Ajira was always my favorite Morrowind NPC. Mages guilds has always been my first step because i love the magic system in that game so much, and Ajira's quests reminded me of working with my classmates in university, and i liked to think of her as my character's only true friend when finished my first playthrough.
Wishing for Ajira Companion mod, I have always wanted to take her with me to go through the mages guild quest line together, rising in ranks and uncovering the mysteries of the dwemer.
I like her a lot in part for the trouble we can get into together (I sell her many things non-Khajiit don't buy, and I do her mage shananigans), but also I like to prolong my "zero to hero" process by starting as a character who doesn't set out to be an adventurer and instead has a day job as a botanist. Ajira and one quest giver in the Cult are perfect. But living out of the Balmora Mages Guild is ideal, so Ajira always ends up feeling like a proper friend.
it has to be Gentleman Jim Stacey he is such a great leader for thr thieves guild, guiding it in their war against other factions also, it is cool that, him being a Redguard, and a gentlemen, dressed in fine clothes, you'd expect him to duel you with a rapier, but when push comes to shove, he pulls out that daedric blade and stops being so gentlemanly
Ty for mentioning Baladas, because he is the most under-appreciated character in the game by far. It was he who accidentally pulled a lever when he explored a Dwemer ruin in his youth, accidentally awakening every single Dwemer automaton which had previously laid dormant across the entire continent. But I do think that Divayth Fyr and some other telvanni eccentrics should have made the list. Divayth Fyr is older than the tribunal itself by well over 200 years. It is also a well kept secret that if you get turned into a vampire in the game, you will automatically join whichever one of the three clans the vampire who bit you belonged to. The clan leaders have a bit of interesting dialogue, though I wish there were more quests and lore in those lines. Some other interesting NPC's include creeper, which is broadly theorized to be Baladas -a shapeshifted aspect of Clavicus Vile, Maiq the Liar shows up on a rock in sheograd region, a stranger which may be Uriel Septim in disguise shows up at ghostgate in one quest, and I can go on. Dagoth Ur deserve full vid-essays deconstructing his motivations all on his own.
I didn't know that about Baladas! Is it from ESO? I'll make another list soon, it's been long overdue, with more prominent NPCs. Thanks for great suggestions!
@@boreanknight Baladas mentions the lever when you fulfil "the disappearance of the dwarves" quest-line, i think. There is alot of unique dialogue with him, so it is easy to miss. I made a typo though; I meant to write Barbas- the talking dog which shows up in Skyrim -is theorized to be Creeper the Scamp-merchant.
@@HateMachinist Yep Barbas is Creeper, I talked about him in Ghorak mystery video (I plan to redo it and expand, it was my first Morrowind analysis video). Divayth Fyr and Dagoth Ur deserve their own full video essays (I'd love to cover Dagoth Ur soon), and vampires of Morrowind are still a mystery to me, I never played their questlines! But I'd love to research it, because I love horror elements in TES, and I made a video on Morthal and Movarth the master vampire, a while ago. There are so many good topics to keep me busy lol.
@@boreanknight Looking forward to it! Dagoth Ur is so fittingly logical: the Godshead-dream is the reality of Mundus, and the Dwemer disappeared when Kagrenac desperately struck the heart of Lorkhan during the battle of Red Mountain, effectively waking up the entire Dwemer race from the dream. Dagoth-Ur regains consciousness at a later point after the battle and conclude that since he is dreaming, he must clearly be God. For the Vampire-quests, you will need to use guides. Finding the respective lairs without guides is...not recommended. As a vampire, only the telvanni will talk or trade with you among normal NPC's, finding vampires interesting. There are some interesting books ingame, like "vampires of Tamriel" which contain some nice lore-fluff Bethesda sadly did not use in later titles, such as Skyrim vampire-clans sleeping in the solid ice in glaciers, like frozen corpses suspended in the ice, etc. If you like horror-elements, you will probably also like the nightmares you get while being a vampire. They can be pretty damn messed up.
