The Elder Scrolls Treasury III - The Imperial Library

a good treatment of Morrowind since it became part of the Empire, look for 'On Morrowind, theImperial Province', by Erramanwe of Sunhold.Lit.: A Short History of Morrowind (TEST I 2 :198). On Morrowind (TEST I 2 : 616).CulturesThree major cultural groupings have settled Vvardenfell: the Ashlander nomads, the → ImperialProvincial culture, and the native → Dunmer culture −− also sometimes known as the HouseDunmer culture, the Dunmer Great House culture or the Dark Elf culture. The smallest settlementsare the → Ashlander nomadic camps, comprised of small portable huts. Recent → Imperialcolonies like → Pelagiad display the same sturdy half−timbered homes and stone castles as mightbe found in Daggerfall or any other Western province. But the dominant culture is the nativeDunmer Great House culture.LawSee → Law.EconomyMorrowind used to be an agrarian aristocracy, mostly free → farmers and → herders andfishermen ruled by Great Houses and their → noble councils. But since the Imperial occupation,and especially here on Vvardenfell, the Dunmer are developing a mercantile economy on themodel of the Empire, ruled by the Emperor, law, and legions, but driven by trade in crafts andgoods.PeopleAbout 50% of Vvardenfell's inhabitants are Dunmer. The other half are → Redguard, → Breton,→ Nord, → Altmer, → Bosmer, Imperial, → Khajiit, → Argonian, and → Orc in roughly equalproportion.SettlementsThe smallest settlements are Ashlander nomadic camps, comprised of small portable huts. Ruralpeople live in → Dunmer village style, groups of small huts centered around Temple compounds.Town and city folk live either in the metropolitan style of → Vivec City, the urban style of townslike → Ald'ruhn, or the Imperial style of recent settlements like → Caldera. In sparsely populated→ Telvanni District, the few → Telvanni tower towns are essentially large villages dominated bymonumental wizard tower complexes.Mortag GlacierCulturesA giant glacier to the northwest part of → Solstheim. Some have been saying that the glaciercollapsed on itself. Very little lives in the area, and it is said that the glacier itself is haunted by evilspirits.140