Tamriel Rebuilt, the Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind modding project, is proud to release the mini-expansion Firemoth Rekindled. This update is meant to accompany the huge new mod Project Cyrodiil: Abecean Shores, just released by our friends at Project Tamriel.

In Firemoth Rekindled, re-conquer Bethesda’s original Siege at Firemoth, now entirely revamped and expanded by our team, and rekindle the Imperial Legion’s watch over the Inner Sea as you rebuild the ransacked fortress. Additionally, 50 new quests have been added all across Morrowind’s mainland. Experience the conclusion to our Telvanni questline, a melancholy epilogue to Morrowind’s main quest, and much more.

Download Tamriel Rebuilt 24.12: Main Mirror | Morrowind Nexus | Morrowind Modding Hall

Reminder: Do not load Siege at Firemoth.esp together with Tamriel Rebuilt if you want to play our version of Firemoth. That will cause conflicts. If you instead want the vanilla version of Firemoth, you must load the separately downloaded plugin TR_Firemoth_remover.esp after Siege at Firemoth.esp.

For decades now, the dread lich Grurn has ruled the fortress of Firemoth unopposed with an army of foul undead, besmirching the honor of the Empire and defiling one of the Legion’s holy relics, the Ward of Akavir. Now, as dark clouds gather over Vvardenfell, Lord General Caecalia Victrix in Old Ebonheart is seeking to reclaim the fortress and secure the Empire’s flank in the province. A strike team of renowned adventurers is being assembled in Seyda Neen – join them and reclaim the Legion’s honor. Should you succeed in this task, a high-ranking Imperial Legion player may even find themselves the commandant of Firemoth with the duty to rebuild it into a center of Imperial strength.

Tamriel Rebuilt is a massive mod for TES III: Morrowind, which adds the missing mainland of the Morrowind province to the game world. You can download it here.

Greetings! In the last update we covered everything that you can expect from our next upcoming expansion, Grasping Fortune. But Morrowind is a massive province and Tamriel Rebuilt is developing on many fronts in parallel. The last time that we went over our full plans for the future – our development roadmap – was in late 2021. Hence, it’s high time we update you with how those plans have changed and give you a high-level overview of each of the new and exciting expansions that we’re currently tackling.

Remember, Tamriel Rebuilt is developed as a series of episodic releases or expansions, with new chunks of Morrowind’s mainland released every year (aspirationally, at least). Whenever an expansion is released, the new areas come with the full complement of interior locations, characters, and quests, all seamlessly tying into the base game and the prior expansions.

In order for all this to work, teams focusing on different fields of mod development are chipping away at different parts of the province. Asset developers bring the work of our concept artists to life, creating the 3D assets that our level designers need. Only once the asset palette for a new region is more-or-less finished, can exterior level designers create a new area of the overworld. Once that is done, a drove of interior level designers descends to fill out the (sometimes) hundreds of highly detailed interior locations – buildings, caves, dungeons – that each expansion needs. And only once the latter work is winding down can quest developers fill the lands with hundreds more memorable characters and quests.

Below, we will walk you through the different expansions we are currently working on, roughly in the order that we expect them to be released. All of this is, obviously, highly tentative and subject to change at any time. Furthermore, no dates are offered, as everything here is done by volunteer effort, the ebbs and floods of which are infamously hard to predict.

Tamriel Rebuilt is a large community modding project that aims to add the missing mainland of the Morrowind province to TES III: Morrowind. The mod is developed and released as a series of fully realized expansions that are seamlessly integrated into the vanilla Morrowind worldspace and with each other. Currently, players can download and enjoy roughly half of the mainland, which comes fully equipped with thousands of interior locations, NPCs, dialogue, and more than 600 added quests – many more than the original game and expansions combined.

Happy holidays, readers! Despite the release of our last expansion, Andaram, only a short while ago, progress on new expansions to the Morrowind mainland is ongoing, as those following the much-more-frequently-updated #progress-updates channel on our Discord server well know.

