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MORROWIND
Books of Vvardenfell
version 2.0

by Stuporstar
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This is a simple mod that adds a few more books to Morrowind.

I tried to keep them as lore friendly as possible.
However, these are not just a series of guide books designed to make stuff easier to look up as you play the game (though they still serve that purpose very well).
Each book has its own author, a person who exists somewhere (not necessarily Vvardenfell) in the game world.
As such, I tried to write each book with the author's particular voice in mind.
Some authors have their own biases, and are not necessarily 100% accurate depictions of the game world, but rather colored through that author's particular lens.

Includes:

- Alchemy for Beginners: pretty self explanatory. "Written by" Madame Mary Madrigal, an Altmer alchemist.
- The Complete Alchemists Compendium: as a single book and in a five volume set. Also by Madame Mary Madrigal.
- The Vvardenfell Flora Compendium: as a single volume and also a six volume set. By Madame Mary Madrigal.
- The Flora of Mournhold: single volume. By Madame Mary Madrigal.
- The Special Flora of Soltheim: single volume. By Madame Mary Madrigal.
- The Fauna of Vvardenfell: detailing some of the creatures of Morrowind. By Edras Oril.
- The Hunter's Guild to Soltheim: detailing the creatures in the Bloodmoon expansion. By Halgren the Hunter.
- A series of single page alchemy recipes by Madame Mary Madrigal.
- Alvo's Book of Blight Diseases: By Endthenal Alvo.
- Alvo's Book of Common Diseases: By Endthenal Alvo.
- Imperial Egg Mining: A Tract by Uther Orandus to the Imperial Empire.
- The Book of Lesser Daedra: A treatise by Omavyl Rhea of the Tribunal Temple.
- Verena's Guide to Enchanting: A skill book for enchanting by the Telvanni Verena Uvirith.
- Crude Jokes and Riddles: Collected and published by Crassius Curio.
- Crassius' Crude Limericks: Collected and published by Crassius Curio.
- Ol' Uncle Crassius' Collection of Bedtime Stories: A book of somewhat bawdy tales.
- Dibella's Whispers: A book of love poetry that is somewhat erotic in nature, but by no means crude. Written by the Breton Bard Deandre (actually written Jac from the PES forums).
- Common Jokes and Riddles: Another collection of jokes and riddles commonly told throughout Tamriel. Author(s) unknown.
- A Complete Traveler's Guide to Vvardenfell: A book detailing the regions and major cities of the island, written by an Imperial author named Orwil Endarr. This book is also available in a four volume set consisting of the Hlaalu, Telvanni, Redoran and Temple controled regions, as well as a book on general tips for the traveler.
- The Traveler's Guide to Vvardenfell: Another book in the series by Orwil Endarr containing useful tips for the traveler; Mentioned here separately because it contains some practical tips that the Complete Guide didn't have room to cover.
- The Tribunal Temple Tomb Registry: A book containing a list of ancestral tombs maintained by the Tribunal Temple.

This version includes new textures, meshes and icons for all of the books, as well as some book art for some of the volumes.
Each book has its own unique cover, much in the style of the Book Jackets mod which includes titles (or at the very least something unique to differentiate it) on every spine so that the player can easily see what books they have on their shelves without having to mouse-over all of them.
I've also included icons which resemble the jackets of each book so you can easily see them amongst Jobasha's massive selection in the barter window, and so you can easily pick them out of your inventory.
These books also contain their own version of the Book Rotate scripting, so they work with or without Book Rotate installed.

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Book Locations:

Most of these books can be found in a single chest in Jobasha's Book Shop in Vivec. They can be bought or stolen.
Alchemy for Beginners and the single page alchemy recipes can be found in Balmora, Nalcarya of White Haven in a chest upstairs.

The Tribunal Tomb Registry is found in the Temple's secret library. It cannot be taken.
However, there is a small quest involving a copy of the book available to members of the Tribunal Temple.
For non-members of the Temple, carrying the book is a severe crime should you find it and be caught with it, so beware.

