Hello! Thank you for submitting your showcase.

First of all, the writing is good, and, most importantly, in line with what you would expect from Morrowind’s quests. If you haven’t already, I recommend that you check our Writing and Dialogue guidelines. You tend to overuse comma splicing, so I’d suggest that you take a look at the dialogue in your quest and try to reduce it.

However, there’s a number of, mostly, technical issues that we need to resolve before I can recommend you for promotion. It looks like you have read our quest guidelines only after you started making the showcase and changed some things to account for them, but you didn’t double check everything and some aspects of the quests broke as a result.

Trovan Duril’s role in the quest is very weird to me. I guess he was a last-minute addition to satisfy the showcase requirement to create at least 3 NPCs? Either way, it’s not great to involve a NPC in a misc quest with their only role being to give you a reward, especially when the NPC is so out of the way of the other quest objectives like Trovan is. By tying him to one of the journal stages, you’re also making things more complicated for yourself.

I’ll leave the solution up to you (you can even keep Trovan Duril in, if you want), but there’s multiple ways to satisfy the showcase requirement.

• Journal entries should be sorted by journal index in ascending order. This makes it easier to read and understand the quest progression.
• Journal entries should be written in the past simple tense.
• Remove Journal stage 5. Our current standard is to not immediately start quests via a latest rumor entry, as this spams the journal of players who aren’t interested in doing the quest without an option to refuse it.
• Remove Journal stage 70. Instead of advancing the quest automatically to stage 10 and then adding another journal stage if the player refuses, make it so that the player can refuse the quest before it’s added to their journal at all (but don’t lock them out of the quest!)
• Following that, you should combine journal stages 10 and 20 into one. In case of misc quests, you shouldn’t force journal entries on players in case they don’t accept the quest willingly (more on that below).
• The first journal entry should always contain the quest topic (here it’s "hunting a sorcerer") so that the players can easily find all of the relevant dialogue for the quest.
• As far as the other journal entries go, I like to include the quest topics in journal entries as much as I can for player’s convenience, but that’s just a personal preference.
• The first journal entry should mention that you need to bring the questgiver the staff to complete the quest. It’s quite easy to forget otherwise.
• Journal stage 45 can also be removed. You’re (correctly) using the Dead and Item filters in dialogue anyway, so the journal stage really serves no purpose.
• There should be a safeguard journal stage that finishes the quest in case the questgiver dies before the quest is completed.
• Generally, the journal stages that finish the quest should have index 100+. This is not a hard rule, though.
• A very minor nitpick, but the quest ID should be “TR_m1_Niv_Sorcerer”, not “TR_M1_Niv_Sorcerer”.

• Similar to journal entries, dialogue lines for a quest topic should also be sorted by journal index, but in descending order. When selecting what dialogue line to display, the game checks all of the dialogue lines for the specific topic from top to bottom and displays the first line that passes all of the filtering. Some of the dialogue lines in your quest topic will never appear in-game because of this. 
• If you’re adding dialogue lines that aren’t filtered to a specific NPC, it’s not enough to filter them to a cell. You also need to add a filter to exclude NPCs with the T_Local_NoLore variable, and a filter for the proper TR_Map variable (in your case =1).
• If you’re filtering a dialogue line for a single NPC, you don’t need to include the cell filters, unless your quest NPCs move during the quest and you need a way to change their dialogue depending on the location they’re in.

