newmorowinder on 5/11/2009 at 15:10
I've been thinking.... there are 3 great houses, Hlaalu, Telvanni and Redoran. and the 6TH Great House, House Dagoth. but 3+1=6???? that doesnt add up! there is the 1st, 2nd, 3th and 6th houses..... but what about the 4th and 5th? Just say something about it.
Lytha on 5/11/2009 at 23:32
The magical number of Morrowind actually seems to be 7. (seven curses, seven trials, a total of seven native groups to convince to declare you as their hortator/nerevarine, etc).
So, not very surprisingly, there are actually seven houses mentioned in some of the dialogues.
- House Hlaalu
- House Redoran
- House Telvanni
- House Dres (not involved in Vvardenfell)
- House Indoril (not involved in Vvardenfell, but the Ordinators are part of it?)
- House Dagoth (the 6th house)
- House Dwemer.
The latter is mentioned by some, disputed by others, not mentioned by most.
If you talk to some NPCs of the Savant profession, they'll fill your screen with more lore than you may want. Including the Great Houses.
newmorowinder on 6/11/2009 at 14:18
House Dres, I wonder who might belong.......House Indorill I alredy imagined, beacause of the ordinators atacks if I wear indorill armor...but i thought they belonged to the temple... welll thats ok....but HOUSE DWEMER? I never thought that the "extinct" race had a House! But the magical number 7 makes me wonder...... 7 houses, 7 groups to become war leader, 7 trials(even though the 6th and 7th are the same, acording to the wise woman of Urshilaku), 7 curses...... And I discovered another! 7 telvanni towers (tel mora, tel naga, tel vos, tel aruhn, tel fyr, tel branora and tel uvirith!)!!!!! And Also 7 Council members of Telvanni! the ones from each tower(except tel fyr) and the one you must convince to join the council in the telvanni quest given by aryon(that guy that lives in the velothi building of gnisis), even though Gothren gets killed.... and 7 tribunal gods...uuuuuuupppssss, now i am seeing sevens everywhere.....lol.... But it is a nice topic..... how many 7 things there are in Morrowind?...... Im gonna bet 7( so far I mentioned 6, try and find another)... :)
Lytha on 7/11/2009 at 10:24
You already found more sevens than I did when I had my "it's all about seven" revelation after playing too much MW too late at night. ;)
Seven daedra princes are mentioned explicitely and have statues and worshippers (though there are of course technically a few more): Azura, Boethia, Mephala + Sheogorath, Mehrunes Dagon, Malacath, Molag Bal.
During the tribunal temple's pilgrimmage, you visit 7 shrines to vivec.
Aside from the mainquest and the blades (and ashlanders), which you join automatically and not really on a volunteer basis, there are 7 guilds and factions that you can join: Imp Cult, Imp Legion, Fighter's Guild, Mages Guild, Thieves Guild + Morag Tong, Tribunal Temple.
If you dig deeper, I'm quite sure that you'll discover even more sevens.