Now, as the year is drawing to a close, it is high time we update you on what our prolific artists and asset developers have been doing for most of this year. We last tallied this progress in early March, so we will be covering almost a years worth of assets progress – prepare for a long read. Some brief highlights of what that includes:

• Reams of new concept art on the Mournhold and Velothis districts, and on innumerable other topics.
• An entire new, alien culture for the Dreugh including eerie citadels, new enemies, and innumerable clutter items.
• Tons of new ships from all across Tamriel to fill our harbors with.
• An entire new architecture set modeled on the Old Mournhold ruins.
• Lots of progress on assets needed for Indoril region overhauls, most especially in the Mephalan Vales region.
• Many new armors, creatures, clutter sets, and more.

The below post will walk you through the fruits of what are essentially the first two legs of our development pipeline – conceptualization and asset creation. Only when concepts are set in stone and unique assets created can new regions and cultures be called to life by our level and quest designers.

Tamriel Rebuilt is a massive community modding project for TES III: Morrowind that adds the mainland of the province to the original game, aiming to quadruple the size of the game world. The mod is developed and released as a series of fully realized expansions that seamlessly integrate sections of new land into the rest of the game world. Many such expansions have been released in the more than two decades that the mod has been in development; hence, players can already download and enjoy a landmass twice the size of the original game with thousands of interiors and NPCs complete with dialogue, and more than 500 new quests.

It has been quite a while since the last implementation progress update – all the way since October 2022, just prior to the release of our double expansions, Dominions of Dust and Embers of Empire. Those who read our previous teaser on the upcoming Andaram expansion will know that Tamriel Rebuilt development has been progressing at rapid pace since then.

This post will cover most of what the implementation team – that is, exterior and interior level designers and quest developers – has been doing in the past nine months (asset development has a separate progress report). For a Too Long; Didn’t Read edition:

• release of Dominions of Dust and Embers of Empire expansions (duh)
• completion of more than a hundred new quests for the Andaram expansion
• a major expansion and update to Almas Thirr’s exterior, interiors, and quests
• interior work on the Narsis expansion is close to conclusion, and the first quests are now being worked on
• several exterior claims of the new Sundered Scar and all the interiors of the remade town of Darvonis are now finished
• the first exteriors for the Othreleth Woods expansions are finished, and interior development has begun
• the Tamriel Rebuilt version of the island of Firemoth is very close to being finalized, and a few new islands have been created on the fringes of Morrowind

Read on for a more detailed breakdown of this progress, divided between the different expansions which we mean to release in succession.

Tamriel Rebuilt is a massive community modding project that seamlessly adds the mainland of the Morrowind province to Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. The mod is developed as a series of fully complete, but interconnected expansions, each bringing a new part of the Morrowind province to life. Currently, players can already enjoy our released lands, which constitute roughly half of the mainland area and are fully populated with interior locations, hundreds of NPCs, thousands of lines of dialogue, and almost as many new quests as were in the original game.

It has been a few months since we last updated you on the ongoing progress in Tamriel Rebuilt – okay, we did release a major double-expansion in-between, but still. This month, as we last did in September, we will get you up to date on all the progress that our concept and asset artists have made. These are the building blocks of the mod, the first part of its development pipeline, which our level designers and implementers can later use to create the world of Morrowind.

Be mindful that the below concepts and assets are works-in-progress, and may not represent their final form in the mod. Furthermore, while the sources for each piece are linked – either messages on our Discord server or the asset browser – these are often no longer up-to-date with the current progress and planning of the mod.

Now, lets dive back into the nitty-gritty of TR progress – as we haven’t updated you in a while, there is a lot to show!

The concept art section is much longer than usual, thanks largely to our new artists be-a-stranger, Tammilisäke, igor~, and Illithid Bob, among other new and returning contributors.

Mephalan Vales

Be-a-stranger seems to have developed a fascination with the Mephalan Vales region. We hope to overhaul the Vales in the distant future, while keeping its DNA in place – purple-hued rock labyrinths dividing dark, misty forests.