i am 27 years old, i have been playing morrowind off and on throughout my life since i was 6, i NEVER knew there was any content involving Vodunius.....that is incredible
9:23 I expect Baladas will still be at Gnisis, or whatever is left of it. After all, he does say he'll be there after Gnisis is gone. I also want to see more of Baladas, but I think Bethesda made the right call including Neloth in Dragonborn instead. I don't believe the Red Year will have driven Baladas away from Vvardenfell; he seems pretty attached to the land he's on and I'm sure someone of his power can find a way to survive in the ash and destroyed landscape. If we see Baladas in a future game, I'd like him to be visiting whatever location the game is set rather than having moved there like Neloth. Maybe he could be on an expedition to study a Dwemer ruin in Hammerfell or something like that.
@@boreanknight no problem. We are about 60 percent done all unique dialogue. Expect a big release soon. Personally ive done most of the dark elf lines. Around 3000
Update - First 30 seconds are muted due to copyright issues, even though I used Jeremy Soule's music. Sorry about that! This was a tough but it's finally done. I chose some of the lesser popular NPCs to give them well deserved spotlight. Who are some of your favorites? And thanks for watching!
Percius Mercius is a good mention. He's grounding in a world of politics and "chair polishers". Crassius Curio gets a rap for the first thing he makes you do, but especially since I get to his stage of Hlaalu quests around when Caius leaves, Curio felt like a more chaotic mentor alternative. Skink-in-Tree-Shade is the closest to a mentor and being level-headed in the Mages Guild, so that was a relief. And to think he's a master Speech trainer and keeps sharing books. Ajira is a good friend since I like to start off as a non-adventurer with an alchemy and mapping (I count filling my map as me charting details as I adventure) day job. Synnolian Tunifus is the alchemy fetch quest giver in the Cult, but I find it so funny how he forces you into dialogue, yet gets overjoyed over simple accomplishments, and dumps books on you because he thinks you're as nerdy as he is even though for all he knows you're just doing the rounds. Out in the wilderness, I like that there's so many unique NPCs instead of radiant generics.
Thanks for talking of Baladas, I didn't know any of the line about the Hortator matter, but I always remembered him as someone ready to teach his immense knowledge. Let's say he helped a lot in my research about the Dwemer!
Excellent video! I love it a lot and was surprised you didn't have thousands of viewers. I have not had nearly the same amount of time with morrowind as you but one of the NPCs that stuck with me is the argonian near vivec who pretends to be an escaped slave and asks the player to take them to a twin lamps safe house, only to be revealed to be a Morang Tong Assasin sent to kill the abolitionists. It was a twist I genuinely never saw coming and I felt like had a lot of nuance.
Thanks! That's a really fun one and I want to include it in one of the future videos. There are few quests with a similar twist, they used to make me paranoid and I couldn't trust anyone in the game afterwards lol.
Thank you so much for the video! By the way, when I was exploring Tamriel Rebuilt, I chanced upon Vodunius Nuccius in one of the taverns where you can help him one more time. Vodunius Nuccius in need is Vodunius Nuccius indeed.
I love Ahnassi and her little questline. And on one of my playthroughs I met Ennbjof but never got to the dungeon, I actually plan to visit it on a current playthrough.
I was actually just thinking your audio sounds really good! Definitely relate with export problems though! Great video! Some favorite characters are the Ienith Brothers who ambush you during that one Morag Tong quest, Hasphat Antabolis from the Fighter's Guild (a super enigmatic guy), Athyn Sarethi, and Gentleman Jim Stacey. Also, super random one, but always had a soft spot for the Khajiit slave in Addamasartus named Baadargo cause I thought it was a cool name. Wanted him to be a companion.
