Hi!

I'm making a quest mod for morrowind, and Kwamas play a very important part.

I need to know ALL about kwamas. Their life cycle, the evolution process, the mental capabilities, if they have a "queen", their reproduction process, their diet, why they put eggs in mines, etc.

thanks

Is this a serious question? There are three or four quests involving curing the queens of various Kwama egg mines...

Read the info/responses for the Kwama and Egg Mine topics in the CS, as well as other relevant topics you find. Other than that, http://www.elderscrolls.com/images/creatures/mw_02CRB.jpg.

Very interesting. So the kwama forager, can "build" a kind of exo-skeleton, and can merge with it, forming a kwama warrior... but, what about kwama workers? Why the kwama foragers jump into hollows to make kwama warriors? Why exist bipedal and humanoid kwama warriors?

The foragers don't build an exoskeleton. They jump in the emptied corpse of a worker. And there's only one type of warriors, but like bears they can walk either on all fours or just on their hind legs. (Which were, by the way, the worker's front legs.)

How the workers born?

Actually, I'm inclined to think it's not so much the corpse of a worker, rather than an actual symbiotic cooperation between the worker and the forager. (The worker's antennae still move, at least.)

It's been years since I played "Morrowind", but I wonder if the kwamas who thumped their tails on the ground were listening for the hollow sound of caverns below them (similar to geologists today searching for oil using sound, if I've heard right). Maybe they were scouting for areas to expand? Proweler, Adanorcil and others would know more than I about this.

Presumably they hatch from eggs, spend time as scribs, before undergoing metamorphosis. What the metamorphosis is like, I don't know.

So, the life cycle of a kwama is:

Egg>Scrib>Forager> jump into a corpse to become worker> warrior?

And what about the queen?

Are they blind? The foragers thump their tails, but the workers and the warriors? How the eggs are setted in specific palces of the ground? The warrios and the workers haven't got tails, they cry like bats to know where are they?

No. I'd rather wager something like this:

Egg (female) -> forager
Egg (male) -> scrib -> worker

forager + worker body = warrior

As for the queen, they're unique females, probably specially treated since their hatching, like ant queens and bee queens.

And kwamas aren't blind, they have three eyes.

[censored], Gez......this makes that article I tried to write at TIL look so stupid.

It seems that all the higher forms of Kwama are symbiotes, and I'd susspect Gez is right about their genders.

As for the queens, I wonder whether its simply a specially raised forager merging with a worker or a specially raised forager and worker merging.

Actually, for the queens, it would make more sense that they are actually a specially raised kind of warrior. The combination of the male and the female form would then explain why the queen (which is basically a queen and a male mate) is fertile.

I haven't played MW in awhile, but man the Kwamas were pretty interesting and very original.

I give Beth tons of cool points for them!

Shoot, I know what I'm doing this weekend.

*Calls wife to start digging in the boxes to find my copy of Morrowind*

So the kwama society is a queendom? The scrib must be forager to be worker?

I'm not exactlly sure what you're asking right here but the scrib matures into a worker "supposedly" and then the female (Kwama Forager) either parasites a worker to become a warrior or conjoins with it or something along those lines. But that makes sense the eggs hatch up scribs and foragers.

Shouldn't you already know a little bit about them to be interested enough to make a mod around them?

Wow - I never thought of that!

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Kwama

Scrib: The larval form of the Kwama which is not very aggressive but can paralyze anything that attacks it.
(Is there then a pupal(?) stage?)
Forager: The forager scouts land and caves, searching for new colonies and prey. Though agressive, the Forager is not particularily dangerous.
Worker: The primary source of labour in a Kwama colonies, digging tunnels and attending to the Queen and eggs. It is not agressive unless provoked.
Warrior: Aggressive Kwama which protect the nest from invaders. These may be Kwama; but they can be extremely dangerous to low to mid level characters.
Queen: The largest of the Kwama which produces all of the nest's eggs. There is one Kwama Queen in every Egg Mine. They are too large to move and their needs are attended to by Kwama Workers. They are not aggressive unless provoked.

They seem quite similar to ants or bees.

man you just go to a kwama mine talk to a kwama miner and he will tell you all you want to know about kwamas