User:Hagrin Frost-Eye/Sandbox

A collection of information that I deem interesting, needs research, or documentation, for future reference and editing. Fellow UESP contributors can feel free to use this information however they like in their editing on the site.

To-Do

• Morrowind:Patch
• General:Megan Sawyer
• General:XnGine
• General:Bad Dog and General:Bethesda West
• Battlespire:Unused Content -> [Unused Audio in-game files], Old Spider Daedra, Old Scamp, Press Kit Screenshot scenery
• Daggerfall:Unused Content -> A ton, start with the Lysandus Sprite
• Research: https://vgmdb.net/album/40894

Websites

Battlespire

• mplayer - Battlespire

Morrowind

• m0use.com: BattleRealm
• www.euro-morrowind.com
• Adrian's Chalice
• Stratos Group's Unofficial Guide To Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• morrowindfiles.com
• balmora.com
• morrowind.nl (Dutch/Belgian)
• euro-morrowind.com: Codex - Skills
• euro-morrowind.com: Codex - Weapons
• Gratuitous Guar Page
• National Guaragraphic
• ArchieWind: Guar Kissing Page
• rpgplanet: The Daily Vivec

Info on Official TES Beta Tests

Morrowind

• A few words about beta testing. Post by Pete Hines about beta testing the game. The Elder Scrolls Forums. (1 June 2000). Archived on Mar 5 2001.

TES3 Construction Set

• Does anybody know (about beta-testing in general) ... Post detailing explanation of TES:CS beta test by Pete Hines. The Elder Scrolls Forums. (31 March 2001). Archived on 26 April 2001. Also includes comment by Ted Peterson as Sheogorath.

Morrowind Patches/Plugins

• Morrowind™ Patch Beta Testing. elderscrolls.com. Sign-Up Sheet.
• The Morrowind Beta Testers Group. teammorrowind.com. Fan website for the Morrowind beta testers. This group composed of members officially selected by Bethesda to test the patches and plugins for Morrowind, and then continued to play-test fan-created mods in the time shortly after Morrowind's release.

Bloodmoon

• CALL FOR BLOODMOON BETA TESTERS!. Ashley Cheng. elderscrolls.com. (28 March 2003).

Patches

Tribunal

• TRIBUNAL PATCH. elderscrolls.com. (3 February 2003). Release date of Patch 1.4.1313. •

Bloodmoon

• BLOODMOON PATCH. elderscrolls.com. (9 July 2003). Release date of Patch 1.6.1820. •

Press Releases

Morrowind

• THE ELDER SCROLLS III: MORROWIND TO FEATURE SOUNDTRACK BY AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER JEREMY SOULE “GAMING’S GREATEST MUSICIAN” TO COMPOSE AND CREATE MUSIC FOR EPIC RPG. elderscrolls.com. (12 November 2001). •
• UBI SOFT SIGNS MAJOR PUBLISHING CONTRACT WITH BETHESDA SOFTWORKS TO DISTRIBUTE MULTIPLE TITLES IN EUROPE. elderscrolls.com. (3 January 2002). •
• LYNDA CARTER JOINS THE CAST OF THE ELDER SCROLLS III: MORROWIND. elderscrolls.com. (5 February 2002).
• Morrowind Announcement. elderscrolls.com. (??-??-????).

Bloodmoon

• MORE BLOODMOON SCREENSHOTS. elderscrolls.com. (25 April 2003). "We have added 3 more Bloodmoon screenshots to the Screenshots section. These newest screens feature Castle Karstaag, The mining colony, and Skaal village."
• Lynda Carter Back for More in Bloodmoon Expansion Pack for Morrowind. elderscrolls.com. (8 May 2003).

GotY

• Bethesda Softworks Announces Morrowind Game of the Year Edition Headed to Stores. elderscrolls.com. (30 October 2003).
• MORROWIND GOTY FOR PC HEADED TO STORES. elderscrolls.com. (30 October 2003). PC.

