ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE: MURKMIRE: AT LAST, LOVE FOR THE LIZARDS
It’s hard to love a swamp. Mountains have majesty, deserts have mystery, but what do wetlands have? I imagine some Joe on the street would boil it down to something like “muck, malaria, and mosquitoes.”
Even so, Famia Mercius, an antiquarian who’s a great admirer of the series’ lizard-like Argonians, is trying to get me to love the surrounding marsh as she does. She’s not doing such a hot job. She slaps a gnat off her neck while in the middle of a giddy introduction, and her stone house suggests she retains some reservations about living like the locals. I can’t say I blame her. After all, the place (and the name of the, which hardly sounds like it’s going to rival Tahiti in vacation listicles anytime soon.
