the following is written by Jo from CopyHackers.com – she is awesome.
I dreaded giving my talk at ConversionXL Live this spring.
It was about how we use voice-of-customer data to write copy.
And it was… well… not the kinda thing you expect crowds to care about. I mean, I basically said what I always say…
((which i realize is a terrible hook for an email, and you deserve major props for still reading))
…which is that great conversion copywriters are super-duper lazy. We just take everything interesting that customers and clients say. Drop it into a copywriting framework we stole from some long-deceased copywriter. And then make it sound better by pushing the headlines and crossheads we didn’t even write into formulas we stole from some long-deceased copywriter. So basically:
Step One: don’t think.
Step Two: be lazy.
Step Three: stop trying to write.
So I’m up on stage in front of some of the world’s brightest marketers, analysts and CROs, and I’m talking about how 90% of the work I do is totally swiped from other sources.
To make matters worse, I later had to HEAR FROM ATTENDEES what they thought about my talk… because conferences solicit feedback these days. Which has me like: And what did they have to say about my talk? THIS:
“So vindicating to hear [copywriting is] not all secret sauce! Yes, there’s copywriting frameworks and principles, but no magic behind it – just the VOC.”
“I know we should add more ways to get the voice of the customer into our pages and pages of content, and I hope to use her techniques.”
“My big takeaway was how little time is spent copywriting and how most of that time goes into understanding customers to know how to resonate with them.”
And:
“This talk was one of the best out of the whole conference! Joanna’s explanations of how she and her team work through writing conversion copy were very easy to follow and I was able to see myself being able to apply those same practices to my role and CRO processes. Copy and conveying the right message is a very important part of my job and finding the right words to say that will increase CVR is not always easy. Joanna’s methods will surely come in handy as we move forward.”
So I’m like, hmmmmm….
Now that marketers know they SHOULD use VOC in their copy, the next step seems to be the obvious one:
Show them HOW.
That’s what the CXL Live audience liked about my talk. Seeing HOW.
And perhaps that’s what you’ll like, too.
Because we’ve got a live tutorial for you TOMORROW on exactly how we outline copy using voice-of-customer data. My head of research Hannah is going to show you how we:
Yank the most useful VOC outta our research filesGroup like-quotes into themes and argumentsPop ’em into the best framework, making it quick ‘n’ painless for our copywriters to turn a voc-outline into a first draftSweep final copy to “shove in” more VOC This is gonna be a live 20-min tutorial. That’s less time than 99% of marketers waste clicking through their emails each morning. Just show up, take quick notes and get back to work – where you can start applying this stuff immediately.
The tutorial starts at 9am PT / noon ET.
If you’re not already registered for Tutorial Tuesdays:
Back then I was co-founder and CEO of Cif2.net and was mostly interested in networking with people at the event. However, something amazing happened. We found ways to actually get people involved in this.
We started a cause on causes.com about supporting culture and over years it gathered over 4,000 people.
Even though we did manage to create the platform after the event: first custom code, then a BuddyPress spin-off; we decided none of us really had enough time to pursue this.
6 published authors decided to join our circle and many other amateur writers and beginners.
Having 4000 people to read their work would have been amazing.
LiteraryAwesome was the name and back then we owned literaryawesome.com
I had notes written about this on my blog in 2012:
Just found my Morrowind Journal today and decided to post it. Man, that was such a great adventure. No other videogame ever got me so hooked.
17 Last Seed (Day 1) My @orders# are to go to the town of @Balmora# in @Vvardenfell District# and report to a man named @Caius Cosades#. To find out where he lives, I should ask in @Balmora# at the cornerclub called @South Wall#. When I find @Caius Cosades#, I must give him a package of documents, and wait for further @orders#.
17 Last Seed (Day 1) I have met a @Bosmer# named Fargoth who claims the @Imperial#s have stolen a @ring# of his. He would like it back.
17 Last Seed (Day 1) Hrisskar Flat-Foot asked me to do him a @favor#. He believes that Fargoth has been hiding money from the @Imperial#s, and he’d like to know where it’s gone. If I will @work# for him, he will give me a share of the @bounty#.
17 Last Seed (Day 1) I’ve agreed to help Hrisskar find the money that Fargoth has been hiding away. I am supposed to keep an eye on him from atop the lighthouse in town, and watch where he goes. Hrisskar believes I should watch him at night. I’m not supposed to approach him at any time. I should then retrace his footsteps and find out where he’s hidden the money. When I’ve found it, I should report back to Hrisskar.
17 Last Seed (Day 1) @Elone# at Arrille’s Tradehouse gave me detailed directions to @Balmora#.
28 Last Seed (Day 12) I’ve found Fargoth’s hidden stash. He keeps it in a hollow treestump in a @muck# pond in town.
29 Last Seed (Day 13) While on the road northwest of @Pelagiad#, I met a beautiful young @Breton# woman, @Maurrie Aurmine#, who seemed distressed after being attacked by a bandit.
29 Last Seed (Day 13) It seems this young woman is not as distressed as I thought she was…or at least not for the reasons I thought she was. It seems that although this bandit, @Nelos Onmar#, has stolen her @jewels# and her gold, he has also stolen her heart. Foolish girl.
29 Last Seed (Day 13) Maurrie has asked me to track down this Nelos, and to deliver to him her glove as a token of her affection. It seems a silly task, as she offers no @reward#, and asks me to do this simply for the sake of love.
This Morrowind Journal will get an update soon.
29 Last Seed (Day 13) I have agreed to try and find the bandit @Nelos Onmar#, and to deliver the glove of this young @Breton# woman. She believes he is in @Pelagiad#, so perhaps I can find more out about him there. I fear for her heart, for these outlaws care nothing for others, only for the booty they can obtain.
30 Last Seed (Day 14) A @patron# of the @South Wall# cornerclub called @Caius Cosades# “an old sugar tooth,” and says to ask the owner, @Bacola Closcius#, about @Caius Cosades#.
30 Last Seed (Day 14) @Bacola Closcius# says @Caius Cosades# rents a little bed-and-basket up the hill from the @South Wall#. Go right up the stairs from the front door, then left at the top of the stairs and down to the end of the street.
30 Last Seed (Day 14) I have given @Caius Cosades# the package of documents. And, by the Emperor’s command, @Caius Cosades# has inducted me into the @Blades#, the @Imperial# @Intelligence# service, with the rank of Novice. @Caius Cosades# will be my Spymaster, and I’ll follow his @orders#.
30 Last Seed (Day 14) Spymaster @Caius Cosades# suggested I maintain a cover identity as a freelance adventurer, just to avoid drawing unwanted attention. And he says he has @orders# for me, whenever I’m ready.
30 Last Seed (Day 14) The Spymaster has sent me to @talk# to @Hasphat Antabolis# at the @Balmora Fighters Guild#. I’m to ask him what he knows about the @Nerevarine# secret cult and the @Sixth House# secret cult, and return to report to the Spymaster. First I’ll have to do some @favor# for Antabolis, then he’ll give me the information that the Spymaster wants.
31 Last Seed (Day 15) @Eydis Fire-Eye# told me to @talk# to Drarayne Thelas about some @rat#s that have infested her house. Her house is here in @Balmora#, on the east side of town, near the river.
31 Last Seed (Day 15) I @need# to do a @favor# for @Hasphat Antabolis# before he’ll tell me what I @need# to know. I’m to go to a @Dwemer# ruin nearby called @Arkngthand#. I’m supposed to find a little cube with a circular design and some symbols on one side. He called it a “@Dwemer puzzle box#’. When I bring the cube back to Antabolis, he’ll tell me what I @need# to know.
31 Last Seed (Day 15) Drarayne Thelas told me that she has one @rat# trapped in her bedroom and there are others in her storage area upstairs. She has given me the key to get in. I should find and kill all of the @rat#s and return to her when I’m done.
31 Last Seed (Day 15) Drarayne Thelas thanked me for getting rid of the @rat#s and paid me 100 gold.
31 Last Seed (Day 15) I reported to @Eydis Fire-Eye# that I had killed the @rat#s plaguing Drarayne Thelas.
31 Last Seed (Day 15) Sevilo Othan and Daynila Valas, former egg miners and local troublemakers, are poaching eggs from @Shulk Egg Mine#. Report back to Eydis when they’re dead.
31 Last Seed (Day 15) @Eydis Fire-Eye# tells me that the @eggmine# is located a short distance southwest of @Balmora#, in the bluffs west of the @Odai# River. The old suspension bridge across the @Odai# is just southeast of the mine entrance. I’m to follow the river south of @Balmora# until I see the bridge overhead.
1 Heartfire (Day 16) I reported taking care of the @egg poachers# at @Shulk Egg mine#, and @Eydis Fire-Eye# paid me 100 gold, and gave me some extra @potions#.
1 Heartfire (Day 16) I’m to find and kill four @Telvanni agents# responsible for @thefts and disappearances# at the @Caldera# Mine. Their names are @Alynu Aralen#, @Sathasa Nerothren#, @Fothyna Herothran#, and @Alveleg#. They’re hiding in a cave in the hills north of @Caldera# Mine, and they probably have a lookout posted outside the mine. When the four agents are dead, report back to @Eydis Fire-Eye#.
Morrowind Journal Continues
2 Heartfire (Day 17) @Hlormar# Wine-Sot spun quite an interesting yarn for me to hear. He claims to have been seduced by a witch, who then cast a spell on him while he was asleep, took everything he had including his prized @enchant#ed @axe# @Cloudcleaver#, and left him by the road for the amusement of passersby. He requests that I take him to find the witch and help retrieve his @axe#, in exchange for a @reward#.
2 Heartfire (Day 17) I have agreed to take on @Hlormar# Wine-Sot as a companion and aid in his search for the witch and his prized @axe# @Cloudcleaver#. He thinks he met her in a camp to the northwest, but admits he could be confused as to the direction from the spell.
2 Heartfire (Day 17) I met an @orc# in the woods north of @Caldera# named Bugrol. Seems he’s on the run from the town @guard#s, or townbosses, as he calls them.
