After reading "The Argonian Account" in-game book series, I have to say I really really hope that Bethesda will choose to feature the Black Marsh in the next game or expansion.
It sounds like such an alien and hostile environment far more so than even Morrowind (perhaps even more than the Oblivion realm too). It really was described by the books' author as that same kind of a "hell" that Quaritch was talking about in Avatar where "every living thing that crawls, flies or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubes" (though it seemed from the author's writing that everything really wanted to kill you just for the lulz), from the aptly named "Fleshflies", "Hackwings" ("giant birds with long, saw-like beaks nearly the size of the rest of their bodies") that sound like they'd give cliff-racers a run for their mommy, to "Nagas" (8 foot tall puff-adders with limbs who get very "peevish"), not to mention an environment and landscape that seems to always be constantly changing (hence no developed roads and losing your sense of direction) with black rivers that swallow up bridges and landscapes at certain times of day.
The "Marsh" part of the name also seems to be a bit of a misnomer, as the description of the area seemed to be more of a very dark extremely dense forest, which would be a welcome change of scenery from the brighter forests of Cyrodil in Oblivion. Not to mention it seems that a vast chunk of the land is very much unexplored. It'd be great to play an explorer of sorts where you'd be sort of the first person in those regions.
It sounds like such an alien and hostile environment far more so than even Morrowind (perhaps even more than the Oblivion realm too). It really was described by the books' author as that same kind of a "hell" that Quaritch was talking about in Avatar where "every living thing that crawls, flies or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubes" (though it seemed from the author's writing that everything really wanted to kill you just for the lulz), from the aptly named "Fleshflies", "Hackwings" ("giant birds with long, saw-like beaks nearly the size of the rest of their bodies") that sound like they'd give cliff-racers a run for their mommy, to "Nagas" (8 foot tall puff-adders with limbs who get very "peevish"), not to mention an environment and landscape that seems to always be constantly changing (hence no developed roads and losing your sense of direction) with black rivers that swallow up bridges and landscapes at certain times of day.
The "Marsh" part of the name also seems to be a bit of a misnomer, as the description of the area seemed to be more of a very dark extremely dense forest, which would be a welcome change of scenery from the brighter forests of Cyrodil in Oblivion. Not to mention it seems that a vast chunk of the land is very much unexplored. It'd be great to play an explorer of sorts where you'd be sort of the first person in those regions.
Thanks!
