User blog:MrxSidx/ESO Lore Dungeons: Fungal Grotto Part 1

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so Today im gonna start a new series where we explore the dungeons of eso and we explain the lore and story behind them. I'm not gonna go to deep and explain all the lore about everyhting but I'm gonna make it as clear as possible for just a dungeon lore vid

so first of what is a dungeon in eso? Like most mmo's we are familiar with, dungeons are special instances that players are able to interact with. They always contain one or more bosses, large amounts of enemies and loot. Dungeons may also contain chests, quests and in eso skyshards, ingredients and collectible books as well

There are exactly 144 dungeons and Trials in the game's initial version (145 if you include the Drago nstar Arena), and 136 are dungeons, delves and other group instances, the other 3 are Trials.

There are 6 delves, 1 public dungeon and 1 group dungeon per zone, with the exception of some few starting zones and stuff

so let's begin with our first entry in the series Fungal Grotto part 1

before we start our dungeon run we can already learn a bit about the lore from reading the loading screen:

"These extensive caverns in the volcanic rock beneath Stonefalls were once used for unknown purposes by the ancient Chimer, but were abandoned by the Elves long ago. Now they are the haunt of Goblins and other  denizens of the underworld."

once we enter the dungeon itself we meet a group of dunmer. one of them is vila theran When we speak to her we recieve our quest "kings of the grotto" and this is what she says

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so they want to reach a shrine within the caves but a tribe of goblins has occupied most of the area pushing out a colony of dreught. So our first goal is taking over the tribe by killing their leader and putting his head on a spike cause That's how the goblins do their thing i guess

In a letter near vila we get a bit more info So she send the letter to others in the hope people would join her on her quest for the shrine

In a book next to the letter we find that there was a blade called the Ebony blade. it is believed to be of importance to The deadric prince Mephala who values arcanum above all else. There is not much known about the blade but what we do know is it is possible that the blade can silence a mage by absorbing magicka and it even has some healing properties cause it can stitch together wounds you suffer in combat. the last weilder of the blade was a dunmer with a scar under his left eye called omdras. who slaughtered all but 1 of his handlers with it. There is one line in this book of importance to us for now. Where the autor is wondering how omdras knew where the blade was. The books says this "But his handlers whispered that the web spinner herself had told him".

So the web spinner vila mentions is Mephala that means that the group she calls fellows of the web are followers of mephala Cause mephala is know in elder scrolls lore by the names webspinner, spinner and spider and her sphere is sometimes claimed to be lies, sex, murder, and secrets, remember that last one for later then are we working for a deadric prince? so is vila not telling us something? Why does she want this shrine? Is omdras and the blade there?

so they want to reach a shrine within the caves but a tribe of goblins has occupied most of the area pushing out a colony of dreught. So our first goal is taking over the tribe by killing their leader and putting his head on a spike cause That's how the goblins do their thing i guess

....... so carrying on in the dungeon we follow the path and kill the mobs down the road untill we reach the first boss the first boss we encounter is Tazkad the Packmaster. He’s a level 15 goblin, and has a bunch of Durzog and goblin adds with him Tazkad casts Agony, a high magic damage attack which briefly stuns the tank. This should be interrupted. Blood Craze is a physical damage over time attack applied on the tank. The damage isn’t that high and it can’t be avoided.

then we encounter the chief we need to kill for our quest He will come jumping at us and we start fighting him

Warchief Ozazai,is a level 15 goblin war chief, and has a surprisingly large number of abilities in his arsenal.

first of he has a Shock Assault The adds plant a Dragonknight standard which deals AOE Fire damage to everyone in its radius. 2 ability Haymaker. It’s a very high physical damage attack with a knock down component. The main mechanic of the fight is Daedric Blast. From time to time, Ozazai will target players with a red beam. The player will soon get a red circle beneath them, indicating the explosion radius of the Daedric Blast. After a few seconds the explosion will go off, dealing high magic damage to all targets caught in its radius. If you get the red beam on you, you should move away from the rest of the group to not blow them up. When Ozazai gets on low Health, he periodically casts a physical damage AOE shout called Staggering Roar. Anyone caught in it will take a lot of physical damage. You can avoid it by outranging it.

once he is death we can put his head on the spike where he was standing before he jumped us by doing this we achieve our first goal and we con go to step 2 leading the goblin tribe against the dreugh where our main goal now is to kill their king so we can take over the grotto

Bloodbirther, a level 15 Dreugh, is the third boss in Fungal Grotto. Bloodbirther comes with two Dreugh adds who deal a lot of physical damage. Taking the adds down as soon as possible makes the encounter more easy.

on our way to the king we encounter another boss Clatterclaw, a level 15 giant mudcrab with adds

when we finally reach the location of Kra'gh the dreugh king he will come bursting out of the wall and we engage in the fight when we kill him, we finish the dungeon.

To complete our quest however we still have to talk to vila theran again the woman who gave us our quest at the beginning of the dungeon. and this is what she has to say

so Secrets are a spinner's currency remember when i told you about scecrets being one of the specialties of mephala, and she is called a spinner. so yes Vila and her company are followers of Mephala. She is worshiped by the Dunmer as one of the Three Good Daedra in their pantheon.She enjoys seducing and interfering in mortal affairs, presumably for her own amusement,though others suspect her manipulations are for a greater purpose. Mephala's minions are known as Spider Daedra. we also know from the loading screen that this grotto was made by chimer who worshiped the 3 "good" deadra the chimer eventually turned into the dunmer and we know vila is a dunmer

So we know now that vila wanted us to clear the grotto out and meddle in this conflic cause she is worshipping and mmaybe even working for a deadric prince aka prince of spiders a nd secrets who is worshipped by the dunmer as a "good deadra" there is presumably like vila claims a deadric shrine behind the door but We cannot go any further maybe we will findout in a Fungal grotto part 2? so yea this is where this story ends.

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