Casey Jepson presents:

Enderes
and the Mega-Uber Ultimate Morrowind Collection EVER

Ladies, and gentleorcs, witness before you the pinnacle of tedious collecting and OCD organizing. Back in October 2004 I began my first character on the game of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. His name was Enderes, a Bosmer (wood elf) adventurer. He started like any character: leveling up skills, joining ever guild, earning as much fame and moolah as he could. But one day something started. Rather than just selecting the useful or valuable items to loot from each house or cave or ruin I entered, I thought "What if I looted EVERYTHING in here?" And I did. I took every weapon, jewel, pillow, bottle, cup, fork, knife, candle, potion, egg--anything that could be picked up. And with a special mod a friend downloaded for me that gave me a "Cheater's backpack" with 2000 pts of feather (constant effect), it didn't take long.

Some things I sold for money, but most of it I just stored in one of my couple of houses. In one (Balmora Manor or "Jolard House", mod-added of course) I decided that all the generic stuff (crockery, textiles, bottles, etc) would just be piled up one on another, and I thought I'd see if I could fill the place floor to ceiling. This was before I learned about Overflow Loot Bags. Also in the Council Club I stored all of the clothes, weapons, and armor. That place really filled up, although not as high.

Soon I got the idea that I should take all things in the game I could get, and organize them by type systematically. Each type of thing in a different house.

For there is a method to my madness. First, I'd have to beat the game; that is, complete all 3 main quests (Morrowind, Bloodmoon, Tribunal), become master of every guild, max every skill & attribute to 100. And of course, while I'm doing this I'll loot every item from every location that I visit, as far as I can get away with, to store in one house or another. After all that's done, it's time to SCOUR VVARDENFEL.

Here's what happens. Using my own in-game map, the large paper color map that comes with the game, and a Hi-res computer map out-of-game, I mark and label every entrance to another cell on the island(s). Every tomb, cave, shrine, ruin, mine, etc. I then went to every one of these, made sure all NPCs in it was dead (whether friend or foe), and all items looted. It was long, tedious work, but of the kind I like.

Then, after doing all those, came the cities. I'd pick a city, list each building, and do the same. At first I'd use Frenzy-enchantments or persuasion to make other people attack first, so that I wouldn't be breaking laws. At some point, when I was ready, I just went postal. I left trails of bodies everywhere, and I think I ended up with a bounty of over 1 million gold. Of course, once I killed the guards, there was no problem; regular people don't aggro.

Eventually though, through meticulous charting, I assertained that I'd killed every NPC and looted every item in the game (the exception being some ingredients--I didn't loot all the chests that had potion ingredients when I first started this, so there are like 2% of the buildings that still have a couple unlooted containers... but I made up for it with massive wild plant-plucking). It was now time to sort. I designated a building (or 3) to each type of item. Most of these buildings were mod-added. For example, the Bank of Vvardenfel mod lets you buy 8 houses. In the Caldera house I stored my scrolls, each "stacked" (all of the Scroll of Hellfire are together as one item) and neatly side-by-side, in groups of magic college (all the destruction scrolls are on one part of the floor, the restoration scrolls on the bed, etc). The Tel Branora house has all books. They are grouped according to their physical appearance, just like the scrolls, but all the open books piled on the bed. You get the picture. It took me 2 years less a month from starting the game to beating all quests & leveling to collecting every last bit&bob. It is now December 2007 that I have finished taking screenshots of my collection and posting this on the web, which means I spent 15 months organizing the loot. That's 2/3 as long as the time I spent just playing the game.

So without further ado, I bring you the results of over 3 years work, possibly the most tedious, obsessive collection any player has ever put together in an RPG video game. Click on a page below to see it for your own eyes.


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