The novel doesn't mention anything about the Nerevarine, as far as I can remember; read it about a week ago.

Well, hypothetically, all the Altmer in TES:III and TES:IV wre exiles and outcasts of Summurset because they left their "perfect" home willingly, or because they were forced out for one reason or another.

Or were on a vacation to look down upon the plebeians.

"Oh, honey, what is that horrible little thing?"
"It's a 'Dunmer,' dear."
"My, how positively dreadful!" [holds kerchief to nose]

lol i imagine the lady from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyuoUwxCLMs saying that

He didn't randomly change the course of history in Tamriel.

C'mon now.

During the Oblivion Crisis Saint Jiub is killed and the Cliff racers return to Morrowind only to become extinct by the Ministry of truth destroying Morrowind

I can't tell if this is some statement about the linear nature of time or just saying that you writers have already planned a few games in advance and have it all written down in outline form someplace. Quite a find for an overly inquisitive fan, if it's floating around anywhere.

So much time spent doing quests and making morrowind a better place and for what. So it can get nuked, that really svcks.

Well, in the end, it would have crashed anyway. Vivec was becoming weaker, and weaker, and eventually he probably couldn't maintain the rock and the ghostgate for too long. Sadly, it was inevitable, as people lost their love for Vivec (which also meant love in general apparently), and it came down crashing. The fight with Sul and that other guy caused it, because they rejected love. Now, it's time to start anew and try to rebuild. If what MK said in the other thread about the nords of Solstheim is true, it'll be an interesting rebuilding of nordish and dunmer bonds.

And hey, it sometimes does take a huge loss to gain something greater. There's a silver lining in this somewhere; it just won't be immediate.

I imagine it's all on a flash-drive in a file-cabinet in Todd Howard's office labelled "Tax Returns 2004"

The latter, I daresay. At the very least, the devs would have all/most of the intervening event between TES IV and V plotted out at this point, so there's not a whole lot left for Keyes to make up. It certainly wouldn't make sense for the devs to allow an outside author to make up all the lead-up-to-TESV lore by himself. Chances are, Umbriel is the only thing in the book that wasn't already in Bethesda's in-house documents, before they even contacted Keyes.

Did the book say anything about Mournhold? I wonder if the An-Xileel made it their new capital. The "City of Light and Magic" would certainly be better than any town you could possibly find in Black Marsh. Or perhaps, the city was leveled by Vvardenfell raining down on it. :/

i havent read the book, but arent the an-zileel totally anti-anything-not-from-argonia? it wouldnt make much sense for a completely nationalistic faction to make their new capital the capital of everything they despise.

Nothing. Plus, the argonians REALLY love their swamps; I doubt they would occupy it. Destroy it, sure. Occupy? Very unlikely, since it's not argonian, and not of the swamps.

Maybe they picked it clean of anything of value. After all, if the An-Xileel wants to become a big empire, they'd need a lot more than tree sap.

Perhaps I'm using too many historical references. When the Ottomans took over Constantinople, the city was so rich, big and fortified that they made it their own capital, after looting it and converting every church into a mosque. I just thought it would be the same with Mournhold. Loot the city, plant hist trees, etc.

Maybe I'm wrong, but the novel seemed to say that the An-Xileel were concentrated around Lilmoth. Maybe Mournhold was destroyed by a tsunami and is a smaller city decades later -- a reduced population living among the ruins of Mournhold, like living with Roman ruins. That's just a quick speculation, though.

the book says that argonians ran the dunmer clear out of Morrowind and onto Solsthiem. Argonians would live fine in New Morrowind, in fact better than most other parts of the Continent. The entire country is now very geothermally active, and would keep them constantly warm. and to boil stuff, you'jjust have to dip it in the Inner Sea.

Interesting, I hadn't thought about them rejecting love as they fought (although really, Sul didn't. Vuhon rejected love in his clingy jealousy of Sul over Sul's wife, though) and I would love to see a Dunmer-Nordic culture. Not the wierd Daedric quest from Oblivion kind, I mean several generations of mostly peaceful coexistence kind.


Apparently, not a lot of Argonians stayed in Morrowind in general. They were perfectly happy with burning the Dunmer out and going back to party with the Hist. After all, the swamps are their homeland and the Bitter Coast got nuked.

It was a mishmashed attempt to bring the LL together and why MoT crashed

Dunmer chugging down mead and Nords with raspy voices? :spotted owl:

awesome.

+100

Well, I'd imagine it'd include that too, but also big dunmer with huge axes and claymores, and spellcasting Nords. A sort of breton-like race of long-term half elves.

Oooh, a big red-eyed nord-mer! oo: