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18 - The Story of Morrowind: Nerevarine, Fate, and the Hortator · Mythic Mind Games

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  Speaker 1: is that we're focusing on this time's going to be
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  Speaker 1: morowind and then we're going to get another video each
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, with all of that being said, I
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  Speaker 1: hope that you enjoyed my brief overview of the main
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  Speaker 1: story of morouind and again, stay tuned for the end
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  Speaker 1: to figure out where we're going next. All right, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you enjoy Following the incitements of Lorcan, an emanation
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  Speaker 1: of Chaos, Ariol and the other Adra created the mortal
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  Speaker 1: plaint of Mundus, but this came at a great cost,
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  Speaker 1: as the gods became limited by participating in this world
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  Speaker 1: that they had made. Lorcan was declared guilty of great
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  Speaker 1: injustice for supposedly deceiving the Adra, but he would not
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  Speaker 1: take this punishment without a fight. Thus, Lorcan gathered together
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  Speaker 1: mortal spirits known as men, and he led their armies
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  Speaker 1: against our, shattering the kingdom of old Ahnefe. But he
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  Speaker 1: was eventually defeated by Trinimac and Adric, Champion of Oriel.
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  Speaker 1: Trinimac knocked Lorcan down in combat and removed his heart,
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  Speaker 1: while the rest of his body was carried away by
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  Speaker 1: his devoted followers. However, the heart of Lorcan could not
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed, for it is the heart of the world,
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  Speaker 1: known as such for Lorcan's unique role in the creation
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  Speaker 1: of Mundus. So unable to destroy the heart, Oriel fastened
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  Speaker 1: it to an arrow and shot it far into the
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  Speaker 1: sea that its power might be lost. However, lost things
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  Speaker 1: can have a way of being found. Now before the Dunmer,
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  Speaker 1: the so called dark Elves of Vardenfel, we have the Kimer,
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  Speaker 1: members of the ancient Elvin race known as the Aldmer,
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  Speaker 1: who believed themselves to be the very descendants of the gods.
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  Speaker 1: The Aldmer traditionally served the Adra, whom they viewed as
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  Speaker 1: both their creators and as their kin. But the prophet
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  Speaker 1: Velath encouraged dissidents to follow Boethi, Azora and Mafala, the
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  Speaker 1: so called Good Dadrik princes, and even to carefully negotiate
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  Speaker 1: with the Bad Dadra known as the House of Troubles.
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  Speaker 1: Due to religious tensions with a more traditionalist Almer, Beilath
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  Speaker 1: led his followers in an exodus, eventually landing them on
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  Speaker 1: barden Bell, where they were officially recast as the Chimer.
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  Speaker 1: The Kaimer prospered in barden Beell despite conflicts with the Dwemmer,
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  Speaker 1: who were also sometimes known as the Dwarfs. However, in
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  Speaker 1: response to aggression from Nordic invaders, the Kimer and Dwemmer
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  Speaker 1: joined together, convening in the First Council, which effectively drove
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  Speaker 1: back the Nords. However, this alliance was never faded to last.
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  Speaker 1: Digging under Red Mountain, the agnostic Dwemmer discovered an artifact
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  Speaker 1: of great significance, as it turned out to be the
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  Speaker 1: very heart of Lorcan, which the Dwemer Kaigrinak attempted to
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  Speaker 1: use to achieve immortality for his people. The Chimer found
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  Speaker 1: this to be a blasphemous act and thus sought to
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  Speaker 1: put an end to the project. In the war that followed,
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  Speaker 1: the Chimer were led by Indeil Krevar and his allies
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  Speaker 1: Voren Degoth, vivek Al Molexia and Sothasil. These companions achieved
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  Speaker 1: great victories, but the Dwemmer were able to make use
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  Speaker 1: of Lorkan's heart. Nonetheless, the exact nature of this use
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  Speaker 1: as well as the connection between their intention and its
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  Speaker 1: consequence is nearly impossible to say. For to this day,
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  Speaker 1: all the Dwemmer save one vanish and have not been
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  Speaker 1: heard from since the distant past. Perhaps they all died
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  Speaker 1: in judgment of their hubris. Perhaps they achieved immortality in
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  Speaker 1: a different plane of existence. Perhaps they were transported to
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  Speaker 1: another time and one day will reappear. There are many theories,
