I know some don't like the what if, but say Vivec doesn't dissapear, he stays in Vvardenfell to live out the rest of his mortal life in peace. Would he have been able to help defend against invasion and the prison falling on his head? What if his friend the nerevarine was there to help him? Would they have been able to defend Vvardenfell?

V-man seemed pretty adamant to not touch his giant dookie in the sky when he froze it in time. He could have removed it, but he didn't want to. He wanted to make sure people's love of him remained. And if you go into the whole Vivec's CHIM deal, Vivec is also love, so if the dunmer forgot love, they forgot him, and the giant dookie in the sky will crash down. Plus, if he lost his godhood completely, I doubt he'd be able to keep the spell intact, even if he wanted to.

As far as defending Vvardenfel, it would have been a smoldering crater anyway, no point in defending a land you cannot even feed yourself from. In all likelihood, I feel V-man would most likely leave Morrowind and go back to wandering, or help his people relocate.

Another thing to look at was how badly the Oblivion Crisis would have affected the morale of the dunmer. If V-man could not have used his awesome powers as previous eras, the people would lose faith in him, especially of what happened.

In the end, Vivec "leaving" was probably the best thing he could do. The dunmer were extremely stagnant, and depended on the Tribunal almost too much for defense. Not to mention, they would never learn certain lessons if there was not going to be consequences.

Heh, that's too bad. I would kinda hope it'd be possible. Whoah, ya know he is actually the only person that can really have a movie made bout him.

It's worth considering the possibility that Vivec intended the Ministry of Truth to fall the whole time.

I wouldn't say intended. As in completely planned. I believe he knew he'd leave. I believe he knew one day it'd fall. I fully believe he was aware of the events that transpired long before they happened. Maybe not the exact time they'd occur but was fully aware. I'm also sure the writers didn't destroy Vvardenfell for no reason. In order for something new to be created it must be destroyed. It's interesting to consider what will change. I'm also interested in what the Dunmer will do in other provinces now that their homeland and people have been dealt a great blow.

Either people will sympathize or, I think, begin to eradicate them, but I don't think that even the nords would want to do that, they don't like each other sure but I don't think the nords would want them extinct.