The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Imperial City - Elven Gardens District

Fantasy game art from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages has detailed information on The Elven Gardens.

In our discussion of the Imperial City Market District, we mentioned having uninstalled Better Cities in favour of the less-overhauled ImpeREAL City mod. The overall visual changes of the latter had in fact been integrated into Better Cities, so some areas that were less-modified by Better Cities look almost identical. One such area is the Elven Gardens District. Included in the ImpeREAL City mod is an optional add-on that lights up the central tower in the Imperial City, as you can see in the second set of screenshots of the city by night. It required changes in the Oblivion.INI file which also resulted in some graphical anomalies now and again, however, and mostly in 3rd person mode.

The in-game time is about 2:30am, and the lighting here is modded with the Original Color Darker Nights mod, which gives a deeper night experience, not dark enough to require torches but not so dark as some of other other lighting change mods. And overall dark enough to really highlight the improvement of simply adding lighting to the central tower.