Monday, July 21, 2008

Building Jidda Port and City

Jidda is being built using Mods from Dune III architectures and mixins from TES4 resources. The city consists of Port, Housings, Town/Mayor residence. This is a big work. This city is located on sector 12-12, where I will put two cities, Jidda and Makka also some small towns.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Races in Saracen's Land

There are some races involved in Saracen's Land

1. Sarazin (looks like Imperial race , but little darker skin, mostly grow beards and had Semitic face)
2. Qibti (looks like redguard race, Qibti means egypt in arabic language)
3 Tatar (refference on Mongols, Turk and Tartar tribes)
4. Badwi (just like Sarazin, but prefer life in nomadic way and herding cattles)
5. Parthia (yup.. reference on Persians)
6. Bharat (reference on Indian people)
7. Hibri (same semitic race as Sarazin,)
8. Shin (asiatic/chinese race)
9. Ifriqiya (refer to black african race)

another

10. Jinni (genie race)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

AD 800 Arab Map

This is an overview of Arab civilization spread until AD 800-900 ,  I also have created a simple heightmap from Nasa photo shoots and convert it using Photoshop and  L3DT.


Heightmap




What Is Saracen's Land ?


It's a new worldspace of Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion with ancient Arab settings, covering the era of  Arabian Nights (1001 Nights) with quests, NPCs and different settings with vanilla version of Oblivion. It is an RPG of Arabian Nights with tales taken from One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة‎ - kitāb 'alf layla wa-layla; Persian: هزار و یک شب - Hezār-o yek šab).

It is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient Arabia and Yemen, ancient India, ancient Asia Minor, ancient Persia (especially the Sassanid Hazār Afsān Persian: هزار افسان, lit. Thousand Tales), ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamian Mythology, ancient Syria, and medieval Arabic folk stories from the Caliphate era. Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the fourteenth century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. 

The tales themself consists in the volumes:
  • Volume I covers Story Of King Shahryar and His Brother
  • Volume II: Nur al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis
  • Volume III: The Tale of Sultan Omar Bin al-Nu'uman and His Sons Sharrkan and Zau al-Makan
  • Volume IV: The Enchanted Horse
  • Volume V: The Ebony Horse
  • Volume VI: Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman
  • Volume VII: The History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib
  • Volume VIII: Sultan Mohammed Bin Sabaik and the Merchant Hasan
  • Volume IX: Ali Nur al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl

For the first phase we will create the worldspace and landmarks.