there is a gigantic crab burial near the coast somewhere, and
workers painstakingly excavate them and take them to villages piece by
piece, then the joints and parts of the carapace are rejoined,
fortified with mud and sod... and then carved to the new owner's liking
just a suggestion...
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05.02.2006 14:51 |
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Razorwing
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| quote: |
Originally posted by KuKulzA
but where do Redoran traditional buildings come from?
from exctint giant crab shells covered with adobe (dried mud?) and carved.
so maybe there is a gigantic crab burial near the coast somewhere, and
workers painstakingly excavate them and take them to villages piece by
piece, then the joints and parts of the carapace are rejoined,
fortified with mud and sod... and then carved to the new owner's liking
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Nope, Skar in Ald'ruhn is the only case where Dunmer live in insect carapaces. But the fact that Skar is
an insect shell of the extinct Emperor Crab is mentioned a lot in the
game, and coupled with the insect-like design of their homes it's easy
to get the impression that it's all carapaces. From Morrowind's
dialogue:three main cultures
The three Dunmer Great Houses that have settled Vvardenfell have
distinctive architectures and lifestyles. Aristocratic, warlike Great
House Redoran favors a spacious, irregular, organic building style.
Great House Hlaalu, an aggressive mercantile culture, strongly admiring
and influenced by Imperial culture, prefers simpler, more modern, more
densely populated settlements, while bizarre wizard towers dominate
mushroom-hut villages of the Great House Telvanni sorcerer-lords. A
fourth Great House style, the Velothi or Temple style, is evident in
the monumental architecture, bridges, buttresses, and grand canals of
the ancient religious center of Vivec City.
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05.02.2006 21:17 |
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KuKulzA
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whoops... my bad....
well, I rest my case.. I have been proven wrong and realize the subltey of wording...
but I think SOME crab shell is used... (due to TES3 concept art)
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05.02.2006 22:11 |
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