What a fool you are! I'm a god! How can you kill a god?! What a grand and intoxicating innocence! How could you be so naive? There is no escape! No recall or intervention can work in this place! Come, lay down your weapons! It is not too late for my mercy.
What I learned from this video: 1) he's a god 2) the prospect of killing a god is questionable at best 3) he finds our innocence both grand and intoxicating 4) it is not too late for his mercy 5) there is no escape
Dagoth - calls you sweet, moon-and-star - lives beyond fire and war - is proud of his heart - is merciful - apparently he's an immortal god - you can't escape him
When I saw this for the first time, I tried to learn his dance moves. What a grand and intoxicating innocence. He is a god, how can I copy a god? Maybe it's not too late for his mercy.
AI Voice dagoth memes are funny, but they could never compare to this masterwork (hadn't even thought of the ethical issues with AI voice stuff when I posted this originally LOL)
@@KertaDrake I mean just because he sweet talks to you it doesn't mean he doesn't have all the murderous intent of a hundred kittens, but he does make an effort to appear as a gracious host, which is fitting because his primarily method is manipulation.
Its arguably the best part of Morrowind. Each of the characters have motivations/justifications for what they're doing and each have skeletons in their closets. I honestly would have sided with Dagoth if his plan was only to create a divine body for Lorkhan's heart to inhabit. It's literally the rightful god of Nirm. I honestly feel that was Kagrenac's goal from the start. It was Dagoth Ur's account that led to the first council believing the Dwemer intended to use it to take over Morrowind.
I absoultely love the possibilities of the new modern AI but there's something so wonderful about these old YTP style videos. Somehow they feel so authentic
When Dagoth chastizes me and says "shame on you." I feel like such a bad boy with no redeeming value.... But then he finishes the sentence with "sweet nerevar". Magnanimously offering me a second chance at redemption and welcoming me back to the comfort of his glistening but forgiving pectorals.
I've never played Morrowind, but I've always enjoyed the fact that they didn't give Dagoth Ur a typical "villian voice." He sounds more like an orator and I love it.
You should play it! FAR better story than Skyrim, IMO. Very alien. More interesting plots. OpenMW is a thing and the scene is still full of modders. BEWARE: it doesnt play like Skyrim. Skyrim holds your hand, Morrowind abandons you in some backwoods swamp holding the bill. Good times with that game!
@@energyfitness5116 I find it strange Morrowind is such an alien environment and then Oblivion and Skyrim are set in Europe and Scandinavia respectively.
@@SorowFame the Skyrim we got in-game is actually kind of far removed from what the lore says Skyrim was like in older titles, same for Cyrodil. They essentially saw how good the Witcher games sold and slowly turned down the wildness of Elder Scrolls for a more conventional fantasy feel, thus the atypical European settings we ended up with. Old skyrim references talk about jellyfish and Whales "swimming" through the sky and Cyrodil was originally a swampland that Tiber Septum CHIMmed out and remade into habital land for humans.
@@TheGamingBDGR There is a nod to that when you meet Tsun as the Archmage of Winterhold, he laments modern Nords lost their respect of the "clever craft". Even in Morrowind all Nords were capable of powerful frost magic.
@@TelcasKimori " if you associate each of the thirty-five listed numbers with a word in its respective sermon, a hidden message is revealed: "He was not born a god. His destiny did not lead him to this crime. He chose this path of his own free will. He stole the godhood and murdered the Hortator. Vivec wrote this. " "As Vehk and Vehk I hereby answer, my right and my left, with black hands. Vehk the mortal did murder the Hortator. Vehk the God did not, and remains as written. And yet these two are the same being" Vehk (Vivecs "mortal" name) murdered Nerevar. Vehk (transformed into a god, Vivec) claims he is a separate being/entity and therefore.. did not murder Nerevar. He is separate but not separate. He is god, and also mortal. He is Vehk, and he is not Vehk.
Dagoth Ur really was the tragic hero of Morrowind. Against his better judgement, which was to destroy the heart, he was left by Nerevar to guard the heart to consult the Tribunal, who was in a moment of naivety tricked by his Tribunal to claim the power for themselves. After Nerevar was killed, Dagoth Ur knew he could not overpower the Tribunal; he bound himself to the Heart and stood until the Nerevarine returned; by this time Dagoth had become corrupted by the heart but ultimately stood to deter others from claiming it, including the Tribunal. Dagoth tested challengers to the prophecy until the true Nerevarine appeared and destroyed the heart, killing Dagoth in the process, honouring the house unmourned, redeeming the mad and freeing Morrowind from the false gods of the Tribunal.