2 Heartfire (Day 17) Bugrol wants me to deliver a note he gave me to his friend Bashuk gra-Bat in @Caldera#. He promises me a @present# if I do so. I can only imagine what that might be.
2 Heartfire (Day 17) Delivered Bugrol’s note to Bashuk in @Caldera#. Quite a pair these two are.
2 Heartfire (Day 17) Sosia Caristiana refuses to give back his property immediately but will meet him in three days at the @Caldera# Mage Guild and return everything then.
2 Heartfire (Day 17) @Hlormar# Wine-Sot was not pleased in the least to hear that he could not have his items back immediately, and demanded that I choose a side. I have chosen to side with @Hlormar#.
2 Heartfire (Day 17) @Hlormar# was so pleased to get his @axe# back that he offered to give me a few pointers to make me stronger in battle. It is great to see such a beautiful @axe# back to its rightful owner.
3 Heartfire (Day 18) Bashuk gra-Bat gave me a note to bring back to Bugrol, assuming the little coward hasn’t run off somewhere. This is so demeaning.
3 Heartfire (Day 18) I reported killing the @Telvanni agents#, and @Eydis Fire-Eye# paid me 400 gold.
3 Heartfire (Day 18) @Eydis Fire-Eye# asked me to get a @code book# from @Sottilde# at the @South Wall# in @Balmora#.
4 Heartfire (Day 19) @Eydis Fire-Eye# thanked me for returning the @code book# and paid me 50 gold.
4 Heartfire (Day 19) @Eydis Fire-Eye# told me that Helviane Desele in @Suran# owes Manos Othreleth 200 gold. I must get this @debt money# from Desele and return it to @Eydis Fire-Eye#.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) I found the @Dwemer puzzle box# @Hasphat Antabolis# told me to find. Now I’ll take it to him, and in return, he’ll tell me what I @need# to know about the @Nerevarine# secret cult and the @Sixth House# secret cult.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) I gave @Hasphat Antabolis# the @Dwemer puzzle box#, and now he says he’ll tell me what I @need# to know about the @Nerevarine# secret cult and the @Sixth House# secret cult. He also said the inscriptions on the box seem to be the directions for setting a @Dwemer# key to open a specific lock. When I’ve delivered my report to Caius, he said come back, and maybe he’ll have a key I can take back to @Arkngthand#.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) There’s a rumor that the Legion Champion, @Larrius Varro#, over at @Fort Moonmoth# wants to @talk# to me about an unspecified subject.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) Caius says one of the @Blades# under his command, Nightblade @Gildan#, lives in @Ald’ruhn#, the Redoran district seat north of @Balmora#, beyond @Caldera#. @Gildan# lives in the southeast corner of town, in a house to the right of the steps up to the @temple#.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) When I asked about @Morrowind history#, @Caius Cosades# gave me a copy of ‘A Short History of @Morrowind#’, and suggested I look for a copy of ‘On @Morrowind#, the @Imperial# Province’, by Erramanwe of Sunhold.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) Caius says one of the @Blades# under his command, @Healer# @Tyermaillin#, lives two houses south from Caius’ house, downstairs.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) Caius says one of the @Blades# under his command, Mage @Surane Leoriane#, is in @Caldera#, the next town north. Her half-timber-and-stone house north sits between the twin towers of the North Gate and the Governor’s Hall.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) Caius says one of the @Blades# under his command, Master-at-Arms @Sjorvar Horse-Mouth#, lives in a @guar# herder’s hut in the middle of nowhere west of @Caldera#. Caius couldn’t give me good directions.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) Caius says one of the @Blades# under his command, Warrior @Rithleen#, lives two houses south of Caius’ house, upstairs.
this is not all. My Morrowind Journal is only in 1st month.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) Caius says that to reach Hunter @Nine-Toes#, one of the @Blades# under Caius’ command, leave Caius’ door facing south. Go right, down the steps, then turn left and head south, looking for @Nine-Toes#’ door on the left.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) @Larrius Varro#, says he has a ‘@nice present# from the Emperor.’ He says it is supposed to be ‘a surprise.’ He says he doesn’t know where it is, but that I should check back later to see if he has found it. After I have done some things. It sounds like he has some sort of payment for me if I make ‘@bad people#’ ‘go away.’
15 Heartfire (Day 30) The Legion Champion, @Larrius Varro#, at @Fort Moonmoth# told me a @little story#. He didn’t come right out and say it, but he suggests that some ‘@bad people#’ are bribing a ‘bad magistrate’ to fix sentences and crimes for criminals. The General also suggests making these ‘@bad people#’ go away might require a ‘@bloodbath#.’ I think he wants ME to provide the @bloodbath#.
15 Heartfire (Day 30) The ‘@bad people#’ that @Larrius Varro# wants to ‘go away’ are five members of the @Camonna Tong#. Varro doesn’t know their names, but he knows they are a scout, a pawnbroker, a savant, a thief, and a smith, and that they are in @Balmora#. It seems that Varro wants me to find the names of these ‘@bad people#’ and make them ‘go away.’ In a @bloodbath#.
16 Heartfire (Day 31) @Hasphat Antabolis# gave me notes on the @Sixth House# to deliver to @Caius Cosades#.
16 Heartfire (Day 31) I gave @Caius Cosades# the notes from @Hasphat Antabolis#, and Caius seemed well-enough pleased with them. However, now he has something else for me to do.
16 Heartfire (Day 31) The Spymaster told me to get @Sharn gra-Muzgob# at the @Balmora Mages Guild# to tell me about the @Nerevarine#, and then report back to him. I’ll have to do a little “@errand#” for her first, he says. I’m beginning to see a pattern here. @Rat#her than pay informants with hard cash, @Caius Cosades# trades @favor#s for information. And as the new recruit in the organization, I provide the @favor#s. Ah, well. A lesson in humility.
16 Heartfire (Day 31) I had a disturbing dream. I can only recall one part. A tall figure with a golden mask led me among the dead as through a wedding celebration. I heard many voices, but no lips moved. I strained to breathe, but my chest didn’t move. The tall figure spoke with each figure as he passed among them, laughing and joking, as if they were alive, but they made no reply. I tried to cry out, but without breath, my tongue fluttered in vain.
16 Heartfire (Day 31) @Sharn gra-Muzgob# will provide the information on the @Nerevarine# that the Spymaster wants after I’ve done a little @errand# for her. She wants me to retrieve the skull of @Llevule Andrano# from @Andrano Ancestral Tomb#. She mentioned @Dunmer# prejudices against @necromancy#, and warned me not to upset the natives.
16 Heartfire (Day 31) @Sharn gra-Muzgob# says that @Andrano Ancestral Tomb# is south of @Pelagiad#, just off the road, just before the fork where the road goes southwest towards @Seyda Neen# and southeast to @Vivec#. She gave me an @enchant#ed blade and some @scroll#s, because she says some spirits are immune to normal weapons.
16 Heartfire (Day 31) I met a dark elf named Edras Oril, hiding among some trees. It seems he was trapped there by some @kagouti# when he and his friend were separated.
16 Heartfire (Day 31) Edras Oril would like me to help him get back to his friend, Thoronor. He won’t budge if there’s a chance the @kagouti# can still get him, though.
16 Heartfire (Day 31) In order to @sneak# Edras Oril by the @kagouti#, I’ve cast a spell on him that should make him unnoticeable to the @kagouti#. Hopefully, we’ll be able to @sneak# by without attracting too much attention.
17 Heartfire (Day 32) I met an @Argonian# on the road near Bal Ur named Tul. He has no armor and no weapons I can see, and he desires my help.
17 Heartfire (Day 32) It seems Tul is an @escape#d @slave# from the @Dren Plantation#. He would like help getting to a nearby abolitionist wayhouse he has heard rumors of. He does not know the location of this place, and would like my help finding it. I have no knowledge of any @abolitionists# in the area, but that doesn’t mean one does not exist. It could be difficult to find, though, although he seems to believe the person is a @Redguard# and nearby.
17 Heartfire (Day 32) I have decided not to try and help Tul find the abolitionist. I have no desire to become involved in this.
17 Heartfire (Day 32) I’ve been able to @escort# Edras Oril back to where I found Thoronor.
17 Heartfire (Day 32) I was able to reunite Edras Oril and Thoronor. Hopefully, these two pilgrims will be able to continue on their journey now. Hopefully, they’ll stick together from now on. They’ve given me an amulet for my troubles that they say is @enchant#ed.
18 Heartfire (Day 33) I delivered the skull @Sharn gra-Muzgob# asked for, and she’s agreed to tell me about the @Nerevarine# as the Spymaster requested.
18 Heartfire (Day 33) @Sharn gra-Muzgob# told me about the @Nerevarine cult#, and gave me some notes to give the Spymaster. Now I should return and report, and give him these notes.
18 Heartfire (Day 33) @Eydis Fire-Eye# gave me my share of the @debt money#.
18 Heartfire (Day 33) @Eydis Fire-Eye# told me she has a 250 gold @bounty# on the @Orc# @Dura gra-Bol# who lives in @Balmora#.
18 Heartfire (Day 33) @Eydis Fire-Eye# paid me 250 gold for the contract on @Dura gra-Bol#.
18 Heartfire (Day 33) The Spymaster seemed happy with the notes I gave him on the @Nerevarine# from @Sharn gra-Muzgob#. He said he’d like some time to think how the information fits in with the Emperor’s @plan#s for me. So if I want, I have some time to do a little freelance adventuring. But whenever I’m ready, Caius says he’ll have new @orders# for me.
18 Heartfire (Day 33) The Spymaster promoted me to Apprentice Rank in the @Blades#. He seems pleased with me, because he also gave me a little @present#.
