As some of you may be aware, there is an abandoned shack near Gnaar Mok, one of many in the game. However, this shack has something interesting, a pointless book... sort of, thats a bit a mystery still... and a note. I've searched through the internet, looking for confirmation of my hypothesis but i havent really found anything about it, so ill present my guess here and see what everyone thinks.

The note (similiar to the Message in a Bottle, or so ive read) is not written by just any regular person in the wilderness, but is actually written by--

-- Vivec himself.

The poetic nature of the note, the lamentation of his eternal life of boredom and sorrow, pain and loss, it all fits perfectly with Vivec, not only with what he says to you during points in the game, but also from various books scattered through the game as well.

So, i want to hear what you guys think about this..

I think this is a very poetic and well thought out.And like most literal interpretions it is what it means to you.

It is the same as the message in the bottle, of which there are two in the game. I didn't know it was written by Vivec.

I thought it was either a dreugh or a crazy person. Either way I just threw it in the water.

well, the sanity of Vivec is certainly debateable, as it seems the Three of Morrowind have all declined considerably in their mental states toward the end of the Third Era.

I agree, especially when you read this:
I am not who I used to be. Though it pained me so, I was never so real as those lonely, lost times of my undoing. I am torn asunder at the thought of losing forever that, which has changed my life eternally, and that which I fear in the depths of my soul will never be again. That, which has gifted me with more pain than I have ever known in all of my lives or all of the lives that I know through my own.

Vivec is losing his powers, they changed who he was, and he fears it. That, or it was Almalexia who wrote the poem/note. That would fit too.

well, it may fit almalexia, but Vivec is the one known for the poem writing. Also, isnt there a bit in there about the authors own duality? if you look at Vivec, two halves of a whole, that also fits him. (and Sotha Sil, but hes a recluse....)

Almalexia is the one who supposedly turned to despair.

Vivec is supposed to be spending most of his time in deep meditation, maintaining the ghostfence. I doubt he had much occasion to get out and write letters in abandoned shacks. (Unless this was a peek into the future, after Dagoth Ur's defeat....his lonely thoughts when he disappears from the public face.)

It might be Sotha Sil's but he's been in his city for many years.

Its written be a dissapointed land dreugh

Hah!

Where can I find these things? I've played MW for years and never found them...

i know its off the subject but i love that shack

and that is a very good theory salvan my friend one ive not heard

Its a nice thought but it doesnt explain why vivec wrote a book about wood

Now what makes more sense than Vivec writing a book about wood?

LOL

hmm, now the wood book... im not sure.

but as for Vivec getting out, there is a whole series called the 36 lessons of Vivec, about all sorts of his travels, it never really says how long the shack has been abandoned.

Link? Pretty please?

http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/worn_and_weathered_note.shtml

I have to agree that it reads as if written by a very eloquent land dreugh.

EDIT: Make that a dreugh, no longer living on the land, and missing it.

Thanks.


First of all, this isn't a poem.

And I vote Dreugh, seeings as how they are thought to go through metamorphosis between forms humanoid and crab. I might be seeing some MK in there, but that's probably just suggestion.

I vote Vivic... But that's just me... :shrug:

None of this says Vehk to me.

This is actually a Tedder's piece. I give Tedder's a lot of crap, but this is really, really nice work. It's a sort of play on the pantheistic idea of a transcendent experience with mother nature. But instead of gaining this sacred experience, in the text, the narrator has lost that union, like losing a lover, and is struggling to cope with it.

Agreed. Not Vivec, and not a dreugh, either. The imagery is too human.

hmm, the imagery bieng too human doesnt mean its not Vivec, he used to be a a regular old mortal too.

a tick against a land drueugh is... well a thumb.. and hand for that matter. they dont have any, they have big ol claws. also, why would a land drueugh be so sad? its not like they're stuck on land forever, they do go back to the water. they are only on land for 1 year of their life, the loss in the note is long term.

also, if you've seen, the speaker talks about forgetting, time having no meaning, pulling out and letting the eons slip by. this all fits with "present day" (as seen in MW) Vivec, and is actually how he himself describes his own existence. eternity is a long time, time no mortal was meant to bear. Immortality, and great power given by the Heart of Lorkhan are physical things, the mind is quite another, and while the body never feels the touch of death, or the wasteing of aging, the mind does. time wipes away friends, places, events, feelings... and no matter how powerful you are physically, you can't stop the process of eventually forgetting almost everything.

Maybe the shack is where Vehk's parents lived. After all, Gnaar Mok is surrounded by netches.

Didn't Vehk only had a mother?

I don't think his mama was a Netchiman.