History Morrowind / TropesAToC

** Dagoth Gares, one of [[BigBad Dagoth Ur]]'s highest-ranking goons, will exchange a pleasant conversation with you and offer you some fine vintage brandy before offering to let you strike first.
** Dagoth Ur himself is rather polite right up until you try to kill him, answering any questions you may have while referring you as his dear friend.

* TheChosenWannabe: During part of the main quest, the [[PlayerCharacter Nerevarine]] visits the Cave of the Incarnate and speaks to the spirits of several Dunmer who tried to be the Nerevarine in the past. They all died before they could fulfill the prophecy.

** Many Dagoths appear identical to Ascended Sleepers, despite being much more powerful.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Several members of House Hlaalu in the main game, and Carnius Magius of the East Empire Company in Bloodmoon.

* CluelessBoss: Trebonius Artorius, the archmage of the mage's guild, is pretty clearly this. Most of the mages treat him as a joke, he gives random and pointless tasks to people, it's implied that he was KickedUpstairs after other mages got tired of his incompetence, and he doesn't notice that his advisor is actually a Telvanni spy, despite obvious errors in said advisor's credentials.

* ButThouMust: Rarely can you actually say "no" to a quest offer. At best, you can say you'll do it later.

* BareFistedMonk: The Unarmed fighting skill makes this an option for the player. Unarmed strikes damage an enemies fatigue instead of health until their fatigue reaches zero.

* {{Autosave}}: The game has this, but you can turn it off.

** Once you've advanced far enough in the main quest, Dagoth Ur will send Ash Zombie assassins to attack you if you sleep in cities.

* AntiHero - Larrius Varro of the Imperial Legion used to be a straight up law abiding legionnaire. Unfortunately, since the long arm of the law doesn't seem to reach certain criminals, he spends his days praying for a little [[VigilanteMan bloodbath]] to wash away the [[AssholeVictim bad people]].
** In a more general sense, many missions given the player by certain guilds or extensions of joinable organization (like the Office of the Watch in Vivec) will hire the player to do a little vigilante justice, and in almost all cases they admit they'd like to have the actual authorities do the job, but since that isn't working (usually because the target has friends in high places), you'll be serving as their [[PlausibleDeniability indirect extension of authority.]]

** Bretons naturally have a 50% resistance to magic, making them very effective anti-mages. Dunmer have a similar natural resistance, but only to fire-based magic.
** Magic resistance in various forms is a high-level (read: expensive) spell and enchantment option. Items which have this as a constant effect are some of the most treasured in the game. (Keep in mind though, wearing them will also decrease the effectiveness of beneficial spells you use on yourself, such as healing spells.)

** Also not far from the FistTown is the cave of Assemanu. It contains the Robe of St. Roris which, in the unpatched version of the game, has a constant effect Restore Health and Restore Fatigue enchantment, essentially making the wearer near-invincible to anything other than a full health OneHitKO. The cave is a Sixth House base full of mid-to-high level enemies though, which even for a min-maxed starting character will be extremely difficult to defeat. (For a stealthy character with a few potions of invisibility though...)

* BeefGate:
** Due to the almost complete lack of level scaling in the game (which is unique for the series, and for Bethesda games in general,) the local fauna will serve as this to any underleveled players who veer too far off the main quest path early on. Certain areas, such as [[{{Mordor}} inside the Ghostfence]], are full of end-game level creatures right off the bat and will continue to serve as beef gates until late into the game. It is possible to avert by min-maxing your character at the start and knowing where to look in order to acquire high quality gear (which, like enemies, also does not level scale.) A few specific examples:
** The Samarys Ancestral Tomb lies just a few steps off the road between Seyda Neen and Balmora. It contains the Mentor's Ring, a legendary artifact that boosts Intelligence and Willpower with a constant effect. However, the tomb is guarded by an Ancestral Ghost, who cannot be harmed by unenchanted, non-silver weapons (which is likely all the player will have access to if accessed early on in the game.) Using spells, sneaking by, or making a side-trip to acquire a weapon which can harm the ghost are recommended.

* BikiniBar: Desele's House of Earthly Delights in Suran has three stripped-down dancers, and Desele herself (who works the bar,) is topless.

