Tembriel Playthrough
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| 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 Investigates a Murder and Acquires a Code Book - 08/21/2022In which Tembriel investigates the murder of a taxman in Seyda Neen; acquires a code book for the Fighters Guild, and a book and a potion for the Mages Guild; and begins investigating stealing a formula in Vivec.
- In Which Tembriel Hunts Smugglers for the Fighters Guild - 08/20/2022In which Tember slays rogue Telvanni agents smuggling out of the mine in Caldera; and in which she helps shopkeepers in Ald'ruhn recover wares from a deadbeat client.
- In Which Tembriel Learns to Hold Her Own - 08/17/2022In which Tembriel joins both the Fighters Guild and House Hlaalu, and runs tasks for each; defeats a Dark Brotherhood assassin sent to kill her; and returns to deliver retribution to the fire mage smuggler in Addamasartus.
- In Which Tembriel Falls Down a Lot and Dies - 08/16/2022In which Tembriel journeys back and forth between Balmora and Seyda Neen, looking for work, and valiantly struggling to stay alive; and in which she finally levels up to Level 2.
- In Which Tembriel Goes Looking for Mushrooms and Flowers - 08/13/2022In which Tembriel ventures through the countryside in search of mushrooms and flowers for Ajira of the Mages Guild; and in which she aids a pilgrim in finding a shrine.