The Morrowind Iceberg Explained

Set out to explore unknown lands, Morrowind presents a vast land with little guidance, allowing the discovery of it's many mysteries up to the curiosity of the player. But not all mysteries can be answered by the game. Let's go through many theories and conspiracies about Morrowind that are within the Elder Scrolls Iceberg!

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Chapters

Introduction - 0:00
The Red Mountain Peak - 1:58
The Ancestral Tombs - 9:51
The Bottom - 23:43
The CHIM - 35:54
Outro - 43:34
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Music Used in Order
Morrowind - The Road Most Travelled
Skyrim: Dragonborn - Solstheim 10
Elder Scrolls Online - A Land Of Way And Poetry
Fredrik Jonasson - Cold Whispers
Morrowind - Drumbeat of the Dunmer
Dreyma - Far and Beyond
Dreyma - The Karth River
CaptainCreepy - Forgotten Vale 1
Elder Scrolls Online - Shadow of Baar Dau
Elder Scrolls Online - Northpoint Nocturne
Skyrim - Masser
Skyrim - Standing Stones
Jeremy Froböse - Call of the Dwemer
Dreyma - Everdream
Skyrim - Standing Stones
Captain Creepy - Sheogorath Island 3
Dreyma - Nocturnal
Morrowind - Sheld Your Travails

#morrowindiceberg #morrowind #elderscrollsicebergexplained

[justinmacdonald]

Whoever originally flung baar dau doesn't matter. The fact that vivec left it there to force people to worship him is the reason it fell in the end. My headcanon is that vivec never actually achieved CHIM, he only got the basic idea of a greater being from molag bal. If he had achieved CHIM he wouldn't have cared at all that they lost access to the heart as he would have the power to literally reshape reality to his whim. And the reason he finally vanished is he attempted to witness the godhead and ended up zero summing.

[mmpistol]

This was my WOW. I played thousands of hours of Morrowind through my early years, and I don't expect to ever have that feeling again. I'll always chase the dragon of the morrowind experience.

[carsonnesbit]

The Last Dragonborn: Becomes Hermaeus Mora’s eternal bitch.

The Nerevarine: Might be the immortal hero of prophesy, also might just be an asymptomatic zombie… doesn’t really give a fuck either way and is currently chilling in magic weeb land.

[DetectiveJones]

I like the idea of flipping this around and instead of it being an "Iceberg" it's the Red Mountain. You start at the summit, aka the part of the Volcano most commonly seen, as it's the highest up and therefore more visible across the land. Then the entrance to the volcano, where only those actively seeking it might see it or heard stories from those who've ventured. Diving deeper reveals the depths of the Volcano, for only the most dedicated adventurers who are prepared and knowledgeable on what they're looking for. leading to the core of the Volcano, stuff that nobody but maybe the most knowledgeable of the lands or those who've studied it beyond anybody else, covering wide-reaching but basically unknown topics. To me it would match nicely as the Eruption was felt all across Vvardenfell, symbolizing it's wide reaching effects across Morrowind as in the game for the player, all coming from a place most of the people of the land (Players with less experience) not knowing much about.

But my sleep schedule is beyond messed and it's 9 AM as I right this, and I'm only just now about to go to bed so maybe I'll wake up and think this is silly.

[carsonnesbit]

Voice acting for the mudcrab was real fucking good.

[TheAtroxious]

The voice acting here gives me life. Makes me wish these characters were actually voiced in-game, and this is coming from someone who loves the versatility of text style dialogue.

[RomanStan]

A good little detail to think about is that the Dwemer are a race that are logical, they do believe that the God’s exist, but that they are just powerful spirits, not gods, and they can be fooled (Azura and the box), so if they were confronted with the reality that they do not exist, their logical minds could not comprehend that.

