YouвЂ™ll never see those trippy settings outside the main story. ItвЂ™s not quite a gelatinous cube, but itвЂ™s close! MurkmireвЂ™s main story goes places I never would have guessed based on its fens and its Tomb Raider-style romps. All the same, I admire the story at its core, along with its handling of the complex and sometimes counterintuitive alliances that come out of a colonial legacy.ДЄnd if youвЂ™re sick of swamps and the like: DonвЂ™t worry, much like many ESO patches, it gets trippy. Key characters pop into the narrative with the startling swiftness of a jack-in-the-box, while promising characters like the Khajiit mercenary Zadaza get too little screen time. Leif Johnson/IDGД«ut her investigations lead to a fascinating glimpse into the depths of the Argonian relationship with the hist, even if the overall main story slips too easily into the formula of betrayals and gotchas that make up so many of ESOвЂ™s tales. Famia herself is a part of that heritage: SheвЂ™s here to collect artifacts and cart them off to the Imperial City because вЂњArgonians just donвЂ™t care about their history that much.вЂќ Her heartвЂ™s in the right place, but itвЂ™s an argument thatвЂ™s been used for bad ends too often in the past. ItвЂ™s fitting, then, that MurkmireвЂ™s best stories deal with the outside worldвЂ™s attempts to change the swam for its exploitation. ItвЂ™s hard to blame them change comes as frequently as the rain in Black Marsh. Considering the state of the rest of Murkmire, IвЂ™d be worried about gentrifying the neighborhood. Frankly, IвЂ™d kind of like to live in one of these huts myself, but the only new player house here is a staggeringly large half-sunken ziggurat with the lower level magically sealed off to serve as an aquarium. Occasionally youвЂ™ll find some of these huts built around a hist tree-which Argonians revere as other races revere gods-creating a structure thatвЂ™s at once a village and a treehouse.

Here, they live in wooden, comfy homes with stilts that raise them above the muck. The main city of Lilmoth is an agreeable one (and one you may spend a lot of time in, considering that crafting benches are as close together here as they are in player-favorite RawlвЂ™kha). Murkmire lets us see Argonian life when they live on their own terms. I used to see those muddy huts as evidence of a proud culture Murkmire, though, hints that they might represent forced poverty. TheyвЂ™re treated like turds under the worldвЂ™s boots, forced to live in muddy hovels on the edges of towns. There, the lizardkin remain overshadowed by cultural forces that have loomed over them for years, be they the Dark Elves that use them as slaves or the Imperials that hold them in only slightly better regard. Longtime fans know the Argonians come from the Black Marsh, but in the past weвЂ™ve only caught glimpses of it in zones like Shadowfen. After all, Elder Scrolls is often at its best when it runs us along the rough edges of fantasy worlds.

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