A few years ago, I started writing "Tales from the Blue Chevalier" on the Ultima Online Bibliothek - a German forum for Ultima Online. The whole thing soon developed into a somewhat larger project for me, which I still enjoy a lot up till today. When at some point the game offered us the possibility to establish so-called "Player-Towns", this was of course the found food for me as a passionate house builder.
During the long time I spent in this game, I also got to know role-playing among other things. Soon, and also to have a framework for the small stories, a whole series of small themed houses were created from the suggestion of another PC game, the Anno series (UBI Soft), in which the action occurring in the stories takes place.
The location of the village in the southern jungle at the Cape of Heroes, with a view of the city of Jhelom, made it an ideal place to set up a tavern and let your imagination run wild while writing. In addition, the game revived the seafaring romance through "High Seas" - for me as a North German, who loves coast and sea very much, the ideal starting point to start something new after 14 years of Ultima at that time. And not only there. This game world is big enough to let your imagination run wild somewhere else, too. *smiles*
The cottages that provide the framework for the "Westcliff Stories" can all be found in this thread here . But that is not the concern of this thread.
Based on the recent house contest, where the design of my big Methalle won so surprisingly that it really shocked me and knocked me off my chair. It doesn't often happen to me that I have to cry with joy, but here it was just like that - especially because I hardly expected that this house would win among the yes - but partly fierce competition. To those who have supported me here so unknown with their voting, I can not say thank you enough.
And for all of you, who might be sad now, that you can't convert your castle, because there is a tree in it or you only have a small customizable plot, I give you this thread now.
Here are the designs inside for the mead-hall - all in a "slimmed down" version as well as of some small, also for craftsmen themed cottages. Build in a time where no castle and keep plots exists
- only 18 x 18. And since I'm also very interested in archaeology, where often a lot of imagination comes into play, since we just didn't live in those times and don't really know the truth of how it was, only our own imagination and fantasy can revive those times, based on what archaeology has already found about them - on the so-called hall houses - or longhouses. One furnished oneself with what one had and absolutely also needed. The rest was stored in large boxes. Therefore, also in my designs the decoration is kept very sporadic. The men went on war and booty raids, and the women tended and guarded the house and protect the children.
So they were - Vikings, Germanics, Teutons and Northmen - and of course their warlike women. If you know movies about Vikings - "Vikings" - a TV series about the life of Ragnar Lothbrok and of Lagertha, the shield-maid, you have a good comparison here, because also Michael Hirst, the producer of this series tries to be approximately historical. Of course, there is a lot of fantasy involved there as well. Peter Jackson and his film adaptation about Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" looks with the "Golden Hall of Edoras - Meduseld" here at the sagas and legends of the skalds (Bards), which were fortunately written down. But I didn't want to call my hall like that - so I took "Heorot" - from the Saga of Beowulf, Grendel and King Hrothgar.
Wiki page on the subject of Heorot
Blogpost on Heorot and Meduseld
That's how it is. Fantasy steals from archeology, and archeology cannot do without fantasy. By the way.....
That Vikings should have ever worn horns helmets, or Teutons is a real myth.... it has never been proven, so let's leave it at nose helmets *GGG*.
In this sense have fun looking and ..... Skål !
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
During the long time I spent in this game, I also got to know role-playing among other things. Soon, and also to have a framework for the small stories, a whole series of small themed houses were created from the suggestion of another PC game, the Anno series (UBI Soft), in which the action occurring in the stories takes place.
The location of the village in the southern jungle at the Cape of Heroes, with a view of the city of Jhelom, made it an ideal place to set up a tavern and let your imagination run wild while writing. In addition, the game revived the seafaring romance through "High Seas" - for me as a North German, who loves coast and sea very much, the ideal starting point to start something new after 14 years of Ultima at that time. And not only there. This game world is big enough to let your imagination run wild somewhere else, too. *smiles*
The cottages that provide the framework for the "Westcliff Stories" can all be found in this thread here . But that is not the concern of this thread.
Based on the recent house contest, where the design of my big Methalle won so surprisingly that it really shocked me and knocked me off my chair. It doesn't often happen to me that I have to cry with joy, but here it was just like that - especially because I hardly expected that this house would win among the yes - but partly fierce competition. To those who have supported me here so unknown with their voting, I can not say thank you enough.
And for all of you, who might be sad now, that you can't convert your castle, because there is a tree in it or you only have a small customizable plot, I give you this thread now.
Here are the designs inside for the mead-hall - all in a "slimmed down" version as well as of some small, also for craftsmen themed cottages. Build in a time where no castle and keep plots exists
- only 18 x 18. And since I'm also very interested in archaeology, where often a lot of imagination comes into play, since we just didn't live in those times and don't really know the truth of how it was, only our own imagination and fantasy can revive those times, based on what archaeology has already found about them - on the so-called hall houses - or longhouses. One furnished oneself with what one had and absolutely also needed. The rest was stored in large boxes. Therefore, also in my designs the decoration is kept very sporadic. The men went on war and booty raids, and the women tended and guarded the house and protect the children.So they were - Vikings, Germanics, Teutons and Northmen - and of course their warlike women. If you know movies about Vikings - "Vikings" - a TV series about the life of Ragnar Lothbrok and of Lagertha, the shield-maid, you have a good comparison here, because also Michael Hirst, the producer of this series tries to be approximately historical. Of course, there is a lot of fantasy involved there as well. Peter Jackson and his film adaptation about Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" looks with the "Golden Hall of Edoras - Meduseld" here at the sagas and legends of the skalds (Bards), which were fortunately written down. But I didn't want to call my hall like that - so I took "Heorot" - from the Saga of Beowulf, Grendel and King Hrothgar.
Wiki page on the subject of Heorot
Blogpost on Heorot and Meduseld
That's how it is. Fantasy steals from archeology, and archeology cannot do without fantasy. By the way.....
That Vikings should have ever worn horns helmets, or Teutons is a real myth.... it has never been proven, so let's leave it at nose helmets *GGG*.
In this sense have fun looking and ..... Skål !
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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