Clothing in Morrowind - An Overview 

Playing Morrowind in 2024 is based

Drip beyond measure outlander.

"They're clearly meant to be paired with a top to make them sense" *Caius Cosades strongly disapproves*

babe wake up the oblivion girl just posted again

+1 for using giant mushroom as a showcase runway

Something cool about Morrowind is how the devs intentionally wanted to make magicians part of this elite, otherworldly class. House Telvanni was incredibly gatekeepy on a skill level so you see drip go wild to drive that point home

i really miss the fact that you could wear robes over your armor in morrowind such a cool feature that's left out of oblivion and skyrim

It’s so awesome to see another girl on the internet talking about the Elder Scrolls the way I do. Watching your content is so special as an ES girlie 🥺

I love the complexity and layers of Morrowind clothing. Separate gloves is a lot but I think it just makes for more interesting characters and NPCs. There are all kinds of characters who stand out because they're just wearing one pauldron or have mismatched armor. Instead of Skyrim where they're all wearing identical full body costumes...

Wild to think that morrowind is older than some of the viewers

One cool thing about Morrowind clothing is that NPCs react to what you wear. So if you wear a common shirt and pants they might tell you that you look like a stinky peasant, and when you wear very expensive clothes they might notice that you are doing well. I miss this a bit in Oblivion and Skyrim.

Calling it now, with this level of production quality... this channel gonna explode in size. The passion put into these is just too strong!

Kingdom Come Deliverance has a similar layer system and it's awsome, clothes might not give armor points, but wearing nice clean clothes in good condition gives you extra charisma points to get better deals in shops and a better chance of persuading people

What a grand and intoxicating innocence

One thing I really like about Morrowind's clothing is how the different styles indicate not only different social classes, but different cultural backgrounds, as well. The more standard medieval-fantasy type stuff tends to be worn by non-Dunmer and people in very Imperialized towns, suggesting those outfits are influenced by fashion styles from Cyrodiil (and of course, the Colovian Fur Helm is explicitly Cyrodiilic - Colovia is the western half of Cyrodiil, so it's weird that we didn't see people wearing them in Oblivion). The Dunmer fashion tends to have a lot of loose fabrics that cover the entire body, and scarves that look like they could be quickly turned into a face-mask - sensible for fashion that arose in a land where dust and ash storms are a regular occurrence. And then, the native Ashland garments have a slightly rougher-hewn look to them, e.g. the Expensive Robe at 7:11, since the Ashlanders, due to their nomadic lifestyle, put plenty of care and effort into making clothes but lack the more advanced technology to get finer stitching, &c. Personally, I really like the way the shirts look on female characters, and I'm glad they didn't make the model change to something more "feminine". But, I've always been a sucker for women in Elizabethan menswear. I don't know if you've played Daggerfall, but I'd love to see a video in this style talking about the fashion in that game, too. It's got at _least_ as many options for fashion customization as Morrowind has, to the extent that playing dress-up in the inventory menu is one of my favorite passtimes in the game.

I came for the colovian fur helm and you did not let me down

I have no idea how you can make a video about Morrowind clothing without mentioning Caius Cosades and his impeccable fashion sense! We need a follow-up!

The gloves being separated into left and right is something I like to imagine is because of the two different versions of Wraithguard you can obtain that are technically different Wraithguards, one for the left and one for the right, and then the team just shrugging and going "well why make one category for paired gloves and a separate category just for the Wraithguards" and going with it.

Clothing in Skyrim 🙁 Clothing in Oblivion 😎 Clothing in Morrowind 🗿 Clothing in Daggerfall 😳

You're gonna have a wild time with the clothing in daggerfall.

I still can't believe this channel exists. Keep up the good work. I like when people look at these details since it's so hard to write them correctly.

I’d like to congratulate how well you’ve launched this channel, you’ve clearly either done a lot of research or have previous experience because this is expertly done, unique concept, well made thumbnails, even a catchphrase with the reading of the elder scrolls. Textbook example on how to launch a successful channel. Well done!

Seeing young people with such passion for Morrowind gives me hope for the future of RPGs.

Aye I really appreciate the love and appreciation you have for the small details! New favorite Elder Scrolls creator 🤙🤙🤙

Refreshing to see overlooked details in these games being discussed

Congratulations on the 10,000 subs! you truly honour the sixth house & the tribe unmourned. Dagoth Ur would be proud.

Technically . . . ALL clothing is armor in Morrowind because Morrowind has the "Unarmored" skill that goes up when you take damage in clothing/wearing nothing, and adds to the defensive value of clothing as the skill goes up. Theoretically it's to represent the player dodging attacks, but it works the same as armor values of any other armor type in the game. This is of course, a skill I wish they'd bring back because it makes cloth options for wear much more viable, gameplay wise.

