Those who have had enough of questing or mastering dungeons in the MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online can wonderfully engage in housing. Some players have elevated this to an art form – like “Chryseia”.
Housing can take up a lot of time: Normally, the focus of the MMORPG ESO is more on content like story and quests. The new DLC “Stonethorn” places a great value on the new dungeons “Castle Dorn” and “Stone Garden”, which feature alchemists and vampires. Those are content that is rather far from house building. However, housing also receives new content, such as character paths for NPCs from time to time.
But for those who want to fully immerse themselves in the world of ESO, there is also the possibility to dive deeply into house building. Results like those of the player “Chryseia” can come from this. She submitted her house to the “ESO Home Décor Competition” – and took second place in the category “A Home for Nords”.
Landscaping in ESO
Housing offers room for creativity: Like many other players, Chryseia built a house based on a theme and then submitted it to the jury.
As can be seen, housing in ESO provides many freedoms and opportunities that players like Chryseia are happy to take advantage of. In an interview with “Gamesradar”, the player gave insight into the process.
Chryseia stated that she is not necessarily talented by nature, but enjoys the challenge:
“In this plot, a lot of landscaping work was required, which I had to build from scratch, and that was a challenge. I spent more than half of my building time just dealing with … plants.”
It took her two weeks to build the house and landscape – plus two hours for the perfect screenshot.
For Chryseia, the housing editor is one of the main reasons to play ESO: “I love that ESO gives players the freedom to look beyond what an object is and to imagine what it could be,” explains Chryseia, emphasizing that it is the freedom to rethink existing resources and shape them according to one’s perspective: “In my opinion, that’s the rewarding part of a housing system.” Two people might see the same fundamentals completely differently.
Chryseia expresses hope for more events like the housing competition in the future – which is not surprising, as Chryseia is not an unknown entity in the ESO community. In 2019, for example, a video appeared in the ESO forum, showcasing another extremely detailed Chryseia house:
Who else won in the competition? One of the top prizes, this time in the category “A Home worthy of a Vampire”, was won by the player “Moon-Sugar” with this creepy horror castle:
With housing in ESO, there are plenty of opportunities to express one’s creativity and create wonderful places. Amazing works keep appearing. Like with this player who put a lot of gold into his house. For him, housing has become something like the endgame content of the game.