18 Heartfire (Day 33) Caius sent me to @Vivec# with three tasks: speak with @Addhiranirr#, a @Khajiit# @Thieves Guild# operative in St. Olms; speak with @Huleeya#, an @Argonian# in the @Foreign Quarter#, at the Black @Shalk# Cornerclub; and speak with @Mehra Milo#, a @Temple# priestess at the @Hall of Wisdom# in the @Temple Compound#. When I have information about the @Nerevarine cult# and the @Sixth House cult# from these three, I report back to Caius. Caius gave me instructions in @writ#ing.
19 Heartfire (Day 34) I found @Huleeya#, but we can’t @talk# at the Black @Shalk# Cornerclub because some @troublesome fools# are bothering him. He says he’ll answer my @questions# if I’ll @travel together# with him to @Jobasha’s Rare Books#.
19 Heartfire (Day 34) @Huleeya# will follow me to @Jobasha’s Rare Books#. There he will answer my @questions#.
19 Heartfire (Day 34) @Huleeya# has followed me to @Jobasha’s Rare Books#. He says he’ll answer my @questions# here where we can @talk# in peace.
19 Heartfire (Day 34) @Huleeya# hadn’t heard of a @Sixth House cult#, but he knew a lot about the @Nerevarine cult#. He gave me notes to give to Caius. The main thing I gathered is that the @Temple#’s conflict with the @Nerevarine cult# is tied up with ancient grievances between the @Ashlanders# and the @Great Houses#.
19 Heartfire (Day 34) I have read “The Pilgrim’s Path” and marked the location of each shrine on my map.
20 Heartfire (Day 35) While in the St. Olms area of @Vivec#, I heard rumors about a woman whose husband has been missing for days. The woman’s name is @Moroni Uvelas#.
20 Heartfire (Day 35) I found @Mehra Milo# at the @Hall of Wisdom#, but she says she cannot @talk# with me. She must feel she is being watched. She says to meet with me in the back of the library.
20 Heartfire (Day 35) I found @Mehra Milo# in the back of the library. She says she knows nothing about the @Sixth House#, but she is willing to answer my @questions# about the @Nerevarine cult#.
20 Heartfire (Day 35) @Mehra Milo# says the @Temple# persecutes the @Nerevarine cult# because they claim the @Tribunal# are @false gods#. A group called the @Dissident priests# disputes @Temple# doctrine on the @Nerevarine prophecies#. A book “@Progress of Truth#” describes the beliefs of the @Dissident priests#. @Mehra Milo# says I must get a copy of ‘@Progress of Truth#’ to give to the Spymaster.
20 Heartfire (Day 35) @Mehra Milo# says copies of ‘@Progress of Truth#’ can be found in the secret libraries of the @Hall of Wisdom#, but that they are @guard#ed. She says it will be safer to search booksellers for a copy. She says some booksellers will sell outlawed books.
20 Heartfire (Day 35) @Addhiranirr# will be hiding in the @underworks# while the @Census and Excise agent# is in the area.
20 Heartfire (Day 35) @Addhiranirr# was too concerned about the @Census and Excise agent# to answer @questions# for the Spymaster. Maybe I can do something to get rid of him.
21 Heartfire (Day 36) When I told the @Census and Excise agent# that @Addhiranirr# took a gondola to the mainland, he said he was heading back to the mainland anyway, and would look for her there. Maybe @Addhiranirr# will be grateful that I’ve gotten rid of him for her.
21 Heartfire (Day 36) @Addhiranirr# was pleased that I’d taken care of the @Census and Excise agent# she’d been worrying about, and now she’s ready to answer my @questions# on the @Nerevarine cult# and the @Sixth House cult#.
21 Heartfire (Day 36) @Addhiranirr# says that some smugglers are now @work#ing for the @Sixth House#, but @Addhiranirr# couldn’t find out what they are @smuggling#. @Addhiranirr# thought it was strange that smugglers who usually brag about their @smuggling# are @sud#denly being very quiet about what they smuggle for the @Sixth House#. I wonder what is being smuggled, and why it is such a big secret. I think this is the sort of thing @Caius Cosades# is looking for.
21 Heartfire (Day 36) I spoke with one who called himself a “Sleeper.” He called me by name, and said, “You cannot deny your Lord, @Dagoth Ur#. The @Sixth House# is risen, and Dagoth is its glory.” He made no sense at all. I think he must have been mad.
21 Heartfire (Day 36) @Balen Andrano# has asked me to do a job for him. He would like me to place the bone of a dead @Dwemer# in the shop of one of his rivals, the @Redguard# @trader# @Jeanne#. He claims that it will be a bad @luck# totem for the more prosperous merchant.
21 Heartfire (Day 36) I have decided not to help @Balen Andrano#.
21 Heartfire (Day 36) In my dream, a tall figure with a golden mask greeted me, saying, “There are many rooms in the house of the Master. Be easy, for from the hands of your enemies I have delivered you.” It seemed I had died and could see myself laid upon a table lit by candles. But with my own hands I touched the figure, and the figure drew breath, opened eyes, and rose from the table. Then the room was gone, and the world filled with light, and I awoke.
21 Heartfire (Day 36) I dreamed that a tall figure with a golden mask spoke to me, but I understood not a word. He smiled, and seemed pleasant, but when he reached to touch me, it terrified me, and I tried to @escape#, but I couldn’t move. I tried to cry out, but I couldn’t make a sound. The figure kept smiling and @talk#ing, but I felt sure he was trying to cast some sort of spell on me. When I woke, I couldn’t recall how the dream ended.
23 Heartfire (Day 38) @Edryno Arethi# wants me to deliver @sealed orders# to Treasurer Baren Alen in the Hlaalu Vaults in @Vivec#. The vaults are part of the treasury, which is in the top level of the Hlaalu Waistworks on the north side.
23 Heartfire (Day 38) I delivered the @sealed orders# to Baren Alen.
23 Heartfire (Day 38) @Edryno Arethi# thanked me for delivering the @sealed orders#.
23 Heartfire (Day 38) @Edryno Arethi# told me that @Murudius Flaeus# owes a Hlaalu noble over 800 gold. I must get the 800 gold from @Murudius Flaeus# in @Hla Oad# and return it to @Edryno Arethi#.
23 Heartfire (Day 38) I’ve spoken to Miun-Gei about the person outside his shop disrupting @business#. He claims the man is hawking ridiculous items, and generally annoying his customers. Since he technically isn’t doing anything illegal, there is no way to get rid of him, but Miun-Gei would like him gone.
23 Heartfire (Day 38) I’ve decided not to deal with the actor bothering Miun-Gei.
23 Heartfire (Day 38) After speaking to Marcel Maurard, I’ve found that he is an aspiring actor, who is trying to make money to fund his craft. He refuses to leave, since it is the only way he has found to make any cash, at least until he can find a part in a play.
23 Heartfire (Day 38) Two @Ordinators# and five @outlander#s have been killed in @Vivec#, their throats slit. The rumor is that the Office of the Watch at the @Hall of Justice# is very concerned, and is looking for special help.
23 Heartfire (Day 38) The Spymaster took my report, and the notes from @Huleeya# and the ‘@Progress of Truth#.’ He @need#s time to read and digest my report, but in the meantime, he gave me 200 gold to spend and told me to go out and get some guild or freelance @jobs#, or get some @training#. When I’m ready, he says to come back, and he’ll have new @orders# for me.
24 Heartfire (Day 39) @Larrius Varro# says that everything has been taken care of. I assume he is referring to the deaths of Vadusa Sathryon, @Mara#sa Aren, Medrale Thirith, Sovor Trandrel, and Thanelen Velas of the @Camonna Tong#. He then gave me a @ring# he called the ‘@nice present# from the Emperor.’ He also gave me a book in recognition of my exceptional discretion.
2 Frost Fall (Day 48) The Spymaster has sent me to see a fellow named @Hassour Zainsubani#, an Ashlander who left the Wastes to become a wealthy @trader# in @Ald’ruhn#. He gave me 100 gold and told me to find out what Zainsubani likes, and get him a gift. Then I’m to give him the gift, and ask him to tell me about the @Ashlanders# and the @Nerevarine cult#. When I have the information, I’m to report back to the Spymaster.
2 Frost Fall (Day 48) @Hassour Zainsubani# says that among the @Ashlanders# a @thoughtful gift# shows respect and knowledge of the one who is to receive the gift. Fortunately… or perhaps by @courtesy# or design… @Hassour Zainsubani# has mentioned that he loves poetry. Then a book of poetry would be a perfect gift for him. Perhaps a bookseller, merchant, or pawnshop nearby may have such a thing.
2 Frost Fall (Day 48) As a gift, I gave @Hassour Zainsubani# a copy of “Ashland Hymns.” He seemed surprised and pleased. He thanked me and offered in return to answer my @questions# about the @Ashlanders# and the @Nerevarine cult#.
2 Frost Fall (Day 48) @Hassour Zainsubani# gave me some notes where he has @writ#ten what he thinks I @need# to know about the @Ashlanders# and the @Nerevarine cult#. These notes will satisfy the Spymaster. But @Hassour Zainsubani# invited me to ask any @questions# I wish, and perhaps I can learn some other useful information from speaking with him.
2 Frost Fall (Day 48) Caius promoted me to Apprentice rank in the @Blades#, and gave me the Emperor’s @secret order#s and told me to read them. The Emperor thinks the @Nerevarine prophecies# are genuine, and that I may be the @Nerevarine#. I’m being sent to the @Urshilaku Camp# to speak with the heads of the @Nerevarine cult#, Sul-Matuul and Nibani Maesa. I’ll tell them @my story#, and tell them to test me against the @Nerevarine prophecies#, then report back to Caius.
3 Frost Fall (Day 49) Crulius Pontanian gave me a selection of @scroll#s.
3 Frost Fall (Day 49) Somutis Vunnis gave me a selection of @potions#.
3 Frost Fall (Day 49) Nuleno Tedas gave me directions to @Urshilaku camp#. The camp is due north from @Maar Gan#, but high ridges lie in the way. Follow @Foyada# Bani-Dad, a deep ravine just north of @Maar Gan#, northwest to the sea. A shipwreck at the seamouth of the ravine is a landmark. Swim east around the headland. Pass east through the ruins of Assurnabitashpi Shrine. @Urshilaku Camp# lies east of the ruins, inland in a low hollow.
