Remember the Mudcrab from Morrowind? Is there any story behind the crab? How it learned to talk? I know about the Scamp in Caldera. But i've never known anything about the Mudcrab.

Nope. As far as I know, we've never gotten any explanation for it.

Just a joke, like the scamp.

The scamp is canon though and has some explanation. It's Barbas in Skyrim. And thus connected to Clavicus.

Maybe the Mudcrab just got a taste for booze and discovered that he could talk in his intoxicated state?

Which makes me wonder: how did he get booze on that tiny island? Did he drink it in Vivec and then swim, intoxicated, out to that island? If so, how long did it take him to swim to the island and how long does a Mudcrab typically remain intoxicated? Or...did he bring the booze with him from somewhere else and drink it once he got to the island? If so, where are the empty bottles?

I think the real question is "Why can't more Mudcrabs be like him?"

This sounds suspiciously like something good ol' Uncle Sheo would cook up.

Seems like kind of a general cop-out for weirdness in TES, but a talking, drunk mudcrab is a little on the insane side.

Perhaps he likes cheese...

"Cheese? Cheese? Cheese? And what, may I ask, is cheese made from???? Milk, Milk, I tell you" - nobody, never

I love cheese; so do all my characters, no exception. Even Gortwog, my Orc.

My Nord Werewolf didn't like cheese. Damn milk drinkers went too far, now they are drinking AND eating milk....

The name brings honour to my soul.....

I drink milk, but I and none of my characters like cheese.

Does the mudcrab merchant like cheese, I wonder?

It's magic, Pseron.

All mudcrabs can talk... You're just not listening!


I always pretended that a wizard had cast a spell on him, or that he was a person transformed into a crab... I bet M'aiq knows his origins.