#stormhold

Corrupted One

Art Asset for The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold

I recommend looking up what each game was about (or would have been about) before voting!

I mostly kept to what Anon wanted as the options, but I added the last two myself (with anon's permission) because it felt fitting considering the other games listed

Tucked away at the quiet outskirts of Stormhold sits a quiet, cozy greenhouse-teahouse. Styled in a mix of Ayleid and Clockwork, with bits of Redguard, Apocrypha, and Fargrave (Azandar's favorites), and stocking teas from all over Tamriel!

Azandar the Arcanist is my favorite companion, he's hilarious. While traveling around he always says, "Keep your eyes open for a good tea shop. Always happy to try a new blend." I love tea too, but there isn't a single actual tea shop in all of Tamriel that I know of. So... I decided to build one!

And Finally... Khajiit's secret introvert corner ...to get away from Azandar sometimes ;3

Khajiit: "So, Azandar, how do you like the teahouse we custom-built for you?" Azandar: "Quite a blissful environment here. Not quite sure it's how I would have decorated the place, but it's … mmm. Yes. Nice." Khajiit: ... T_T

That's one of his actual lines as a houseguest. I didn't know until after I'd built it lmao 😹

Visitor Info:

Krauss, Eva, Rudolf and Rosa Ushiromiya (Umineko) vs The Princes of Stormhold (Stardust)

Propaganda under break

The Kingdom of Thunder and Storms is not really a kingdom. It's a town with a Queen and a royalty-ish system. When the magical resurgence started, royalty escaped to the north and attempted to stay at what would later become Castle Brimstone and the surrounding townhouses. A curse was placed on this land by a powerful sorcerer seeking revenge against the rich who'd refused to aid their community and instead fled in their time of need. The town's surrounding area became a blasted heath that would never naturally grow flora.

Sometime later, the survivors of the lower continent arrived. Using newly rediscovered magic some areas were saved from the curse, at a price. The fortress- Castle Brimstone- proved to be the easiest place to hold an entire town in the event of a dragon attack. The survivors settled in the abandoned heath and renamed the town to StormHold.

Camp image below:

[Image description: A simplified map of an overhead view of a camp. The camp has a fortress represented by simplified shapes to the top left, labeled 'Castle Brimstone'. Within the castle is an area labeled 'Warrior training ground'. To the top right is a rectangle labeled 'Healer's House', connected to a dashed line representing a fence. Behind the Healer's House is an area labeled 'Graveyard + Herb Garden' where in tiny almost illegible text 'King's Memorium' is written. Below the Healer's House is a rectangle labeled 'Warrior's Barracks'. Beneath that is a house labeled as 'Family Housing' and below that 'Tailor/Menders.' To the left of that is a building labeled 'Blacksmiths/Butchers' and to the left of that another 'Family Housing'. Finally, the last building on the bottom left is labeled 'Elder Community Housing'. Stretching from the fortress are orangish red footpaths that are shaped to look vaguely like veins or possibly a tree. They connect to each house and major building. Between the fortress and the elder community housing is a campfire.]

[Sorry if that is terrible, I'm not good at image descriptions!]

Unfinished sketch of The Kingdom's territory:

(NOTE: The camp is represented with less houses than are actually present in camp on the larger map. This is because it's still work in progress, and more buildings will be added.)

[Image ID: A colored unfinished map depicting the town seen in the previous image in a more 3-d style, with paths leading out from the camp to various locations. One leads to a cliff, one leads to a strangely shaped pyramidic mountain, one leads to a deep and long forest. A river runs close to the path between the mountain and the camp.]

Major Locations in The Kingdom:

Camp

See above.

The Forest

Since the Blasted Heath doesn't grow much other than herbs (Without magical intervention), most food is foraged from the nearby forest. Patrols of warriors (in times of war this job is done by blacksmiths, menders, butchers, and those not fighting.) go out daily to the forest. They hunt and gather edible plants and vegetables.

HighPeak

HighPeak is the mountain that holds the MoonLight, a mysterious effect of the light that allows Healers and those seeking it's guidance to speak to their past relatives and ancestors.

Charged Rapids

The Charged Rapids are a river that runs perpendicular to the path between Camp and HighPeak. It's a big source of clean water, and occasionally fishing for the kingdom.

The Old Hag's Grave

Coin Brothers' Cornerclub

A time-honoured Stormhold institution for good food and drink.

Starters and light bites

Battered frog legs, with sweet butter sauce

Scrib and saltrice arancini, with lime and swamp tomato salsa

Deep fried whitebait, with tartare sauce

Boga and Zander roe and wickwheat crackers, with wasabi and sour cream

Mains

Combwort flatbread tacos, with grilled grasshoppers and spicy smoked mole

Fried Quillback fish, with jasmine rice and sweet-and-spicy saltrice treacle

Chicken and scrib pie, with pepper scuttle gravy

Guar shawarma, with comberry vinaigrette and our secret sauce duo

Desserts

Kwama egg and sweet scuttle soufflé, with shein flambé (allow 20 minutes)

Stormhold scuttlebloom sorbet, with maraschino comberries

Marshmerrow cake, with mango konjac jelly

"What do stars do?"

Stardust (2007)

After he dies, though, the dinner parties cease altogether. At first, the citizens believe it to be mourning—and it certainly is, in a sense. There aren't any princes in the castle who could plan a dinner, anyways. But then Tristan's coronation happens, and the citizens wait... and wait... but they don't return.