I always wondered how well Morrowind would do if the video game was made into a book. With all the dialogue and everything. Of course the game played would have to be a nearly perfect profile in order to illustrate the Nerevarine's comeback according to show the story's in depth level to it's highest. Also all the nags for a novel in terms of realistic conditions like how the Nerevarine could carry all he carried without a backpack would be explained by the best author in the world to explain it to the most perfect and realistic way. Also, I have a question. And here it goes. You know how you as a player can sometimes have some luck not according to the game statistics, but luck in terms of what you run into? Well that would be the novel svcked out of the video game. Also of course when the Nerevarine starts out in the boat, he would exhaust all lines of dialogue. And when he is in the Census and Excise office in the beginning, he does the questionnaire but still has the class of Adventurer and have the skills with whatever skills the Nerevarine started with the first time around before his reincarnation. He would say yes to all the quest offerings the NPC's give him and therefore all the people in the would be novel to give to him. Also do you think it's possible that the environments and the Nerevarine moving around in Morrowind, Mournhold, and Tribunal could be explained by written English literature? The chapters could be 3 in all meaning chapters called Morrowind, Tribunal, and Bloodmoon with whichever order you think the Nerevarine did in order. Also, there can be Nerevar reading the in game books which would be in the novel. Although there would some snatches as to how the author should order the books and when he should poke books in between times Nerevar is adventuring. So what do you think? A Morrowind Elder Scrolls novel. I know many people know the story already...but think about it...hopefully perfect descriptions of the environment and how the Nerevarine moves about them, with already professional writing with the dialogue and in game books.

um...no? why spend money on something i've already played, especially when there are dozens (if not hundreds) of fanfics available about it, some of them quite good? A novelization would add little, if anything to what are already completed and detailed plot, world, and characters. furthermore, it would completely negate the point of the Nerevarine being anyone since it would pin down people's interactions with him/her and his/her interactions with the world.

I would not read a book about a character I have already played.

A book about Lord Nerevar would be interesting, as would a book about any character who is contemporary to a game period, but not directly related.

I like the way the last Elder Scrolls novel 'bridged the gap' between Oblivion and the upcoming game. Pretty sweet!

For me, I would read it, because I like to extrapolate on a lot of the "what if?" that happens in the games in my own imagination.

When I wrote my two part fanfic novel, centered around the mod White Wolf of Lokken Mountain, I remembered the many facets of certain mods or the main game and wondered about the serious causes and effects from the decisions my character made in the game. For instance, I touched upon the facet of Bolvyn Venim having Nidryne Redas as a mistress, and how his death affects not only her, but the whole house of the secret order. Since I timed the novel a year or so directly behind the death of Dagoth Ur and the beginning of the destruction of Ald'Ruhn via the Oblivion gate, it helped to really flesh out that facet of her revenge against the Nerevarine.

Then, there were the facets added by the great writers of the LGNPC, and how the added personalities and conversations played into other parts of the story, such as Tel Mora and Mistress Dratha. There were facets expanded due to the aftereffect of the destruction of the blight and Ur, with the poor Sleepers and Dreamers in late stage just standing around as "blank slates", and how the temple and towns people took to incinerating them, out of religious and biological fear. It kind of all started from the conversations I heard when my wife played Oblivion, where they talk about what happened in Ald'ruhn, Vivec's disappearance (which I explain in my fan-story to a degree for sake of the story), and the Nerevarine going to Akavir, which playes heavily into my Part 2.

All this, with a poor, tired, and troubled Nerevarine who just happens to just want the life of the "everyman"; of family, hearth, home, and peace. What to do since his chosen life is just what he was saddled with via the mod's story- the new Castle Master of Lokken and now soon to be heir. It gave me a chance to read a lot of the in-game books and such and use them to flesh out some of the characters and their relationships which are really never touched upon in detail, such as Senyndie and Ahnassi, the characters of Emma and Grumpy's Dome Home and Lokken, and even a few from the MCA, such as Luthien Morvayn, who just happened to interest me both in the game and her smaller backstory. Sometimes, even a simple mod can inspire an entire story, if it interests you that is. For me, many of the modders here have done that, with their works.

So like anything else, it would depend on how far we all look into the characters we come across. For some, they entertain and interest, for others, they are meat shields and mules. Quite subjective really.

Morrowind only works as a video game, where it excelled. Leave it where it did best.

I think novels of characters and related events may work, sure, even just printing ones found in-game. Hell, even spin-off gap-bridgers like the current novels work fine, but leave the games alone. Games are perfectly capable of telling stories on their own now.