In Tamriel, exactly 100 years after the Nerevarine left for Akavir, Morrowind is at war with Cyrodiil, the Knights of the Nine are Cyrodiil's leading force, while the Knights of the Tribunal are Morrowind's leading force. The battle goes on! Now you are a member of either one, a citizen, or just a mercenary. This battle will be heard about for ages...

Standard Rules, but no Ebony or Daedric/Light Armor Variants
Also just put some effort into it and you dont have to PM me.

Character Sheet

Name: Zalphon S. Broodikus.
Race: Dunmer.
Age: 23.
Faction: Knights of the Tribunal.
Class: Spell-Knight.
Skills: Heavy Armor, Blades, Destruction, Conjuration, Alteration, Speechcraft, Block.
Appearance: Ash-Gray Skin, Blood-red eyes, black hair...
Armor: Full suit of enchanted dwemer, but no helmet.
Weapon: An elven clayemore enchanted to scorch flesh.
Biography: At a young age, he was stronger than most. He paid a lot of attention to religious studies and books on the Nerevarine. He grew up to be strong, intelligent, however not very agile. As a child he had an uneventful life, and always had, until he joined the tribunal at the age 19, he worshipped the Almsivi. When he was 22, the war started, and now he is in it.

There is no detail or plot, simply "Morrowind is at war with Cyrodiil."
Which side are we? How did this all happen? What role will we play?

Yehhh... Seems like.

"Crap, im bored... hey Cyrodil, want to go to war?"

"Sure!'

Another thing is, Why are the Knights of the Nine leading the way for Cyrodiil?
Unless there is some holy reason by it, the KotN are not going to fight just to defend Cyrodiil.

Edit: Same thing goes for the Knights of the Tribunal

Yes, you definitely need to develop some sort of plot, a backstory to make things more interesting rather than there's simply a war with no explanation.

EDIT: Additionally, what reason does Morrowind even have to go to war with the Empire? They're an Imperial province for Akatosh's sake. When did they secede, why have they decided to pursue a war, etc.

Tired of the lack of slavery?

The Tribunal are their religion, and they are defending their people.

Knights of the Nine, are the official religion of the empire, if im correct, and Tiber Septim is a divine, so im assuming the knights of the nine would help out in this crisis, beating the heathens?

The only Imperial province with their own armies, religion, laws, etc. Probably the one that could inflict most damage on Cyrodiil in a war (they almost won the Four Score War, but Sotha Sil made a deal with the Daedra and could not get to Morrowind before Vivec suggested an Armistice).

Anyway, hopefully some help with the inconsistencies will help you create a good plot:



The Knights of the Nine are a religious group, not a political force. They wouldn't interfere unless the Nine were opposed, which they probably wouldn't be unless Azura, Boethiah, or Mephala (who will probably come to rule Morrowind both spiritually and politically) decide to do anything - which they won't, as they are already more powerful than them.

The Tribunal is gone. House Redoran is gone. House Indoril is gone. The Nerevarine is gone. The Daedra can now claim the rewards of the investments they made three thousand five hundred years ago. No knight of the Tribunal ever existed, and now none ever will.



How can you have that rule when the former rock has been used in Dunmeri armies for thousands of years, and indeed is most abundant in Morrowind, and that Daedric is essentially the same thing, merely enchanted by Daedra, with whom the Dunmer are closely affiliated.



House Dres will likely be bankrupted, yes. That will take the traditionalists from any considerable power, yes. But King Helseth is opposed by the tide of Dunmeri traditionalism itself; that will have no effect. He cannot enforce a law that the Dunmer people in its entirety defend as a civil liberty under the Armistice and according to their customs. Not in the face of the powers who have threatened him and the Tribunal since both came to any position of power, who now can take over Dunmer religion (perhaps the most powerful part of Morrowind's politics).



Daedra are more powerful than Aedra. The Nine Divines are Aedra, so they can only restore things to how they were, but Daedra can change.

And not many people follow the Nine Divines in other provinces as opposed to their own versions of them, or different pantheons entirely. They are a significant group, yes, but are still a minority. If the empire was to crumble to the point where Morrowind could declare war (which it probably has done), then they'd have no power to stop a war, or interfere in it.



I'll say it again; the Tribunal are gone. Now their lies are public and people will start to question why the Ghostfence has disappeared and the Tribunal still haven't been seen, the Daedra (who were always waiting for their chance to take revenge on the false gods - look at any Dunmer for evidence) and ancestor worship will come to dominate religion. If they aren't disregarded entirely by the new generation of Dunmer, then the Tribunal will be worshipped in the same way that Nerevar was under their rule. They definitely wouldn't be seen as gods.

