Art and Assets Update - December 2023
Tamriel Rebuilt is a large community modding project that aims to add the missing mainland of the Morrowind province to
TES III: Morrowind. The mod is developed and released as a series of fully realized expansions that are seamlessly integrated into the vanilla Morrowind worldspace and with each other. Currently, players can download and enjoy roughly half of the mainland, which comes fully equipped with thousands of interior locations, NPCs, dialogue, and more than 600 added quests - many more than the original game and expansions combined.
Happy holidays, readers! Despite the release of our last expansion, Andaram, only a short while ago, progress on new expansions to the Morrowind mainland is ongoing, as those following the much-more-frequently-updated #progress-updates channel on our Discord server well know.
Now, as the year is drawing to a close, it is high time we update you on what our prolific artists and asset developers have been doing for most of this year. We last tallied this progress in early March, so we will be covering almost a years worth of assets progress - prepare for a long read. Some brief highlights of what that includes:
- Reams of new concept art on the Mournhold and Velothis districts, and on innumerable other topics.
- An entire new, alien culture for the Dreugh including eerie citadels, new enemies, and innumerable clutter items.
- Tons of new ships from all across Tamriel to fill our harbors with.
- An entire new architecture set modeled on the Old Mournhold ruins.
- Lots of progress on assets needed for Indoril region overhauls, most especially in the Mephalan Vales region.
- Many new armors, creatures, clutter sets, and more.
The below post will walk you through the fruits of what are essentially the first two legs of our development pipeline - conceptualization and asset creation. Only when concepts are set in stone and unique assets created can new regions and cultures be called to life by our level and quest designers.
Warning! This post contains spoilers for our newest expansion, Andaram, especially as regards the Almas Thirr Mages Guild questline. If you wish to go into the content unspoiled, it's best to leave this news post for later. Furthermore, bear in mind that all content here is work-in-progress and subject to change - especially information on the linked asset browser pages, which is in many cases outdated already.
Now, without further ado...
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