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50 free Morrowind trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind came out in 2002 and looked like nothing else in fantasy games. Instead of castles and green hills it offered ash storms, towering insects and a Dark Elf society split between a living religion, a distant Empire and feuding noble houses. Players arrived as a nameless prisoner with a vague prophecy hanging over them and were left to work out the rest on their own. This quiz covers the whole game. There are questions on the main quest and its prophecy, the Great Houses and what each one stands for (House Indoril included), the gods of the Tribunal, the people you meet from the first dock to the final battle, the creatures of the island, and the Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansions. A few questions look behind the scenes at how the game was made and how it was received. It is written for anyone who has played, whether you finished the story years ago or only remember stepping off the boat. The early questions are the ones most players will know, the later ones reward a careful reading of the lore, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01House Redoran's councilors in Morrowind's Ald'ruhn live inside the hollowed shell of which enormous ancient creature?
A giant crab
A giant crab called Skar left the shell behind, and the manor district built inside it is known as Under-Skar. Daily ash storms from Red Mountain batter the town outside.
Q 02On which volcanic island, home to Red Mountain, does the main story of Morrowind take place?
Vvardenfell
Vvardenfell is only one district of the Morrowind province, a limit the developers chose so that every area could be built by hand. Earlier games in the series generated their dungeons at random.
Q 03Which giant insect-like creature carries paying passengers between the towns of Morrowind as a kind of taxi?
Silt strider
Silt strider drivers, known as caravaners, steer the towering animal by working its exposed organs from a compartment hollowed out of its shell.
Q 04Which immortal villain, leader of the Sixth House, awaits the player inside Red Mountain in Morrowind's main quest?
Dagoth Ur
Dagoth Ur cannot be killed for good until the artifact that feeds his power is destroyed, so the first victory over him does not last. IGN ranked him among its top 100 video game villains.
Q 05Which star of a 1970s superhero TV series voiced the female Nords in Morrowind?
Lynda Carter
Lynda Carter, television's Wonder Woman, was promoted by Bethesda as part of the cast. The game gives each race its own voices, a touch some reviewers praised.
Q 06The wizard-lords of House Telvanni in Morrowind live in towers that are magically grown from what?
Giant mushrooms
Giant mushrooms form entire Telvanni towns, shaped by magic into homes, shops and inns. The House's seat, Sadrith Mora, has a name that means Forest of the Mushrooms.
Q 07Which illegal drug, refined from moon sugar, makes most shopkeepers in Morrowind refuse to trade with the player?
Skooma
Skooma is banned by the Empire in Morrowind, yet criminals pass it around almost like money. Carrying its raw ingredient gets a customer turned away just the same.
Q 08What do the grey-skinned, red-eyed Dark Elves who are native to Morrowind call themselves?
Dunmer
Dunmer is the name the Dark Elves prefer, and in the traditional telling they were a people called the Chimer until a Daedric curse turned their skin ashen.
Q 09Which composer wrote the soundtrack for Morrowind and later scored both Oblivion and Skyrim?
Jeremy Soule
Jeremy Soule kept the score soft and minimalist on purpose, because the music loops constantly during play. His earlier work included Total Annihilation and Icewind Dale.
Q 10Morrowind launched in 2002 on Windows PCs and on which one games console?
Microsoft Xbox
Microsoft Xbox owners kept buying it: the game stayed among the console's ten best sellers a year after launch, a feat matched only by Halo.
Q 11Which aggressive Morrowind creature spots travelers from far away and often descends on them in swarms?
Cliff racer
Cliff racer swarms form because the animals see a long way and trail the player unnoticed. Their zig-zag flight paths can also leave them stuck in trees.
Q 12Which island does Morrowind's Bloodmoon expansion add, a setting revisited in Skyrim's Dragonborn add-on?
Solstheim
Solstheim once belonged to Skyrim, and in later lore its High King gave the island to Morrowind as a refuge for Dark Elves fleeing an eruption of Red Mountain.
Q 13Which creature can players become in Morrowind's Bloodmoon expansion, a feature promised for the base game but cut?
A werewolf
Q 21Which Morrowind town on the Odai River, the island's second largest after Vivec, has a name meaning Stonewood?
Balmora
Balmora sits where the West Gash meets the Bitter Coast marshes and the Ascadian Isles, and the river splits it into High Town, a Commercial District and Labor Town.