That's a great selection and thanks! Hasphat was always so suspicious to me, really knowledgable guy for some random trainer in Fighter's Guild. I And I also remembered Baadargo because of the name, how funny. Too bad they all disappear after we release them. I wanted to have some of them move to my stronghold (it's Hlormaren so a lot of living space), give them clothes and books and just enjoy life lol. As for the Lenith brothers, I never reached to them but Dren Plantation in general is ripe for a video analysis.
I remember how Neloth's retcon in Dragonborn annoyed me a lot. It made no sense at all. Neloth always was a grumpy old man, who made us kill an innocent woman just to get her robes. And payed 10 drakes! And then - boom - he is Dyvaith Fyr's clone 200 hundred years later. WTF?! Whoever wrote this garbage never played Morrowind, I'm sure. Baladas rocks, I join Telvanni House for him:) Btw, I like Ilmeni Dren, Anassi, Terana, Aryon, Orvas Dren, Edwinna Elbert and many others
As someone whos go to characters in TES games are Orc barbarians, the smith Garothmuk gro-Muzgub in Suran is my dude. I really like that Garothmuk sort of breaks the orc stereotype but also doesn't either, he is a smith which the orcs in TES are known for being skilled at but he is also not a dumb brute and is very knowledgeable about the different armor and weapon types you can find in Vvardenfell. You really get a sense that he loves and is passionate about his craft. When ever I play a warrior type character, I always go out of my way to visit Garothmuk smithy when I am in Suran for his knowledge of arms and armor and to support his business by buying some repair hammers or selling him gear.
I remember him! And being so excited to read all the info on weapons and armors for the first time. It's been so long since I read those dialogues. I used to memorize some of it because I tought it would be important later in game (not that it isn't).
Late to the video but here's my favs: Ranis Athrys - Same reason you like Eydis. She's the leader of the Balmora Mages branch and a similarly ruthless complex woman. Most cast her aside as evil but I think her backstory adds a lot to her character and trauma. Marara, Dhaunayne Aundae, Gentleman Jim Stacey, Sugar-Lips Habasi and Yagrum Bagarn
I remember killing Ulyne out of frustration with how useless she was in combat then being even more mad when looting her body to find she brings an unenchanted staff to fight the undead. I do feel slightly bad now.
I thought the Redoran councilor Athyn Sarethi was an interesting character (the Hope of Redoran who was raised or taught by the Redguards), and I liked how he is your patron when you are joining the ranks of House Redoran. When he tells you that he is proud of you, I thought it was a cool moment.
I'm now curious how old Hlormar Wine-Sot is because we meet him in 427 of the 3E and the fall of the snow elves was around the 1E when driven underground or whatever fate befell them (I could be wrong when the fall of the Snow Elves happened) if that is the case then and I could be wrong Hlormar could be 200 or more years old.
"as the emperor's health declines, factions are maneuvering for advantage" - what factions? oblivion has no political system in place, it's just one npc - ocato.
Ajira was always my favorite Morrowind NPC. Mages guilds has always been my first step because i love the magic system in that game so much, and Ajira's quests reminded me of working with my classmates in university, and i liked to think of her as my character's only true friend when finished my first playthrough.
Wishing for Ajira Companion mod, I have always wanted to take her with me to go through the mages guild quest line together, rising in ranks and uncovering the mysteries of the dwemer.
I like her a lot in part for the trouble we can get into together (I sell her many things non-Khajiit don't buy, and I do her mage shananigans), but also I like to prolong my "zero to hero" process by starting as a character who doesn't set out to be an adventurer and instead has a day job as a botanist. Ajira and one quest giver in the Cult are perfect. But living out of the Balmora Mages Guild is ideal, so Ajira always ends up feeling like a proper friend.
it has to be Gentleman Jim Stacey
he is such a great leader for thr thieves guild, guiding it in their war against other factions
also, it is cool that, him being a Redguard, and a gentlemen, dressed in fine clothes, you'd expect him to duel you with a rapier, but when push comes to shove, he pulls out that daedric blade and stops being so gentlemanly
Ty for mentioning Baladas, because he is the most under-appreciated character in the game by far. It was he who accidentally pulled a lever when he explored a Dwemer ruin in his youth, accidentally awakening every single Dwemer automaton which had previously laid dormant across the entire continent.
