- "You enter the Imperial City, the heart of Tamriel, and the seat of power for his majesty, the Emperor Uriel Septim VII."
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Type | City-State |
Province | Imperial Province |
The Imperial City is a city-state and the capital of the Empire, located in the center of the Imperial Province, the heart of Tamriel. The ruler is Emperor Uriel Septim VII. Its rivals are Daggerfall and Evermore.
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PopulationEdit
- Although the Imperial Province doesn't have its own native race in Arena, the Imperial City's inhabitants use Redguard villager sprites and monster names.
- Explanation: Typically in Arena, each city's citizens are the native race of that province, but in the case of the Imperial City and the Imperial Province, a native race wasn't ever set up in the game data by the developers. The way the game generates the pigment-hue set and names for citizens is by selecting from a data set of eight hues and eight name generators, which were set up for citizens in the other eight provinces. The Imperial Province was set up as the game's ninth province, but a unique hue set and name generator terms were never created for a ninth province in the game data, so in place of a ninth hue set for the "ninth race," the game defaults to whatever data it can fetch first, which was the Redguard racial hue. However, the game did possess data for a ninth name generator, which was actually a nameset intended for some of the game's Monsters (in this case: Minotaur, Spider, Ghoul, Hell Hound, Ghost, Zombie, Troll, Wraith, and Homonculus), so when the game goes to fetch the ninth name generator in the data, the villagers in the Imperial City are assigned Monster names.
NotesEdit
- There are no random quests in the Imperial City.
- You cannot re-enter the Imperial Palace after completing the main quest, as it will be closed for repairs.
- The Imperial City also appears in Oblivion, Oblivion Mobile, ESO, and Legends.