Clothes are for us mortals, Lord Dagoth Ur is so powerful that he transcends the need for them!

Something interesting to note about the Colovian Fur Helm! Sheogorath in Oblivion's Shivering Isles DLC refers to them as 'Arrowcatcher hats', referring back to TES3 Morrowind concept art which labels it as the "Colovian Arrow-Catcher". So there is at least one instance where someone calls them hats and refers to the style of hat, though it's classified as armor in the game. There's also some pointy fur-lined hats in Skyrim that remind me a bit of the arrowcatchers, but they're not kept up like a cone, and are worn more like a Santa hat.

I never knew how much importance I unconsciously put into my character being stylish until now. Fargoth's simple casual attire is very good, his simplicity, that he under-dresses everybody else yet still looks cosy, is what I like the most.

It's ironic how Colovian Fur Helm is a piece of Cyrodiilic fashion (Colovian Highlands is the northwestern part of Cyrodiil) and yet we see it in Morrowind and not Oblivion.

I think you're absolutely right about Zangarmarsh being inspired by morrowind - there was always some eerie familiarity I felt in Seyda Neen the first time I played that I couldn't explain! TBC is my favorite wow expansion and I hadn't played Morrowind until just a few years ago

I’m glad I’m not the only person that loves Morrowind’s common robes ❤

honestly, Vvardenfell for fashion capital of Tamriel,

Big fan of how the Ordinators are dressed. Honestly my favorite armor in the game and the clothes really add to it.

I totally love your overview of the clothing in the game. You actually know what you're talking about and well-versed within the topic

Feel like I'm witnessing the early beginnings of a massive elder scrolls channel rn

You're videos are incredibly unique and different from what is usually posted. please keep up this content.

I really enjoyed your oblivion video, so to see you posted another one just made me super happy! Finally I found someone just as passionate about fashion as my characters are in game. I always collect a little all-occasions-wardrobe for every single one of them ^^

I do love me the colovian fur helm

My favorite robe is that teal extravagant robe with the gold moons on it. It's just so gorgeous and I want it irl. Oh god. I could probably make that.

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wear a partial set of armor under common robes and walk around like I was a commoner until combat happened. Absolutely zero benefit in game, but I liked the roleplay aspect of it. I really fell in love with the white robes you can get from the End of Times cult in Mournhold, too.

I would never have watched a video about clothing, but you throw in some Morrowind and I am very open to new topics. Excited to follow your work!

As a fellow fashion nerd in video games, this series has been so enjoyable to go through. And this upload came at the right time, because I’m about to finish the main quest for the first time. Thanks for the video!

I absolutely live for random dives into topics like this

Great video thanks. Morrowind is my favorite Elder Scrolls game. Order I played was Oblivion, Skyrim, and Morrowind. I admit at first it was difficult to adjust to being so old, but after giving it a fair chance I soon forgot all about those things I thought were limitations. Morrowind is a masterpiece and so rewarding to play as you advance and grow stronger over time in the world. Incredible lore/story. The game was an absolute treat to experience.

One thing that's really interesting about morrowind clothing is that there are a lot of items that are faction specific. It's harder to notice than rich clothing vs commoner clothing or dunmer fashion vs imperial fashion because the game never addresses it directly. But once you notice it, it becomes a really interesting detail that adds a lot to the worldbuilding and shows how much care they put into this game. Personally I only started noticing after messing with the additem console command, only to then corroborate that npcs were in fact wearing clothing acording to their factions. Basically if you check the IDs of clothing items you'll notice a lot of them end in _a _b _c _d or _1 _2 _3, but then you'll notice there's _h _hh _r _rr _t _tt (this is the house clothing), and _a _e _u _z (for the ashlander tribes). And so each house has two specific common shirts and robes and one extravagant robe and shirt (Redoran are easier to tell because they are all red) and some of them actually have the house emblems embroided. The commoners wearing them (almost all dunmer) are not necessarily memebers of the houses, sometimes they are just simply living on house territories such as Balmora or Vivec cantons. However house specific extravagant clothing is worn exclusively by house members. For example, the Hlaluu extravagant shirt is the golden one Dram Bero and Yngling Half-Troll are wearing, the Redoran extravagant clothing are the ones Athyn Sarethi and Mistress Brara Morvayn wear, and for the Telvanni ones look no further than Master Dratha's shirt and Master Aryon's robe (it's the same as the one you get from the falling wizard who was also a Telvanni member). And yes, other factions will entirely avoid all the house specific clothing. Like you won't find a single imperial guild, temple or cult memeber wearing any of the clothing mentioned above (at least I haven't found one so far). For the Ashlanders each tribe has one of each common and expensive shirt and pants, with ashkhans and wise women usually wearing the expensive ones. Ashlanders witches, the Mabrigash, also have their own specific shirt and pants (expensive_01), and both witches and wise women share an exclusive expensive robe (a brown one with pale red patterns). And again you won't find a single tribe memeber wearing shirts and pants from another tribe or the Mabrigash and vice versa, however some will be wearing common clothing from the houses, which I don't know if it's an oversight or it's meant to indicate trade/theft/abduction/fugitives etc. Ashlander clothing in general is really interesting because you can see the raw materials used to make them, which are all elements ashlanders would have access to like furs, feathers, leather and bones, or in the case of the Ahemmusa who live in the Grazelands, grass. Finally there's two more faction-specific clothing. The temple has a fairly noticeable one which is the cyan robe with golden stripes with daedric letters worn by high ranking members. I remember reading somewhere that the daedric writing can be read and it translates to Vivec sermons, which in turn explain the colors of the robe (Vivec himself and chimer/dunmer). The other is the Morag Tong which has an exclusive shirt and robe (the one Eno Hlaalu is wearing), both with blood red gems with daedric symbols inside. I don't quite remember but they said something about death in daedric, which is expected of Mephala fanclub.