But I do think that Divayth Fyr and some other telvanni eccentrics should have made the list. Divayth Fyr is older than the tribunal itself by well over 200 years.
It is also a well kept secret that if you get turned into a vampire in the game, you will automatically join whichever one of the three clans the vampire who bit you belonged to. The clan leaders have a bit of interesting dialogue, though I wish there were more quests and lore in those lines.
Some other interesting NPC's include creeper, which is broadly theorized to be Baladas -a shapeshifted aspect of Clavicus Vile, Maiq the Liar shows up on a rock in sheograd region, a stranger which may be Uriel Septim in disguise shows up at ghostgate in one quest, and I can go on.
Dagoth Ur deserve full vid-essays deconstructing his motivations all on his own.
I didn't know that about Baladas! Is it from ESO? I'll make another list soon, it's been long overdue, with more prominent NPCs. Thanks for great suggestions!
@@boreanknight Baladas mentions the lever when you fulfil "the disappearance of the dwarves" quest-line, i think. There is alot of unique dialogue with him, so it is easy to miss.
I made a typo though; I meant to write Barbas- the talking dog which shows up in Skyrim -is theorized to be Creeper the Scamp-merchant.
@@HateMachinist Yep Barbas is Creeper, I talked about him in Ghorak mystery video (I plan to redo it and expand, it was my first Morrowind analysis video). Divayth Fyr and Dagoth Ur deserve their own full video essays (I'd love to cover Dagoth Ur soon), and vampires of Morrowind are still a mystery to me, I never played their questlines! But I'd love to research it, because I love horror elements in TES, and I made a video on Morthal and Movarth the master vampire, a while ago.
There are so many good topics to keep me busy lol.
@@boreanknight Looking forward to it!
Dagoth Ur is so fittingly logical: the Godshead-dream is the reality of Mundus, and the Dwemer disappeared when Kagrenac desperately struck the heart of Lorkhan during the battle of Red Mountain, effectively waking up the entire Dwemer race from the dream. Dagoth-Ur regains consciousness at a later point after the battle and conclude that since he is dreaming, he must clearly be God.
For the Vampire-quests, you will need to use guides. Finding the respective lairs without guides is...not recommended. As a vampire, only the telvanni will talk or trade with you among normal NPC's, finding vampires interesting.
There are some interesting books ingame, like "vampires of Tamriel" which contain some nice lore-fluff Bethesda sadly did not use in later titles, such as Skyrim vampire-clans sleeping in the solid ice in glaciers, like frozen corpses suspended in the ice, etc.
If you like horror-elements, you will probably also like the nightmares you get while being a vampire. They can be pretty damn messed up.
i am 27 years old, i have been playing morrowind off and on throughout my life since i was 6, i NEVER knew there was any content involving Vodunius.....that is incredible
9:23 I expect Baladas will still be at Gnisis, or whatever is left of it. After all, he does say he'll be there after Gnisis is gone.
I also want to see more of Baladas, but I think Bethesda made the right call including Neloth in Dragonborn instead. I don't believe the Red Year will have driven Baladas away from Vvardenfell; he seems pretty attached to the land he's on and I'm sure someone of his power can find a way to survive in the ash and destroyed landscape.
If we see Baladas in a future game, I'd like him to be visiting whatever location the game is set rather than having moved there like Neloth. Maybe he could be on an expedition to study a Dwemer ruin in Hammerfell or something like that.
Yes Man! I'm on the voices of vvardenfell team, and adding voice acting has really shown how amazing some of the writing and characterization is.
I literally found out about the mod yesterday and it's so amazing. I gonna have to use it on my next playthrough Thanks for the great work!