3 Frost Fall (Day 49) I have persuaded Zabamund that I must speak to Sul-Matuul. Now I must go to the ashkhan’s yurt and tell Sul-Matuul that Zabamund has sent me.
3 Frost Fall (Day 49) Sul-Matuul has sent me to the @Urshilaku Burial Caverns# to fetch Sul-Senipul’s Bonebiter Bow. Sul-Senipul was Sul-Matuul’s father, and his spirit @guard#s this bonemold @long bow# deep in the burial caverns. If I return to Sul-Matuul with this bow, he will adopt me into the @Urshilaku# tribe as a @Clanfriend#. And then Sul-Matuul will send me to the wise woman, Nibani Maesa, to be tested against the @Nerevarine prophecies#.
3 Frost Fall (Day 49) I must go to @Urshilaku Burial Caverns# to retrieve Bonebiter, the bonemold @long bow# of Sul-Matuul’s ancestor, Sul-Senipul. Sul-Matuul says that the @Urshilaku Burial Caverns# lie to the south-southeast of @Urshilaku camp#, halfway between the camp and the slopes of @Red Mountain#. He warns me that Ashlander ancestral spirits @guard# these burial chambers.
9 Frost Fall (Day 55) I completed the @initiation rite# by bringing Sul-Senipul’s Bonebiter Bow to Sul-Matuul. He has named me a @Clanfriend# of the @Ashlanders# He has also given me permission to go to the wise woman’s yurt and speak with Nibani Maesa, who will examine me and test me against the @Nerevarine prophecies#.
9 Frost Fall (Day 55) Nibani Maesa says I am not the @Nerevarine#, but I may become the @Nerevarine#. It seems she is willing to @help me# unravel the @Nerevarine prophecies# and my part in them. She tells me to seek the @lost prophecies# among the @Dissident priests# of the @Temple#. If I bring these @lost prophecies# to her, she will be my guide. And she gave me copies of the @Nerevarine prophecies# called ‘@The Stranger#’ and ‘@The Seven Visions#’. Now it’s time to report back to Caius.
9 Frost Fall (Day 55) The wise women know that some @Nerevarine prophecies# have been lost. But the @Dissident Priests# of the @Temple# study the Ashlander @Nerevarine prophecies#, and record them in books. Perhaps the @lost prophecies# can be found there. Nibani Maesa has asked me to go to the @Dissident Priests#, get them to show me the books, and to tell her what I find there. This sounds like something to mention to Caius. Maybe he’ll know how to contact the @Dissident Priests#.
10 Frost Fall (Day 56) The Spymaster has sent me to find a @Sixth House base# near @Gnaar Mok#. There I must kill a @Sixth House# priest named Dagoth Gares, and bring the Spymaster a full report on the @Sixth House base#. But first I @need# to speak to Raesa Pullia, the Champion of @Fort Buckmoth#. She’ll tell me about the patrol that found the base, and how to find it.
10 Frost Fall (Day 56) The Spymaster says a patrol found a @Sixth House base# in a cave the locals call @Ilunibi#. However, the one trooper who @escape#d to report died of @corprus disease#. Before he died, the trooper encountered monsters, cultists, and a powerful @Sixth House# priest called Dagoth Gares. The Spymaster says to go @talk# to Raesa Pullia, Champion of @Fort Buckmoth#. She’ll give me the details.
10 Frost Fall (Day 56) I spoke with Raesa Pullia. The trooper who @escape#d died mad and disfigured with @corprus#. The cavern with the @Sixth House base# — @Ilunibi# — is not on the maps. I’ll ask in @Gnaar Mok# about @Ilunibi#. The patrol fought cultists, disfigured man-beasts, and a half-man creature named Dagoth Gares. Dagoth Gares killed all the patrol, but sent one survivor out with messages about awakened @sleepers# and Lord @Dagoth Ur#.
14 Frost Fall (Day 60) Dagoth Gares addressed me as if I were Lord @Nerevar#, giving me @Dagoth Ur#’s words. @Dagoth Ur# says @Nerevar# and he were friends and brothers, but that @Nerevar# struck @Dagoth Ur# down beneath @Red Mountain# while @Dagoth Ur# protected a treasure @Nerevar# had sworn @Dagoth Ur# to protect. Yet @Dagoth Ur# offers to forgive me and raise me high in his service. So @Dagoth Ur# thinks I’m Lord @Nerevar#. I wonder about their history together.
14 Frost Fall (Day 60) I have killed Dagoth Gares, as the Spymaster ordered. But with his dying breath, Dagoth Gares pronounced a curse on me, and now I have the @corprus disease#. He said I would come to @Dagoth Ur# ‘ in his flesh, and of his flesh’. I don’t feel any different, but the marks of the @disease# are plain on my face. I’ll have to return and report to the Spymaster on the @Sixth House base#, and hope he knows of some way to cure this @disease#.
14 Frost Fall (Day 60) The Spymaster promoted me to Traveler rank, but is very worried about my @Corprus disease#. My best chance of a cure is @Divayth Fyr#, an ancient Telvanni wizard who runs a @Corprusarium# for victims of the @disease#. With the @Dwemer artifact# and 1000 gold Caius gave me, I’ll go to @Tel Fyr# and persuade @Divayth Fyr# to cure my @corprus disease#. I must hurry back to the Spymaster when I’m cured, because Caius knows how to get the @lost prophecies# Nibani Maesa asked for.
14 Frost Fall (Day 60) Caius says @Tel Fyr#, @Divayth Fyr#’s tower, is southwest of @Sadrith Mora#, on an island on the southwestern edge of Zafirbel Bay. There’s no boat service, so I must water-walk or swim from @Sadrith Mora#. Use the @guild guide# at the @Mages Guild# to reach @Sadrith Mora#. Then, at Wolverine Hall, @Fighters Guild#, ask the scout Sondryn Irathi for detailed directions to @Tel Fyr#. Caius gave me levitation @potions#, since Telvanni wizards don’t use stairs.
15 Frost Fall (Day 61) I gave @Divayth Fyr# the @Dwemer artifact# the Spymaster gave me. It seems to have made a good impression on him.
15 Frost Fall (Day 61) @Divayth Fyr# says that the @corprus disease# makes you immune to other @disease#s, and that the @Nerevarine prophecies# say the @Nerevarine# will be immune to @disease#. Can it just be a coincidence?
15 Frost Fall (Day 61) @Divayth Fyr# has offered to give me a @potion# that may cure me of @corprus disease#. It might also @kill me#, but, as he says, I haven’t a better choice. All I have to do is go down into the @Corprusarium#, find a @corprus# victim named @Yagrum Bagarn#, collect a pair of boots from him, then return to @Divayth Fyr#, and he’ll give me the @potion#.
15 Frost Fall (Day 61) I have been warned by Vistha-Kai, @Warden# of the @Corprusarium#, not to harm the inmates of the @Corprusarium#.
15 Frost Fall (Day 61) @Yagrum Bagarn# gave me the @Dwemer boots# @Divayth Fyr# asked for. Now, when I deliver these boots to @Divayth Fyr#, he will give me the @potion# that I hope will cure my @corprus disease#.
15 Frost Fall (Day 61) I gave @Divayth Fyr# the @Dwemer boots# from @Yagrum Bagarn#, and he gave me the @potion#. It didn’t cure me. But it did remove all apparent signs of the @disease#. @Divayth Fyr# said he didn’t actually WANT to cure me. He just wanted to remove the harmful features of the @disease# while preserving its virtues. It @work#ed. And now @Divayth Fyr# is eager to test the @potion# on subjects in the @Corprusarium#. But I must hurry back to report to the Spymaster, and search for the @lost prophecies#.
15 Frost Fall (Day 61) Caius gave me some gold and a few things that ‘might come in handy.’ And I can use his house while he’s gone.
15 Frost Fall (Day 61) @Caius Cosades# was @recalled# to the @Imperial# City. He says he believes I am really the @Nerevarine#. He wants me to find the @lost prophecies# and deliver them to Nibani Maesa. His parting @orders# are to go to the @Hall of Wisdom# and @Justice#, where @Mehra Milo# will tell me how to get the @lost prophecies#. He says she’s being watched, and if something has gone wrong, she will leave me a message under the code word ‘amaya.’
16 Frost Fall (Day 62) I found a note addressed to ‘Amaya’ in @Mehra Milo#’s room. I think it means she’s in trouble, probably imprisoned in the @Ministry of Truth#. I’m to tell the @guard# at the entrance, Alvela Saram, that I’m looking for @Mehra Milo#, and she’ll let me in. Milo wants me to bring her two @Divine Intervention scrolls#. For an @escape# @plan#? She also left me two Levitation @potions#.
16 Frost Fall (Day 62) Alvela Saram gave me a key to the entrance to the @Ministry of Truth#. I’ll @need# keys for other doors inside; look for them in desks. She said there’s sympathy for the @Dissident priests# among the @Ordinators#, but if anyone gets killed getting her out, we’ll lose that sympathy.
16 Frost Fall (Day 62) I gave @Mehra Milo# a @Divine Intervention# @scroll#. She’ll meet me at @Holamayan#, a Dissident priest monastery, and we’ll get the @lost prophecies#. I’ll go to the East Docks in @Ebonheart#, find Blatta Hateria, tell her that @Mehra Milo# sent me, and that I want to ‘@go fishing#.’ She’ll bring me to @Holamayan# by boat. I must speak to Vevrana Aryon, a monk at the dock at @Holamayan#, about @Holamayan#’s magically hidden entrance.
16 Frost Fall (Day 62) Blatta Hateria is ready to take me to @Holamayan# any time I’m ready to travel. And she’ll offer that service any time I @need# it.
