so there i was looting a tomb like there was no tomorrow (as usual) when i saw an urn with a chitin helm on it, i then realised, all these stuff belonged to people's loved ones and i'm just taking them away, i then realised what i was doing was mean and put everything back, i then left a flower by the entrance and locked the door, im going soft

It depends on your kind of character. I've played righteous characters who don't take anything, and in fact, often leave certain ingredients at peoples graves. However, I more often play the selfish character who hold the belief 'What good does gold do to a dead person? It's much better off with me..." and let them have it. At the same time, personal items, like pieces of armor or books, even articles of clothing, I don't take. Just gems or gold.

Depends on the roleplay. :shrug:

yes you are, the stuff belongs to the dead, and they don't need it nearly as much as you do. Besides releasing the poor spirits is doing a good thing

:violin: This is for the families whose tombs I robbed.

Bah! Serves their ancestors right for coming back to life and attacking me! And for burying such nice treasure along with them!

Oh well. They're dead now. I remember when Jauffre died in my main quest, I made a small memorial shrine for him in my house, placing his helmet and sword on a table with a flower. If someone later found my abandoned house and stole the artifacts, oh well. If Jauffre felt attached enough to them he could rise from the dead and attack the graverobber himself. If not, they were only placed there for my sake anyway. Now they can serve some capable adventurer in their quest!

;D

Moral ambiguity!

Wow that is truly touching I never thought of it like that.
I am going to start thinking about every little action I do in the game and how it really is effecting in game people because I never even realized that is grave robbing.

This will actually add a whole new aspect to both role playing and mortality to me for my Morrowind gaming experience, Thank you.

well, i am roleplaying a nord archer (i know, don't ask, long backstory) who is neither good nor bad, i just did it due to common courtesy

That was either sincere or bitterly sarcastic.

Any urn with a helmet on it usually contains some useless alchemical ingredient so theres no sense in taking it I feel. That being said, any helmet on an urn is probably bone mold, chitin or a Telvanni Mole crab helm -- all of which are useless.

I try not to steal things in Morrowind, even though the consequences can be undone. Looting tombs is fair game to me.

Completely Sincere.

Either way if it is a Telavanni tomb I am raiding the hell out of that thing, dancing on the graves, and breaking the urns!!!!!

My one character looted several tombs, but only took one or two items from each. He considered it wrong to take them, but not wrong enough to justify letting a really great item go to waste, sort of a moral "gray area" depending on how badly he needed them compared to how much misery it would cause the dead's living relatives.

I can understand this feeling as I have wondered if it's right to do this. I don't touch the urns to remove the bonemeal, (just the one in the tomb near Seyda Neen with the ring inside). I take everything else because the dead don't need them and they're useful to me. Same as with other corpses you find throughout Tamriel, you remove gold/ magic items etc as you may need it. When I kill bandits, NPCs etc I always leave them wearing clothes, I don't want to dishonour them in death.

I love the immersive nature of Morrowind that it makes us think and debate all of this.

I used to have the utmost reverence for tombs, not even stepping in the pits with ashes and bones, what have you. Lately, I raid the entire tomb including the bonemeal from every urn. I wish the developers had used the script that conjures Dremora's in the Deadric Shrines in the tombs when you raid them. They could have put it arbitrarily on countless urns and other things with the undead attacking you for such atrocities. It would have been easy, and there is (or should be) a mod that does this.

There is. http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=2328 by Zappara makes me think twice before stealing from tombs.

I use to feel to feel like that too when I stold the Bone Meal from the Urns. That didn't last long, since I wanted to collect Bone Meal for some reason. I guess wanting to be like a Necromancer type charcter I so I took them, till I changed proffesion, but got use to taking them, I don't stop. If it's not bolted down, I take it, and either collect it or sell it.

Can something be sweetly sarcastic?

I always play a Khajiit who has the main goal of gaining power. If looting a tomb is a way to accomplish this goal, I will do it.

i second that.
exceptions are the the museum of artifacts items. otherwise i won't take stuff from tombs in the next playthrough. well, except for


i like that idea (i'm an open-minded abolitionist hlaalu through and through, telvanni are the sworn enemies)


that sounds a bit like an excuse for ... uhm ... well ... powergaming? kitties and power?

I once ressurected Baurus and took his body to the Cathedral Altar covered in flowers. Another time I made Glarthir walk all the way to Anvil where I put him in a dinghy and filled it with burning torches.

Well, when I played the game, I pretended the tombs belonged to dead ordinators and robbed them blind. I hate those grunty voiced, insulting, arrogant douches who murder people for wearing their armor.