I never heard that. Was that stated in the novel?

Newp, unless Don't Forget This is extrapolating from The Loveletters and the book. Personally, I think the ingenium was an all or nothing game.

/\ I don't have my copy of the book anymore, but didtincly remmber the ingeniums being called "partially successful" and the rest of my statment is guestomation.

I don't think it would have destroyed Nirn though; that seems like a much more daunting prospect for the little moon.

You mean a giant thing of Vivec dookie

Leave Vvardenfell alone. It's a much nicer place without cliff racers and the ass hole elves. The mining companies might actually turn it into a place worth visiting after the eruption.

Ebony and glass galore! The nords could easily capitalize on this, seeing how no one is really living there (save for some undead argonians, but that's not a problem) and Skyrim is right next door.

Perhaps not destroy Nirn, but make sun death look like a cakewalk, or at least that's how I interpreted it.

I still doubt that it would; even if it originally had more momentum that it did when it crashed, wouldn't it have just dug a deeper shaft and destroyed Vivec City whilst making it uninhabitable? I'm pretty sure that was what Sheogorath was aiming at.

Depends on whether or not the increased momentum jumped the cataclysm to a higher level on the stepladder of fantasy disaster.

If the Loveletter is anything to go by, then the surface would have been almost completely uninhabitable for centuries to come. So while that's not total destruction, the "partial success" of the ingenium was quite an improvement.

Just finished "The Infernal City" and concluded one thing: I will never get over the fact that Vvardenfell, Morrowind, is destroyed.
For some part, Dark Elves deserved such a fate, but not all. And not the beautiful, unique nature of Morrowind. This province had some of the greatest histories, folklore and knowledge. Architecture, Dunmer tribes... just like Dwemer before them.

http://rampantgames.com/blog/uploaded_images/morrowind2-724901.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~tanstaafl/morrowind029.jpg
http://image03.webshots.com/3/1/93/79/92419379EBginN_fs.jpg

I wonder if anyone will share the similar thoughts as mine.

Your nationalism, if curiously misplaced, is touching.

It's like when one first plays Star Wars KOTOR as they escape Taris.

But as I've stated on this thread previously, Morrowind http://elderscrolls.blogspot.com/2005/10/loveletter-from-fifth-era.html. Eventually at least.

Yes, because constant sandstorm winds are definitely an improvement :rolleyes:

Culturally, the Dunmer come back, though doubtlessly changed. If the Loveletter is still valid (that is if the Ingenium did not avert the future from which the letter was sent), Morrowind still svcks pretty bad 900+ years after the fact.

More like back to normal for Vvardenfell.

Ald Sotha is right next to Vivec, which was a lush, fertile land of lakes, and is apparently inhospitable Ashlands in 5E. The wording also implies that it is nearly impossible to venture outside when the winds are going, which means that it is worse than the Ashlands, which were habitable enough to sustain sizable settlements.

Inhospitable for those living underground maybe, but it does seem to say that there are those living above. How many is anyone's guess. I suppose it's possible they're referring to those living outside the island, but I doubt that's the case.

That aside, do we know if this future was altered or the result of the Dunmer's attempts to stop Landfall (In other words, how does the predestination paradox work here)? Time travel is confusing enough when it's not in the TES universe.