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Alana Telvanni’s Tel Galen

Player: @Peaceruler

House: Tel Galen

Karliah’s Sanctuary

Player: @Peaceruler

House: The Erstwhile Sanctuary

Temple of Dibella

Player: @Peaceruler

House: Enchanted Snow Globe Home

Housing Contest 4: “A School” pt. 4/6

Recap of entries of our recent housing contest where the contestants were required to create a place of learning.

In this post are the entries:

1. Mournhold's Theological School

Player: @MarcAntoineH

House: Flaming Nix Deluxe Garret

“Welcome to Mournhold's Theological School! Located nearby the temple of our beloved and mostly holy Mother Ayem, our school welcomes both young novitiates of the Tribunal Temple and children from honorable dunmeri houses*. In This serene, mer-sized institution, you will benefit from the Mournhold Partiarch's weekly sermons, Temple priests' scholarly commentaries on the words of Our Merciful Mother Ayem, as well as from the theological book collection, carefully selected and gathered by the Ordinators of the Doctrine. *Discount available for the members of the Great House Indoril.“

2. Moonsister’s Captain Margaux's Place

Player: @moonsister

House: Captain Margaux's Place

“Welcome to astronomy class! Tinkerer and astronomer Zohra comes down from Domus Phrasticus to teach all about stars and surrounding myths. The upper store doubles as obeservatory and romantic nook. All 13 constellations are accounted for, though not all by tile.“

3. MW187′s Autumn’s-Gate

Player: @MW187

House: Autumn’s-Gate

“A school to learn at a little bit of Tamriel.“

4. Peaceruler’s House of Silent Magnifico

Player: @Peaceruler

Mephala’s Shrine

Player: @Peaceruler

House: Mournoth Keep

Title: Warden's Retreat

Player: @Peaceruler

House: Autumn's-Gate The winner of Tamriel Homes’ featured home of the month voting for November is Peaceruler’s Autumn's-Gate: “Warden's Retreat.” This version of Autumn's-Gate offers a very cozy and colorful take on the Nord house with well controlled and coherent arrangements. In this post you can find a few pictures of the home, but if you are playing in the PC/EU-server, it is recommended that you visit the house in game to experience and see what it is feels and looks like in person!

Interview: Below you can read a short interview with @Peaceruler, the person behind the creation, and find out what they have to say about Warden's Retreat and ESO’s player-housing in general:

1. Q: From what sort of creative background are you coming from? Do you have any other creative pursuits or hobbies? What are your preferred forms of self expression? A: I don’t really have a creative background. As a child, I’ve never really been good at arts and crafts. But I did like watching other people’s creations. The only creative hobby I was any good at was writing short stories. Ever since housing came out, I’ve been very enthusiastic about it. And this has now become my primary creative pursuit. My goal was creating a home for all of my 8 characters. At this moment, I’ve got 15 characters, as I started creating characters to create houses for, instead of the other way around! Running out of character slots, I’ve now started making themed houses. A wellness retreat, a library, a shrine to a beloved Daedric Prince…

2. Q: Where did you find inspiration for this particular concept? Did you have any points of reference? A: My main sources of inspiration are the many videos from other people decorating houses. I like seeing what other people can create and take inspiration from that. I also check the ESO forum for ideas. If you’ve seen my other houses, you know I like the many coloured trees that ESO has, and using lighting, candle lights and enchanted lights are my favourite. After googling “Thomas Kincade”, I realized I may also have been inspired by the many puzzles of this man’s art my mother made when I was younger.        

3. Q: What did you prioritize with your approach to the concept? Did you have any core ideas, or principles that you aimed to follow? A: As I said earlier, I usually decorate houses for my characters. This house was designed for my Warden Tank character, named Lyanna of Bear Island. Nowadays I play her the most and bring her to the most dangerous of DLC dungeons. Therefore I thought she deserved a house that was pretty as well as comfortable, with nature having slightly taken it over, because she’s a Warden afterall.

4. Q: Which parts of this concept did you find the most challenging parts to design? A: Lining up the hedges in the area outside! xD So you can’t see through them. I’ve used twenty of them.       

5. Q: Are there any specific areas or details you'd like to highlight in particular, and tell us about how you came up with them? A: This house consists of only one big room and I wanted to divide that into three parts: Bedroom with inside bathroom, Sitting Room and a Kitchen. Enter Summerset and its lovely ballroom floors, stairs and fences, and I could finally do that. I’d already seen other people creating elevated places in their homes, and I thought this home would be perfect for it.

6. Q: Do you have any housing related tips or thoughts you'd like to share with the rest of the community? A: Housing tip: Every room in your house looks prettier with one of those Jester trees in it sprinkling petals down on you. ;-)

7. Q: If you could ask Zenimax to improve the player housing in ESO in some way, which changes would be on the top of your list and why? A: More choices in floors and walls. I’m happy with the stuff we got in Summerset and Murkmire, but I would really like to have more choices in different type of stone and wooden floors and walls, and in different sizes. Same goes for stairs.

8. Q: Lastly, what sort of future plans do you have player housing-wise? Can we expect to see more from you? A: I’m currently trying to build a house from scratch. Let’s say I’m better at making existing houses look pretty. But you’ll definitely see more of me, whether it’s that house or others I’ve already made, or houses I’ll make in the future.

Thanks for sharing your creation and thoughts with us! We’ll be looking forward to see more from you in the future!

Tour: We also have a video featuring a tour around @Peaceruler’s house, in case you cannot visit it in game! The video is provided by our member Elara Northwind, whose channel is also worth checking out for many more great creations! Watch a video tour at @Peaceruler's Autumn's-Gate here!

Not-so-Humblemud

Player: @Peaceruler

House: Humblemud

Peaceruler’s Ald Velothi

Player: @Peaceruler

House: Ald Velothi Harbor House