I'm so happy I discovered your channel! Every video you make is absolutely delightful! And as a fellow TES lover who's also a digital artist and who's hugely obsessed with complex worldbuilding up to the smallest details, I'm super glad I finally found a youtuber who talks specifically about clothing and crests designs! You are awesome!!!

Wealth beyond measure, Outlander...

You seem very sincere, in your conversation, and rather well informed. You are right to have this growing fanbase, and I certainly expect to see this community you are creating grow over time ^^

I really loved your Oblivion video. Glad to see you continue to discuss this topic with other entries in the series and excited to see what you cover next.

Greatly appreciate you doing such an honor o the cosmetic side of my fav Elder Scrolls game. I always enjoyed all the clothing and armor choices you get.

I love the clothing in Morrwind, It's such a huge miss not to keep the layering in the other games. Like in Skyrim for example, I always mod it so that you can wear circlets with hoods.

With Wraithguard being such an important artifact that’s just a single glove, I wonder if that’s the main reason you can equip gloves separately, and would they have added that functionality without it? Too bad they didn’t separate the shoes and let you run around mismatched in those, too

Yes! The sequel we wanted! Great job. This channel is so neat. Keep up the great work.

Great video! Excited to watch. Morrowind was my introduction to the series. Keep reading those scrolls!

Random, but since you mentioned layering clothing in Morrowind and how it's almost unheard of nowadays, there is one other RPG I know of that does it. Kingdom Come Deliverance from 2018. The layers are mostly for armour but most slots can take certain types of clothing, especially the topmost and bottommost layers. So you can have a tunic, then a cotehardie on top, then a leather jerkin, then a waffenrock on top of all of it. You can even look through any baliff's equipment and see "Oh, they're wearing a steel chestplate under their big jacket" Which makes sense because it's low key, they could afford it, and they're expected to help guards keep the peace if someone gets too rowdy. If you ever feel up to it, I'd love to see you make a video on KCD's clothing. I always really liked it.

the purple robe, and the starry pattern on the skirt model, even tho low res,it still has so much character and detail that makes me happy to look at.

That was fast! I see a lot of people begged for this after your Oblivion clothing video and you have delivered! Thank you Angelika!

Eeeek! I got so excited for this video when I saw your Oblivion one, thank you for making this!

Thanks for making me curious about things I never noticed before! I think the gloves are split L/R in Morrowind because there are magical gloves you can combine in different ways for specific situations.

Yaaay! A new video on TES clothing!

I just wanted to pop in and say that your channel has become one of my favorites. Having someone focus on the "little things" of the Elder Scrolls, world building, fashion etc. is wonderful. Loving your content both as a fan of Elder Scrolls and as a game master for tabletop rpgs who can steal ideas from your videos! So thank you!

I think the reason left/right gloves exist is because Sunder is a right-handed gauntlet and that might have rippled out into the greater game design. Or the other way around.

Ah. Quality content.

I know you briefly touched upon it in the Oblivion clothing video, but please do the Shivering Isles clothing overview... To quote Peppermint from Drag Race on The Pit Stop, "It's fashion".

