Relevant Rumors

Introduction

While replaying Skyrim a couple of months ago, I noticed something that I really liked — people of Skyrim (mostly guards, of course) would sometimes talk about recent events that the Last Dragonborn took part in, such as the destruction of the Dark Brotherhood or helping Madanach escape from Cidhna Mine. I though that it would be neat if people of Morrowind did something similar. They actually do it already, to some degree — for example, NPCs talk about the events related to the main quest. And yet I thought that there was some room for improvement, and hence I decided to create this mod in the hopes to make Morrowind feel a bit more “alive”.

Description

Relevant Rumors adds new quest-based dialogue responses for the “latest rumors” topic. As you complete different quests, people around Morrowind will start talking about the related events. The rumors they give can depend on their faction or location, in most cases they might not even know about your character’s involvement, and might be hazy on the details.

The more quests you complete, the more rumors NPCs can tell you. Some rumors related to earlier quests might become overshadowed by more recent events. Not every completed quest will result in rumors though — no one cares about some Telvanni low-rank buying Sload soap to get promoted.

Disclaimer: I am not a native English speaker and I am certainly no writer. I am trying to keep the new rumors close to the style of original game, but if you do notice that something is off, please let me know!

This is a WIP mod that will be including multiple releases. With each release I hope to cover the quest line for each of the Great Houses and perhaps expand on the main quest reactions as well.

Current status

• [] House Telvanni

  [] House Hlaalu

  [] House Redoran

  [] Main Quest

• ? I want to cover other factions as well, but no promises at the moment

Installation

Make sure to install latest MWSE 2. 1 Development version and use the included updater.

To install the mod, either use a mod manager or copy MWSE folder and the ESP file to Data Files in your Morrowind installation. Make sure that "Relevant Rumors.esp" is enabled when you run the game.

Compatibility

OpenMW

Relevant Rumors requires the latest MWSE build with Lua support, and therefore, unfortunately, is not compatible with OpenMW at the moment.

Once Lua for OpenMW supports the APIs necessary for Relevant Rumors, I will look into creating an OpenMW-compatible v