Reich Parkeep mod for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

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(Fr. September, showing Reich Parkeep)
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¤~::What is Silgrad Tower?::~¤

The goal is to create a region of the Morrowind Province's mainland on the opposite side of Vvardenfell's western coast, stretching in latitude as far north as Ald'Ruhn and as far south as Hla Oad. To get a better sense of where our region is situated you might want to take a look at Bethesda's old concept map for Morrowind ( Silgrad.com ); notice the two cities 'Soluthis' and 'Silgrad Tower' in the northwest? Our mod takes place roughly between those two cities (while at the same time adding in new cities and settlements). The layout of Morrowind changed quite a bit between that concept map and the real game, and our landmass follows the latest official map more closely.

Three major cities are situated in the region we're creating. The twin cities Soluthis/Reich Parkeep in the forested hills to the north is the district seat of House Redoran. The Hlaalu metropolis Silgrad Tower in the fertile, pleasant south is said to be the second largest city in Morrowind, rivalled only by the capital Almalexia and is a natural center for trade and commerce. Steadhelm is an Imperial charter town on the coast of the Inner Sea, bordered by mountains to the north and a huge swamp to the south. Several smaller Dunmer villages and Imperial settlements can also be found in the region, as can numerous farms.

Our goal is also to have plenty of adventure beyond the comfort of the city walls. Huge burial tombs lie forgotten in the wilderness, mountain strongholds shelter warlords, renegade Daedra worshippers carry out their sinister rituals in remote shrines, highwaymen rob travellers of loot and life alike - and war drums sound from the west, as barbarians from Skyrim prepare to drive Redoran into the sea.

Some of you may be thinking, "Morrowind? Vvardenfell? Is this a TES3 mod, or... what?" And the answer is no, it's not a TES3 mod, it's an Oblivion mod - but we've painstakingly modelled pretty much everything you'll see in our mod from scratch to make you think you're in Morrowind again. Our teammembers have come together with one thing in common above all else - a shared love for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and we want to see the spirit of Morrowind, and the spirit of the lands our team modded for TES3, live on through the new game.

Since Reich Parkeep v9 was released we've come a long way towards realizing those goals. To name a few;
- There's finally a landmass, allowing us to string together our previous city mods into a single release.
- The city exterior in Soluthis is mostly finished.
- Steadhelm is nearing completion, and now sports over half a dozen finished interiors as well as distant LOD.
- We can now count 1448 models in our folder, 99% of which our team itself created.
- All Redoran interior models have been modelled, enabling us to open every claim in Soluthis.
- Soluthis itself is looking even better this time around after the buildings were reskinned.
- Guards in Reich Parkeep now sport unique armor.
- All objects the player can pick up now have icons. There's almost 200 of them.
- All plants and flowers can now be harvested for ingredients.
- Many more furniture pieces are now useable, like the Redoran bed.
- The city wall around Soluthis has been totally reworked with new models, which should behave better in-game.
- A Dunmer shack tileset has been created, which will give a familiar touch of Morrowind to Ebbedin and other villages in our lands.

¤~::How to install::~¤

The release comes in four packages to keep your download times to a minimum. The Data Files package contain what you would call the real release - the data files, meshes, textures, sound effects, voice and music that make our mod what it is. The Playing Files package contains the data files needed to play the mod. The LOD packages are optional and enables distant land while playing the mod, and while you don't have to download it, it makes the mod look a lot better.

Silgrad Tower uses the excellent archive format ".7z", which achieves superior compression ratio compared to other zip programs. To extract .7z files, please download and install the freeware program 7-zip from the website 7-zip.org

To play the mod,