17 Frost Fall (Day 63) Vevrana Aryon, a monk of @Holamayan#, says I will find @Mehra Milo# in the monastery here, on this island. A stone pathway north from the docks leads uphill to the entrance to @Holamayan#, but the portal opens only at dusk and dawn, the magical twilight hours sacred to Azura. I will find @Mehra Milo# in the library with @Master Barelo#. Later, Vevrana Aryon can arrange for my @return to Vivec# whenever I am ready.
17 Frost Fall (Day 63) Gilvas Barelo gave me ‘@The Lost Prophecy#’ and ‘@The Seven Curses#’. ‘@The Lost Prophecy#’ says the @Nerevarine# is an @outlander#. That may surprise the @Ashlanders#, but it suggest that I might really be the @Nerevarine#. He also gave me a document based on the @Apographa# called ‘@Kagrenac’s Tools#’ which reveals the guilty secret behind the @Tribunal#’s divine powers. I must bring these @lost prophecies# to Nibani Maesa as soon as I can.
17 Frost Fall (Day 63) From the @Apographa#, Gilvas Barelo gave me a document called ‘@Kagrenac’s Tools#’. This document describes the terrible secret that the @Temple# conceals about the true history of the @Tribunal# and the corrupt nature of their divine powers. To hide this secret, the @Temple# persecutes the @Nerevarine# and the @Dissident Priests#. Barelo says the persecution must stop, and we must unite against the true enemy, @Dagoth Ur#.
17 Frost Fall (Day 63) Gilvas Barelo says that @Dagoth Ur# grows stronger while the @Tribunal# grows weaker. He sees the return of @Saint Nerevar#, even if it is only the ‘spirit’ of @Saint Nerevar#, as the best hope for salvation from @Dagoth Ur#’s menace.
17 Frost Fall (Day 63) Gilvas Barelo says that @faith# in the @Temple#’s protective power was strong as long as the @Ordinators#, @Buoyant Armigers#, and @Tribunal# could contain @the blight# and @Dagoth Ur#’s creatures within the @Ghostfence#. But now travelers and settlements suffer from @blight storms# and @mara#uding monsters, and the people fear the @Temple# is losing its ages-old battle with the Devil @Dagoth Ur#.
17 Frost Fall (Day 63) The Heirographa are the collected priestly @writ#ings of the @Temple#. The @Apographa# are the ‘hidden @writ#ings’ — secrets known only at the highest levels of priesthood and inquisition. The @Dissident priests# have gathered much of the @Apographa# in @Holamayan#. One of the chief disputes between the @Temple# and the @Dissident priests# is that the @Temple# hides the truth from its followers.
19 Frost Fall (Day 65) I told Nibani Maesa of the @lost prophecies#, and what Gilvas Barelo said about them. She has told me to leave her while she consults the @ancestors# in her dreams. I’m to come back when the moons have come and gone to hear her judgement.
19 Frost Fall (Day 65) Nibani Maesa says she has been chosen as my guide on the path of the @Nerevarine#. She says I must pass the @Seven Trials# of @the Seven Visions#. The first two trials, my particular birth and my cured @corprus disease#, are already passed. For the @third trial#, I must go to Sul-Matuul, the @guard#ian of the @Nerevarine cult#, and he will tell me what to do. When I have fulfilled the @third trial#, I must return to Nibani Maesa for guidance with further trials.
20 Frost Fall (Day 66) Sul-Matuul has given me the following quest. Go to @Kogoruhn#, the ancient halls of @House Dagoth#. Get three @tokens#: 1. @corprus weepings# from a @corprus# beast, 2. a cup with the mark of @House Dagoth#, and 3. the Shadow Shield, which lies on the Tomb of Dagoth Morin, in the lava tunnels deep beneath ruined @Kogoruhn#. If I bring him these three @tokens#, he will reveal to me the secret of the @Third Trial# of the @Nerevarine#.
26 Frost Fall (Day 72) I have passed Sul-Matuul’s Warrior’s Test. Now I must find the Cavern of the Incarnate, a secret place sacred to Azura, and look for the moon and star of the prophecies. To find the Cavern of the Incarnate, I must solve a @riddle#: the @eye of the needle# lies in the @teeth of the wind# — the @mouth of the cave# lies in the @skin of the pearl# — @the dream is the door# and @the star is the key#. Sul-Matuul called this @riddle# ‘Wisdom’s Test,’ and says take @counsel# of the wisdom of the tribes to find the way.
26 Frost Fall (Day 72) Nibani Maesa thinks that ‘@the star is the key#’ refers to Azura’s Star that appears in the sky only in the magical hour between day and night, at dawn and twilight.
26 Frost Fall (Day 72) Nibani Maesa says that, if @the star is the key# — Azura’s Star — then the door may be seen only at dawn and dusk, when Azura’s Star is in the sky. Then the star would be the ‘key’ that opens the door.
26 Frost Fall (Day 72) An Ashlander says the ‘@eye of the needle#’ in the @riddle# may be a tall rock column in the @Valley of the Wind#. The @Valley of the Wind# is a valley on the northeast slopes of @Red Mountain#. The entrance to the valley is marked by @Airan’s Teeth#, two tall rock spires.
26 Frost Fall (Day 72) An Ashlander says there is a place called ‘@Airan’s Teeth#’ in the @Valley of the Wind#. Two rocks spires mark the entrance to the @Valley of the Wind#, and they bear the name of the seer, Airan, who is blessed by Azura. These might be the ‘@teeth of the wind#’. The @Valley of the Wind# is a valley on the northeast slopes of @Red Mountain#.
29 Frost Fall (Day 75) I saw Azura in the Cavern of the Incarnate. I received @the Moon-and-Star#, an @enchant#ed @ring#, and I am the @Nerevarine#. I have passed the first three trials. Now I must show @Moon-and-Star# to the ashkhans of the tribes and the councilors of the houses. Each tribe must call me @Nerevarine#. Each House must call me @Hortator#. These are the next two trials. Nibani Maesa @shal#l be my guide. I must return to her and seek her @counsel#.
29 Frost Fall (Day 75) The ghost of @Peakstar# gave me a belt and @pants#.
29 Frost Fall (Day 75) The spirit of @Peakstar# warned that now that I bear @the Moon-and-Star#, and will be recognized as the @Nerevarine#, I must be ready for hatred and fear from the @Temple#, from @Ordinators#, and from @Tribunal# @Faith#ful of the @Great Houses#.
29 Frost Fall (Day 75) The ghost of Ane Teria gave me a book and a @mace#.
29 Frost Fall (Day 75) The ghost of Erur-Dan gave me a @spear# and cuirass.
29 Frost Fall (Day 75) The ghost of Idrenie Nerothan gave me a probe and lockpick.
29 Frost Fall (Day 75) The ghost of Conoon Chodala gave me an @axe# and a pair of boots.
29 Frost Fall (Day 75) The ghost of Hort-Ledd gave me a book and a robe.
2 Sun’s Dusk (Day 78) Sul-Matuul has warned me that people of the @Great Houses# and the @Temple# may be hostile when I am known as the @Nerevarine#. He also suggests that I take @counsel# with Nibani Maesa about the ways of the Ashlander tribes and their ashkhans, for I am an outsider, and unfamiliar with Ashlander ways.
2 Sun’s Dusk (Day 78) Before Sul-Matuul will name me ‘@Nerevarine#,’ he first wishes to recite the @need#s and @duties# of the @Nerevarine#, so I may tell others. Sul-Matuul recites the @need# for the @Nerevarine# in three parts as follows. First, the @curse of Dagoth Ur# and the @Sixth House# threatens our land. Second, the @False Gods# lie, and offer false hope of protection. Third, I bear @the Moon-and-Star# of @Nerevar#.
2 Sun’s Dusk (Day 78) These are the @duties# of the @Nerevarine#, as described to me by Sul-Matuul. I @shal#l be @Nerevarine# of all the tribes, and @Hortator# of all the @Great Houses#. I @shal#l eat the sin of the unmourned house, and free the @false gods#. I must defeat the @Sixth House#, and @Dagoth Ur# — that is clear enough. I must free the @Tribunal# from their curse… I think that means free them from their use of Kagrenac’s @profane tools#.
2 Sun’s Dusk (Day 78) Sul-Matuul has named me @Nerevarine#, @War Leader# of the @Urshilaku#, and Protector of the People. He has given me the Teeth, an @enchant#ed heirloom of the tribe, which @shal#l be a sign to all @Dunmer# that the @Urshilaku# have named me @Nerevarine#.
2 Sun’s Dusk (Day 78) Nibani Maesa reminded me of the @Fourth Trial# of @the Seven Visions#: ‘A stranger’s voice unites the Houses./Three Halls call him @Hortator#.’ When I have been named ‘@Hortator#’ by each of the three @Great Houses# of @Vvardenfell#, I will have passed the @Fourth Trial#, and should return to Nibani Maesa for further guidance.
2 Sun’s Dusk (Day 78) Nibani Maesa reminded me of the @Fifth Trial# of @the Seven Visions#: ‘A stranger’s hand unites the Velothi/Four Tribes call him @Nerevarine#.’ The Four Tribes are the four tribes of @Vvardenfell#, the @Urshilaku#, the @Ahemmusa#, the @Zainab#, and the @Erabenimsun#. When I have been named ‘@Nerevarine#’ by each of the four Ashlander tribes of @Vvardenfell#, I will have passed the @Fifth Trial#, and should return to Nibani Maesa for further guidance.
2 Sun’s Dusk (Day 78) When a greater enemy threatens, the @Great Houses# put aside their quarrels and @choose a Hortator#, a single @war leader# to lead all the Houses. Only a Great House council can name a @Hortator#, and all councils must agree. Nibani Maesa says I must go to Redoran Council, Hlaalu Council, and Telvanni Council, prove to each that the threat of @Dagoth Ur# warrants uniting under a @Hortator#, and persuade each to name me ‘@Hortator#’. This is how I must pass the @Fourth Trial#.
3 Sun’s Dusk (Day 79) I have been given a recent edition of the Red Book of Great @House Redoran# which lists the names and residences of the current @Redoran councilors#.
