well the name of the mod is OLD HYRULE, it is a zleda related mod and
Im here to stir up some more discussion about are mod on the http://oldhyrule.11.forumer.com/ forums and recruit some more talented artists and writers to help out.

Right theres been a post about this before around a month ago on the official TES ( elder scrolls/ oblivion) forums and the main issue people brought up was copyright infringments and i dont want to discuss that here because we mainly have that sorted. First off Nintendos trademarked characters Zelda and Link will not be heavily featured in the mod and also its non profit for educational use. At worst, and i mean worst we would have to change a few names.

So for general info you won't be playing as Link ( full story details check the website http://www.oldhyrule.tk/ ) but a traveller fomr a distant land. This offers some good opertunity to be on either side of the war, be it gerudo or hyrule. So far in our concepts we are de-cartoony'anising Zelda to fit in with oblivion alot better.

We've begun pre-production work on the mod and hope to get as much of this done as possible before the CS comes out so we can have a hasty release. We' ve got a good team put together with talented modelers, writers and concepters.

Now for some concpet images for our mod and eye candy

The PC http://tinypic.com/686ikm
A Zora http://tinypic.com/68yfdi
And some armour designs http://tinypic.com/5zm7pv


Visit our forums and site and if you are interested in joining post some of your work on the forums and i am sure u will be able to join, even if you do not have a good talent come and join in on the discussions.

that would be cool...

but how can you really prepare for a mod like that without having the game out yet?

Well see there is alot of work that can be done right now, LIke all the concept art can be done which we have alot already, all the quests, and towns can be made and planned out, and we can model almost everything, and make up the story line. By startin early we can release the mod as soon as possible after the game comes out. Go to the forums in the public mod input section and look at some of the Conceot art and comment on them.

So will it be like, a separate continent that would be like Hyrule, and then there was Cyridiil, or would it all be implemented into Cyrodiil?

I hope this actually happens, I remember many an elaborate mod that I joined to help create that never happened. I myself am not going to be sigining on too anything until Oblivion comes out and I'm confident with how the new TES Editor works.

Hmm. I hope the Gerudo's are light infantry, individualy weak but able to pepper you with arrows before using a short scimitar type weapon. Too bad equestrian combat isn't in.
I guess then that you can't be any race but human? Playing any of the main races would be interesting.

Hi guys, Im the Mods concept artist and have been working on it for some time now ( i did those to pics linked above). To answer Dantrags question this mod is now going to be a total conversion and will have its own run file. A new character will need to be created. This leads me on to shasla5's question. There will be 3 playable races which are Hylian (elflike), Gerudo ( female only asians) and Kokiri which is kinda like across between a gnome and an elf. To add to that Zora and the Goron tribes will be included but non playable. As for the gerudos military structure, its mostly arabic inspired. We plan to have both sides equally featured. If you got ne other questions feel free to ask on our forums.

This is the coolest idea i've ever heard of, hyrule in oblivion, can it get better.
Which of the Zelda games is the mod going to be based on, personally I'd like Ocarina of time, or something. Everything would be fine since i've played all the zelda games except the two first ones. Your homepage is down. I have joined your forum, but i need some special permission to see the threads. I don't know if i can help so very much with the mod, considering that i'm not the best at drawing, and I don't have studio max 3d or something like that. But i can help with ideas.
It would be cool if we took stuff from every zelda game and made some cool quests.
A quest to get the master sword would be cool. We have to go through three dunguns finding three pendants and then take out the master sword.
I really hope this mod will become anything. I'll help as much as i can.

id love to help u with concept art (this goes out to anyone lookin for help) email me at drivecar@eftel.com PLZ!!!