This is a great summary and exactly why Dagoth Ur is my favorite character in Morrowind and one of my favorites in TES. He is such a complex villain with so much history and lore. Mehrunes Dagon and Alduin the World Eater are pathetically one dimensional by comparison.
You wrong, Nerevar left Dagoth ur to guard heart while he talks to Tribunal, when they decided to keep heart and came back he lost his mind, and Nerevar killed him. After that Sota Sil understood Kogrinacks instruments tribunal killed Nerevar and they became gods (sorry for misspelled names or bad English)
you forgot the part where he also corrupted a whole house worth amount of people, physically deforming them into monsters, and released Blight on morrowind
It was my first Elder Scrolls game and hope to god now that microsoft bought bethesda we can get a remaster with all the QOL and gameplay of current gen
@@Pepper462Naah, the lack of qol features is what makes Morrowind such a standout even today. Morrowinds extreme clunkyness is part of its charm and what seperates it from modern games. I recently started playing it again parallel to Dragons Dogma 2 and Morrowind is so refreshing in comparism. It's stupidly complicated at times but it still just works.
@@nanatzaya The PC Version's interface is far superior to the sequels... No endless scrolling for one thing in a list that's way too long because it's easy to go full klepto, just pick an item and click it!
Dagoth Ur is still one of the most tragic villains in gaming. On the surface, he seems just like an arrogant evil person, but under the surface is a man who wants what's best for his people and to be reunited with his best friend, but the madness inflicted by the Heart of Lorkhan makes such impossible. His friend was murdered and reincarnated thousands of years later, he was happy to see him again.
It was difficult to keep on with the mission to kill him. It was like I had heard the truth but continued to betray not only him, but myself. I felt dirty, but alive.
@@LordDonutz Have to remember. Nerevar did not betray Dagoth Ur. If you put all the versions together and account for (in-universe) author biases, what happened becomes much clearer. Nerevar told Dagoth Ur to guard the tools and the heart while he (Nerevar) went back out of the dwemer stronghold to the war above ground, to gather the Tribunal so they can all get up to date on what the situation is. But when Nerevar and the Tribunal returned, Dagoth Ur had already been driven mad by the Heart of Lorkhan. His now twisted mind reinterpreting Nerevar's orders to not even allowing Nerevar to take them from him. (A personal theory of mine is his telepathic powers were starting to manifest and he forsaw the Tribunal had ill intentions for the tools). So yes. In Dagoth Ur's mind, Nerevar betrayed him by attacking him when all he believed he was doing was following the very orders Nerevar gave him.
Kind of want to see some necromancer try their hand at resurrecting Lorkhan with the heart. Thouuuuugh one look at the ash spawns in Morrowind nowadays shows that it might be a cosmically bad idea.
@@cyborgcatrj6794 Lorkhan already returned in Talos Tiber Septim was a Shezarrine, the avatar of Lorkhan that means him becoming a divine can also indicate Lorkhan's return that's why Thalmor wants to erase Talos
I dunno about "false" really. His godhood is as valid as the Tribunal's regardless of his moral compass. And yeah I know it's waay too serious of a reply lol.
I just met him for the first time today. He noticed that I was unprepared and didn't attack me, instead just letting me chill in his cave and browse a cool collection of statues. Literally the best first impression of a final boss I've ever had.
I'm not convinced he was the bad guy per se. None of the factions you work for are 'the good guys' so its all really just shades of gray. With how much propaganda there is in Morrowind, particularly surrounding the Tribunal (Who really only want him gone to protect their own power) its hard to say everything we know about him is even true or just more lies. Even Azura just wants these dissidents gone so the empire can swoop in and convert everyone to her religion (The Imperial Cult, or religion of the Nine Divines). She says its about the blight but by the end of the game, you ought to be more clever than to take her at her word.