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Installation:

Pretty standard, just unzip into data files. Just make sure to copy all of the meshes, textures, icons and book art into their repsective folders.

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Version History:

1.0 - First release, available since 2006

1.1 - Corrected several spelling and grammatical errors and added a couple new books.

2.0 - Added several new books and created unique book covers and icons for all of them.
Also added a small quest for the Temple Tomb Registry.

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Credits:

Some ideas for alchemy recipes were borrowed from Stevmill's Alchemy FAQ,
Specifically submissions by Eevle and Aanar


This mod also makes use of the Book Rotate Script from Heph's Book Rotate Mod 5.3


Edited by Bigsmoke.

Most of these books were written by me, but there have been many contributors from the PES forums:

Limericks - TripleWordScore
- Aphotic

Jokes - Aphotic (who contributed a lot)
- HeavyMetalArchmage
- Knight of the Thorn
- Chriso123
- Elite Birthday
- dagoth_jeff
- mALX1
- Zalphon
- hermes700

Crassius' Story Collection:
A Dubious Tale, and The Tale of the Broken Beer Keg, are by MarStinson.
The Mundane Old Man, is by Aphotic.

All of the poems in Dibella's Whispers were written by Jac.


Much of the information in these books was taken from the Elder Scrolls Wiki at www.uesp.net

The new book jackets make use of some of the textures from William The Taffer's Better Books, though I've altered all of them significantly.

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Contact Info:

You can contact me with any feedback at SarahDiMento@Gmail.com

If anyone would like to contribute to this mod in any way, please feel free to contact me.

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Things to do:
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Create Illustrations:

- Vvardenfell Flora series
- Flora of Mournhold
- Flora of Solsthiem

Make new books (and covers):

- Trainers Guidebooks for each faction (within reason, the Morag Tong or Theives Guild would not be writing books about their members)
- Guide to Dunmer Strongholds (written by the dude in Caldera with the propylon quest) [COMPLETED]
- Guide to Daedric Ruins [IN PROGRESS]
- Guide to Dwemer Ruins [IN PROGRESS]
- Cosmos, by Carlenas Saganus: a book on the Elder Scrolls Cosmology
- Maps of Vvardenfell: a complete book of maps of all the regions and major cities [COMPLETED]

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These are some of the planned changes for future versions of the mod.

If you wish to submit an idea or book, please contact me or post in this thread

Definitely will be using this.

Silly add-on idea: Dialogue where a pc could take a copy of a book to the author where the npc will sign it; or may not sign it before requiring special quests/favors (cue Crassius Curio :ahhh: ).

Dammit, I just noticed a few typos that I didn't catch last night, and I forgot two of Jacs poems! :facepalm:

Great maps! Now we need similiar ones to replace those in the "Guide to..." scrolls :deal:

Great maps! Now we need similiar ones to replace those in the "Guide to..." scrolls :deal:

I'm reluctant to change any original content in this mod, but if there's enough demand for it, I could replace the maps in the "guide to" city scrolls with the ones I made for this book.

I'm also still taking submissions for original books if anyone's interested.

Consider offering two ESPs, one with replaced maps, one without. Or just do it, and see what kind of feedback you get at TES Nexus and PES from users.



Be careful about offering this. There are some very good writers among the modding group, and also some who fancy themselves good writers but need a great deal of work. If you make a general statement like this, you're putting yourself in the position of having to turn some folk down, or issue some substandard stuff. Speaking as someone who was in a similar situation while working for an MMO, I can tell you it will not make you feel good either way. Just a thought.

I do reserve the right to edit for grammar and spelling, and I will turn down a submission if I don't feel it fits into the mod. I won't be releasing anything subpar. So far, I've only taken two submissions, from people who's writing I've seen. Actually, you might say I recruited them after seeing their writing and being impressed with it.

I've also finished the map book and the book on dunmer strongholds. I'm now working on the dwemer ruins book, and it's coming out well so far.