Vounoura, the secret island of the Morag Tong. As mysterious as the organization that calls it home, it has enchanted and perplexed scholars and explorers alike for centuries.
Rumored to house the most infamous assassins of the Tong, very few details about Vounoura are certain. The Morag Tong operates legally under the sanction of Morrowind's Tribunal; official records regarding the secretive dealings of the Tong are notoriously difficult to acquire by Imperial and local researchers alike.
Has entries for all the TR books in Tamriel_Data (not SHOTN and PC books) link in Kevaar's post Some metadata carried over from previous lists when reliable, remaining metadata incomplete.
The idea here is to make use of our lore-related brainstorms that might not otherwise make it into the game due to procrastination or no other fitting vehicle. This book (which will probably be a part of the PDF readme and posted on the website so it can be updated, but may make it's way ingame too) will be made up of a bunch of little blurbs, from the point of view of a traveler or helpful local of Morrowind. This will serve the additional purpose of introducing people to our lore.
Meant to be from the point of view of an Ashlander, but might be adapted to Dres with a little elbow grease. I tried to make all these interpretations morally gray; Molag Bal was hardest, until I came upon the idea that Ashlanders sacrifice their social deviants or deformed mer to him. Sheogorath's entry also suggests the Ashlanders don't view the mentally ill as negatively as the House Dunmer--"seeing things" is what the wise woman do after all!
Outline (points to cover) --phenomenon of the disappearing mushroom --use of corkbulb and adobe instead of wood --travellers navigating by mushroom get lost --mushroom spores, allergies, and musks --Telvanni techniques vs. Bosmer techniques in shaping for dwellings --ecological niches of deciduous trees vs mushroom--shade cycle, animals dwelling inside stems
A bibliographical codex of various rare books that the author, an old librarian, considers to be too dangerous. Basically, I've tried to insert a Lovecraftian narrator into the TES universe. Might need some spellchecking and grammar checking, but otherwise done.
(added a reference to Ateiggaer in the text, hope you don't mind! I'll remove it if you want.)
They grew up without their mother, A terrible disease took her from us, What should a father do?, I could not comfort them, I could not guide them.
One of them died of bitter grief, The other died of the famine, The third was hanged for a crime, The fourth found his grave in the sea, The fifth vanished in the war.
And as he came to Necrom, He looked up the sky and shouted, No God on the whole of Nirn, Is able to relief the terrible pain,