Misc

• MORROWIND STORE AND NEW WALLPAPER. elderscrolls.com. (25 January 2002). "We're pleased to announce the launch of the Morrowind Merchandise store. Through our store at CafePress.com, you can now get t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs, and more with a Morrowind logo or character. Be the first one in your office to own an Argonian coffee mug. Stop by to check out the selection. Also, we have added a new wallpaper to the Downloads section. This time we feature the city of Balmora."
• 1 MILLION MOD DOWNLOADS, BLACK T-SHIRTS. elderscrolls.com. (23 August 2002). "Also, after many requests Cafe Press is happy to announce they are offering Black Morrowind T-shirts. Visit the Morrowind Merchandise Store to order yours today."
• NEW PLUGIN, TEXTURE COMPRESSION UTILITY. elderscrolls.com. (1 July 2002). "Also, we've added a link to NVIDIA's Photoshop Texture Compression plugin. This utility allows you to open and save the .dds texture files used by Morrowind."

Portfolios

• Megan Sawyer - Oblivion Archive
• Megan Sawyer - Skyrim Archive

Interviews

Morrowind & Expansions

• IGN: RPG Roundtable #1 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
• IGN: RPG Roundtable #3 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

Interview Listings

Morrowind & Expansions

• Destination: Morrowind - Latest News. 1 June 2000. Archived on 4 March 2001.
• es.com News01. Archived on 14 April 2004.

Developer Interviews

• "Meet Megan Sawyer– Senior Environment Artist at Bethesda Game Studios" (19 October 2022).
• elderscrolls.com: Interviews List. Archived on (17 April 2004). Huge list of dev interviews for Morrowind and expansions.
• elderscrolls.com: Articles List. Archived on (17 April 2004). Huge list of articles and dev comments for Morrowind.

Q&A Articles / Forum & Web posts

Morrowind Pre-Release

• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #5 Magic. 29 August 2001. Victor Breuggemann. Steve Meister. Todd Howard.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #9 Characters & Playing Styles. 11 October 2001. Matt Picioccio. Matt Krohn. Jason Ruddy. Gary Noonan. Mike Lipari. Todd Vaughn. Steve Meister. Noah Berry. Ken Rolston.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #10 Special Places. 25 October 2001. Matt Krohn. Jason Ruddy. Gary Noonan. Steve Meister. Ken Rolston. Mark Nelson. Christine Miller.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #11 Something Special. 8 November 2001. Jason Ruddy. Gary Noonan. Ken Rolston. Mark Nelson. Mike Fridley. Matt Picioccio. Brian Chapin. Todd Howard.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #12 Interesting Opponents. 29 November 2001. Gary Noonan. Ken Rolston. Mark Nelson. Mike Fridley. Matt Picioccio. Brian Chapin. Christiane Meister. Mike Lipari. Douglas Goodall.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #13 Surprise!. 6 December 2001. Todd Howard. Noah Berry. Mark Bullock. Douglas Goodall. Steve Meister. Brian Chapin. Ashley Cheng. Ken Rolston. Mark Nelson. Gary Noonan. Mike Wagner.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #14 Favorite Skills. 21 December 2001. Ken Rolston. Gary Noonan. Juan Sanchez. Mark Nelson. Matt Picioccio. Brian Chapin.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #15 TES Construction Set. 3 January 2002. Todd Howard. Mark Nelson. Matt Krohn. Steve Meister. Ashley Cheng. Mike Fridley. Christiane Meister.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #16 Off The Beaten Path. 17 January 2002. Todd Howard. Mark Bullock. Mark Nelson. Ken Rolston. Matt Picioccio. Mike Wagner. Noah Berry.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #17 Low-Level Favorites. 31 January 2002. Brian Chapin. Matt Carofano. Steve Meister. Gary Noonan. Matt Picioccio. Douglas Goodall. Matt Krohn. Mark Nelson.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #18 Great Houses. 14 February 2002. Todd Howard. Ken Rolston. Gary Noonan. Mark Bullock. Brian Chapin. Ashley Cheng. Mark Nelson. Steve Meister.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #19. 7 March 2002. Mark Nelson. Matt Picioccio. Brian Chapin. Steve Meister. Ken Rolston. Gary Noonan. Ashley Cheng. Mike Fridley. Noah Berry.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #20 Favorite Weapons. 14 March 2002. Ken Rolston. Douglas Goodall. Steve Meister. Ashley Cheng. Gary Noonan. Mike Lipari. Mark Nelson. Jason Ruddy. Brian Chapin. Matt Krohn. Noah Berry.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #21. 28 March 2002. Todd Howard. Mike Lipari. Mark Nelson. Gary Noonan. Ashley Cheng. Matt Picioccio. Ken Rolston. Ahn Hopgood. Steve Meister.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #22. 11 April 2002. Todd Howard. Gary Noonan. Matt Picioccio. Brian Chapin. Christine Miller. Ashley Cheng. Mark Nelson. Mike Fridley. Steve Meister. Matt Krohn.
• RPG Vault: Morrowind Developer Q&A; #23 Favorite Birthsigns. 25 April 2002. Todd Howard. Matt Krohn. Gary Noonan. Ashley Cheng. Kerry Sergent. Mike Lipari. Christiane Meister. Douglas Goodall. Steve Meister.