Vivec was able to overcome it because of his pride. He was determined that he exists and was able to achieve godhood. Tiber Septim probably did the same thing. So it’s more than likely that all the Dwemer could not face the eldritch truth with their logical mind

[abyss]

Morrowind what a fascinating Gem of an Elder Scrolls game the utterly alien inhospitable land of Morrowind and the isle of vvardenfell is simply one of the greatest game worlds ever created with many different biomes complete with tribes multiple towns sprawling cities many interesting and imaginative characters,
A thoroughly brilliant but insane alchemy potion making system the ability to levitate not to mention the wondrous creature known as the Cliff racers some of the Mysteries and lesser known topics are some of the most captivating stories ever told in the Elder Scrolls look forward to a very in-depth and thorough look at the greatest game in the Elder Scrolls series

[AngelofGrace]

Yay, I'm glad we got a Maiq cameo, he's so funny, even if he's not strictly a morrowind character.
Another amazing iceberg, thank you!

[secretswithinthedarkness]

I think the 'ghosts' are projections. Remember the Skyrim quest where the Argonian lady begged you to take the lexicon back to the ruin they got it from? They clearly were capable of it.
It's possible that the book is coded, which is why it makes no sense. Or, the characters aren't designed to be translated into the 'common tongue'.
The Dwenmer did not reach the level of godhead. They all just went somewhere else. Dude said it was far into the future. I'm figuring that's as likely as any other reasonable explanation, though I'd take his word, since he was one of the writers. Of course, it could have been changed since for any number of reasons. Anyway - Godhead is a state of mind, not a place of existence. It is the realization that the universe is a dream by one higher than all the gods, and when the dreamer wakes up, the universe will be no more. When one reaches that place and accepts it, they, too, become a godhead and can change the world to their liking. It's said Tiber Septim reached this state, which is why he became an official god. He is why Cyrodil is no longer a jungle, as it was up until he died, I guess.That's what I've gathered, anyway.

[abyss]

A moon sugar fortified


Having recently played morrowind this game is such a trip
The first time you meet the main story Quest Giver he has a Skooma pipe and moon sugar next to his bed priceless
I don't think Bethesda has the balls to do something so Grand again

[professorhaystacks]

32:00: After fan backlash over a claim the jungle thing was a 'translation error', there was an additional volume in Elder Scrolls Online that hypothesizes the control of the White-Gold Tower allows one to control the climate of Cyrodil. At some point in time, a race that preferred a jungle controlled the Tower, pre-ESO. Of course it's Elder Scrolls, so there can be more than one explanation that's true.

[DrArku]

I loved your video and especially noticed how there was always something to look at. Not just the same stationary pictures over and over.

[leaflvrr]

Love this game!!!! Been waiting for a good iceberg vid on it!! You did a great job on this!
This game is super personal to me cuz my mom used to play it every morning and me and my siblings would watch. Some of my best memories!

[MikeVonwolkenstein]

Damn, this video made me want to finally try morrowind. Awesome iceberg coverage 🔥

[sheahi]

I do think the writings bring some things to light that I hadn't thought of before. We see "Without a trace" and "Turned to dust" as a contraction but it could be more than that, maybe "Turned to dust" is an eye witness testimony and "Without a trace" is a vague recount or written by someone less perceptive. I do think these were the intended path for at least these Dwemer and not so much a contradiction.

[lentlemenproductions]

“The egg of time” *a pair of massive Dwemer hammers on either side of the ‘egg’* yeah, this right here, Officer!

[theoceanistblu]

Everytime I see Morrowind, especially when it's modded to look this good, I wish for a remaster, or better yet, a from the ground up remake, built for modern technology. So much of that game's charm and beauty was from its story, characters, and overall design, but to a lot of modern gamers, all of that is lost due to the "bad graphics" (Which were really good for the time). Fantastic Video!

[cameronmyron]

Not sure if there is any lore to combat this theory, but it seems like the player is the godhead (or maybe the developers). It is the player that starts the game and plays, which causes the events to happen. The game state is the state of the player’s dream. When NPCs achieve chim they try to trick us into believing they hold the power over us when they really don’t (power of our choices, turn off the game, restart the game, use cheats, etc.)

[brandonguffey]

The multiplayer server i am on repurposed the pool of forgetfulness to reset your skills at 100 to 15 so that you can continue leveling without having to go to jail over and over again.