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  Speaker 1: but this continues to be one of Tamriel's greatest mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: During the final conflict of this war, Narivar entrusted the
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  Speaker 1: tools of Kagernak to voren Degoth, although they were claimed
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  Speaker 1: by Naravar's other companions, who used them to achieve godhood,
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  Speaker 1: enabling them to form the Tribunal. Exactly what befell Naravar
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  Speaker 1: is unknown here. Perhaps he was mortally wounded in his
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  Speaker 1: fight against Dumah Dwarf king. Perhaps he was killed by
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  Speaker 1: his own companions. In either case, it is evident that
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  Speaker 1: he was betrayed, either directly or indirectly, by the tribunal
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  Speaker 1: of Favek, Al Molexia and Sthasil when they used the
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  Speaker 1: tools to become so called living gods. In judgment of
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  Speaker 1: the Tribunal's crimes that Dadrich, Prince of Zura, turned all
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  Speaker 1: the Kimber into the Red eyed Dunmer and promised that
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  Speaker 1: n'ervar would one day return to bring justice. The story
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  Speaker 1: of Morowind begins centuries later, when an outlander, born on
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  Speaker 1: a certain day to uncertain parents is transferred from the
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  Speaker 1: prisons of the imperial city of Syridil to the distant
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  Speaker 1: realm of Morowind. In orders for this strange arrangement come
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  Speaker 1: from the Emperor himself, Uriel September seventh. Upon his arrival
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  Speaker 1: in Morowind, the mysterious, now freed prisoner is sent to
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  Speaker 1: meet with Caius Crusades, the Grand Spymaster of the Blades,
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  Speaker 1: in the city of Balmra. Despite not entirely understanding what
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  Speaker 1: is unfolding before him, Caius has the outlander participate in
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  Speaker 1: his string of missions designed to familiarize him with the
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  Speaker 1: island of Vardenfel, and especially with the shadowy cult of
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  Speaker 1: the Sixth House, whose members claim that degoth Ur will
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  Speaker 1: smite the land from his domain at Red Mountain. The
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  Speaker 1: outlander soon learns of the seven Trials which will prove
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  Speaker 1: that he is indeed the reincarnation of Indeil Nrevar, thus
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  Speaker 1: legitimizing his title of the Nerivaren. This quest brings him
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  Speaker 1: into contact with the various factions of Vardenfell, including the Ashlanders,
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  Speaker 1: a collection of tribes whose expectation of the Nervaren has
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  Speaker 1: made them a bane of the Tribunal. The Nerivaren convinces
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  Speaker 1: the great houses of Rhetoran, Plalu, and Telvani of his
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  Speaker 1: prophetic identity. Meanwhile, the sixth Houses threat increases, while the
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  Speaker 1: Tribunal's godlike powers continue to wane due to how long
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  Speaker 1: it has been since they last touched the Heart of Lorcan.
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  Speaker 1: At the Red Mountain, degath Ur, the corrupted form that
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  Speaker 1: Vorindagoth has taken, guards the heart and is hopeful that
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  Speaker 1: the returned Narvar will join him in bringing justice upon
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  Speaker 1: the Tribunal's treachery. Vivek offers to help the Nervaren in
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  Speaker 1: destroying dagath Ur, but providing him with counsel and Raithgar,
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  Speaker 1: one of Kagranak's tools. Once he recovers the other tools,
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  Speaker 1: their Nervaren confronts dagoth Or directly. Degoth, still hopeful, offers
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  Speaker 1: the Nervaren a chance to fight by his side. However,
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  Speaker 1: it is clear that this creature before him is no
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  Speaker 1: longer his friend and hero companion, Vorn dagoth Thus, the
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  Speaker 1: Nervaren defeats dagoth Ur in the Heart of Lordkan was
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  Speaker 1: lost to this world. Some say that it was finally
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  Speaker 1: destroyed that day, although Azora claims that it was merely
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  Speaker 1: freed from its prison of the Mortal Plain. The tools
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  Speaker 1: of Kagranak eventually found their way to Skyrim and were
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  Speaker 1: recovered by the dragon Born during the Dragon Crisis, but
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  Speaker 1: the fate of the Neervaren remains uncertain. Some say that
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  Speaker 1: he left for an expedition in Akabir, but we cannot
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  Speaker 1: say for certain, which is exactly what we should expect
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  Speaker 1: of the fate of Inderil Nerebar, the hero who walks
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  Speaker 1: as much in legend as he does in time. Thank
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  Speaker 1: story of Morowind. If you're not in the study, then
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