@@boreanknight no problem. We are about 60 percent done all unique dialogue. Expect a big release soon. Personally ive done most of the dark elf lines. Around 3000
Update - First 30 seconds are muted due to copyright issues, even though I used Jeremy Soule's music. Sorry about that!
This was a tough but it's finally done. I chose some of the lesser popular NPCs to give them well deserved spotlight.
Who are some of your favorites?
And thanks for watching!
Divayth Fyr, especially after his ESO appearance!
Percius Mercius is a good mention. He's grounding in a world of politics and "chair polishers". Crassius Curio gets a rap for the first thing he makes you do, but especially since I get to his stage of Hlaalu quests around when Caius leaves, Curio felt like a more chaotic mentor alternative. Skink-in-Tree-Shade is the closest to a mentor and being level-headed in the Mages Guild, so that was a relief. And to think he's a master Speech trainer and keeps sharing books. Ajira is a good friend since I like to start off as a non-adventurer with an alchemy and mapping (I count filling my map as me charting details as I adventure) day job. Synnolian Tunifus is the alchemy fetch quest giver in the Cult, but I find it so funny how he forces you into dialogue, yet gets overjoyed over simple accomplishments, and dumps books on you because he thinks you're as nerdy as he is even though for all he knows you're just doing the rounds. Out in the wilderness, I like that there's so many unique NPCs instead of radiant generics.
Thanks for talking of Baladas, I didn't know any of the line about the Hortator matter, but I always remembered him as someone ready to teach his immense knowledge. Let's say he helped a lot in my research about the Dwemer!
Excellent video! I love it a lot and was surprised you didn't have thousands of viewers. I have not had nearly the same amount of time with morrowind as you but one of the NPCs that stuck with me is the argonian near vivec who pretends to be an escaped slave and asks the player to take them to a twin lamps safe house, only to be revealed to be a Morang Tong Assasin sent to kill the abolitionists. It was a twist I genuinely never saw coming and I felt like had a lot of nuance.
Thanks! That's a really fun one and I want to include it in one of the future videos. There are few quests with a similar twist, they used to make me paranoid and I couldn't trust anyone in the game afterwards lol.
Thank you so much for the video! By the way, when I was exploring Tamriel Rebuilt, I chanced upon Vodunius Nuccius in one of the taverns where you can help him one more time. Vodunius Nuccius in need is Vodunius Nuccius indeed.
I really do wish we found out what happened to Caius Cosades. This is a good lost though definitely like a lot of these characters.
Snowy granius
So looking forward to my 2024 Morrowind playthrough! Thx for the great video.
My favorite NPCs are Ahnassi and Ennbjof. Ennbjolf for a cool experience in a tavern, and the awesome dungeon he sends you to
I love Ahnassi and her little questline. And on one of my playthroughs I met Ennbjof but never got to the dungeon, I actually plan to visit it on a current playthrough.
I was actually just thinking your audio sounds really good! Definitely relate with export problems though! Great video!
Some favorite characters are the Ienith Brothers who ambush you during that one Morag Tong quest, Hasphat Antabolis from the Fighter's Guild (a super enigmatic guy), Athyn Sarethi, and Gentleman Jim Stacey. Also, super random one, but always had a soft spot for the Khajiit slave in Addamasartus named Baadargo cause I thought it was a cool name. Wanted him to be a companion.
That's a great selection and thanks! Hasphat was always so suspicious to me, really knowledgable guy for some random trainer in Fighter's Guild. I
And I also remembered Baadargo because of the name, how funny. Too bad they all disappear after we release them. I wanted to have some of them move to my stronghold (it's Hlormaren so a lot of living space), give them clothes and books and just enjoy life lol.
As for the Lenith brothers, I never reached to them but Dren Plantation in general is ripe for a video analysis.
