No. This is not a "What's Morrowind like now" thread, or a "Someone should add Morrowind to Skyrim thread".

Aren't you disappointed.

I am currently building the skeleton of a D&D campaign on current Vvardenfel (after Skyrim's MQ). Since it looks like the Dumner have a habit of abandoning old settlements and creating new ones, I need names for the new towns and villages.

The consensus is that Vvardenfell is now very fertile. The cities we once knew are now equivalent the ruins we once visited.


Here is what I have thought up (please critique):

• Tel Vos, Vos, and Tel Mora are now more like one city(name?) with 3 districts. With the ashlanders pouring into it from out of the ashlands it swelled. Not to mention the Grazeland tribes who fled the Oblivion crisis. Some of the population from either area would go back to their homes but I would like to think some stayed.
  
• I would assume the western coast would be in ruins after the Oblvion crisis and from the two invasions it received. I would imagine Ald Velothi would be the one distinct city left, concluding it has some religious significance after the loss of Vivec city and the tribunal. It is populated with some dumner coming back from Solstheim and the remaining populace from the surrounding villages.
  
• Gnaar Mok and Hla Ode the jury is still out on.

A light presence of whatever the argonians have for a military would be present in the western coast. They would be near nonexistent in the East due to the Telvanni's immense abilities.

I just need to get the ball rolling. Any lore friendly name/location/populace suggestions would be quite helpful.

http://tamriel-rebuilt.org/?p=modding_data/mapsis a good place to look for Morrowind-y names.

Morrowind, Vvardenfell in particular is not "fertile" in the traditional sense. While the ash would probably make the soil fertile, the vegetation is adapted to grow in a lack of sunlight. The Dunmer have no more tendency to abandon cities than other races do.

Anyways, about your campaign ideas:

I like Tel Vos, Vos, and Tel Mora becoming one city. I don't think the Ashlanders would come to it though, because I think they'd rather die than have to live with the accursed n'wah "savages" (that is to say, mainstream Dunmer).

The western coast would probably be not in good shape. Vivec (the city) wasn't lost until the Red Year IIRC, so it can still be there. The Tribunal after their fall are still worshiped as great saints of the Temple.

Gnaar Mok and Hla Oad I think would be more or less the same (that said, I can never remember these Dunmeri cities with their nigh-unpronounceable names).

Argonians do not have a military. Their will is synchronous with the will of the Hist, who like to stay inside Argonia and do...whatever it is that they do. When they do go to war, it's more like the Argonians go into a state of Maenadic-esque (is that a word?) frenzied violence until the target is annihilated (someone who's read Lord of Souls can tell more). Argonia very rarely needs defending too, as the land itself is dangerous and hazardous and poisonous to the mannish and merrish races.

Vivec city blew up from the Ministry of Justice falling on it. The books call it "Scathing Bay" afterwards.

But when was the Red Year?

EDIT: Crap, I misread that. I thought the OP said "after Morrowind's MQ". Let me rectify.

Everything I said basically stays the same, except Vivec is out of the picture.

Argonia taking parts of Southern Morrowind didn't really change much there I think. Also, the Argonians aren't standing at Vvardenfell's doorstep. There's still a buffer between Vvardenfell and the Argonian controlled territories.

The moon falling on the city caused the Red Year. It was a chain reaction.

Wrong timespan. My bad. T_T

You had me worried for a minute there.

If you look at the map of Morrowind you can see the paths lava took there thousands of years earlier, I would stick with those paths and destroy every city near it, leave the rest. Of course Ald'Ruhn and Vivec are exceptions they were destroyed by other means.

The joining of cities could have happened, but the specific one you mention seems unlikely. Dratha hates men, so I doubt she would ever consider joining forces with Aryon and creating a united city. Of course if she died there could have been an exception but as the oldest living active Telvanni member during Morrowind I have a hard time imagining her dead.

I think that's the first time I've ever seen you use any sort of emoticon.