Forum Posts

• New Dev Diary!!! 30 March 2001. Mark Jones. Douglas Goodall. Gary Noonan. Steve Meister. smudge. kathode.
  • Page 2. smudge. kathode. Mark Jones. Douglas Goodall. Steve Meister.
• Who wants HORSES? 9 & 10 April 2001. Gary Noonan.
  • Page 3. Douglas Goodall. Gary Noonan.
• Game Music........ 9 April 2001. Gary Noonan.
• New Interview!! 7 April 2001. Ted Peterson.
  • Page 3. Ted Peterson. Douglas Goodall.
• Old news, but might kick off good discussion. 6 April 2001. Ted Peterson.
• Morrowind Interview. 30 May 2000. About CoreyFro Interview. Pete Hines.
• BethSoft.com. 2 March 2001. Mark Jones.
• can we expect new screenshots anytime soon? 1 March 2001. Pete Hines.
• Nice job Gryphon!! 1 March 2001. Pete Hines.
• :::: The Devs never answered our forsaken crys! ::::. 22 February 2001. Mark Nelson. Christiane Meister.
  • Page 2. 23 February 2001. Mark Nelson.
• Hope nobody has missed this. 29 January 2001. Mark Jones. Christiane Meister.
  • Page 2. 7 February 2001. Mark Jones.
• Woot! I'm Published! 10 March 2001. Douglas Goodall.
• Will MW feature a created language, just for the game? 10 March 2001. Douglas Goodall.
• What it is to be TRULY freeform. 20 March 2001. 2x Pete Hines. Ken Rolston.
• New Interview with Lead Artist Matty C. Page 5. 15 March 2001. 2x Mark Nelson. Douglas Goodall. Gary Noonan.
• ALL IN ONE Eldar Mayiere. 21 March 2001. Gary Noonan.
• FAQ for the Editor. 4 March 2001. Ken Rolston.
• Speculations. 19 March 2001. Douglas Goodall.
• Dwarven Myth and Legend. 22 January 2001. 2x Gary Noonan.
• Imperator Shrine. 24 March 2001. Douglas Goodall.
• Your Turn To Contribute (quests, that is). 23 March 2001. 8x Douglas Goodall.
  • Page 3. 25 March 2001. 2x Douglas Goodall.
  • Page 4. 26 March 2001. Douglas Goodall. 3x Ted Peterson.
• Each quest is unique. 26 March 2001. Douglas Goodall.
• Does anybody know (about beta-testing in general) ... 31 March 2001. Pete Hines. Ted Peterson.
• New Interview at Morrowind - Italia! 29 March 2001. Ted Peterson.
• Writers credits. 30 March 2001. Douglas Goodall. Ted Peterson.
• Futre Easter Eggs. 29 March 2001. Christiane Meister.
• Edited Chat Log. 5 April 2001. Ted Peterson.
• To Wormgod - Dungeon Design Question. 3 April 2001. 2x Gary Noonan. 2 xMark Nelson. 2x Ted Peterson.
  • Page 2. 3 April 2001. 4x Gary Noonan. 2 xMark Nelson. Ted Peterson. Douglas Goodall.
• Faces. 2 April 2001. Gary Noonan.
• What vid libraries? 8 April 2001. Douglas Goodall.
• Precious stones, minerals and otherwise useless but pricy items.. 6 April 2001. Ted Peterson.
• Problems with magick in most games. 3 April 2001. 2x Ted Peterson.
• OT- Horizons (Everything and a ball of cheese). 10 April 2001. 2x Douglas Goodall. Gary Noonan.
• POLE: Have you begun designing your plugin yet? 12 December 2001. Ted Peterson.
• WHAT THE HELL IS THE BLIGHT? 12 April 2001. 2x Mark Nelson. Qwerty. smudge.
  • Page 2. 16 April 2001. 2x Mark Nelson. 2x Qwerty.
• Elder Scrolls Chapter IV: Oblivion! (The best MMORPG ever!). 13 April 2001. Ted Peterson.
  • Page 2. 16 April 2001. 2x Gary Noonan.
• Linux Support? 21 March 2001. 3x Qwerty.
• Dwemer Trivia. 16 April 2001. Gary Noonan. 4x Qwerty. Ted Peterson.
  • Page 2. 17 April 2001. 5x Qwerty.
  • Page 3. 18 April 2001. Gary Noonan. 6x Qwerty. Douglas Goodall.
  • Page 4. 19 April 2001. 2x Douglas Goodall. Gary Noonan. Qwerty. 3x Ted Peterson.
  • Page 5. 20 April 2001. Ted Peterson. Gary Noonan. Douglas Goodall.