I remember how Neloth's retcon in Dragonborn annoyed me a lot. It made no sense at all. Neloth always was a grumpy old man, who made us kill an innocent woman just to get her robes. And payed 10 drakes! And then - boom - he is Dyvaith Fyr's clone 200 hundred years later. WTF?! Whoever wrote this garbage never played Morrowind, I'm sure. Baladas rocks, I join Telvanni House for him:)
Btw, I like Ilmeni Dren, Anassi, Terana, Aryon, Orvas Dren, Edwinna Elbert and many others
Dang, number 10 was so good already, you know the list is going to be awesome.
Really love your commentary!
Thanks!
As someone whos go to characters in TES games are Orc barbarians, the smith Garothmuk gro-Muzgub in Suran is my dude. I really like that Garothmuk sort of breaks the orc stereotype but also doesn't either, he is a smith which the orcs in TES are known for being skilled at but he is also not a dumb brute and is very knowledgeable about the different armor and weapon types you can find in Vvardenfell. You really get a sense that he loves and is passionate about his craft. When ever I play a warrior type character, I always go out of my way to visit Garothmuk smithy when I am in Suran for his knowledge of arms and armor and to support his business by buying some repair hammers or selling him gear.
I remember him! And being so excited to read all the info on weapons and armors for the first time. It's been so long since I read those dialogues. I used to memorize some of it because I tought it would be important later in game (not that it isn't).
13:30 There is actually an easter egg of this in ESO. The quest is called The Naked Nord.
Baladas is one of the targets of the grandmaster writs for Morag Tong questline. So his prospect of outliving the empire was rather... short lived ;)
Great video !
Percius Mercius was also one of my favorites!
Late to the video but here's my favs:
Ranis Athrys - Same reason you like Eydis. She's the leader of the Balmora Mages branch and a similarly ruthless complex woman. Most cast her aside as evil but I think her backstory adds a lot to her character and trauma. Marara, Dhaunayne Aundae, Gentleman Jim Stacey, Sugar-Lips Habasi and Yagrum Bagarn
I've really enjoyed these videos. Maybe you could do a top ten locations in Morrowind and then another video in TR?
Definitely, that's a good idea! I have a whole list of topics for future videos so I'll be covering all kinds of things.
Great videos on a great game!
saw one of your videos in the morrowind community page on steam. they're pretty good!!
Thanks!
Personal favorite character for me: Master Aryon.
I always buy Vodunius ring with Fargoth's money
I remember killing Ulyne out of frustration with how useless she was in combat then being even more mad when looting her body to find she brings an unenchanted staff to fight the undead. I do feel slightly bad now.
I would say my favorite NPC is Aryon
My favorite NPC has got to be Smokeskin-Killer.
great video buddy. it really is cool bringing to light some of the more obscure but well written characters that can be missed
I thought the Redoran councilor Athyn Sarethi was an interesting character (the Hope of Redoran who was raised or taught by the Redguards), and I liked how he is your patron when you are joining the ranks of House Redoran. When he tells you that he is proud of you, I thought it was a cool moment.
Yep! And his Redoran mentor Shardie is found in the nearby fort.
Caius leaving was such a sad moment, I hope he broke his skooma addiction once he got back to Cyrodiil.😢
5:49 this is a badass line, can’t even disagree with him.
I'm now curious how old Hlormar Wine-Sot is because we meet him in 427 of the 3E and the fall of the snow elves was around the 1E when driven underground or whatever fate befell them (I could be wrong when the fall of the Snow Elves happened) if that is the case then and I could be wrong Hlormar could be 200 or more years old.
I always thought he's talking about falmer...
more!
Fun fact another telvanni lived there in gnisis back in the 2nd era his name was Revus Demnevanni :)
amazing video
Thanks!
If sugar lips habasi isn't on this list I will be disappointed
Nice vid! What's the mod tho?
Umm... did you forget about Ahnassi? How could you forget her.
Baladas is very based, and so is Jobasha - one of the very few farming tools capable of surpassing their natural agricultural purpose
Ahnassi is my waifu
"as the emperor's health declines, factions are maneuvering for advantage" - what factions? oblivion has no political system in place, it's just one npc - ocato.