Morrowind is likely one of the most-modded roleplaying video games of all time, and a number of these mods deal with massive sweeping modifications like overhauling UI and including new areas, or rebuilding the entire dang factor, or delightful-yet-absurd technical upgrades like including footprints.
Others, in the meantime, make smaller tweaks. That is the case with the Feminist Nerevarine mod from AliceL93. The title is slightly overblown—it would not rewrite Morrowind as a feminist parable—however by altering just a few quest choices, it highlights the variety of instances Morrowind did not give us the choice to take a lady’s aspect in a dispute, and even simply be well mannered.
“In some Morrowind quests the place there was a battle between a person and a lady, you did not have the chance to aspect with the girl,” writes AliceL93. “In different quests, a lady required one thing from you, and if you happen to needed to refuse it, the sport pressured you to take action in a impolite method. And there have been additionally quests the place a person overstepped the boundaries of a lady, and you did not have the chance to refuse serving to him.”
For instance, one quest has you steal a naughty grownup guide from a woman so {that a} a person named Aengoth can use it as blackmail leverage towards her household. The mod provides the choice to maintain the guide, refusing handy it over, underneath the argument that you just will not let him blackmail the girl along with her non-public life.
“The characters in these quests do not essentially must agree with you, if you happen to take these decisions,” AliceL93 writes. “For instance, if you happen to refuse handy over the guide, Aengoth will scold you that you just will not be fashionable within the Thieves’ Guild with that angle, and even hints at hiring somebody to steal the guide from you. I believed that it is vital to maintain these characters true to Bethesda’s imaginative and prescient of them. So with this mod, you’ll be able to roleplay a ‘feminist’ and you’re supplied with new decisions, however the world of the sport would not essentially must agree with you.”
Which is good, as, for instance, I believe lots of people would wish to inform off that one creep who needs you to make use of a love potion on somebody with out their consent. That man’s type of a nasty individual.
Here is the total checklist of modifications:
- The Magnificence and the Bandit: You may refuse serving to Maurrie with out telling her outright that you just assume that she is an fool for falling in love with the bandit who robbed her. As an alternative, you’ll be able to warn her to return to her senses, in any case, the person is a harmful outlaw who already harmed her as soon as.
- Bloodmoon: A Lady Scorned: You may refuse serving to Kjolver with out judging her. As an alternative, you’ll be able to attempt to persuade her that regardless that she loves her husband, he clearly would not love her again, that is why he’s dishonest on her and that she ought to neglect about him as a result of she deserves somebody higher.
- Thieves’ Guild: Naughty Gandosa: You continue to have to steal the guide, however upon studying about its contents you’ll be able to refuse handy it over to Aengoth with the argument that it would not be proper to blackmail a lady along with her non-public life.
- Widowmaker: You may kill the bare Nord barbarian and obtain a reward from the witch for doing so. Surprisingly, this selection was not current in vanilla, whereas it was current within the different “witch vs. bare Nord barbarian” quest, and there you possibly can select whom you aspect with.
- For the Love of a Bosmer: You may name out Gadayn for his plan to make use of a love potion on the girl who would not love him again. In vanilla, you possibly can solely comply with ship the potion to her or to suggest Gadayn to pursue one other lady as a substitute. So if you happen to assume that an individual who would resort to such strategies would not deserve both, you’ll be able to refuse his errand, and even name him out for it.
- Kidnapped by Cultists: A bonus characteristic. You may scold Sason for being unable to guard his spouse. Clearly, these had been some harmful cultists, and all of that, however I believed that such a characteristic would not warrant its personal mod, so I squeezed it into this one, even when it would not actually match thematically 100% with the remainder of the brand new decisions.
This type of factor is definitely a operating theme with AliceL93’s mods, which span the political spectrum: They’ve additionally uploaded Anarchist, Communist, Libertarian, Imperialist, and Nationalist roleplaying mods. The latter two stop the primary quest from “bullying” the participant away from being “a loyal servant of the Empire” or a “Dunmer nationalist.”
