Maps of the Elder Scrolls Online

This is the set of maps that can be pulled up by using the Map function. None of the treasure maps (a bonus for purchasing the Imperial set) are included. Most of these maps show no markings, the one or two that do are early level quests (I took the shots with a level 5 character). As always, click on the picture to enlarge it.

Alik’r Desert

The Maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Alik'r Desert
Alik’r Desert

Auridon

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Auridon
Auridon

Bal Foyen

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Bal Foyen
Bal Foyen

Bangkorai

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Bangkorai
Bangkorai

Betnikh

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Betnikh
Betnikh

Bleakrock Isle

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Bleakrock Isle
Bleakrock Isle

Coldharbour

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Coldharbour
Coldharbour

Cyrodiil

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Cyrodiil
Cyrodiil

Deshaan

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Deshaan
Deshaan

Eastmarch

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Eastmarch
Eastmarch

Glenumbra

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Glenumbra
Glenumbra

Grahtwood

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Grahtwood
Grahtwood

Greenshade

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Greenshade
Greenshade

Khenarthi’s Roost

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Khenarthi's Roost
Khenarthi’s Roost

Malabal Tor

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Malabal Tor
Malabal Tor

Mundus

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Mundus
Mundus

Reaper’s March

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Reaper's March
Reaper’s March

Rivenspire

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Rivenspire
Rivenspire

Shadowfen

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Shadowfen
Shadowfen

Stonefalls

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Stonefalls
Stonefalls

Stormhaven

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Stormhaven
Stormhaven

Stros M’Kai

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Stros M'Kai
Stros M’Kai

Tamriel

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - Tamriel
Tamriel

The Rift

The maps of the Elder Scrolls Online - The Rift
The Rift

A Look at Character Creation

So far, the characters I’ve shown you were humanoid females. I usually do play a female ingame, I tend to forget if I try to play a male, and then my chats get rather confusing. I’ve tried it before, it’s not very pretty. 🙂

But, to be honest, I’ve really been going with whichever gender the game brings up when I click on “Create.” Today, the game gave me a male Breton, which I named Carl. And Carl is going to show us the parts of the Character Creation screens.

Character Creation - Meet Carl the Breton
Meet Carl the Breton

On the right side of the page are the character creation options.
I have already set Carl’s race (he’s a Breton) and class (he’s a Templar in every picture but the next one, apparently I had changed him to a Dragonknight for that photo).

The full character creation screen
The full character creation screen

If you look to the right in the picture, the options across the top are Race, Class, Body, and Head. Race and class will be the focus of another post, today we’ll focus on the body and head tabs.

Character Creation - Race, Class, Body, Head
Page selectors – Race, Class, Body, Head

Body Type

The first choice you have is to choose body type. Do you want your character to be large, thin, or muscular – or some combination of the three?

Character creation - body type selector
Body type selector

Features

You should be familiar with the next section if you’ve read either of my previous posts. This is where you choose your skin coloring and where the Body Marking slider is located.

Character Creation - Features - Skin Color and Body Marking
Features – Skin Color and Body Marking

Upper Body

Next is determining how your upper body will look. By the way, I just double-checked, and the options are the same for either male or female characters.

Character creation - Upper body sliders
Upper body sliders

Lower Body

And then there’s a similar selection set for lower body options.

Character creation - Lower body sliders
Lower body sliders

I have played a few games that gave more options to how your character looked, but only Second Life was online, and it’s not really a game. Overall, I’m very impressed with the character creation options and how the different races are still distinguishable from each other, even with the multiple options.

Okay, now it’s time to go from the Body tab to the Face one. Clicking on this zooms in to your character, giving you a close up of what his/her face looks like.

Character creation - Close up of Carl's face
Close up of Carl’s face

Face Type

The next selection option is one I have fun with, when I’m creating my characters.

Character creation - Face type selector
Face type selector

I recommend starting at one corner and then jumping to each of the other two corners, watching the changes in your character’s face. Then find a spot that gives you the look you want, whether it’s a baby-faced Nightblade or a battle-hardened sorcerer.

Voice

Character creation - What voice will you choose?
What voice will you choose?

You have a choice of 8 different voices. Considering that most of the times you hear yourself you’ll either be shouting in battle or grunting as you make a jump, having 8 different options is really not bad. You really won’t be listening to yourself all that often, at least in my experience.

Hair

Character creation - What color and style will your hair be?
What color and style will your hair be?

Hair is another option where each position on the slider is a different choice. I plan to do a whole series on the different hairstyles for each character.

Features

Character creation - The features sliders
The features sliders

Features has 2 sliders that are set up similar to the Hair and Body Marking sliders. Each position on the Adornment and Head Marking sliders gives you a different look. I will be covering these in future posts.

Age gives you the option to go from a new recruit to a battle-hardened veteran, whatever your choice is.

The next sections will let you adjust the look of your character however you want. There are limits to the range of the sliders, you can’t turn a Breton into an Argonian, for example, but you could create an elf-mix by sliding the Ear Tip Flare slider all the way to the right.

I’ll show each section, and point out the ones that will be covered in later blog posts.

Face

Character creation - Face
Face sliders

These are all self-explanatory, giving a good range of choices but nothing really surprising.