Q 22In which small port, home to the Census and Excise Office, does the player first step ashore in Morrowind?
Seyda Neen
Seyda Neen is guarded by the Imperial Legion, and its lighthouse, the Grand Pharos, is renowned for guiding ships across the Inner Sea.
Q 23Which walled capital, the ancestral seat of House Indoril, is the setting of Morrowind's Tribunal expansion?
Mournhold
Mournhold cannot be reached on foot or by boat: the city is cut off from the main island, so the player has to teleport there.
A werewolf is made by catching the disease Sanies Lupinus and leaving it uncured for three days. After that the player changes shape nightly, whatever the moons are doing.
Q 14Which lost race, called Dwarves in the Empire, left steam-filled ruins across Morrowind before vanishing all at once?
Dwemer
Dwemer everywhere disappeared in an instant during the Battle of Red Mountain, which set off many theories. Their name is usually read as the Deep or Secretive People.
Q 15Which spell effect do visitors need in Morrowind to reach the upper rooms of House Telvanni's wizard towers?
Levitation
Levitation was required to ascend every Telvanni councilor's tower on the island. One such wizard ruled from a tower in each of the House's five main towns.
Q 16Which Bethesda project leader on Morrowind went on to direct Fallout 3 and Skyrim?
Todd Howard
Todd Howard later said the sequel, set in a more welcoming fantasy world, gave up some of what made Morrowind special: the wonder of discovery.
Q 17Which divine artifact beneath Red Mountain must the Nerevarine destroy to finish Morrowind's main quest?
The Heart of Lorkhan
The Heart of Lorkhan made both the villain and the three living gods of the Tribunal immortal, so destroying it leaves those gods mortal again.
Q 18Which Blades spymaster, who looks like a harmless old drug user, recruits the player as an agent in Morrowind?
Caius Cosades
Caius Cosades is the most senior Blades agent on the island, and midway through the story he is recalled to the Imperial City and leaves the game for good.
Q 19Which Daedric Prince of Dawn and Dusk confirms in a vision that the player is the Nerevarine in Morrowind?
Azura
Azura appears once the player puts on a ring said to kill anyone else who wears it, and she returns after the final battle to reward the victory.
Q 20Which Great House of Morrowind, built on trade and friendliest to the Empire, is the easiest for outlanders to join?
Hlaalu
House Hlaalu treats everything as business, and one of its most powerful figures in the game is of Imperial stock rather than a Dark Elf.
Q 24Which order of Temple guards, drawn mostly from House Indoril, polices the holy city of Vivec in Morrowind?
The Ordinators
The Ordinators were founded by Saint Olms the Just, patron saint of House Indoril, and the House's influence shows in the distinctive style of their armor.
Q 25Which emergency title must the player be granted by three Great Houses during Morrowind's main quest?
Hortator
Hortator elections need every councilor of a House to agree, and a lone objector has been known to settle the matter by dueling the candidate to the death.
Q 26Which Emperor of Tamriel arranges the player's release from prison at the very start of Morrowind?
Uriel Septim VII
Uriel Septim VII suspects the prisoner may fulfill an ancient prophecy, or at least pass as a convincing impostor he can use for political gain.
Q 27Which assassins' guild is legally sanctioned in Morrowind and carries out its killings under contracts called writs?
The Morag Tong
The Morag Tong kills in the name of the Daedric Prince Mephala, and its past targets are said to include several rulers of Tamriel.
Q 28Morrowind is the third main Elder Scrolls game; which main-series title, with a far larger map, came directly before it?
Daggerfall
Daggerfall generated its dungeons at random across large parts of two provinces, while the smaller world of its sequel was placed by hand, item by item.
Q 29In Morrowind's combat, what decides whether a weapon swing that reaches an enemy actually counts as a hit?
A hidden dice roll
A hidden dice roll, weighted by each fighter's skills, decides every blow, and at launch the game gave no sign of an enemy's remaining health either. Bethesda patched in health bars a month later.
Q 30Which Dark Elf thief, a fellow captive on the prison ship, is the first character the player meets in Morrowind?
Jiub
Jiub returns in later games: Oblivion names him a saint who drove a hated flying pest from the island, and Skyrim's Dawnguard add-on features his soul.