Not that's it's all that relevant, but this coincidence strck me, and several threads have been devoted to the muses of Elder Scrolls already.

Actor Charles Heston has just died, and I was reading a wiki article on his movie, Ben-Hur and found this.



It was used in the context of (I believe) the drummer on a war galley. Is it true that this word was first used here? When people say 'the Hortator exhorts' they seem pretty near the mark, since that seems like the job of anyone running a galley.

What's it have to do with Morrowind?

Yes, a hortator is in charge of the oarsmen on a Roman galley. It's a Latin word that literally just means 'encourager'. And that is indeed where the English word 'exhort' comes from. It might well also be where Bethesda got Indoril Nerevar's title from.

Hortator was a title given to the player in Morrowind. It had something to do with the houses, but I can't remember what exactly......

Hortator is the Great House warleader in the Elder Scrolls.

"Coincidence"? Nay, sai. In the parts I hail from, it's called "Nineteen".

The Horator gets people together. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkB5-BHxKZI

If MK was the one to propose the name, I wouldn't be surprised. As some might recall, Lorkhan is also known as the Doom-Drum.

The Drummer drumming the Drum, the Dreamer dreaming the Dream.