Morroblivion

ive already had a play at speed sculpting these guys in my spare time not got anywhere with them yet mind you but i always seem to have a go and one day maybe i will get it right plus if i remeber right both the andoran team and dark creation team have them in the process of being made too and ive found that yes they all look great but theres really only one style and thats the mid/late life cycle of the sload as they change from a lave non sentient stage (that sload soap is made from) a squid like stage then late stages that become more fatter and grotesque with age to the point where they cannot move and only use recall spells to move

Muppet puppet has already created sloads the model and stuff, he also has hi res versions on steam, he said i could use it for a mod if you ask him he might let you use it, it's from moonpath to elsweyr. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/9782/? however his versions could use some talking animations.

do not mistake this for work in progress or what maybe this is just me playing around on zbrush as i like the way the skin folds it was good practice its still not done only about 30mins work just thought i would upload for the world to see instead of it being sat around on my hdd

Don't know if this will be of any help or anything but sload necromancers in valenwood were mentioned in the law :/

I think you can delete nostrils and make less prominent chin.

I vote nay. The first con Ravannna mentioned is important.

I think Sload would be better off as some sort of easter egg than anything else. They're stated as being rather secretive and isolationist, after all. Plus, considering the history of the Sload, any number appearing in a particular location would be a great cause of concern for the Empire, possibly much more of a problem than the events that happen in Morrowind's main plot. This definitely seems like a low priority thing either way.

no offence to that sload maker but the quality level of our creatures and characters is skyrim level or better, that sload, whilst saving time, would stick out quite badly, and isnt set up for lip sync

YES, HELL YES. This should be a thing for phase 2 though, after the main project is finished. It should be our own little expansion (and frankly I'd prefer it over the Firemoth, or even Solstheim).

First of all, Sload were supposed to be in the original game, they were in the general concept of it. When production started they were probably axed off due to being technically hard to make. I don't think there are any fans who would be more angry at adding Sload than covering whole Vvardenfell with basalts.

There is a way we could do this in a neat way. It would be difficult, more difficult than just the race - but would also be way more awesome. We could have our own Sload floating ship - city. They're known for their flying cities that they travel with as merchants. We could create the Subo-Lathla Skyport from Kirkbride's concept. There's a metric ton of concept artists who'd be delighted to design that thing. You would of course only travel there by sky striders.

One thing this kind of city would enable for us, is adding stuff from all over Tamriel. Sload are a huge merchant power. They buy and sell EVERYTHING. That city would be a great gateway for all kinds of additional mods. Clothing, weapons, armors of EVERY race on Tamriel, Maormer or Tang Mo slaves to buy, next to slaves of every Tamrielic race... Want a traditional Redguard suit? Want a Khajiit sitar? Want to buy ancestor moth silk? Argonian weapons? Armor made of hist sap? You could buy all of that in the Sload market. I don't think it should necessarily be something our team should make, but I would love to see that in Skywind as an addition. And to make it to seem even less invasive, when we install the addon much like other two expansions, we overhear rumours that a Sload Skyport is hovering near Zafirbel Bay, just arrived, open for trading. And of course the amount of quests one could come up for such an expansion is probably limitless, and all would be compelling and interesting.

But as I mentioned in the start. Big YAY, but it should wait until Skywind's completion. We can add Sload without necessarily incorporating them as something that's on Vvardenfell all the time.

Yah of course.

Like everything it just a case of time and talent

I think yay, but very rare, perhaps just one unique one. I'm pretty sure sloads were cut when the mainland was cut very early on in development, because the skyport would have been nearer to Dres slave markets. They are known to go to Tear for slave trading, but wouldn't be very common to show up in Vvardenfell.

Sload are master merchants. I'd imagine all their things to be insanely expensive. And never did I say that these armors or weapons would be overpowered, perhaps a few artifacts could. Player would still have to work for them by raising the right amount of money... And another thing is that Morrowind itself isn't really balanced. You can find a Daedric spear or an ebony longsword on level 1 if you know where to look.

Also, that's another thing I forgot to mention - in Morrowind I had hundreds of artifacts that were so expensive one could ever only sell those for the fraction of their actual value. However... Sload are insanely rich and eager to buy rare, exotic artifacts. This could be an opportunity to have very rich traders to sell the most expensive stuff to.

All in all, I don't see how would that disbalance the game, assuming that some thought would be put into making the items not overpowered.

yay  but only when the rest is more or less done  morrowind is a weird place and sloads fit into them ofcourse the wouldnt live in morrowind but on there airships the could have come to trade

and n'gasta  is 1 of my favorite elder scroll charecters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce-0vFRqTwU at 49:30

If there is a sload trading airship caravan (phew, that was a mouthful) -- an idea I like -- it would work well as a separate worldspace.

You might want to clear with Eloth/Rav. There's stuff on 3D that's really high priority that needs to be done before the Sloads even if the response is positive for the idea =/

heres the current active development and u try fitting in your 2d around it when u have time.

Envrionment: We've just finished bittercoast.
West Gash and sheo are getting done and still having some new assets.
molag amur and RM have nothing started so still time to add to that.

Interiors:
Kwama Caves are getting an overhaul.
We're thinking about designing assets for different types of caves like basalt, west gash caverns

Archi.
Gurhie and I are doing strongholds, design mostly done.
Imperial/common/nord is morrowind style.

Hmmm long story short, I think the only options are:

1.Landscaping scenes (drawing ideas for interesting scenes for landscaper to make and the player to stumble upon, skyrim had a lot of this)

2. Clothing. This is a massive area that drago was going to help with. The clothing system was a specialised one, so if this is more your area please talk to dragomir about how we wish to go about this.

For the record, clothing, creatures and characters are being pushed back till Jan/Feb.
 

Yay.

I don't think they should be added wherever, whenever, however.. there are few places they would likely be, and many places they wouldn't. The one place that comes to mind, but sort of breaks from the vanilla Morrowind way, would be in Divayth Fyr's Corprusarium. Some small divergent tunnel could house it in a cell and Divayth Fyr could make some small mention of it after gaining disposition, but only if a.) the Corprusarium hasn't already been finished and b.) Divayth Fyr's VA hasn't already done all his lines. That would at least establish a logical foothold for a Sload being in Morrowind.

Others could be added after core Skywind is finished, either by the development team or modders using the resources/assets Skywind put in place.
... if this is still a thing, anyway.

Were there sloads in ES:3? no...well there is your answer, the closest NPC to a sload in Morrowind is that dwemer Yagram Bagarn, In a way he does resemble one.

A Sload would bring a ton of attention to this mod because so many people want to see one, hence this long thread. But the amount of work to get it in-game doesn't justify it being done before all the core game assets are complete. Not much point in bringing attention to a mod that never gets finished. I'm all for a Sload. Right after we are done with Skywind... and the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions.