Ok, so i really liked my Morrowind character, and I have attempted to recreate him in Oblivion as best I could. Aside from the aesthetic differences, he is obviously going to be a lot different... or just weaker. My question is, how can I rationalize my hero from Morrowind being the hero in Oblivion as well? I've gone from being more powerfull (in the game at least) than Lord Vivec, to a scrub who is locked up (again) in prison. I'm having trouble making the jump, but I want to continue the story of my main char.

I do the same thing, Ive roleplayed Im the same character in Daggerfall, Morrowind and oblivion.

The way I solve it is reincarnation. My hero appears to be (much to his dislike) a soul the gods call upon when the world needs saving. He believes the gods are playing a quiet joke on him, or maybe its a punishment, because he eventually remembers all his past lives every time.
In the case of oblivion, it wasnt until he was in jail over a complete misunderstanding about a horse that the memories of his previous live(s) started to seep through.
This memory helps him to know what to focus on in this life. Just because he was a master of destruction last time does not mean his new incarnation is from the start, but he knows he likes destruction and will focus on training it.

People sometimes say this is impossible, as the events of those three games happened so close together, Id be an infant in oblivion if I reincarnated just after Morrowind.
My answer to that is: Who said reincarnation has to be temporally linear? So I reincarnate a few years before I die, my own personal timeline is still a linear progression, Morrowind after Daggerfall before oblivion, its just that compared to the normal timeline I appear to jump around a bit.

Technically that could mean that at some point in time three seperate versions of me were alive, and if they ever met up probably the universe would fold up like a chrysantemum, but Im an Altmer and know better than to do foolish things like that.

It is my characters fondest wish that at some point he could have a life of quiet leasure. Reincarnate as a wealthy noble in a stable period in history perhaps. Spending his days reading books, collecting butterflies and never ever worrying about global events.

Well there is a rumor in Oblivion that Nerevar went to Akavir and nobody seen him after that. You can make it as he had a very hard time, and the expedition gone wrong. He was the only one who survived, but he lost his strength and all his stats went down. So he has to start over again, and he got older so nobody recognizes him any more. Still he has his wisdom so he can help with the Oblivion crisis.

I cant think of anything else.

well, your character won't be getting a break any time soon since Skyrim is continuing from Oblivion :LOL

The Nerevarine supposedly went to Akavir. Maybe something went horribly wrong with the expedition? Or maybe you were foolish enopugh to try and take on a Daedric Prince and you're lucky to still be alive. Or maybe you just spent the 6 years between Morrowind and Oblivion doing Skooma which ruined your body and mind.

thanks for your responses. i didn't know that he went to akavir afterwards.... that just complicates it more i think. i was thinking this:

after morrowind, my char decided to give up his personal power, and items of power, unlike the tribunal. if i remember correctly, in morrowind we originally came over on ship from the main land? so, after giving up my power, i decided to return to the main land in search of serenity. leaving Lord Vivec to deal w/ morrowind and all it's problems. Morrowind was too big for the both of us after all. that's what i'm thinking in a nutshell... not sure how i'd fit in the journey to akavir though...

They also say in Oblivion that Viviec is gone too. They say he was taken by the Deadra.

omg Morrowind spoilers! :wink_smile:

But the Skooma idea is always a good one.

In game, you hear a rumor that the Nerevarine has lead an expedition to Akavir and has not been heard from since. Maybe something happened to him in that mysterious land that caused him to end up on the shores of Cyrodiil in a much weakened state. An Imperial Legion soldier then found him. When roused by the soldier, you're character attacked him, not realizing he was no longer in Akavir and thinking the soldier was an enemy. Attacking a Legion soldier will get you put in prison pretty quick in Cyrodiil.

I always imagined that you are the Nerevarine's child.

EDIT: I don't anymore, I follow the lore.

Didn't Orwyn form the Fighter's Guild say that a "stranger" gave him back his ancestor's helmet, the one from Morrowind that was quest related in Morrowind?

Pretty sure he did.