Could someone please give me a more simple version of the events in morrowind, I tried playing but the game is so MASSIVE when compared to other Elder Scrolls and I just can't find the time to devote to it, just to find the story. I went on wikipedia, but I still don't understand it.

Elder Scrolls is so complicated , I mean I thought I understood about Mehrunes Dagon wanting to get his plane back but then he also ties in with Alduin? AGH!

So please will someone help me understand all that juicy lore and story please. Including what the Heart of Lorkhan is?

Thanks in advance, please don't flame me for not knowing these things

There is a prophecy that one day Nerevar will return and slay Dagoth Ur. After you prove yourself to be the reincarnation of Nerevar you slay Dagoth Ur.

In the beginning, Lorkhan created the mortal plane, which was very unpopular and widely regarded as a bad move. So, the other gods, being nice fellows, ripped out his heart and chucked it into the ground. It landed in the northern part of what would become morrowind, creating a volcano called (imaginatively) Red Mountain. Morrowind the game takes place on the island of Vvardenfell, which is separated from mainland Morrowind by the water-filled crater remaining from the impact.

A jillion years before the game takes place, there was a war between the dark elves and the dwarves. A dwarf named Kagrenac discovered Lorkhan's heart under Red Mountain, and found a way to tap into it with some tools he created called Wraithguard, Sunder, and Keening. His goal was to make a sweet giant mecha for the dwarves to all worship. But there was a dark elf named Nerevar who wanted none of that, and united the rest of the dark elves under his banner. Included were Almalexia, his wife, Voryn Dagoth, his best bro, Vivec, whose slam poetry Nerevar totally dug, and Sotha Sil, who I guess was cool enough to hang with him as well. Anyways, there's a sweet battle scene and Nerevar makes his way to the chamber where Lorkhan's heart is. Kagrenac uses the tools on the heart to tap into the power, and the dwarves all go poof somehow. Nerevar tells Voryn Dagoth to chill with Keening, Sunder, and Wraithguard while he figures out what to do. He comes back with Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil, and at that point both Voryn Dagoth and Nerevar end up dead. Acounts vary on exactly what happened, but they all seem to agree that the butler did it. So, with Nerevar gone, the two remaining dudes and the remaining dudette decide to tap into the heart's power using Kagrenac's tools, becoming the physical gods known as the Tribunal (Geddit, cause there's 3 of them). Oh, and when I say "dark elves" in the preceding paragraph I mean "Chimer", who were actually shiny golden dudes, but I didn't want to load up the confusing right at the front. But this is the point where they go from shiny golden dudes to grey ashy dudes who call people n'wahs because Azura (one of the gods) thought trying to ascend to godhood was kind of a scumbag move. So she cursed them all.

It also turns out that Voryn Dagoth played around with the Heart before he died, which gave him a 1 up. He did the whole Sauron/Voldemort routine where he just kind of sat there forever going "dang I wish I could do something". But he was alive nonetheless.

Fast forward a jillion years. The Neravarine prophecies state that Nerevar will be reborn as a dude who will drive the outlanders from Morrowind and make everyone's annoying greeting go from "Make it quick, outlander." to "N-n-n-nerevar!" They were actually more excited about the Jiubine prophecies, which foretold the eradication of the cliff racers, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. A few years before the reborn Nerevar comes to Morrowind as the player character, Voryn Dagoth (now Dagoth ur) wakes up and attacks the Tribunal when they come to Red Mountain for their annual "Let's screw around with the heart to maintain our powers" picnic. He manages to steal Sunder and Keening (and promptly hands them off to a couple less competent lackeys), but the Tribunal hangs on to Wraithguard. They figure out that Dagoth Ur wants to make that sweet giant mecha the dwarves never finished, which he plans to use to melt all the outlanders into Tang. Since this is a Bad Thing, they (and by "they" I mean "Vivec" because the others don't do crap) also figure out that if you used the tools wrong on purpose, you could destroy Lorkhan's heart. Since that's where Dagoth Ur gets his powers from (and what he plans on using to power his giant robot), Vivec decides to go ahead with the plan, and by go ahead with that plan, I mean make the reborn Nerevar do nine kinds of pointless crap just to get his magic glove, and then say gl hf dd and point him/her towards Red Mountain.

Nerevar, despite Vivec's "help", eventually destroys the heart, which causes the Oblivion crisis to happen somehow. Meanwhile, he wanders off to Akavir to stare at dragons or something.

The end.

*Applause*

When are you making the Cliffracer Prophecies mod?

If Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett wrote a book on Morrowind history, this is what it would look like.

Of all the MQ storylines.....I think Morrowind's is really the most confusing and complex.