hunting a sorcerer

• The line Hail friend, would you care to help out a witch hunter in need? I've been hunting a sorcerer in the area, and he's gone beyond my reach. will never appear in the game due to the ordering, as I mentioned above. However, this is fine, as this really should be a greeting (and you’ve already included a greeting similar to this), so you can just delete this line.
• The line Have you reconsidered? Would you help me with hunting a sorcerer? will also never appear, as currently you advance the journal to stage 70 if the player refuses the quest. However, you have the right idea here - you shouldn’t block the players from doing a quest if they refuse it at first. But, like I said, you don’t need to advance the quest if you just want to display different dialogue after the player refuses the quest. Instead, you can use one of the generic local variables (control or controlQ) and filter out the dialogue using those. You can check some of the TR quests, like Waiting on a Friend, to see how to do this.
• The line Good luck on your hunt, friend. Bring back the mage's staff as proof that it is done. should mark Nivalis on your map so that the players know where they should be going.
• The generic Nivalis line There was a High Elf staying at the inn a little while ago. He didn't talk much, but I heard that he was asking about ancestral tombs in the area. should be filtered to not appear after journal stage < 30, since the line only exists to unlock the “ancestral tombs in the area” topic.
• If the player kills Anredhel before they accept the quest, there should be a dialogue option where the player could tell this to the questgiver (and a dialogue line where the questgiver reacts accordingly, of course).
• The questgiver needs to have some dialogue for the case when you kill Anredhel, but don’t have his staff in your inventory.
• Trovan Duril’s dialogue line will give you one Ancestor's Ring and update the journal every time you click on the topic, even when you haven’t started the quest at all. You need to make sure that he gives you the reward only once (I suggest to use the generic local variables for this), and doesn’t give you the reward outside of the quest.
• Choice dialogue should always have punctuation.

latest rumors

• Your latest rumor will override all of the other Dagon Fel rumors until the quest is completed. What you’re supposed to do instead is to filter it based on a Random100 global variable, and modify the other rumors in the area so the values don’t overlap. In your example, there’s two other Dagon Fel rumors that already exist in vanilla. One is currently filtered to Random100 < 50, while the other doesn’t have the Random100 filter. So if you want to give all three rumors (roughly) a 33% chance to appear, you need to give your rumor a Random100 < 66 filter, edit the first vanilla rumor so it has a Random100 < 33 filter, and you can leave the third one as is.
• It’s good practice to group the rumors for an area together, meaning you should recreate your rumor so it’s right next to the vanilla Dagon Fel rumors.

ancestral tombs in the area

• Regarding the generic Nivalis line - there’s multiple Dunmer in Nivalis, not just Fovus Selaro, so either there should be another generic line for the Dunmer, or you could just change the dialogue so that every Dunmer in Nivalis could advance the quest.
• IMO it’s a bit weird that the random commoner Fovus Selaro would be the local expert on ancestral tombs, so I think that the latter would be preferable.

Greetings

• Usually, the questgiver should have at least three unique greetings: one before you start the quest (this one already exists), one during the quest and one after you finish the quest.
• Anredhel’s Greeting 1 should be filtered to only appear when the quest is active.

TR_m0_Rogvard

• When you’re adding NPCs to Vvardenfell, you should still assign them the Map 0 script from Tamriel_Data (T_ScNpc_Mw_Map0)
• 300 gold is a bit too much for a low-level questgiver to carry around.
• Generally, usage of Bloodmoon weapons is to be avoided outside of Solstheim (with exceptions, of course). Please give the NPC some fitting vanilla or Tamriel_Data weapons.

All items that you add as part of your quest need to follow the TR naming convention. TR_m1_q_SorcererStaff is fine, c_LetterFromGoris isn’t.

TR_m1_q_Sorc

• You’re using what I assume are the placeholder NPC and quest IDs in the script, so the script doesn’t work at all.
• The script should declare the T_Local_NoLore variable so that you can filter out generic dialogue from Anredhel’s topics. Enemies in the wilderness generally should have this variable to avoid corner cases where they would say unfitting dialogue when the players use the Calm Humanoid spell on them or something.
• I’m not exactly sure what’s the intention with the ForceGreeting in the OnDeath block, but dead NPCs can’t talk.
• The journal should only be updated when the player already started the quest, but like I mentioned above, I would prefer that you get rid of the journal stage 45 anyway.
• Similarly, Anredhel should only force greet the player and summon the vermai when they have already started the quest. It would be a bit weird for people that would just stumble upon him when exploring.
• If you want Anredhel to force greet the player during the quest, it would be good if he would only attack you after the force greeting. It’s weird when he starts blasting you immediately once he spots you, and force greets you once you get a bit closer.

This might seem like a lot of issues, but like I said - the writing is good, and the rest just takes a bit of practice. I trust you to get there quickly :) Feel free to ask us any questions in the #showcase-shadowgate channel on Discord.