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blackshark64
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I was reading up on the pact the wood elves made and the spirit of them along with the fact they didn't use any brick or alter the vegitation. So I came up with this concept art of a tree/vine combo and the idea that if it were big enough and connect by a spiralling stair of vine from leaf to leaf it could create a beatiful and natural city of some kind. If not its still would be a cool pic for new floral. I was also thinking that if there were huge trees knotholes in trees could fit a small patch of bandits or one a the very small pitstops between cities.



I view the woodelves as basically roughing it and not having glorious fountains, but instead having learned to live with natural anomolies in Valenwood. So in my opinion there really wouldn't be any houses but mostly just people sleeping in a certain section of the town in the shade or something.

so tell me what ya think of the pic and other thoughts :D
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Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce The big green welcome to Valenwood blackshark64.

Good job! with the happy art...

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reading up on the pact the wood elves made and the spirit of them along with the fact they didn't use any brick or alter the vegitation.!

would be interested to see the Lore source you are quoting for this, is it something you can bung in a link to?

comments... not entirely sure where you would live in this 'leaf city'?

...and how you would get from one area to the next.

The 'pools' are a very nice touch, and have resolved something that I now realise has been teasing the back of my mind.

Hope to see more of your work... also, if you want to contribute artwork to the Botany Books (link in Lit Dev, Valenwood) you are welcome there too. I think your colourful and innovative approach may prove useful
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(Valenwood is noteworthy in that it has no cities or townships built by the Wood Elves themselves. Their strict "Green Pact" prohibits the use of wood or other vegetable derivatives as building materials, and they are too improvident to learn the use of stone.)
Quote from Wikipedia I found while researching claiming that all city locations were either made from pure natural formation or by the small number of Imperials in the region.

I also believe do to this quote that they would basically live in tribes and that the tribes found the natural formations and named it as a city or town. Naturally because they are Bosmer they would be friendly tribes with one another. I did find lore stating that none of the tribes have leaders at this time but there is a "Precurser" who appears to be the man the Bosmer serve now in the name of Y'ffre (the old forest god). The Precurser tells the Bosmer to go back to the old ways and that the god will bare them great gifts.

...as far as living in the leaf city you can't think of general civilized life because these are wild tree people who have no structural bounderies but are instead romantics and high energy peoples. So they would basically meet on the biggest one or two leaves and sleep on the downward spriral of other ones. The pools would be used as there main source of drinking water. As for getting food they would go to a merchant in the town or find there own.

I have now also found there would be some areas that had slight modifications from when the Bosmer broke the rules of the pact. There would also be towns in large chunks of invaders into the land that once waged war on the Bosmers.

Most of this was quoted from the lore book that I got with my special edition of Oblivion.

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Because they cannot use wood, or bricks (more of not learning how to use it for the last one). Most of our Bosmer will be living in natural style houses. Meaning grown from the ground, or grown around a certain structure to give it shape.

There will also be hints of Imperial architecture because the Imperials were sent to help rebuild after the war between Elsweyr and Valenwood. I like your ideas a lot though, and I think it would be great if you could keep contributing =)

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Welcome to VW blackshark. Bounce

Great picture there, although I don't quite get it without reading through text that accompanies it. :D

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I am so ashamed, Welcome to Valenwood BlackShark64 Wave My sincere appologies about not welcoming you Frown
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Welcome mate Cheers I like the idea and the pic looks cool, hope you can come up with more stuff like this.

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Yeah your probably right they would have some imperial adomptations in there towns, so it would be more structured. But... this type of Tree with a winding vine of leaves could be used throughout the forest for small camps of people or for the player to feel more involved in living fast and running up and down the trees like a true Bosmer would by being wild and full of energy. So I think sinse it would be hard to work in as a city to at least keep it on the side as a general running up and through the trees sidenote as far as floral. Oooo I can see it now running up the vines to the leaves making it possible to jump from one tree to another with high enough acrobatics Yes o ye
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Sounds like the mountain people in the Pyranees who traditionally use momentum to jump enormous distances (usu down) by bouncing off the rocks and slopes in gigantic bounds to surprise their enemies - combined with echoing yodelling...
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