
Vivec is key to Morrowind's story and lore, but he also showcases the influence of Hindu mythology on the game. Like so many aspects of Vivec, it's hard to pin down. Sotha Sil, one of the other gods of the Tribunal, describes Vivec as "a poet" but warns that, as with poetry, Vivec is "born to seduce." Vivec is one of only two known Elder Scrolls characters to have achieved CHIM - the realization that they are just figments of a dreaming godhead's mind while asserting their individuality regardless. Although born male and referred to with masculine pronouns, the Chimer actually became both male and female when he became the transcendent evolution of Mephala, the Daedric Prince depicted as a spider seductress, liar, murderer, and many other traits which seem at odds with Vivec's own surface-level benevolence. One of the three god-kings of the Tribunal, Vivec is a living land of contrast.

Vivec is one of the most interesting NPCs ever featured in The Elder Scrolls. RELATED: Open-World Games That Set Industry Standards To make the self-declared "Last Living Dwarf" even stranger, cut recorded dialogue originally gave him a voice like Tex Avery's Droopy the dog. He is one of the only characters in the entire series who is able to formulate hypothesis about why exactly the Dwemer disappeared, including that they did in fact achieve immorality with the unexpected side-effect of ascending to a totally different plane of existence. Yagrum Bagarn, however, was in an "Outer Realm" at the time, and returned to find himself the last known member of his race.Īfter contracting Corprus, he befriended Divayth Fyr, who cared for him and helped retrieve him from the insanity caused by the later stages of the disease.

When the Dwemer's Chief Tonal Architect Kagrenac tried to use the Heart of Lorkhan to make his people gods, they vanished. Yagrum is the last of the Dwemer, who all disappeared during their war with the Chimer. The line between incredible good luck and terrible misfortune can be slim, but being infected with Corprus and attached to the lower half of a Dwemer centurion spider has left Yagrum Bagarn more than a little bloated.