3 Sun’s Dusk (Day 79) I asked @Bolvyn Venim# to name me @Hortator#. He was indignant, and refused to hear @my story# or consider my @proof#. He was quite clear… he will never consent to my being chosen as @Hortator# of @House Redoran#.
3 Sun’s Dusk (Day 79) @Garisa Llethri# doesn’t believe @my story# and doesn’t know much about me. He’s going to @talk# with the other councilors before he makes his decision.
3 Sun’s Dusk (Day 79) Serjo @Athyn Sarethi# asked me to rescue his son, @Varvur Sarethi#, from @Venim Manor#, the first Manor on the right as you enter @Skar#. He warned me that I should not kill @Bolvyn Venim#, or the other councilors of @House Redoran# would turn against me.
3 Sun’s Dusk (Day 79) I found @Varvur Sarethi# and he agree to follow me back to Sarethi Manor.
3 Sun’s Dusk (Day 79) In my dreams, a tall figure in a golden mask spoke to me. “Lord @Nerevar# Indoril, Hai Resdaynia! Long forgotten, forged anew! Three belied you, three betrayed you! One you betrayed was three times true! Lord Voryn Dagoth, @Dagoth Ur#, steadfast liegeman, @faith#ful friend, bids you come and climb @Red Mountain#! Beneath @Red Mountain#, once again, break your bonds, shed cursed skin, and purge the n’wah from @Morrowind#!”
3 Sun’s Dusk (Day 79) @Sixth House cult#ists attacked me as I slept in my bed.
4 Sun’s Dusk (Day 80) @Varvur Sarethi# made it to Sarethi Manor safely.
4 Sun’s Dusk (Day 80) @Athyn Sarethi# has agreed to name me @Hortator# of @House Redoran#. He says he will use his influence to persuade the other councilors to support me, but that @Bolvyn Venim# will never support an @outlander# as @Hortator# of @House Redoran#. If I have the support of the rest of the Redoran Council, perhaps Venim will agree to an honorable @duel#.
4 Sun’s Dusk (Day 80) Serjo @Athyn Sarethi# thanked me for rescuing his son from @Venim Manor#.
4 Sun’s Dusk (Day 80) Thanks to Sarethi’s influence, @Hlaren Ramoran# has agreed to name me @Hortator#.
4 Sun’s Dusk (Day 80) @Garisa Llethri# is making me his choice for @Hortator# of @House Redoran#. He was persuaded by @Athyn Sarethi#’s testimony
4 Sun’s Dusk (Day 80) Sarethi’s influence has persuaded @Miner Arobar#. He has agreed to confirm me as @Hortator# of @House Redoran#.
7 Sun’s Dusk (Day 83) After speaking with @Athyn Sarethi#, Councilor Morvayn has agreed to name me @Hortator# of @House Redoran#.
7 Sun’s Dusk (Day 83) @Bolvyn Venim# has challenged me to a @duel# at the @Arena# in @Vivec#.
7 Sun’s Dusk (Day 83) Viatrix Petilia stopped me on the side of the road near @Ald’ruhn#. She claims to be a pilgrim on her way to @Ghostgate# Shrine. Her haughty attitude suggests a person who is used to being waited on. She’d like me to @escort# her to the @Ghostgate# Shrine, and she promises a “@tip#” if I deliver her there safely, and within two days’ time.
7 Sun’s Dusk (Day 83) I have agreed to @escort# Viatrix Petilia to @Ghostgate#. Although the trip shouldn’t take too long, I have a feeling it might seem that way.
7 Sun’s Dusk (Day 83) I have been given a recent edition of the Yellow Book of Great @House Hlaalu#. It lists the current @Hlaalu councilors# and their residences.
7 Sun’s Dusk (Day 83) Nileno Dorvayn told me that I should speak with @Crassius Curio# at his manor in @Vivec# City. He is the most likely to consider my requests, whatever they may be.
8 Sun’s Dusk (Day 84) While in the House of Earthly Delights in @Suran#, I met a @Breton# named @Daric Bielle#. He is a drunken sot, obviously hasn’t showered in weeks, and reeks of failure.
8 Sun’s Dusk (Day 84) Bielle is a @bounty# hunter, or former @bounty# hunter. For months now, he has been tracking a @runaway slave#, @Haj-Ei#. But the @slave# has proven more elusive than he thought, he has been unable to catch him, and has been unsuccessful at killing him and collecting the @bounty# that way. Daric and his guide, @Hides His Eyes#, have been in @Suran# for weeks, hoping to hear word of the elusive runaway.
8 Sun’s Dusk (Day 84) I’ve decided not to take up this @bounty# hunter’s quest to find the @escape#d @slave#. I have no desire to become involved in this dispute.
10 Sun’s Dusk (Day 86) I killed @Bolvyn Venim# in a @duel#. It is unfortunate, but there was no alternative. I should speak with @Athyn Sarethi# again to be named @Hortator#.
10 Sun’s Dusk (Day 86) @Athyn Sarethi# showed me a public notice revealing that I am an @Imperial# agent. He did not ask for an explanation. He said he was satisfied that I was sincere. But he said others might not be so understanding.
10 Sun’s Dusk (Day 86) @Athyn Sarethi# gave me a sealed package containing a message sent on behalf of Archcanon Saryoni, High Archcanon of @Vivec#. In the event that I become both @Hortator# of the three @Great Houses# and @Nerevarine# of the four Ashlander tribes, Saryoni invites me to a private meeting to consider my claims. Once I am @Hortator and Nerevarine#, I should speak with the @healer# of the @High Fane# of @Vivec#, Danso Indules, to arrange the meeting.
10 Sun’s Dusk (Day 86) I have been named @Hortator# of @House Redoran# by Redoran’s councilors. When I have been declared @Hortator# of all three Houses, Redoran, Hlaalu, and Telvanni, I will have fulfilled the @Fourth Trial# of @the Seven Visions# of @Seven Trials# of the Incarnate.
10 Sun’s Dusk (Day 86) When @Athyn Sarethi# named me @Redoran Hortator#, he gave me an @enchant#ed @ring#, a token of my office called the “@Ring# of the @Hortator#.” By this @ring# others @shal#l know me as @House Redoran#’s chosen champion.
13 Sun’s Dusk (Day 89) Upon receiving 1000 gold to cover expenses, Curio gave me his vote for @Hortator# of @House Hlaalu#.
13 Sun’s Dusk (Day 89) A man approached me outside a @trader#’s in @Vivec#. The odd thing is, I couldn’t see him.
18 Sun’s Dusk (Day 94) I asked @Mouth# Raven Omayn if @Mistress Dratha# would vote for me as @Hortator# of @House Telvanni#. Omayn said that might be a problem, since @Dratha# hates men. Omayn suggested I do everything possible to improve her disposition before I asked her.
18 Sun’s Dusk (Day 94) I have been given a recent edition of the Brown Book of Great @House Telvanni#. It lists the current @Telvanni councilors# and their residences.
18 Sun’s Dusk (Day 94) I asked @Mistress Dratha# if she would vote for me as @Hortator# of @House Telvanni#. She wouldn’t even listen to @my story#. I hope I can find some way to improve her disposition before I try again.
21 Sun’s Dusk (Day 97) After hearing @my story#, @Master Aryon# agreed to make me the @Telvanni Hortator#. He said the other councilors might @need# some persuading. @Master Neloth# is ill-tempered, @Mistress Therana# is losing her mind, and @Mistress Dratha# has a problem with men. @Master Aryon# told me that @Archmagister Gothren# would delay my request indefinitely. He advised me to kill @Archmagister Gothren#.
21 Sun’s Dusk (Day 97) @Master Aryon# told me that @Archmagister Gothren# never directly refuses requests, but delays indefinitely, never giving an answer. @Master Aryon# advised killing @Gothren#, which is how political disputes are resolved in @House Telvanni#.
26 Sun’s Dusk (Day 102) I asked @Master Neloth# if he would vote for me as @Hortator# of @House Telvanni#. @Neloth# is a cranky, ill-tempered old wizard, impatient and quick to anger. He shouted at me for interrupting him with such nonsense. Perhaps I can find some way to improve his disposition before I try again.
26 Sun’s Dusk (Day 102) When I finally got @Master Neloth# to listen to me, he casually gave his vote for me as @Hortator#. It was clear that he didn’t care one way or the other.
27 Sun’s Dusk (Day 103) Once I got @Mistress Dratha# to listen to @my story#, she was more than willing to name me @Hortator# of @House Telvanni#.
27 Sun’s Dusk (Day 103) I asked @Mouth# Felisa Ulessen if @Mistress Therana# would vote for me as @Hortator# of @House Telvanni#. Ulessen said I would have to speak directly to @Therana# on a matter of such importance. Ulessen warned me that @Therana# was very eccentric, and it may be hard to get and keep her attention long enough to ask the question. She also suggested I rely on keeping her happy @rat#her than annoy her with details and arguments.
27 Sun’s Dusk (Day 103) I asked @Mouth# Arara Uvulas if @Master Neloth# would vote for me as @Hortator# of @House Telvanni#. Uvulas said I would have to speak directly to @Neloth# on a matter of such importance.
28 Sun’s Dusk (Day 104) I tried to ask @Mistress Therana# if she would vote for me as @Hortator# of @House Telvanni#, but it was impossible to get her attention. She’s easily distracted. Maybe if I concentrate on being charming and entertaining, I’ll be able to focus her attention on me.
28 Sun’s Dusk (Day 104) When I managed to catch @Mistress Therana#’s attention, it was easy to get her to agree to vote for me. I’m not sure she knew what she was voting for, or why. But when I asked, “Will you vote for me as @Hortator#,” she said, quite clearly, “You want to be a @Hortator#? Certainly. Go right ahead.”
30 Sun’s Dusk (Day 106) I have been named @Hortator# of @House Telvanni# by the surviving councilors of that house. When I have been declared @Hortator# of all three Houses, Redoran, Hlaalu, and Telvanni, I will have fulfilled the @Fourth Trial# of @the Seven Visions# of @Seven Trials# of the Incarnate.
