Why are there Daedric ruins on Vvardenfel?

Post » Mon May 20, 2013 9:29 am

A thought has struck me while wandering the Ashlands; why are there Daedric ruins on Vvardenfel (and throughout Morrowind as a whole) at all? Thinking about historical parallels to this sort of thing, ruins get left when the builders are no more. But the Dunmer are still there, just following the Tribunal at the time of the Morrowind game; the Anticipations have submitted, and the House of Troubles have been blacklisted.

Daedric ruins are just those shrines associated with the House of Troubles. In which case, why do we not have similar architecture around, still used, to honour the Anticipations? There wasn't an invasion or anything to bring a new architectural style to Vvardenfel after the Battle of Red Mountain, so the Anticipations' shrines should still be in use. But instead we get a completely different architecture for the Temples. Why?

Also, the people haven't changed massively; the settled Dunmer are still the settled Dunmer. Why are all the Daedric ruins in wilderness areas? Surely they'd build temples to their gods near where they lived so they they could worship them properly?

Does my thinking here make sense (no big change in people-group, therefore why different and abandoned architecture?), or was there another shift between Veloth and the Tribunal that I'm missing that caused this difference?

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