So they build tree houses where they can live in the tree tops, as you probably would do if you lived in a forest, but then they are forbidden from using any wood to build their treehouses with, so what do they make their homes with?

I'm having a hard time imagining what a Bosmer village might look like, do they live in sacks dangling from branches or something? I don't think you could build an entire city from animal hides and bones alone, especially in the treetops, why go to all that trouble of hoisting a heavy skeleton when you can build it on the ground. It just doesn't seem very practical.

They are not forbidden from using wood. Infact, they can use any plant material they like as long as it is not from Valenwood.
Their cities are just made of wood from other provinces, and for the clans and little villages. I think you can make a relatively nice tent from large bones and hides, or something to that extent.

They import banyan from Cyrod, Skyrim pine, Black Marsh cypress, and mushroom stalks from Vvardenfell.

They allow other companies to lumberjack parts of Valenwood and ship it out, then they import wood from other places. It's that easy.

No no no, this is all BATW. The Bosmer clearly http://dornob.com/home-grown-home-diy-living-tree-house-design-idea/?ref=search their homes.

EDIT: Interpreting the PGE to mean dead materials are prohibited, of course.

Who said bosmers even have houses?

Fungal burrows, bone arches, grown stems, leaf roofs, boulder tunnels, re-styled giant wasp nests, renovated giant bird homes.

Just use your imagination that is left alone in the dark within your brain. It's not too hard to think of what a magical nature loving people would do.

They're also the people who think wagon wheels are hats and aren't clever enough to use stone, so it has to be a bit screwball too.

I'd like to see them not use wood at all. "As long as it's not from Valenwood" sounds like a copout. Stone, bone, metal, polymers, leather, sinew, magic.

...wood is a polymer, so...

And natural rubber is derived from plants.

Other bio-derived plastics would be okay though.

I was thinking strait up synthetic plastic but wanted to say it all pretty.

They use blue squirrel bones and pelts.

That's so not the vibe I get. Falinesti's a tree, right? So I maintain they live in magically sculpted living wood (which, you know, is a little bit misleading, because much of a mature tree is dead even when it's thriving).

Typical Bosmer dwellings in Skyrim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXmp1hLK0tY#

They'd probably build homes out of dead animal and people bits (bones, skin, and etc), along with what nature provides (of course to never altering or harming it)

Isn't the city of Silvenar made out of hardened tree sap? Such pretty imagery.

I'd disagree on that point of not using wood. It doesn't represent a rule avoiding, legalistic approach that the border states would assume for ease of trade. Limiting their use of material without question seems like the odd complaint copout that no culture would actually take seriously when they had a benefit from it. I'm sure they have their Amish equivalents in the province, but I'd bet they'd have a much stronger impulse to bend the rules. Things can't be as simple as this "green pact" would imply.

Edit: And as for rules, they actively let people harvest their trees left and right. There is wild naivety if someone in this forum thinks there aren't Bosmer on the take.

They look like http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071231032638/starwars/images/4/4a/Ewok_village.jpg
No. Wait. Wrong fandom....

According to the 1st PGE, Valenwood's cities aren't actually built by the Bosmer themselves. It never really says if that means they were taken from the ape-race or if they were built by outside contractors. The 3rd PGE edition sort of suggests that the cities were built by the Bosmer (It says something to the effect that the major cities grew up from trading posts, but that's still pretty vague). I believe the in-game book series http://www.imperial-library.info/content/dance-fire has some stuff about the Bosmer. If you feel like reading.

I'd also be willing to bet that they use more than just your typical animal bones and hides to build stuff. I'd imagine they'd have some pretty big bugs down there; I could see the Bosmer building structures out of carapaces and such. Kind of like how the Redoran buildings of Morrowind are made of giant crab shells.


I'd actually have to disagree with the disagreement. I'm sure there are Bosmer who would bend the rules, but that seems like it would be the exception; the "Amish Bosmer" would be the norm. When Y'ffre helped them adapt to Valenwood, they promised not to harm Valenwood's forests. In a reality where the gods are basically real entities, that seems like it would be something they'd take seriously. And I don't think they're not too keen on outsiders harming their forests, either. Or at least not Khajiit. That's pretty much what Mixed Unit Tactics is all about.

The Bosmer tend to convert ancient ruins into liveable cities, albeit covered in fungus, moss, vines and whatnot. They don't let ancient cities rot and eventually get infested by bandits and/or monsters like the Dunmer and Nords.

Y'ffre doesn't actually care about the gorram trees. Green-Pact is more like a doting parent encouraging their youngins to eat, or rather, avoiding eating their greens to grow up big and strong and avoid mutating into junkie cat-people. It's really just another iteration "We Eat It To Become It".

I thought I read somewhere that they bring builders and materials in from Summerset Isles or something like that. Not sure what the Bosmer trade in return as it is obviously not wood from their many trees.

I know it mentions that one or some of the cities are built in tree tops.

I'm guessing it depends on the region and history of the area. Some such as the trading cities I guess will be built of stone, some will be built on top of or out of ruins of former cities and areas of jungle where no ruins exist will look something like the Ewok village from the film "Return of the Jedi" but to a grander scale and made without cut logs. Maybe they even use animal parts like the Dunmer city built in a large crab.

Part of me wishes that the Bosmer wouldn't have any architecture at all. I'd rather that they just all (except for the "civilized" ones) just live outside. Sleeping in burrows, dead logs, large flowers, etc. Given the current situation in Tamriel, I'd suspect there are old Imperial settlements that are rapidly being overtaken by nature, and newer, well-kept Altmeri settlements.

But part of me is also all for the alien-unique architecture mentioned above. I'm just not sure Bosmeri would care much in the way for cities. Small villages, more like.

Part of me thinks the Bosmer just shape shift and become part of the tree.

Didn't Falestini have orsimer inhabitants? Or maybe Falestini is an orc, to bosmer they are big as trees.

This is possibly the best explanation I have ever seen.

Fair game.