Board Thread:Morrowind/@comment-74.180.26.247-20140215221910/@comment-25047024-20140215222148

Well, you're wrong with a bunch of stuff.

Miraak "died" (he didn't really die, but rather escaped to Apocrypha) in the early first or Merethic Era. This was c.a 4000-5000 years before the events in Skyrim happen.

Miraak also doesn't use a "modified" form of the Blight, he uses the Bend Will shout to control the Stones on Solstheim and the minds of the people there.