* BadassArmy - The Imperial Legion is legitimately tough, having brought the entire continent of Tamriel under their rule. However, even they collectively admit their respect for Great House Redoran in this regard for the Redoran's emphasis on being able to fight and defend Morrowind. Redoran isn't called the "Warrior House" for nothing. In the backstory, when Tiber Septim was threatening to invade Morrowind, House Redoran was preparing to defend Morrowind ''on their own'' while the other Great Houses chose to remain neutral or to accommodate the empire before the armistice was signed.
** [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Later]], House Redoran is destroyed during the Oblivion crisis, but not before reanimating the dead Emperor Crab known as "Skar" and fighting the hordes of Oblivion to a standstill. (By the time of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Dragonborn]]'', they've managed to make a comeback.)

* ArtificialAtmosphericActions: People appear to be programmed to say certain things depending on a couple conditions. If you're sick, they'll say "eeeew get away from me" or tell you to go to a healer. This sometimes is funny when the ''healer'' tells you this. But if you talk to them, they'll ignore that you happen to have some kind of ailment. Civilians don't stand in one place, thankfully, but instead they just aimlessly wander around the towns 24/7, sometimes getting stuck trying to walk through each other. They also sometimes don't react to monsters - which can be quite funny when they just stand there as an Ash Zombie had crawled into your house.
** And sometimes, the "greetings" will cause them to break character. Such as the stuck-up-holier-than-thou Mage's Guild leader not talking down to you. Or Caius saying "Pleasure to meet you" after he's given you at least four quests.
*** This can even be ''useful'': there are a couple of situations where you want to kill someone, but their standard greeting drops you out of the conversation with a goodbye, keeping you from taunting them to attack you first. The thing is, the 'why are you naked' subroutine usually supersedes that greeting...
** The scripting errors can be hilarious. Especially when guards get stuck trying to walk over unconscious bodies. Or tell you to move along when a dark elf is trying to punch your lights out, but then shout "'''You n'wah!'''" if you fight back. Or '''fail''' to react at all and stand there staring while you duke it out.

* CorruptChurch - The Tribunal Temple, despite its dubious origins, used to be an undeniable force for good. These days? Not so much.
** Curiously, in the early days when the Tribunal gods consistently lived and worked among their people, it was much better. Since they retreated into their own seclusion [[spoiler:thanks to no longer being able to replenish their divine power with the Heart of Lorkhan and instead having to conserve their power (by the time of the player's arrival, Vivec has been maintaining the entire Ghostfence on his own for centuries) to protect Tamriel from Dagoth Ur]]. It was only after mortals took over the running of things that everything started to go to hell.

* BonusBoss - The AnyoneCanDie nature of the games means you could naturally fight and kill anyone you wish. But a special mention goes out to [[spoiler: Vivec]]. You are by no means required to fight him, and doing so before completing the main quest will make the normal method of beating the game impossible, but if you choose to do so, you'll have quite the fight on your hands. Bonus irony points if you [[spoiler: soul trap him in Azura's Star.]]
** The Ash Vampires as well. You are only required to fight one in order to get an item [[spoiler: (Sunder)]] off of him, but there are 6 others you can hunt down and kill. Killing them is supposed to weaken Dagoth Ur in the final confrontation, but due to a scripting glitch, this does not happen. Still, they each possess unique enchanted items that are LostForever if you don't fight them, and you should kill them if you're going for HundredPercentCompletion.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Divayth Fyr. Yes, the kindly old wizard who cures you (sort of) of Corprus. Once you can get his attention, he is generous and kind (Which, considering that he's [[MightMakesRight House Telvanni]], should probably be a warning flag all by itself.) He lived to see his 4000th birthday in a House where {{Klingon Promotion}} is pretty much a standard. Think twice before you anger him.
** Some animals are like this, too. Scribs may seem like weaklings because of their passive nature and small stature, but be careful when attacking one, since they can completely Paralyze you for a few seconds. Also, the Horkers in the ''Bloodmoon'' expansion may not attack you on sight, but they'll go completely ballistic and even pursue you on both land and sea if you stand close to them for too long.

** In ''Bloodmoon'', these are a group of hostile [=NPCs=] who wear very little clothing and attack enemies on sight.

* CainAndAbel

* CallARabbitASmeerp

* TheChosenWannabe: During part of the main quest, the [[PlayerCharacter Nerevarine]] visits the Cave of the Incarnate and speaks to the shades of several Dunmer who tried to be the Nerevarine in the past. They all died before they could fulfill the prophecy.

* CycleOfHurting: An enemy using unarmed attacks can cause this. Once your fatigue hits zero, you'll be knocked down. As you recover fatigue, you'll stand back up, only to be knocked down again by your opponent's next punch. And because unarmed attacks do very little damage, it takes a long time to be killed this way.

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