Ministry of Truth (Morrowind)

The Ministry of Truth, also known as Baar Dau, or Lie Rock, is a large floating satellite above the Temple at Vivec suspended only by the power of the god Vivec. The Ministry of Truth is used as an inescapable prison where prisoners that are dangerous to the Tribunal Temple are kept.

History
Baar Dau was a large moonlet sent to destroy Vivec City by the Daedric Prince, Sheogorath. When Vivec saw Baar Dau falling from the sky, he merely lifted his hand and it froze above the city. Instead of destroying the meteor, Vivec decided to keep it above his city, the reason for this was so that if the people of Vivec ever stopped loving him, the meteor would descend on them and destroy them all.

When Vivec disapeared around the very end of the Third Era, the Ministry became unstable. In an attempt to keep it afloat, the Ingenium was created, a device that used specific souls as power to keep the Ministry suspended in air. Sometime in the Fourth Era, when a woman was to be sacrified her former lover, Sul, attempted to save her from the Ingenium. This caused the device to be destroyed and subsequently nothing more to keep afloat the Ministry; so, it violently crashed into the city of Vivec and completely destroyed it. The vibrations from the crash caused Red Mountain to erupt beginning the Red Year. Most of Vvardenfell was destroyed and covered with ash, forcing its few survivors to flee in a hurry to Solstheim.

Quest

 * Mehra Milo and the Lost Prophecies

Trivia

 * The Ministry of Truth is named after the Ministry of Truth that appears in George Orwell's classic, 1984.

Appearances

 * Министерство Правды