So, hello everyone, long time forum lurker, created an account like 2 weeks ago and figured it's about time I actually post something:

(This post will have some spoilers for one of the faction quest lines)


Lately replayed Morrowind's GOTY and after going through Bloodmoon I got to thinking: It might actually be pretty cool to enter Hircine's Hunting Grounds.

At the end of the Companion's quests Kodlak mentioned perhaps gathering heroes in Sovngarde to rescue the other Harbingers/Companions trapped in Hircine's realm and the idea of joining a bunch of great heroes of old in an invasion of the realm just sounds like something truly epic and worthy of song.

The Hunting Grounds in lore actually sounds quite intriguing, dense forests and rolling plains might not be as much of a welcome change of scenery since we have a bit of that already in Skyrim but what I would find fun and possibly a new gameplay element is the idea of his mazes and puzzle rooms.

Also it would be cool to see Skjor again and see what side he chooses since he was one of the few that really embraced his Lycanthropy and considered it a gift. I am actually curious if his loyalty to Kodlak would over-rule his love of the hunt. (Also might be a cool place to meet Aela and get interesting dialogue in case she died in your game and perhaps even bring her back to the world of the living somehow)

So...thoughts? Ideas? Random pelting of rotten vegetables?

... who is to say we don't get to...

We probably will enter the hunting grounds one of these days.

Thats actually an Idea i had as well, though normally I play Argonians (who don't join the companions), I also have an affinity for Werewolves and have my 1 Nord Werewolf (Designed after the RL me). I'd love to see an Expansion or whatever placing us in Hircine's Hunting Grounds and have us fight for Sovengarde or for Hircine.

Psst.... Bethseda guys... take this as a hint.

Oh.... Just the thought makes me all gooey .... Yes, Hircine's hunting grounds for DLC.

A man can dream. Of course the game would likely crash if given the actual battleS I envision in my mind of Heroes of Sovngarde running down plains and clashing with the large beasts and Daedra of the realm but still....and it would be a tough decision for me to choose a side since my main is pretty torn on his allegiance in the afterlife since the "Nord" in him wishes to take his final rest in Sovngarde but the Hunter/Ranger in him longs for the endless hunt of his Lord Hircine's realm...

(also I seriously doubt that Janus Stammson would want to spent his afterlife without his beloved wife Aela)

Bloodmoon for Morrowind involved Hircine heavily; we practically did go to his Hunting Grounds already. I don't think we'll see that Daedric Realm for a while. Everyone also wants to go to the Shivering Isles again, but I doubt that will happen anytime soon either, because there are other Daedric Princes that we haven't had much contact with. Vaermina's Quagmire is my assumption for the next Daedric Realm we visit. There's a lot they could do with that.

I'm ready for werebears, so yeah I hope we get to go there too.

Dense forest? riften.. rolling plains? whiterun HOLY CRAP skyrim is the hunting grounds D: hircine already got me !

... You're a werewolf?!

I always wanted to go to Azura's plane of oblivion. They say it is so beautiful that a mortal cannot comprehend it. Prob BS. Prob just a mediocre palace with some flowers thrown around.

I also want to go to Molagbal's coldharbor. But that will most likely be shown in elderscrolls online.

Okay, so fair enough on Bloodmoon already focusing so much on Hircine.

The Quagmire sounds interesting on paper but would be damn near impossible to do just from the descriptio of the place. Same would apply to Mephala's Web. Hermaeus Mora's Apocrypha would be boring since it is an endless library filled with books (very cool for characters playing mages/bards/scholars but not a very good idea for a gameplay area). Peryite's Pits are almost identical to Mehrunes Dagon's Deadlands which is basically where we spent a third of our time in the previous game and The Shivering Isles is where we spent the other third.

Malacath's Ashpit would be cool but for it to work we would need levitation or some other sort of flight added to the game. Coldharbor would be cool but might spark too many complaints of "Fallout rip-off" from fans that are not too big on the lore.

Pretty much all the other realms I have not mentioned have been featured to some extent in previous games (Boethiah's Tournament of Ten Bloods in Oblivion which is pretty much the highlight of going to his/her Realm and Clavicus Vile's realm was already featured in Redguard) and according to lore Nocturnal's Evergloam is accessible through the Battlespire, though I am unsure if that was actually featured in the game itself since Battlespire is the only TES game I haven't played. *phew* so uh...what realms do we have left that Bethesda could still explore that they have not done yet I wonder?

I guess Meridia's Coloured Rooms could offer a huge change in scenery. Sanguine's "One Hundred Thousand Realms" could also provide so many possibilities for interesting level design. Azura's Moonshadow might be cool as well and since there is no recorded case of someone going to Namira's Scuttling Void and no description of what the place is like, Bethesda could actually take that and just go crazy with their design choices.

Did I miss anything?

Sorry for slightly derailing my own topic; I'm a madman for fantasy lore (By the time I quit WoW after 5 years I had pretty much memorized the race/history/everything by heart) and I have been playing TES since it came out in 1994 and I was just a wee gamer so...yeah. I do a ton of over-thinking on game possibilities in my free time

Heh, that's why I think if The Hunting Grounds were ever featured in Skyrim, the big selling point of the place would probably have to be the Puzzle Rooms and Mazes that are mentioned in lore.

Not really, Hircine already got his own expansion.

Evergloam>>>>>>>>Hunting Grounds


;D