Very confused about story sequence with addition of Morrowind

bugmom

So, with Morrowind, you can create new characters with an entirely different tutorial but then when you finish that how do you get the storyline for the main game??? If you've never done the main tutorial do you then go through that tutorial on your Morrowind toon? If you skip that tutorial how are you a vestige??? I don't understand how the story flows.

essi2

There has been a million threads about this already.

There is no publicly available canonical story progression anymore and things happen in the order YOU play it in.

Mattock_Romulus

Basically, it's Dragon Breaks...

"A Dragon Break, sometimes referred to as an un-time, is a temporal phenomenon that involves a splitting of the natural timeline which results in branching parallel realities where the same events occur differently, or not at all. This results in a return to the non-linear timeline of the Dawn Era."

STEVIL

The Doctor: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

"According to the computer, it should take us exactly one episode to reach our destination."
— Mokuba, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series

YRMV: your reality may vary.

SydneyGrey

After the enslaved-by-pirates tutorial, you then have to find your way to the main city capital of your faction. Then you'll get approached by someone who takes you into the Wailing Prison tutorial. Of course, if a newbie doesn't know about this already, they'll end up doing half the game before they finally get the Wailing Prison tutorial. LOL.

zaria

STEVIL wrote: »

The Doctor: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

"According to the computer, it should take us exactly one episode to reach our destination."
— Mokuba, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series

YRMV: your reality may vary.

This.
Originally Orsinium took place after the main quest, therefor no dolmens, but with one tamriel you can do it anytime: starting zone, midway or at end.

Much the same with morrowind. Yes it changed, however why should your alts kill morlag bal then the first one did it

MLGProPlayer

Originally, the storyline was supposed to progress in order of release date (certain details in the different DLC reveal their chronology). But now with One Tamriel, ZOS has reneged on that plan and there is supposedly no timeline anymore (even though, if you pay attention, there is).

Robo_Hobo

For a good story play through I would suggest doing Vvardenfell, then going to your factions first zone city (daggerfall, vulkhel guard, davons watch), then talking to the mysterious figure, which will lead up to mannimarco killing you and ending up in the wailing prison, and then do the storyline from there as normal.

bugmom

Robo_Hobo wrote: »

For a good story play through I would suggest doing Vvardenfell, then going to your factions first zone city (daggerfall, vulkhel guard, davons watch), then talking to the mysterious figure, which will lead up to mannimarco killing you and ending up in the wailing prison, and then do the storyline from there as normal.

Thanks - this is what I was trying to understand! Main quest makes no sense without wailing prison but tutorial seems dumb if you've completed Vvardenfell but I guess that's the way it is.

ShedsHisTail

The timeline of events, as far as history is concerned, occurs in the order in which it is released by ZOS unless they say otherwise. Much like every other Elder Scrolls game, the order you choose to play it in, or what choices you make have very little bearing on the official account.

In other words, Vvardenfell takes place after Vanilla, even though you're doing it backwards. Think of it like the Spinner's story, or Cadwell's quests when you're new toon goes to the mainland, you're experiencing events which already happened...

Because it's a video game.

grizzledcroc

There is technically a time progression , gameplay does not equal to what actually happens. Vvardenfell for all intensive purposes happens after the main game since the deadric war plot was hinted at the end of orsinium which is after the main story and continues in the new dlc. Just because you can now start there is just part of it being a game.

Nyghthowler

There are no children, NPCs don't age, our characters don't age, there are no clocks, so obviously there is no time in Tamriel. Everything has, is, will happen all at once and/ or never...