Myes, here I've gone and pondered ever since I read the Infernal City. What kind of role will the Dunmer play in future TES Games (Skyrim for one), seeing as their homeland of Morrowind, especially Vvardenfell, has been blown into the ashes of history, being (more or less) in the hands of the Argonians.

Will they attempt to gain land in Skyrim or what?
After 200 years, will Resdaynia have risen again?
WILL THE TELVANNI TAKE THE ABOSOLUTE POWER!?

Ahem.. taken in consideration that there is also the Fifth Era Love Letter (I do hope that Bethesda makes sure it loses its canon-position..) writes as such:

C0DA Digitals have confirmed that a subject in sensory deprivation begins to hallucinate after only twenty minutes. Scale unto this along the magical spectrum and maintenance of time, which is forever, and you begin to see the Lunar God’s failure as Greatest Gift. As above, “This is the love of God.”

Why Love?

Know Love to avoid the Landfall, my brothers and sisters of the past.

The New Man becomes God becomes Amaranth, everlasting hypnogogic. Hallucinations become lucid under His eye and therefore, like all parents of their children, the Amaranth cherishes and adores all that is come from Him.

The letter is written by a Dunmer (most likely) who belongs to the House of Sul (Mahap the house is founded by the very same Sul from the Infernal City?), and "Landfall" clearly points out the cataclysm that shook Morrowind to the ground. (Ministery of Truth crashing, causing Red Mountain to erupt, yada yada yada).

Also, in one of Vivec's Sermons, he says (roughly): "The Ministery of Truth shall remain where it is as a reminder to the people - should their love love for me ever fall, so will their lives fall.

Now.. Bethesda has done the time deux ex machina with Daggerfall and the Warp in the West before.. Could it be possible that another weird time freak-session happens again - this time making sure Morrowind prevails and that the Argonians (curse that insignificant race..) never rises to topple the Dunmer? Could it be that Fifth Era Love Letter actually warns us about the future, and helps us prevent it? If we love! \o/

And IF SO, will it be explained in the second book?

Do discuss

Excellent questions. I too am perplexed and made maddeningly curious by this. It's also a testament to the richness of the lore that I actually feel a pang of sadness for the Dunmer knowing that their ancestral homeland has been more or less annihilated since the events of Morrowind. I too am forced to speculate that the Love Letter from the 5th Era could potentially be from an alternate future where the love of Vivec endured such that he never left Vvardenfell, and the Ministry never had to be held aloft by the Ingenium. But then again, I have to remember that Vivec was losing his powers after the events that played out due to our intercession as the Nerevarine. So how could he have held it aloft forever, anyway? It would have had to have fallen eventually without the Ingenium, right? So isn't Vvardenfell doomed no matter what? Or might Vivec have been able to "set it down gently" as it were, had he survived (or remained; I'm not sure whether he died, or simply left. We WERE able to kill him in the game, after all... ) long enough?

Very interesting questions. I hope the fate of the Dunmer will be addressed in Skyrim and future novels.

They could always claim the letter was wrong about a few things :shrug: - or find a crazy way to rewrite it...

Well, I mostly just want the Love Letter removed from lore ;P

C0DA?

The Digitals?

... Come on..

Well the fifth era love letter isn't canon, it's just a random writing by Michael Kirkbride, it's not lore. As for the thread, Morrowind most likely won't play a part in Skyrim. Seeing as how Skyrim is in a civil war, the Dunmer from Solstheim or the Argonians from Morrowind might try to invade. So don't worry about a time issue with the love letter, because it's fake and not canonical. Just because it is on the Imperial Library doesn't make it canon, that's the problem with the library, everyone thinks that everything on it is real when alot of the documents on it are not canon.

Isn't it obvious? Elder Scrolls X: Morag Tong Creed. In the fifth era a group of assassins that are also scientists have devised a device to access the knowledge of their ancestors. You take the role of Desmonues Sul of House Sul. You go into the device and enlist the aid of the Nerevarine to destroy the ministry of truth before he takes care of Dagoth Ur. Starring Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox.