The Great Houses of Morrowind | The Elder Scrolls Podcast #29

Ah yes, the Tribunal of Scottzura, Drewethia, and Mikephala gracing us with their knowledge. Praise the three.

I would love a remaster for morrowind

everyone: ...
House Hlaalu: C A P I T A L I S M

Great video !!!

House Telvani here 😈

Drew is impossibly sexy

I think the red mountain thing may be due to Dunmer lifespan. It is still told as a recent event for us because it's still the first or second generation of Dunmer following the eruption.

For elder scrolls online I think you could have : Dunmer Altmer Bosmer as the elven/magical alliance, Nord Orc Argonian as the warrior/tribal culture alliance and then Khajit Redguard and Breton as the diplomatic/trading alliance. They mixed them up just to have everything geographically close and to have each alliance have a 33% split of proficiencies though I believe.

The ebonheart pact makes sense to me in the sense that it's not that nords, dunmer. And argonians needed to work together, but rather theybjad a mutual agreement that they'd rather work together to be 3 independent nations rather than serve the aldmeri Dominion or the daggerfall covenant

Oh I joined house hualu and wiped out the other ones.Loved owning a egg mine

Barenziah was a bad bitch. 10/10. 👑

Hey Scott, you're awesome and super smart, but wish you wouldn't interrupt your colleagues so often 💋 pls just let them finish their thoughts 🙏

Reject modernity, embrace tradition filthy N'wah

House Hlaalu is the best no matter what the haters say!

To their point of the timeline seeming relatively uneventful for a large stretches, I would say that isn't necessarily the best way to look at things. They are assuming that the events of the game are of immense importance to everything, which I say is a mistake. For example in Morrowind it truly only would be of importance in that one province, no place else probably cares that much or is even aware of it because they're too busy dealing with their own stuff. Take this hypothetical scenario as an example. The civil war in Skyrim is probably just a passing bit of trivia and valenwood, the dragons returning is clearly just an outlandish rumor, why on earth are you paying attention to that ridiculousness when the cultists who perverted the green pact have an army mutated by a corrupted wild hunt ritual tearing through the forest. Then there could be an entirely new game that feels of equal importance and far-reaching consequences set in that where you have to stop this evil cult that secretly backed by one of the daedra from forcing all of elinwood to be subjected to the ritual and mutated into a beast state and become a thrall to the prince. I think the issue isn't that there isn't much going on for thousands of years and then it all happens all at once, it's more that there's always so much going on that all that we hear about is being told is from the perspective whoever's writing the books, or whatever is the biggest concern to the people in the area we happen to be in, sure they might be passing the interested in what's going on in other provinces, but it might as well be a world away for them. Keep in mind that this is set in the world based very similarly to ours a 1000 years ago, where most people would never leave a 10 mile radius of where they were born at any point in their life.

I always figured that the original "fifth" great house was Sotha, and that its kind of a rotating position, which was later held by Hlaalu and Sadras

Scott’s pure, unadulterated hatred of the Ebonheart Pact never ceases to amuse me

I'd like to see a Fallout Podcast eventually.

The thing about a crisis/feud lasting longer in fantasy is elves live a long time and their memories aren't as short as humans, so they would hold grudges for longer or for more generations as their historical memory is deeper than ours.
Also there are plenty of examples of human cultures that have been at war for so long that they forget why

Well Scott, Drew, and Michael. I know you've played /some/ ESO, but it seems like you weren't paying attention in stonefalls or deshaan when it was being hinted that the Tribunal was already on the decline, nor the Morrowind expansion when it is confirmed Dagoth Ur /is/ already stirring and the Tribunal already can't go up red mountain and restore their power. The Ebonheart Pact is formed for the same reason the Armistace is signed.

Only if I watched informative videos on real-world history

The alliances were a gameplay issue where it was central to the story and the PvP zone. They should have just had DC center around Bretons and Redguard with Orcs being on their own. AD could have Bosmer and Altmer with the Khajiit being on their own. The Dunmer could be involved on their own and in conflict with the Nords because the Nords because the kings of west and east Skyrim allied and caught up in the war for the Cyrodiilic throne. Argonian would just stay out of it as well.

"progressive values" 🙄

Collectivism sucks.

I join Telvanni after doing a large cunk of the Mages Guild (enough to get the ring and staff quests). After joining Telvanni, I kill the Archmaster of the Mages Guild by taunting him into attacking so I can get his amulet without losing access to the teleporters. Ironically I helped with finding the Telvanni spy long before, only to become one myself

What did Telvanni do about the argonian invasion?

Sut thil dagoth

Are there houses/dynasties in Skyrim?
I know only about the Empire and Stormloaks but those are factions not Houses.

I would argue an issue with redoran that I've recently come into and was watching this to try and figure out. Being so pious and dutiful how do they approach the daedra considering the wintersun mod requiring sneaky killings and killing the innocent which conflicts with the house ideology

There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen

Telvanni does not have admirable values

There’s like a billion stories they could write in about High Rock. The excuse to do it is written in to the nature of the established lore of the place. I guess technically the same could be said of anywhere, but because of their politics it like you know the stories exist there

The Ebonheart Pact itself is the very reason I, at first, thought ESO came after Skyrim in the timeline...and then saw Vivec and was hopelessly confused lol

Redoran suffered less to the eruption of red mountain. My guess is the Argonians didn't desire to conquer the Dunmer but to strike out at them as more of a warning or retribution. House Redoran answered in kind.

"pretending to be progressive" makes Hlaalu sound like liberals, feminists and LGBTQ+

How is drew so handsome??

Argonians are weird because if they aren’t in black marsh they don’t get the benefits of the Hist and being connected to it. Like the Hist should get the credit for holding back oblivion not the Argonians. In fact I don’t even think the Hist really cared that the Argonians were being enslaved en masse

skooma cat

Elderscrolls 3 is underrated

House Telvanni for life!

Ages have passed and I still come back to play for House Hlaalu

House Telvani is the greatest house outside of Dagoth.

Skyrim's 200 year gap from Oblivion is the best thing about its lore imo