Tembriel Playthrough

Tembriel
Playthrough Info
Game Morrowind
Race Bosmer
Playthrough Dates August 2022, in progress
Platform PC, Steam Deck
Language English

This page is for my first Morrowind playthrough, begun on 8/7/2022, mostly by way of casually poking around the game to see if I could start learning a bit about it before diving into it for real. I decided to play a Wood Elf named Tembriel, just to keep the same spirit of how my first Skyrim character had also been a Wood Elf!

Goals for this playthrough: real simple. This is my first Morrowind playthrough, and while I know the broad strokes of the plot, I don’t know the details of how to get there or much about the mechanics of the game. So I’m going in with the assumption that I’m going to try to play the same character type I like the most in Skyrim: somebody inclined to archery, stealth, and magic. We’ll see what happens!

Like my Skyrim character Alarrah, Tembriel is named for a character in my Rebels of Adalonia books, Valor of the Healer, Vengeance of the Hunter, and Victory of the Hawk.

Tembriel’s Backstory

I am extremely new to Morrowind, and I’ve been deliberately avoiding trying to read up too much on the UESP wiki, to try to preserve some element of surprise! But what I can piece together about this character’s background comes at least right out of the introduction text that shows up at the start of the game: I’m “a prisoner born on a certain day to uncertain parents”. (I shall ignore the part where the introduction text also says I’m a “he”.)

And Tembriel’s transferred without explanation to a carriage and then a boat, and sent to Morrowind. So this says she clearly did something to piss off the Empire and get myself thrown into prison! She’s a Bosmer, and young and foolish, so let’s say she probably got caught trying to pull off a little light thievery.

So now she’s been sent off to Morrowind and not told a goddamn thing about why she’s there. And they’re releasing her here? Da hell? Well, probably beats being in prison…?

Playthrough Posts

Here are all of Tembriel’s playthrough posts! These are listed in descending chronological order. Note the pagination controls; you can use those to page through to subsequent posts.

You can also browse Tembriel’s posts via her playthrough category link.

  • In Which Tembriel is Not the Nerevarine–Yet - 11/11/2022
    In which Tembriel recovers the Bonebiter Bow from the Urshilaku Burial Caverns; is proclaimed Clanfriend by the Ashlanders; and advised that she is not the Nerevarine, but could _become_ the Nerevarine; and receives orders to wipe out a Sixth House base.
  • In Which Tembriel Does Not Let the Burial Caverns Daunt Her - 11/06/2022
    In which Tembriel does yet more training, and additional strikes on the Urshilaku Burial Caverns, which allow her to claim more valuable loot from the place in her quest to make it to the bow the Ashlanders wish her to retrieve.
  • In Which Tembriel is Stymied by Forgetting to Save - 11/04/2022
    In which Tembriel takes another run at the Urshilaku Burial Caverns, only for her player to be stymied by forgetting to save her game properly--causing multiple rollbacks. AUGH.
  • In Which Tembriel Tries the Burial Cavern Again - 11/03/2022
    In which Tembriel trains heavily at the Mages Guild; and in which she ventures once more to the Urshilaku Burial Caverns, this time getting farther in and finding the first of the treasures hidden within.
  • In Which Tembriel Fights Orcs at a Daedric Shrine - 10/10/2022
    In which Tembriel discovers the Guildmaster of the Mages Guild has a very suspicious advisor, and reports on that back to Ranis; and in which she takes out troublesome orcs at a Daedric shrine for the Fighters Guild.

Screenshots

Tembriel’s screenshot album can be found on the Tembriel Screenshots page.