Dunmeri Mounts

joseayalac · December 2021

Which would be the most appropiate mount for a Dunmer living in Morrowind?

Where Guars already used as mounts in TESIII: Morrowind or was ESO the game that introduced them as mountable beasts?

Also do we have examples of Dunmeri people riding horses in Morrowind? Either on TESIII or TESO.

I recall that, in ESO, Vivec City's stable has Guars and Mournhold's has Horses.

colossalvoids · December 2021

Guar riding was from morrowind yes, but horses are a thing also. Eso also introduced nix oxen as a mount and I actually find it "the most appropriate" myself after its description. Wasn't there mentions of wasps also from some lirebook or a Kirkbride-ish writing? At least any big enough bug would do for sure:)

Cosmo_Nova · December 2021

colossalvoids wrote: »

Wasn't there mentions of wasps also from some lirebook or a Kirkbride-ish writing?

That's the parrapton which appeared in The Origin of Cyrus

Don't think there's anything like that ingame though. For dunmer your best bet is just guar or nix-oxen, there's also kagouti available iirc, and a dwarven mount might make sense for a wizard or noble given the high concentration of dwarven ruins in Morrowind.

HappyTheCamper · December 2021

I might be wrong, but I think there is some connection between House Dres and Kagouti mounts. Might be ESO or Legends.

Jaimeh · December 2021

Maybe one of the nix-ox mounts?

Veloth_Redothril · January 2022

Unironically a Senche-raht mount. I'm sure there's Dres that provide Senche..uh.."employees"

kaushad · January 2022

TESIII's engine didn't support riding. NPCs pointed out that horses weren't fit for Vvardenfell's climate, which is why knights there weren't expected to have one and why sabers were uncommon there. So it didn't have a cavalry tradition. They didn't really need one, because house war was mostly assassination and skirmishes and most interprovincial war happened along its borders, which are either mountainous or swampy. They had pack guars and guar carts, but not saddled guars.

Now flying cavalry, i.e. parraptons, is another story, but I don't think TESIII said anything about it.

tuxon · January 2022

Guar or Nix (for Ashlander char)

Werewolfman187 · September 2022

Guar for land mount and Guar for flying mount if you are brave

Dr_Con · October 2022

If I was a Dunmer living in Morrowind I would ride a domesticated Necht.

boi_anachronism_ · October 2022

Dr_Con wrote: »

If I was a Dunmer living in Morrowind I would ride a domesticated Necht.

1000%

TybaltKaine · October 2022

Like most here have said, Guar seems the most likely choice, and as @kaushad alluded to, there was in-game lore in TES III that explicitly talks about why horses weren't used. It actually says something to the effect that most Dunmer would rather eat a horse than ride one on Vvardenfell.

DivineKitty · October 2022

TybaltKaine wrote: »

Like most here have said, Guar seems the most likely choice, and as @kaushad alluded to, there was in-game lore in TES III that explicitly talks about why horses weren't used. It actually says something to the effect that most Dunmer would rather eat a horse than ride one on Vvardenfell.

From the Ashlander Style Motif: "This chitin is affixed to the leather beneath with a powerful and permanent adhesive we derive by boiling kwama cuttle and (when we can get them) horse's hooves. The rest of the horse goes into the stew pot."

So, at least Ashlanders eat horses. And I would imagine that Horses would have trouble with all the ash, and shifting ground, where as Guars seem to be able to walk anywhere, and Nix-Oxen can just jump over obstacles. I'm not counting Silt Striders, since they're larger than houses, and can walk over any obstacle with ease.