Misc

• The Hall of Adventurers - Morrowind. mouse.igalaxy.net. 1998?
• USENET on Morrowind. Google Groups. 1998.
• USENET Todd on Redguard. Google Groups. 1997.

External News Articles

• [ IGN: ] (--200)

Multiple Titles

• IGN: Steam Leaks Bethesda Lineup (June-12-2009)

Morrowind

IGN

• IGN: Elder Scrolls: Morrowind "Officially" Announced (March-30-2000) •
• IGN: Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Interview (June-8-2000)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind Screens and New Info (June-9-2000)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Interview 2 (October-27-2000)
• IGN: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Update (June-8-2001)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (June-12-2001)
• IGN: New Yummy Site Stuff (June-22-2001)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (August-10-2001)
• IGN: Morrowind Stuff (August-31-2001)
• IGN: ECTS 2001: Morrowind Screens (August-31-2001)
• IGN: Morrowind Delayed (October-2-2001) - IGN Staff •
• IGN: Morrowind Delayed (October-3-2001) - William Pulley
• IGN: Morrowind Movie (October-12-2001)
• IGN: Morrowind in Action (October-19-2001)
• IGN: More on Morrowind (October-26-2001)
• IGN: Classes Open for Art of Magic (October-26-2001)
• IGN: Take a Tour of Morrowind (November-2-2001)
• IGN: Morrowind's Got Soule (November-12-2001) •
• IGN: Morrowind Gets a Soule (November-12-2001)
• IGN: Morrowind Collector's Edition Goodies (December-7-2001)
• IGN: Morrowind Update (December-14-2001)
• IGN: Ubi in Europe (January-11-2002)
• IGN: Wonder Woman and the Elder Scrolls (February-6-2002)
• IGN: The Water of Morrowind (February-8-2002)
• IGN: Hands On with Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (March-13-2002)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Hands-on (March-15-2002)
• IGN: Morrowind Gold (April-23-2002) •
• IGN: Morrowind In-Depth: Character Creation (April-25-2002)
• IGN: Morrowind Character Creation (April-25-2002)
• IGN: Buy Morrowind. Now! (May-3-2002)
• IGN: More Morrowind (May-13-2002)
• IGN: New Morrowind Plug-ins Available (May-31-2002)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls: Morrowind First Impressions (June-12-2002)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Review (June-17-2002)

Tribunal

IGN

• IGN: Morrowind Expansion Pack Announced (September-6-2002) •
• IGN: Oct. 4: Friday Night Visuals - Tribunal, Sea Dogs II (October-4-2002)
• IGN: Face the Tribunal^{Blank page?} (October-4-2002)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal Ships (November-8-2002)
• IGN: Tribunal Review (December-9-2002)

