Board Thread:Morrowind/@comment-150.135.161.241-20141114221721/@comment-1255618-20190525044623

I don't usually resurrect old threads, but I wanted to point out that it still would be very interesting (albeit time-consuming to develop the sections of the game) if the player's character could join up with Dagoth Ur. I agree that it would break the Nerevarine prophesy for the character, but maybe that's the point and the final boss of the game is the real Nerevarine, because it turns out the player wasn't the Nerevarine in the end, but merely a possible or partial one and so someone else fulfills the role. I always disliked how the game didn't have alternate ending(s) if the player "broke" the Nerevarine prophesy, anyway.

In a more ideal T.E.S. III, there would be three different endings:

(1) The normal or "Nerevarine" ending in which the player fulfills the Nerevarine prophesy. The final boss is Dagoth Ur (excluding the expansions).

(2) The "Sharmat" ending in which the player joins the Sixth House, assists Dagoth Ur, and kills the Tribunal. The final boss is the true Nerevarine who kills Dagoth Ur and destroys the heart before the player can stop it. The player then takes control of House Dagoth, turning out to have been the true Sharmat all along.

(3) The "Living God" ending in which the player usurps the power of the heart from Dagoth Ur, becoming one with it in the same way he did; Dagoth can no longer manifest himself in the world and the player's character transforms into a new and more powerful living god.

These three endings would account for three possible ways any given game could go: (1) The player does not break the sequence of the game and defeats Dagoth Ur, (2) The player breaks the sequence of the game and allies with Dagoth Ur, and (3) the player breaks the sequence of the game and defeats Dagoth Ur.

This idea seems similar to what the Chaos Heart mod is doing, although it sounds like they also include options to help the Empire or the Tribunal in more meaningful ways than the unmodified game will allow.

To be honest, Chaos Heart's Empire-vs.-Tribunal choice sounds kind of insignificant if the player can join both at the same time, unless trying to play both sides leads to a third branching path. Unless of course, they mean that the player can join both the Sixth House and at the same time either the Empire or the Tribunal?