Disclaimer here: I'm not meaning in any plot relevant way, and I don't even mean a full set. Just curious...

Would it be possible that some lone volumes of the Sermons of Vivec managed to survive the Dunmer exodus from Morrowind? I mean, obviously they aren't exactly credible religious texts anymore, but I can see some Dunmer holding onto them as memories of their old holdings and a sort of cultural relic. I doubt that all 36 volumes would've survived (unless a library was among the things evacuated) but I think it'd be nifty if we saw a few scattered volumes around the Dunmer cities.

It wouldn't be a big deal if they weren't in, I just think it might be cool to see a few spare volumes, carefully preserved and locked away in libraries or wealthy individuals' homes.

This would be cool, especially for thieves. I think they need more specialized artifacts or books that are locked away that are a real challenge too steal, or find in ruins.

I'm sure we'll see a lot of nostalgia to the old Dunmer ways. After the destruction of Vvardenfell, and the invasion of the Argonians, it makes much sense that the dunmer would either flee to Cheydinhal county or eastern Skyrim, and you know the Dunmer are stubborn, they'll hold on to what's left, and I get the feeling they won't be too friendly with Argonians, and maybe even Khajiit's as their former slave race. But then I'm sure we'll see apologists as well as traditionalists.

I'll make sure to burn them if I find any, don't worry the Dunmer will lose their old ways soon enough.

It will be my mission to erase the Dunmer history, items, and relics that preserve Dunmer beliefs and life.

I'd like to see them as well, but I doubt we will. There were rumors in Oblivion that stated that the Tribunal Temple collapsed after the events of Morrowind (since you destroyed the source of the Tribunal's godhood in the process of killing Dagoth Ur). The only surviving copies in decent shape after Red Mountain went boom and the Argonians invaded would probably still be buried in Ancestral Tombs.

I imagined in my mind Maiq saying "ha-ha your homeland exploded". :violin:

I never read the boring religous books myself...

Some of the books may be boring but many people found they added much depth to both the game and series. Lotsa people hated the complete rehash of books in OB

What do you mean, "complete rehash"?

Anyways, I doubt we'll see them, much as I'd like it.
They were quite rare even when Morrowind was intact; I think it's very unlike any have survived. And they just aren't relevant any longer.

I want a new set of books in the vein of The Sermons or the Song of Pelinal. Maybe a collection of Norse sagas.

Nordic and Tribunal propeganda text are by far the worse peices of literature I have ever experienced, and I rather both groups neve make a book again infact it would have been useful if the Volcanoes in Skyrim Erupted as well....it would have been fitting.

Eh it would be faster to erase the Dunmer. It will be like the Mayans. You hear about their culture and predictions but think, they couldn't even survive to see this stuff, why believe it?

Bah, heathens....[smokes pipe]

Dont expect to feed your nnostalgia. Its SKKYRIM, not Morrowind. We wouldnt have wanted for the Dunmer to lose their thunder in Elder Scrolls 3, so I dont know why you want the Nords to lose theirs now.

Its like everything in life. Morrowind is over, and it wont come back. Its not that Bethesda is changing, or games nowadays are not the same...its simply a reality of life. We tend to idealize the past. Just get over it.

I want to see a Dunmer Temple up in the Eastern Mountains of Skyrim. Perhaps a library there with lots of relegious texts. As I've said many times, it'd be nice to see how the Temple dealt with the loss of their gods. (Plus I miss being Patriarch :tongue: )

:thumbsup: That's what following the Tribunal Temple is all about

I'm not in any way asking for the Sermons to be a huge, plot relevant thing, at all, nor do I want TESV to be Morrowind Redux. It's just that I thought it would be a neat bit of cultural continuity if a few (not all) of the volumes of the Sermons were found in the game as a collector's item. Not even out in the open - Sermon... 22, or whatever, could be stashed away privately in some Dunmer Noble's personal safe, there for you to discover through skullduggery, or it could just be another book tucked away in some library somewhere as a historic text, but not really accorded any particular reverence or religious belief.

Morrowind was over and the sermons are irrelevant now - but not every book in the game has to be relevant, and it would be neat to see the Dunmer preserving tales of their (now shattered) homeland, in the backdrop to the focal point of the game which is the struggle of the Nords against Alduin and his host.

Morrowind borders Skyrim, so theres probably a lot of cultural mixing between Dark Elves and Nords. There should be a lot of Dark Elf refugees there. It will probably be a big part of the side story. I don't know why you guys are saying it's not relevant to the story.

The sermons and the metaphysics and myths they represent are no longer relevant.
As a cultural artifact, they certainly could be.