30 Sun’s Dusk (Day 106) @Master Aryon# gave me the Robe of the @Hortator#, an heirloom token of my status as @Telvanni Hortator#.
30 Sun’s Dusk (Day 106) I have been named @Hortator# of all three @Great Houses#, Redoran, Hlaalu, and Telvanni. Of @the Seven Visions# of @Seven Trials# of the Incarnate, I have now fulfilled the @Fourth Trial#.
30 Sun’s Dusk (Day 106) The @gulakhan# Kausi of the @Ahemmusa# admitted that they are a poor, sad tribe, without an ashkhan, and led by a wise woman. He asked me to @talk# to the wise woman, Sinnammu Mirpal, and do the deeds of a hero, and save the @Ahemmusa#.
30 Sun’s Dusk (Day 106) The wise woman of the @Ahemmusa# @Ashlanders#, Sinnammu Mirpal, has said that she will name me @Ahemmusa Nerevarine#, but first I must go to the @Daedric# shrine at @Ald Daedroth# and @make it safe# for the @Ahemmusa#. When I have made @Ald Daedroth# safe, I must then return to Sinnammu Mirpal, and then she will accompany me to @Ald Daedroth#. Then, when she has seen whether @Ald Daedroth# is safe or not, she will name me @Ahemmusa Nerevarine#.
31 Sun’s Dusk (Day 107) I spoke with an Ordinator at @Ald Daedroth#. The @Ordinators# are only worried about the @Daedra worship#pers here, and they say that if I leave them alone, they’ll leave me alone.
2 Evening Star (Day 109) An @Orc# named @Ra’Gruzgob# seems to think he is a @Khajiit#. He asked me about his tail — he hasn’t got one, of course — I said it looked fine. This seemed to please him. It’s a funny old world, all right.
2 Evening Star (Day 109) I threatened to kill @Hlireni Indavel# if she would not give the @Ahemmusa# shelter on @Ald Daedroth#. I wasn’t sure she would listen to reason, but apparently she was so impressed by my reputation that she decided to @yield#. She promised on the Mad God that I could bring the @Ahemmusa# to @Ald Daedroth#, and that neither she nor her followers would harm them while they were here.
2 Evening Star (Day 109) Sinnammu Mirpal accompanies me to @Ald Daedroth#. If she can pass safely into the old sanctuary and see the great statue there, she will name me @Ahemmusa Nerevarine#.
3 Evening Star (Day 110) I have done as wise woman Sinnammu Mirpal has asked. I have brought her to the great statue beneath the ruins, and this is the test she has set to determine whether @Ald Daedroth# is safe for the @Ahemmusa#. Now I must speak to her and get her to name me @Ahemmusa Nerevarine# as she has promised.
3 Evening Star (Day 110) Sinnammu Mirpal agrees that I have fulfilled my part of the bargain. @Ald Daedroth# is safe enough to be a refuge for the @Ahemmusa#. Therefore she has named me @Ahemmusa Nerevarine#, @War Leader# of the @Ahemmusa#, and Protector of the People. She has also given me the @Madstone# of the @Ahemmusa#, an @enchant#ed heirloom of the tribe, which @shal#l be a sign to all @Dunmer# that the @Ahemmusa# have named me @Nerevarine#.
3 Evening Star (Day 110) While traveling near @Tel Mora#, I came upon an Ashlander camp. Here, I spoke with a wise woman, Urshamusa Rapli, who spoke of @dreams and visions#.
3 Evening Star (Day 110) The wise woman has had @dreams and visions# of a @white guar#. She feels if someone can find this @guar#, it will help her tribe prosper. The tribe has been ravaged by @the blight#, and he has no hunters to spare. She would like me to find the @white guar# for the tribe.
3 Evening Star (Day 110) I have agreed to try and find the @white guar#. The woman tells me that the @guar# in her visions is near a forking trail where “the rocks grow from the earth like fingers on a hand.”
3 Evening Star (Day 110) @Ashkhan Kaushad# scoffed when I asked him to name me @Zainab Nerevarine#. He seemed to doubt that an @outlander# could ever become the @Nerevarine#. Maybe if I could improve his disposition towards me, he might take me more seriously.
3 Evening Star (Day 110) I asked Kaushad, Ashkhan of the @Zainab#, to set me a task to prove that I am worthy to be named @Nerevarine# of the @Zainab#. A vampire named @Calvario# has taken refuge in nearby @Nerano Ancestral Tomb#. If I can kill this vampire, then I will be judged worthy to be named @Nerevarine# of the @Zainab#.
5 Evening Star (Day 112) I asked @Ashkhan Kaushad# where I might find him a high-born @Telvanni bride#. He said I should visit high-born Telvanni lords and inform each that @Ashkhan Kaushad# of the Lordly @Zainab# will do them the honor of making one of their @daughters# his bride. He trusts me to choose the @fines#t among those offered. The Ashkhan told me to take @counsel# with his wise woman, Sonummu Zabamat, who knows his mind well in such matters.
5 Evening Star (Day 112) Since @Calvario# is dead, @Ashkhan Kaushad# says he will call me @Nerevarine#, but not until all the traditional rites and customs have been observed. It is customary to offer the Ashkhan a generous gift as a mark of respect. @Ashkhan Kaushad# has done me the great @favor# of naming the gift he wishes to receive — a high-born @Telvanni bride# — ‘a pretty one, plump, with big hips to bring me many sons.’
5 Evening Star (Day 112) Sonummu Zabamat says no high-born Telvanni would consider wedding an Ashlander. But she has a cunning @plan#. I must go to @Savile Imayn#, @slave#mistress of the Festival @Slave# Market in @Tel Aruhn#, and tell her I @need# a pretty @Dunmer# @slave#. @Savile Imayn# will tell me how to dress the @slave# like a high-born Telvanni lady. Then I must @escort# the pretty @slave# to @Zainab camp# and @present# her to @Ashkhan Kaushad# as a high-born @Telvanni bride#.
5 Evening Star (Day 112) I have told @Savile Imayn#, @slave#mistress of the Festival @Slave# Market, of my @plan# to pose a @slave# as a high-born @Telvanni bride# to marry the @Zainab# Ashkhan. She says she has a perfect @slave# for the part, named @Falura Llervu#, but first @Savile Imayn# wants me to bring her an exquisite shirt, an exquisite skirt, and @exquisite shoes# to dress the @slave# in. I can see this is going to be very expensive.
6 Evening Star (Day 113) Berwen has a @corprus stalker# in her store, and she would like me to get rid of it.
6 Evening Star (Day 113) Berwen was very impressed with my fighting prowess when I dispatched her @Corprus Stalker#.
6 Evening Star (Day 113) I have obtained an exquisite shirt, an exquisite skirt, and @exquisite shoes# to dress the @slave# @Falura Llervu# in. @Savile Imayn# @need#s time to coach @Falura Llervu# to play her part, and in the meantime she told me to go get some @Telvanni Bug Musk# perfume to make @Falura Llervu# completely irresistible.
6 Evening Star (Day 113) I have brought the @Telvanni Bug Musk# perfume to @Savile Imayn#, and I have purchased @Falura Llervu#. @Savile Imayn# gave me the key to @Falura Llervu#’s cage. When I’m ready, I should speak to @Falura Llervu#, give her the exquisite shirt, exquisite skirt, @exquisite shoes#, and @Telvanni Bug Musk#, and tell her to follow me to @Zainab camp# to meet her future husband, @Ashkhan Kaushad#.
6 Evening Star (Day 113) I spoke to @Falura Llervu# and gave her the perfume and @exquisite clothes#. She says she is very pleased with her @clothes# and her perfume, and is happy to @escape# @slavery#. She says she is a little anxious about marrying an Ashlander, even an Ashlander chief, but anything is better than being a @slave#, and she is tough, clever woman determined to make the best of her situation.
6 Evening Star (Day 113) @Falura Llervu# and I have arrived in @Ashkhan Kaushad#’s yurt. First I must speak once more to @Falura Llervu#, then I must @present# her to @Ashkhan Kaushad# as his new high-born @Telvanni bride#.
6 Evening Star (Day 113) @Ashkhan Kaushad# says he is very pleased with @Falura Llervu#, though she is not so generous in the hips as he would like. He promises to make her a happy bride, and to do her honor as a high-born Telvanni lady. And he has named me @Zainab Nerevarine#, @War Leader# of the @Zainab#, and Protector of the People. He has also given me the @Zainab# Thong, an @enchant#ed heirloom of the tribe, which @shal#l be a sign to all @Dunmer# that the @Zainab# have named me @Nerevarine#.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) I told the @Erabenimsun# wise woman Manirai that I wish to be named @Nerevarine# by her tribe. She said this will never happen, not while Ashkhan @Ulath-Pal# and his supporters live. She says that if I want to be @Nerevarine# of the @Erabenimsun#, I must kill @Ulath-Pal# and his supporters, the @gulakhan#s @Ahaz#, @Ranabi#, and @Ashu-Ahhe#. Then I must raise @Gulakhan# @Han-Ammu# to Ashkhan. Ashkhan @Han-Ammu# would then name me @Nerevarine# @Erabenimsun#.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) I have slain one of the @war-loving Erabenimsun# @Ashlanders#. But perhaps it would have been impossible to have friendly dealings with them or their leaders, anyway.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) Manirai says that now, with @Ulath-Pal# and his supporters out of the way, it is a simple matter to be named @Nerevarine# of the @Erabenimsun#. All I @need# to do is persuade @Gulakhan# @Han-Ammu# to become the ashkhan of the @Erabenimsun#. I’ll find him in his gulakyurt. She warned me, however, that he may be difficult to persuade.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) I have given @Han-Ammu# the Sanit-Kil’s Heart of Fire and made a little speech about courage and symbols and responsibility. I believe he has taken the lesson to heart, and will consider accepting his responsibilities as ashkhan, and consider naming me @Nerevarine#.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) I have given @Han-Ammu# the Robe of Erur-Dan the Wise and made a little speech about wisdom and symbols and responsibility. I believe he has taken the lesson to heart, and will consider accepting his responsibilities as ashkhan, and consider naming me @Nerevarine#.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) I have given @Han-Ammu# the @War Axe# of Airan-Ammu and made a little speech about @strength# and symbols and responsibility. I believe he has taken the lesson to heart, and will consider accepting his responsibilities as ashkhan, and consider naming me @Nerevarine#.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) I have given @Han-Ammu# the @War Axe# of Airan-Ammu, Sanit-Kil’s Heart of Fire, and the Robe of Erur-Dan the Wise, and I have persuaded him to accept his responsibilities as ashkhan of the @Erabenimsun#. He has also agreed to name me @Nerevarine# of the @Erabenimsun#. I must ask him to do this immediately.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) @Han-Ammu#, now Ashkhan of the @Erabenimsun#, has named me @Erabenimsun Nerevarine#, Champion of the @Erabenimsun#, and Protector of the People. I must also go to wise woman Manirai and get from her the @Seizing of the Erabenimsun#, an @enchant#ed heirloom of the tribe, which @shal#l be a sign to all @Dunmer# that the @Erabenimsun# have named me @Nerevarine#.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) I have been named @Nerevarine# by all four tribes of the @Vvardenfell# @Ashlanders# — @Urshilaku#, @Ahemmusa#, @Zainab#, and @Erabenimsun#. Of @the Seven Visions# of @Seven Trials# of the Incarnate, I have now fulfilled the @Fifth Trial#.
