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Tamriel Rebuilt is a massive mod for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind that adds mainland Morrowind to Bethesda’s 24-year-old RPG. Just a few weeks ago, the team released its biggest ever expansion dubbed Grasping Fortune which added the sprawling House Hlaalu capital city of Narsis.
For the massive expansion, the team spent years designing a location bigger than any official Elder Scrolls city with over 600 building interiors. However, the team is already looking planning to make another expansion that’s “twice the size” of Grasping Fortune.
Tamriel Rebuilt’s Indoril Heartland
In an interview with PC Gamer, the team behind the massive Morrowind mod revealed their plans to tackle the Indoril heartland located outside of Almalexia, the capital city of Morrowind. When the team eventually gets to properly developing the city—which will probably be “in the next few years—it will be significantly bigger.
“Almalexia is kind of like two cities, and just looking at our math, it’s about twice the size of Narsis,” said the mod’s project lead known as Cicero. “It might not be quite as dense as Narsis, just for our sanity and also for performance, but it’s gonna be twice as widespread, and it will have more buildings, for sure.”
Additionally, the mod team will also have to perform digital surgery to connect their main construction of Almalexia with the outskirts of the city that were added in the original game’s Mournhold expansion. With the team not wanting to “delete anything”, there’s a significant amount of work to do, especially as the area is actually an interior in the base game.
“You can’t really have that if you want to incorporate it into the actual mainland… it has to be implanted into Almalexia within the same worldspace, and things would have to be spread around,” the developer explained.
With the team confident that a Morrowind Remake won’t be happening ever, there’s no pressure to rush out content. After over 20 years of development, there’s still a lot of work to be done on Tamriel Rebuilt, but every expansion is a massive, complete slice of the best Bethesda RPG created by fans. Maybe it’ll be finished by 2040.
