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The What is up? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Fudgema. This is the Elder Scrolls podcast. I'm Scott here with Michael and Drew as always. And today we are talking all about the great houses of Morrowind. So where do we want to

start? Let's pick one of the five because we're going to sort of touch on the sixth house a little

bit later and we might have to do that in an individual video because there's a lot of

metaphysical cool stuff with that going on with Degothur. So which of the five would we start?

A good, like, tiny little preface to put in there, I guess you could say, is that this kind of

wasn't, you know, the great house structure was kind of unique to Morrowind in that when, you know,

the Kimer people, the changed ones made their exodus across all the way from Somerset to Morawind.

They were following free day, the good Deidra, Boefea, Azura and Mafala.

And, you know, largely because of Mafalas sphere of kind of like the web of intricate, you know, plots going on over here, all of this stuff like that.

It kind of, um,

they showed them how to structure their society in a much different way, which is what led to

these five, six great houses. Hmm. But, although if you think about it, it's not crazy

different to another province in the sense of, you know, there's a bunch of factions and they all

form together to have a kind of overarching council that rules things. And as we know, they're also

very, I guess, easy to be corrupted like any other provinces government is. One thing, too, we don't

actually get like an exact formulation because they obviously

say like the good Dejra taught them the ways to structure things.

But at the same time, the Kimer came across into what they call Resdain, which is modern

day Morawind and they had a period called like Hyvalothi culture where they were basically and that's when

you see those like dydric ruins and stuff in morrowind like these were the places that they had

their establishments and so on and then they would start um at one point they had sort of like a

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