I love you markarth, you and your rivers, your walkways suspended hundreds of feet in the air, people commiting suicide(On accident) daily, and your corrupt guards.
I just recently bought a house in Markarth, and found it pretty damn amazing. It has a MOUNTED SKEEVER HEAD! Anyways, after walking down, I find a guard standing in the middle of a bridge. No one was nearby, and it was very tempting.
One 'FusroDAH!' later, the guard's body has fallen into the trade area. A dozen people gather around it, freaking out. A guard comes up, and says there is nothing to see, trying to contain the panic. He asks me if I've seen anything. Of course, I find this to be a great oppurtunity to refuse to answer questions and insult the guard. "What are you going to do? Arrest me?" "Very well. You are under arrest; Come quietly." I was shocked and mind-blown at how corrupt the guards are, outside of quests. Of course, I resisted arrest and ended up with a dozen guard heads to add to my collection, but still. This city is the best.

Yep. it is isnt it. By far my favorite. and the reach is very cool as well

It is a beautiful city - the most striking of all of them. But, having run through those passages a million times, now, I still get lost!

It also has perhaps the best player home in the game. I like it because its generous with storage containers, spacious, and with lots of amenities. It puts the Solitude house to shame!

I also love Markarth. I did the ''special city quest'' and afterwards you find yourself high up in the city with the person who is responsible for what happened to you. I accidently bumped into him... a few times... and it was the fall killed him, not my character.

The 5 cities that got some attention are all beautiful. It is just a shame that the other 4 'capitals' look like villages, just uglier versions of Riverwood. I can't understad why they couldn't find the time to at least give them stone buildings. They don't need to be detailed seperate zone cities, but they could have had a little more personality. Especially Winterhold is stupid. They talk about how it once was a great city but that it was taken by the sea. Couldn't they have atleast added some ruins on the edge of the cliff to illustrate this? Now it is hard to believe anything was ever there.

When I first heard there was going to be an Elder Scrolls V, it was "Ohmigod!"

Then they released http://images.wikia.com/elderscrolls/images/f/f9/Markarth.jpg. I did 8000 other things when the game came out, but made sure to save that 'til last.

nothing like in the concept art, sadly.

The only part of Proudspire I like is the basemant. I added a couple of cupboards back to back in the enchanting area for storage, a couple of barrels (one in the alchemy area, the other in the alcove with the weapon rack), and I cleared all the junk, including the straw and cobwebs out of Jorris' room. I've added a nice double bed, a couple of cupboards, and a pair of leather chairs on either side of the candelabra. I even moved the grinding wheel to a more convenient spot, and installed a workbench in the hall to the exterior door. I just wish I could add more weapon racks, candles and book cases. Can't wait for that CK!

Vlindrel hall is one of my favorites, too. I like the chair by the fireplace in the alchemy room. I haven't done anything with it, yet, but it's handy for storage. I may add a workbench and grinder to save a trip (and fall) across town. Ghorza is psychic: she's always using whatever I happen to need, lol.

Apart from Vlindrel Hall, Honeyside is probably my other favorite. I don't use Breezehome much, and the house in Windhelm is full of wasted space, and there's no fireplace in the great room! Heck, the furnace in Breezehome could heat that whole place.

Love the city but hate being sent to Cidhna Mine!

Markarth has become my all-time favorite city in any Elder Scrolls game. And I think it's because it makes such spectacular use of vertical space. Most cities in Elder Scrolls games are laid out on a more-or-less horizontal plane. There are dips and rises in the terrain, but nothing very dramatic. Markarth, on the other hand, can almost make me feel dizzy from heights in certain spots. The player home has such a great panorama of the city. I go up there just to look down on the city sometimes.

It's blood & silver my friend.

Personally Markarth is my least favourite city! It's so depressing! The whole place is just decaying and depressing as hell! I avoid it like the plague!

Aren't you confused with Windhelm? Markarth is old, but it is well maintained. Windhelm is the decaying and depressing city with its broken down buildings and its cold atmosphere.

My house in markarth is my favorite and the city is so beautiful

but the guards are stupid and I want to kill them all

Meh. I'm glad someone likes it. It's right up there with Windhelm in terms of it got beat with an ugly stick. I don't like Dwemer ruins either and the jarl area is dwemer looking so that makes it even worse. I'm more of a RIften, Whiterun or Solitude kind of guy.

But, the whole idea of making Markarth a Dwemer city is just [censored] and was done for marketing reasons so that new Elder Scrolls players would love the look of it. The Dwemer had nothing to do in that corner of Skyrim.

I think Bethesda was inspired by the Dwarven city in Dragon Age:Origins and so included a Dwemer-ruin city. Gaming companies tend to borrow ideas from one another.

I'm glad they did though as I think Skyrim cities are all very unique and memorable. Its good to see they made use of the landscape as well by building vertical and not just flat towns.

I love Markarth as a place to visit, its unique quirkyness and beauty, but its definitely not my main home, all those stairs going up n down up n down, would drive me nuts living there the whole time!.

Markarth is awesome, and has some really great quests. I do still get lost there though...

Markarth will be my home, I tried the other houses, and markarth is the only one that stands out to me, the one in riften HAS to be the worst.

It would keep you in shape , lol.