Love this content. Elder Scrolls has been discussed to death (which I am very grateful for ofc) so finding fresh and interesting parts of the games to discuss can be hard and you absolutely knock it out of the park. I think the gloves were probably split up by necessity because unlike boots, gauntlets can be applied to just one hand instead of being worn as a set. It's great both for visual customization and, like you said, enchanting. So because the item slots are separate it makes sense for gloves to be split up as well. Interestingly I think gloves are the only clothing slot that cannot be layered with armor! Also, my favorite outfit combo: The character I play most often is mostly unarmored and dresses fairly simply so I go for black common pants and the red extravagant shirt, paired with a single heavy gauntlet and netch leather boots. I dress for fashion only, the rest of my build speaks for itself in combat lol

Absolutely fantastic video! Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, and the fashions in game was so detailed. I deeply miss the shining robes.

Yay 🎉 You bless us with this video ❤

I don't know how much you've played of Morrowind, but NPCs will actually comment on your clothing, playing voice lines and saying stuff like "Those clothes suit you well, outlander." Also: Gah-Julan bonemold cuirass and L/R pauldrons, Native Chuzei bonemold helmet, bonemold L/R bracers, greaves, and boots + exquisite skirt, pants, and shirt is peak fashion. I can't remember if it's in the base game or if you need mods that let you wear gloves with bracers, but that's also the move.

Morrowind-style cozy-gaming is my kind of cozy-gaming :) Meaning: there is an active world-threat, you go tangle with smaller threats until you make it to the Big Bad(s), and you retreat to your cozy shack / Vivec-apartment / hidey-hole for some reading.... and yes, for me - shopping in Balmora at the clothier so I could get some fancy clothes & enchant them!

what's super cool about the clothing in morrowind is that the common and expensive categories have 4-5 separate items specifically made for the ashlander tribes! like there's a letter at the end of the ID, either a, u, z, or e, to show which tribe it's meant for, plus I think one extra set in the expensive category. i just think it's awesome that they went that far into detailing what each tribe would wear and making separate outfits for each one, even if most players would never even notice that kind of detail ingame (i definitely didn't until a little bit ago and I thought I knew everything about morrowind, lol), really shows how hard morrowind went into worldbuilding

Colovian fur helm is the GOAT fashion accessory

You have very quickly become my favourite youtuber

Ive been waiting for this one! Honestly, the different robes in the game are my favourite. Such variety! It's one reason of many I always play a mage. Thanks for this video!

You know sometimes youtube throws something my way which I didn't expect, a breaking of clothing in Morrowind done in full seriousness? Fuck it I am here for it, awesome stuff.

Expand your clothing empire to the RPG Genre as a whole and you will get a mill subs EZ, incredible Niche idea with a lot of potential especially if you start making some of these outfits and wearing them in the videos cosplay style. I saw your amulet of kings and immediately found it and sent to a friend who bought one the same hour, so thanks for that!

We are here for fashion scrolls.

Can't emphasize how happy it made me seeing this video in my notifications. Amazing video, as usual !

Your writing and wit are top tier. I can tell a lot of effort went into this.

You could layer clothing and armor in Daggerfall too, back in 96 when TES games were actually rpgs. Yes, I'm old and hate the world.😊

I slightly worried about Angelika's eyes.. all that reading.. do tell if you find any interesting prophesies though

YES another morning coffee video before work. A creature deep dive from your perspective would be cool as heck.

I feel like diving into this community with this topic and your perspective could be pretty challenging, I really admire your hard work here

12:20 that's right, cause shoes are for actual people and not farmtools 🗿🗿🗿

damnnnn 14 comments in three minutes!? Noti gang really pulled up yo

I love that you discuss all the little things that I always think about while playing these games, but nobody really discusses them!

Was waiting for this! Thank you.

Be careful growing so fast, girl. Shit gets wild behind the scenes on this platform, don't get eaten up!

It’s kind of nutty to me that a non-native-English-speaking model randomly launched a RU-vid channel about one of the nerdiest franchises in gaming talking specifically about minutiae that not even fans of said franchise would normally think about, and it’s almost immediately acquired an audience. It’s a bit prejudiced of me to be surprised by this, but I hope it helps in normalizing the idea that girls, even traditionally attractive ones, like really nerdy things, too.

Awesome video! It’s so great that a 20+ gem like morrowind is still getting recognition today. Even though it’s mechanics and graphics are dated I still think it’s the best ES game. The design philosophy (including the clothes) is so alien and unique to the game yet so charming and magical! You should totally play it. Again, awesome video! 👏👏👏

The Redoran guard outfit is elevated so well by the skirt they wear over the bonemold greaves.

Unsubscribed, disliked and reported for not including the colovian fur hat EDIT: Wait Nevermind, watched one second later. Subscribed, liked, and removed report

i get distracted

Thank you so much for posting this new video !!! 😊

Love the vids so far! I'm secretly an ES fashionista, so this is amazing to see!

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Men of culture we meet again

Definitely have a new subscriber. I love these videos delving into niche aspects. It adds a lot of texture to an already rich setting

Girl I've been waiting for you to drop this!!!