Heathens, no. The line of royal, divine blood would be long gone, and the Knights would have nothing to do after Umaril's gone. Anyway, why use pre-existing factions, it is a hundred years later, make up your own. Or just say the Legion is leading everything. Why complicate things and make all these guys mad?

Also, yeah, I require a reason for Morrowind fighting. Slavery ended a hundred years ago, I don't see why they are just now fighting. If you want a war RP, it still needs plot and direction. Where are we starting? What is the Empire like now? Who is the leader of the countries? How are the other nations reacting? Etc.


EDIT: @TheDistraction- They had slavery, but they ended it shortly after the events of TesIII. Even so, tired of slavery doesn't make sense. Tired of a lack of slavery, perhaps.

If you are gming this, don't put a question mark after that.


Sorry for being ignorant, but when did Morrowind ban slavery?

They banned slavery. It probably wasn't that successful, especially as one of the Great Houses that enforced the ban actually relied on slave labour, but it is officially banned.

Go Azura and Daedra!
Boo Talos and Aedra!

If it is so horrible, why not report it for deletion?

It's not horrible, it's just bland and unimaginative.

Dig up some lore, it should really help you create a lifelike RP that goes along parallel to cannon.
Create some Description! Something you whip up in 5 minutes is not going to attract anyone. Put as much detail into it as you can, and put some history and lore into and boom. You have a succesful RP.

It just doesn't have a plot. I have been here for some time, and if something makes a good RP, it is a beast, detailed plot.

First of all, the KoN don't have any business leading such a force.

Besides, there really is no Tribunal. Alemexia, and the other one (whats the name?) are dead. There is a rumor the daedra took Vivec in oblivion.

Morrowind is crapped out, and is in no position to go to war. For war RP's, you have to have a reason. Is it power, money, land, resources, all of these, revenge. What is it?

And, if you have ever been in a war RP, I suggest that you take part in one (Cyrodil shattered, Queen's Waltz, Siege of Sentinel, etc.)



I mean, you have to have building detail. Your OP is not even 3 lines long...

You have to add detail and such things. It has been 100 years since the crises. Make a timeline of events. What has happened in those years?

I am not trying to go off on you, or put you down, I am trying to help you. Think this over for a month or 2, work on the OP on microsoft word, and it will pay off in the end. Don't rush RP's.


Even the good ones that you rush, I have done that before, they last 3 pages and then die.

So think this over, get a good OP, and you will be fine. Take part in some war RP's if you can as well.

If you are going to post something sub standard enough for people to tell you so, and cannot accept it when people say so, why keep doing so?

Not to be mean, but you have tried several times to do something like this, and every time someone points out the error of your ways, you get all huffy and tell us that you give up. Sorry, the system svcks and doesn't allow for anything besides what it is used to.

And we can't report a thread for deletion if it doesn't violate rules. If no one wants to join, you can give up and try again next time, and hope that we will join.

I do accept it, been awhile since I played oblivion or morrowind, and I am also new to the TES fan-fiction forums, so my memory of the lore of tamriel is a little blurry, and i've been to FO3 Fan-Fic forums, and people arent as "nitpicky" about minute errors such as spelling or grammar, lore-wise yes, which you guys are, but Darkom, I gotta ask...why is it every time I post something here, you are instantly there to tell me my flaws?

I'm beginning to think you make this threads just so you can pretend to be insulted by people's criticisms. In every thread you've made, at the slightest remark you've claimed that your own work is useless and that people are insulting you, despite being told several times that they're not.

Even the best roleplayers here are criticised. It's how people improve. No-one here is trying to drive you from the forums, so stop pretending that we are. If you post something and expect people to join in, then you also need to expect that some of those people will disagree with things. People here are not paid to roleplay, except perhaps the devs who occasionally come on here, and no-one will join something if its creator does not take criticism and either change their work or defend their point of view. They will, however, point out its faults so that it may be refined and thus be made more suitable for them to join.



No-one here has mentioned your spelling and grammar. If anyone here looks down on anyone for not speaking English natively, or acting like they don't speak English natively, then I'll post a link to my fan fiction and declare publically that I am, in fact, a native speaker of Highland Gaelic.

And I've not had to do that.

On forums, you can't tell if its criticism or insults...

But I can and insults are not acceptable and get acted upon if necessary.

You have had a lot of good advice given to you in this topic, I think it is time you took a step back and stopped trying to create a story or an RP until you have more knowledge of what is required on this forum. Join in with a couple of existing RPs and gain some experience, walk before you try to run.

The Fall Out Fan Fiction forum is "less demanding" as there are a lot of new members there who are still learning themselves, but here in TES FF the members are experienced, they have seen a lot of RPs both good and bad and know what to expect and give valuable advice which is best taken, noted and acted upon in any future RP you may want to start.

With that, there is no point in continuing this discussion, you have had the advice, this RP is not going anywhere so I am going to close it.