Eyes

Character creation - eye design
Eye design

Each slider is really measured in small bites instead of steps, so you’re not going to be able to move the eyes to the side of the head or make anime-style big eyes, but still, if you’re really into how your character looks, you can have fun with it.

Brows

Character creation - Eyebrow sliders
Eyebrow Sliders

We will cover the Eyebrow slider in another post, since once again, each position of the slider is a different style. Eyebrow Skew was a surprisingly fun slider, with the ability to add a little human-ness to your character (one thing I learned when creating characters for Second Life was not to always make both sides equal, it makes the character feel fake because we, as humans, are all asymmetrical. And although it’s not always noticeable when we view others, the lack of any asymmetry feels fake when we look at a character.

Nose

Character creation - Nose sliders
Nose sliders

Nose shape will give you far more playing room than any other facial adjustment we’ve seen so far.  The rest is pretty basic, from what I’ve seen.

Character creation - mouth sliders
Mouth Sliders

No hidden designs here, but I am happy with the fact that my character can walk around with more of a smile if I want her to. Slide Mouth Curve to the right to give the smile if you want one.

Ears

Character creation - Ear sliders
Ear Sliders

The last section before your character is ready to play. With the Breton, at least, you can turn your character into a pseudo-half elf by adjusting the Ear Tip Flare.

Well, that’s all the basics of the Character Creation screens. Hope you’ve enjoyed it. 🙂

Creating an Imperial Female – Body Markings

When I started taking pictures during character creation, I suspected that most choices would be the same across the races, with the obvious exceptions of the two non-humanoid races. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there was a nice mix of both the items that I’d want to carry over regardless of race, and a few new items, as well as a different color for some of the markings.

Most of the scars look exactly the same and appear at the same number on the slider. Because of that, on a couple, I chose to take the picture from a different viewpoint so that if you compare the body markings across the races, you’ll have a better idea of what the character looks like from all points of view.

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Body Marking Slider
Body Marking Slider

This follows the same format as Creating a High Elf Female – each photo is one slider position to the right. There are 23 photos, so 12, 13, and 14 should be the markings you’d see if you clicked in the middle of the slider.

Click the photo to open a larger picture.

Position 0 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - no markings
No markings

Position 1 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Freckles
Freckles

Position 2 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Scars
Scars

Position 3 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Design
Design

Position 4 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Design
Design

Position 5 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Scratches
Scratches

Position 6 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Burn scars
Burn scars

Position 7 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Scars
Scars

Position 8 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Battle scars
Battle scars

Position 9 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Talon scratches
Talon scratches

Position 10 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Vampire or snake bite marks
Vampire or snake bite marks

Position 11 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Shoulder scars
Shoulder scars

Position 12 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Lion Emblem
Lion Emblem

Position 13 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Dragon Emblem
Dragon Emblem

Position 14 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Full body design
Full body design

Position 15 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Full body design
Full body design

Position 16 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Arm and shoulder design
Arm and shoulder design

Position 17 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Full body design
Full body design

Position 18 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Design
Design

Position 19 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Dragon Emblem
Dragon Emblem

Position 20 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Full body design
Full body design

Position 21 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Design
Design

Position 22 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Design
Design

Position 23 –

Imperial Female - Body Marking - Emblem
Emblem

Creating a High Elf Female – Body Markings

I am loving the opportunity to be part of the ESO Beta. It’s fun exploring the game, and even creating new characters. The openness of the character creation was one of my favorite parts of the Elder Scrolls (TES) games, and I’m glad to see that for the most part, that has carried over to creating a character for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online).

When you start a new character, you’ll discover that several of the character attributes are on a slider. Each time I start a new character, I go through each item on each slider to choose what I want. So in an effort to save your time, as well as mine in the future, here is a photo of each effect on the Body Markings slider. Some effects are on front and backand some are full body. I tried to show the main markings for each one, although it’s always worth taking a look to see, there might be an extra scar on the leg or more markings on the back that can’t be shown in one picture.

Body Marking Slider
Body Marking Slider

Each photo will be with the Body Marking Slider moving one to the right. The first position, which I managed to delete the image of, is plain with no markings.

Position 1)

Freckles
Freckles

Position 2) Scars

Chicken pox scars maybe?
Chicken pox scars maybe?

Position 3)

Upper body design
Upper body design

Position 4)

Upper body design
Upper body design

Position 5)

Scratches
Scratches

Position 6)

Scars
Scars

Position 7)

Scars
Scars

Position 8)

Battle scars
Battle scars

Position 9)

Shoulder scars - bite marks?
Shoulder scars – bite marks?

Position 10)

Shoulder scars
Vampire or snake bite scars

Position 11)

Shoulder scars
Shoulder scars

Position 12)

Emblem
Emblem

Position 13)

Dragon
Dragon

Position 14)

Full body design
Full body design

Position 15)

Full body design
Full body design

Position 16)

Arm and shoulder design
Arm and shoulder design

Position 17)

Full body design
Full body design

Position 18)

Pattern
Pattern

Position 19)

Rings
Rings

Position 20)

Rays
Rays

Position 21)

Design
Design

Position 22)

Shoulder, arm, and torso design
Shoulder, arm, and torso design

Position 23)

Design
Design