I looked through all the scripts starting with CharGen; I've went to Edit -> Find Text for things like "strange animal", "moorings", and "CharGen QA1.wav/mp3", and found nothing; I'm as stumped as where Fargoth hides his ring.

Is it hard-coded into the EXE?

Only thing I want to do is replace the speech (SFX, not text) without overwriting the MP3s in \Vo\Sound\Misc\ .

Edit: I tried just replacing the MP3s, and it just comes up with silence! Arrgh!

Edit again: I edited the MP3s to be 64 kb/s like the original files, and it worked! Yaay! But I'd still rather not have them uncleanly replaced.

It's not hard-coded, per se. But it's actually handled by the Morrowind.ini which is located in the same directory as the Morrowind.exe. Do your text searches in there and you'll find what you're looking for.

It worked, thank you!