For those who want to go deeper, however, reading the ingame books is the first step.
Terminally illiterate player should still feel suitably immersed, even if that’s the extent of their involvement with it. The lore is always there, of course, gently seeping into the player’s consciousness through the world, the sounds and the landscape. When I say that the lore of Morrowind is deep and complicated, what I actually mean is that it’s as deep and complicated as the player wants it to be. And that’s fine – Morrowind is not really in the business of beating players over the head with lore. Of course, many won’t touch it – not everyone is interested in reading a book when they’re trying to play a game. Most players will encounter the former first, as a copy is prominently displayed in the Balmora Mages’ Guild, an early-game staple location. While exploring Vvardenfell, one may come across two books: Where Were You When The Dragon Broke? and The Dragon Break Re-Examined (full texts at links). Amateurs! Try it in a world where the fabric of reality can be warped by pure imagination, where multiple players create multiple possibilities and where time itself can break, or rather, be broken. You may think historians in our world have it tough – sorting through multiple individual versions of events, accounting for bias and the vicissitudes of memory as they try to pin down what actually happened. Part 2 of a series of posts about The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind and how it weaves metagaming into its metaphysics to interesting effect.
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