8 Evening Star (Day 115) Wise Woman Manirai has given me the @Seizing of the Erabenimsun#, an @enchant#ed token that identifies me as @Nerevarine# and Champion of the @Erabenimsun#.
9 Evening Star (Day 116) Archcanon Saryoni has suggested that the @Temple#’s policy concerning the @Nerevarine# might change, and has arranged a private meeting with Lord @Vivec#. He gave me two keys: one to the @private back entrance# to his quarters, the other to a locked entrance to Lord @Vivec#’s palace. He says the @Ordinators# are not under his control, and asks that I avoid them. Lord @Vivec# is expecting me, and perhaps I shouldn’t keep him waiting.
9 Evening Star (Day 116) I accepted @Wraith#guard from Lord @Vivec#, and I swore my oath, before all gods and men, before all spirits visible and invisible, before my honor and @Vivec#’s honor, to dedicate myself and @Wraith#guard to the defeat and @destruction# of @Dagoth Ur#, and the preservation of @Morrowind# and its people. @Vivec# somehow taught me how to use @Wraith#guard. He then offered to give some @explanations#, or to let me go immediately, as I wished.
9 Evening Star (Day 116) To @defeat Dagoth Ur#, @Vivec# says I must go to @Red Mountain# to recover the artifact hammer Sunder from Gate Citadel Vemynal, then the artifact blade @Keening# from Gate Citadel Odrosal. Then, with these artifacts and @Wraith#guard, if I destroy the @enchantments# on the Heart of Lorkhan in @Dagoth Ur#’s citadel, @Dagoth Ur# will be destroyed, and @the Blight# ended. @Vivec# gave me ‘The @Plan# to @Defeat Dagoth Ur#’ to explain the details.
10 Evening Star (Day 117) Nibani Maesa recited a version of the @Nerevarine prophecies# she calls ‘Seven Visions of @Seven Trials# of the Incarnate’.
10 Evening Star (Day 117) The first @need# and @proof# of the @Nerevarine# is the @curse of Dagoth Ur# and the @Sixth House#. Because I have fought the @Sixth House#, because I have suffered @corprus#, because I have harrowed @Kogoruhn#, I can tell others, and @my story# @shal#l serve as @proof# of the @need# for the @Nerevarine#.
10 Evening Star (Day 117) The lies of the @Tribunal# and the false hope they offer of protection from @Dagoth Ur# are the second @proof# of the @need# for the @Nerevarine#. The @False Gods# have broken their promises, and have taken up the tools used by the enemies Kagrenac and @Dagoth Ur#. Since the @Tribunal# can no longer protect @Morrowind# from @Dagoth Ur#, the @Nerevarine# must shoulder that burden.
10 Evening Star (Day 117) The third @proof# of the @need# for the @Nerevarine# is Azura’s sign: I bear @the Moon-and-Star# of @Nerevar#. The legend of @Moon-and-Star# is known to all loremasters. No man but @Nerevar# may wear that @ring# and live.
13 Evening Star (Day 120) @Yngling Half-Troll# told me that he wouldn’t name me @Hortator# without a bribe of 2000 gold.
13 Evening Star (Day 120) I have killed the Hlaalu councilor @Yngling Half-Troll#.
18 Evening Star (Day 125) @Buoyant Armigers# at @Ghostgate# told me that all their @intelligence# is old. No one has ventured far inside the fence for years. They gave me a map showing the locations of the citadels of the various @ash vampire#s. @Sixth House# creatures have become more numerous and powerful, and the most powerful can conjure powerful @daedra#. There are no safe refuges or @services# inside the fence; I must return to @Ghostgate# to rest and heal.
18 Evening Star (Day 125) At @Ghostgate# I met an old @Imperial# veteran. He asked me to take an old @luck#y coin with me when I go to @Dagoth Ur#, and I agreed. He gave me the coin, an old worn @Imperial# drake, and hoped it would bring me @luck#. It is strange – but I have a feeling – I know this encounter has marked my fate and @fortune#. [You have gained a new Power: @Luck# of the Emperor.]
22 Evening Star (Day 129) In Citadel Vemynal I discovered the artifact hammer Sunder, one of the @enchant#ed tools created by @the Dwemer# Craftlord Kagrenac.
23 Evening Star (Day 130) I made the @Pilgrimage# to @Ghostgate# and read the Grace of Pride.
23 Evening Star (Day 130) In Citadel Odrosal I discovered the artifact blade @Keening#, one of the @enchant#ed tools created by @the Dwemer# Craftlord Kagrenac.
4 Sun’s Dawn (Day 141) I found @Dagoth Ur#, and spoke with him. He asked me @questions#, and let me answer @questions# in return. And when all the @questions# had been asked and answered, there was @nothing left# to say. The time for words is past. Now only deeds can resolve this matter between @Dagoth Ur# and I.
6 Sun’s Dawn (Day 143) I found the Heart of Lorkhan within the giant artifact Akulakhan. I struck the Heart with Sunder, then struck it again and again with @Keening# until the @enchantment# was destroyed. Severed from the sustaining power of the Heart, @Dagoth Ur# was destroyed. But the disturbance triggered an earthquake, and I had to flee for my life.
6 Sun’s Dawn (Day 143) As I fled from the @destruction# of the Chamber of Akulakhan, I encountered the presence of the @Daedra# Lord Azura. She told me I had achieved my destiny and was free. The prophecies are fulfilled, and @the Blight# gone. But now I am @Hortator and Nerevarine#, @Protector of Morrowind#, and must defend the people from monsters and villains. She gave me a @ring# as a token of thanks and blessing.
7 Sun’s Dawn (Day 144) I spoke with Rararyn Radarys who had been driven mad by dreams of @Dagoth Ur# and the @Sixth House#. This former ‘Sleeper’ thanked me, and promised to tell others how I had saved his life.
10 Sun’s Dawn (Day 147) Percius Mercius asked me to aid the Buoyant Armiger @Ulyne Henim# in her expedition to @Vas# which is on a remote island west of @Dagon Fel#.
11 Sun’s Dawn (Day 148) I agreed to fight with Ulyne. We must find and kill the Necromancer Daris Adram.
11 Sun’s Dawn (Day 148) Daris Adram is dead. @Ulyne Henim# is no longer fighting with me.
11 Sun’s Dawn (Day 148) @Ulyne Henim# thanked me for helping her kill this Necromancer.
12 Sun’s Dawn (Day 149) Percius Mercius thanked me for helping @Ulyne Henim# rid @Vas# of the @Necromancers#.
12 Sun’s Dawn (Day 149) Percius Mercius told me there is a @bounty# for the outlaw @Nerer Beneran#. He is hiding in the cavern of @Sargon#.
12 Sun’s Dawn (Day 149) I spoke with Assi Serimilk who had been driven mad by dreams of @Dagoth Ur# and the @Sixth House#. This former ‘Sleeper’ thanked me, and promised to tell others how I had saved her life.
12 Sun’s Dawn (Day 149) I have been told that @Sargon# is located far north of @Maar Gan# and southwest of @Vas#, and that the trek there is a very long one.
13 Sun’s Dawn (Day 150) Percius Mercius thanked me for bringing @Nerer Beneran#’s crimes to an end.
13 Sun’s Dawn (Day 150) Percius Mercius asked me to speak with Serjo @Avon Oran# in the town of @Suran#. The town has been raided by @bandits#.
13 Sun’s Dawn (Day 150) Serjo @Avon Oran# told me that the @bandits# in Saturan, northeast of @Suran#, just over the mountains. I must kill the leader of the @bandits#, Daldur Sarys. When this is done, I should return to Oran to report on my success.
13 Sun’s Dawn (Day 150) Serjo @Avon Oran# thanked me for bringing the @bandits# to @justice# and he gave me the 1,000 gold he was offering for a @bounty#.
13 Sun’s Dawn (Day 150) Percius Mercius asked me to deliver a load of @flin# to Dangor in the @Elith-Pal Mine# which is on the base of @Red Mountain# just west of the @Zainab camp#.
16 Sun’s Dawn (Day 153) I delivered the load of @flin# to the @Elith-Pal Mine#. Now I @need# to report back to Percius Mercius in @Ald’ruhn#.
16 Sun’s Dawn (Day 153) Percius Mercius thanked me for delivering the @flin#.
16 Sun’s Dawn (Day 153) @Eydis Fire-Eye# told me to @talk# to Alof the Easterner at his farm northeast of @Pelagiad# and just north of the Arvel @Plan#tation. Alof saw some @Orcs at a Daedric ruin# nearby.
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