The Tribunal
Morrowind's three living gods and the stolen power behind their divinity.
The Tribunal is the triumvirate of god-like beings who rule Morrowind in The Elder Scrolls III. The central plot of the game concerns their struggle with a former ally, the demigod Dagoth Ur, and his Sixth House cult spreading out from Red Mountain. The Tribunal Temple, the religion built around the three, normally persecutes anyone claiming to be the Nerevarine, but once every Great House has named the player Hortator and every Ashlander tribe has named them Nerevarine, the Temple recognises the title.
Quick Facts
- Source of divinity
- Dwemer tools on the Heart of Lorkhan
- Enemy
- Dagoth Ur and the Sixth House
- Expansion
- The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal (Mournhold)
Facts from the source article.
Background
The player is invited to the palace of Vivec, the poet god-king and one of the three deities, to plan the assault on Dagoth Ur's stronghold inside Red Mountain. The Dwemer had made tools to tap the power of the Heart of Lorkhan, which they found beneath the mountain, and both the Tribunal and Dagoth Ur used those same tools to reach their god-like status. Because their immortality is tied to the Heart, Vivec and the Tribunal become mortal again at the end of the main quest, leaving Vivec's fate to the player; this loss of divinity is the main plot of the expansion The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal, set in the capital Mournhold, which explores the characters and mythology of the Living Gods.
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