Most serious are the plagues and diseased hosts produced by the blight storms sweeping out from Red Mountain. The Temple has unsuccessfully attempted to silence criticism and calls for reform within its ranks. Ashlanders raid settlements, plunder caravans, and kill foreigners on their wild lands. Struggles between Great House, Temple, and Imperial interests to control Vvardenfell's resource could at any time erupt into full-scale war. The Imperial administration faces many challenges in the Vvardenfell district, but the most serious are the Great House rivalries, animosity from the Ashlander nomads, internal conflicts within the Temple itself, and the Red Mountain blight.
The Temple stubbornly fought all development in their district, and were largely successful… The Temple was still recognized as the majority religion, but worship of the Nine Divines was protected by the legions and encouraged by Imperial cult missions. Local law became a mixture of House Law and Imperial Law in House Districts, jointly enforced by House guards and Legion guards, with Temple law and Imperial law enforced in the Temple district by Ordinators. Resdayn was the last of the provinces to submit to Tiber Septim like Black Marsh, it was never successfully invaded, and was peacefully incorporated by treaty into the Empire as the Province of Morrowind. The ancient ancestor worship of the tribes was in time superseded by the monolithic Tribunal Temple theocracy, and the Dunmer grew into a great nation called Resdayn. When the scattered Dunmer tribes consolidated into the predecessors of the modern Great House clans, they threw out the Nord oppressors and successfully resisted further incursions. In earliest times the Dunmer were harassed or dominated by Nord sea raiders. ‘.Led by the legendary prophet Veloth, the ancestors of the Dunmer, exiles from Altmer cultures in present-day Summerset Isles, came to the region of Morrowind.
As most history books tend to be, A Short History of Morrowind was dry and wordy, but there were a few parts she had found interesting.
She’d been having trouble going to sleep, so she decided she’d read until sleep could take her. Adanji sat Akaviri-style in her bunk, A Short History of Morrowind lying open in her lap.
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