So, I'm just wondering if there's anything in the lore that I've missed that goes over the actual current state of Morrowind? It's 50 years since the red mountain erupted. Is Vvardenfell still inhabitable? Are the Dunmer rebuilding? And how severe/extensive is argonian occupation?

I'm just curious because I want to role-play a Dunmer who has newly come to Skyrim.

Vvardenfell is still uninhabitable. Rebuilding is ongoing in the rest of Morrowind, it will be a very slow process.

We don't really know.

It's actually been http://www.imperial-library.info/content/lymdrenn-tenvannis-journal since red year occured(4e6. Skyrim takes place 4e201). We know that in 4e43 the seas around Vvardenfell were still boiling. Most of the argonians didn't stay after the invasion. Dunmer fled to solstheim and Skyrim. Not all of morrowind was covered in ash, some places are still liveable.

I seem to recall a dunmer in skyrim mentioning he shouldn't have left Mournhold, so I'd guess it's been rebuilt by this time?(Then again, maybe he left before the sacking)

The Red Year occurred in 4E 5, Skyrim takes place in 4E 200. So by then I think it is still harsh so the Dunmer are still on Solsthiem.

Aren't they getting invaded by the Argonians?

It won't have been completely rebuilt in 200 years. There will be small towns and cities dotting the landscape but nothing major. It will take several more centuries for the Dunmer to return Morrowind to it's former glory, also taking into account their very low reproduction rate.

The Saxhleels already did that 200 years ago.

Got invaded. The Toadies attacked after the eruption, got all the way to Vivec and then turned back.

From Skyrim we know that Mournhold(?) has been recolonized but not by the majority.

I knew it was either 50 or 200! I guess I chose wrongly.

I didn't think the Argonians stayed, the reason I asked was because when looking at a 4E political map of Tamriel (unknown source, could just have been utter rubbish) the Argonian border looked to have been pushed pretty far up into Morrowind.

Morrowind actually took a bit of black marsh back in the day. It's likely that the argonians took that part of the land back after the invasion. I haven't read the books though, so I'm going off speculation here.

Wasn't there a thread in the lore forum that was supposed to be a census of Morrowind houses? Did we ever figure out if that was sneaky dev material or a fan writing?

Most of the dark elves that survived the eruption of red mountain lives in solstheim now I think..

You know I don't know. I thought it was fanon when I read it, but I didn't pay very close attention other than noting it was very well done.

Contrary to popular beliefs, Red Mountain and Vvardenfell are still very much there. To see the evidence for yourself, simply travel to the Morrowind border in Skyrim and turn on TCL mode with the console and travel through Morrowind until you see the mountain and island still very much there.

Meh That is just a easter egg,or is it still there in the lore? i havent read much about it

Well, Vvardenfell never actualy sank (at least I hope it didn't...). Its been almost two centuries since the Red Year and the lizard invasion... but by the time of Skyirm most of the Dunmer inhabit Solstheim. Morrowind to my knowledge is largely an abadoned , albeit recovering, wasteland.

It'd make more sense for your Dunmer to have been born on Solstheim, mine was.

It might be there, but I believe it's still uninhabitable. The seas around Vvardenfell are still said to boil with the heat, which would make the land itself absolutely scorching.

In the lore, The Ministry of Truth (aka a big solid cometary body stopped in its descent by the Tribunal) resumed its fall (with its original velocity) and landed solidly on top of what was once known as Vivec. That place is gone. Totally. Dagoth Ur exploded very shorty after. There may be a new vent cone, but that area has been called The Scathing Bay for over 150 years. Dagoth Ur is still active, so it may be that a new Varnenfell has formed.....but it would be mostly sterile volcanic rock until time and the elements broke it down enough for things to grow. From examinations of Krakatoa, life could have started again on the island remnants as little as 80 years ago. As for the rest of Morrowind..... Plenty of video from the day Mt St Helens blew a facing away. And there was no convenient mountain range to buffer and deflect the shockwave and pyroclastic flame front.