Bloodmoon

IGN

• IGN: Bloodmoon Announced (February-14-2003) •
• IGN: Lynda Carter in Bloodmoon Expansion (May-8-2003)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon Site Update (March-28-2003)
• IGN: E3 2003: Bloodmoon (May-15-2003)
• IGN: Bloodmoon Gold (May-23-2003) •
• IGN: Bloodmoon First Impressions(?) (June-17-2003)
• IGN: Game of the Month June 2003 (July-1-2003)
• IGN: Bloodmoon Review (October-16-2003)

Others

• Entertainment Depot: Bloodmoon Review (August-12-2003)
• games xtreme: Bloodmoon Review (August-24-2003)
• Gaming Illustrated: Bloodmoon Review (August-20-2003)
• The Armchair Empire: Bloodmoon Review (August-14-2003)
• Boomtown: Bloodmoon Review (August-13-2003)

GotY Version

Both

• IGN: The Elder Scrolls Site - Team Diary (August-24-2003)
• IGN: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition (October-5-2003)

Xbox

• IGN: Morrowind Returns (May-9-2003)
• IGN: Morrowind Goes Double "Platinum" (November-10-2004)

Oblivion

• IGN: The Elder Scrolls IV Confirmed (September-10-2004)

Infernal City/Lord of Souls

• IGN: Bethesda Softworks and Del Rey Books Announce Novels Based on The Elder Scrolls (Apr-27-2009)

Misc

• IGN: Morrowind: Head-to-Head (June-21-2002)
• IGN: Elder Scrolls on PS2 False (March-3-2003)

NDL/Emergent/NetImmerse/Gamebryo

Emergent News Archive

• Bethesda Flash Movie 1
• Bethesda Flash Movie 2

• Todd Howard Quote on NetImmerse
• Morrowind Game Overview
• Morrowind Screenshots <-- One has not been archived yet.

• ??? ?? ????: Morrowind Graphics Cast Spell on Reviewers
• June 1 2001: Morrowind Meets its E3 Quest
• August 21 2001: With Morrowind, Bethesda Softworks Only Expects "The Most Detailed Virtual World Ever Created"
• ??? ?? 2002: Reviewers Praise the Detailed World of Morrowind
• June 2 2002: Bethesda's Morrowind for Xbox Hailed as "Tour-de-Force," "Best RPG," "Unprecedented"
• Nov 26 2002: NDL's Graphics Engine Showcased in Bethesda's Release of Tribunal
• Nov 4 2003: Bethesda Softworks®; Releases Morrowind Game of the Year™ Edition for Xbox™ with NDL's Graphics Engine

International Releases

Publishers

Czech

Playman s.r.o.

Playman s.r.o has credits for localization on MobyGames, and looking through the archive, it appears they didn't do an entire localization akin to Akella, i.e., no new voice acting. This isn't set in stone, and needs more research to verify.

• MobyGames: playman s.r.o. - Credit page on MobyGames (See Also: MobyGames Morrowind Releases)
• playman.cz - Games page
• playman.cz: Morrowind
• playman.cz: Tribunal
  • playman.cz: Publisher's Playmana Plan as of 11.12.2003 - Manual writing localization credit
• playman.cz: Bloodmoon

JRC (unconfirmed)

• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - Datum vydání: 3/2002

Misc. Info

• WELCOME TO THE MORROWIND STORE AT CAFEPRESS.COM. CafeShops. Archived on 12 October 2002.
• OpenMW : Homepage. Snaptoad. Archived on 20 August 2008.

Malthar

• https://web.archive.org/web/20250529173029/https://netcontrol.net/archive-a/ar17/index.shtml
• ?
• https://web.archive.org/web/20010423052211/http://morrowind.telefragged.com/dragons_eyrie/index00.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20010622192237/http://morrowind.telefragged.com:80/dragons_eyrie/index00.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250527223959/https://www.deviantart.com/mjonesgraphics/art/Malthar-From-Darkmere-an-Amiga-game-662170719
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250523235011/https://members.tripod.com/dragons_eyrie/profile.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20171007202701fw_/http://www.mjonesgraphics.com/strmlord.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250523235404/http://obligement.free.fr/articles/itwjones2.php
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070314013740/http://www.mjonesgraphics.com/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20101009092032/http://www.mjonesgraphics.com/