@@Shmandalf He isn't a "bad guy" he want's to establish a theocracy and while that is usually not a good thing in our world, deities exist in TES so having a theocracy isn't that outlandish, his other goals were to reclaim lands taken from the Dunmer and drive out the Empire that has taken over and subjugated Morrowind. He is a freedom fighter in essence and honestly that isn't a bad thing, it depends on how you go about it and what kind of society you want to establish once free. The US once were freedom fighters against the british, but so are the Taliban, so it isn't inherently good or evil to be a freedom fighter. Now you could call his plan to kill non dunmer bad, but again to him they are invaders that are taking advantage of the dunmer aka "if you hadn't invaded us and taken advantage of us we wouldnt be killing you for doing what you did" You could say that is to extreme but TES isn't a modern world with modern ethics, in the TES universe such a thing is maybe a little above the avarage thing to do. I mean the Empire is beheading anyone even associated with the Skyrim freedom fighters, so Dagoth wanting to kill the Imperials isn't something out of the ordinary. The biggest point for me why I don't think he is a "bad guy" per se is that he planned on uniting the dunmer not by force or threats but by using his charisma to persuade them to join him. Now we don't know if that would have worked and what he would have done if it didn't but at least he wasn't planning to supress and kill his own people from the start.
@@harz632 I don't think he is either. He was betrayed by his best friends, left to rot, and left to his own devices. Idk how else anyone could handle it, he tried to unite the Dunmer in a way that wasn't accodring to the Tribunal's plan. And it almost worked too!
He is a bad guy is the most basic sense that he turns people into zombies, brain washes them and sends diseases to spread across the lands. Strange how you guys forget that. A pretty face and and a sultry smooth voice and all is forgiven.🤔
It's kind of romantic. Dagoth Ur loved Nerevar and when they return, regardless of what form, his loyalty and affection remain, even through madness and centuries
Its really amazing i dont think ive seen anything like it in a game, morrowind is a great trip. It gives me chills, he calls you “moon and star” like azura does- the prophesized moment, that he enjoys as much as the player does
What many don’t know is that Dagoth Ur is at the center of one of the most prolific beefs in the history of the music industry. At one time, he and his partner Nerevar were on their way to being best sellers in the techno genre, but his record partners Vivec, Almalexia, and Sotha Sil betrayed them by tricking them into signing a bad contract. Knowing that Nerevar produced all of Dagoth’s hits, they got rid of Nerevar under suspicious circumstances and formed their own hip-hop group called a Tribunal Called Quest, which has grown to be one of the most successful groups in Tamrielic history. I’m glad that Dagoth has made a resurgence despite the greed and betrayal he’s encountered.
Dagoth Ur backstabbed that up-and-coming acapella group, Shor and the Tongues, to get where he is. You can't rewrite history, only Tiber Septim sick beats can do that.
It gets worse-- a Tribunal called Quest HEAVILY lifted and plagiarized from an older trio called The Anticipations (not even their original name!), appropriating their traditional folk music and cranking out modern hits while barely giving any credit. I expect nothing less from the modern music industry but its still incredibly shameful. IMO their exposure and subsequent fallout was one of the best things to happen to Tamriel's music scene!
@@thegreatkingofevilganondor1500 The cultural devastation left behind from the production label Empire Records is incalcuable on the Vvanderfell synthwave scene and Dunmer society as a whole. After the neon lights came to Vivec near the end of the Third Era the city was never the same. Almost overnight Vivec city had transformed from a bustling theocratic capitol into a homogenized mercantile hub. The soul of the city of Vivec died long before Baar Dau finally leveled the temple into a smoldering crater.
_Come and look upon the heart_ tbh most Morrowind players were enraptured by this game, what with its incredible *depth* and game breaking mechanics: What other game can you say that has a man fall out of the sky right outside one of the starting towns? Or an orc samurai that longs for a worthy opponent? Or a Nord who lost everything to a witch? Or a gay man who wrote Lusty Argonian maid? Or a House of Earthly Delights? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Or a man who cloned himself to create daughters and mothers for more daughters of himself? Or a scamp who plays a drum? Or a merchant mudcrab? Or a hermaphrodite god? Or nightmare inducing temples where the enemies have no faces or faces with elephant snouts or elephant people with elephant snouts? Or the ability to jump so good you can jump across water? Or a fucking spawn upon our wonderous earth that will hunt you down to the ends of said earth that will not stop in the face of fire, disease, frost and lightning that will endure the hardiest of attacks that will always be following you but flying just out of reach so that you need to jump to hit is sometimes and the best thing to do is to always fucking run because killing it just is not worth it but it is so annoying and it keeps triggering the battle music and only when it is close enough to stab your eyeballs with its fucking arrow tail will it make the telltale sound that evokes utter despair and agony?
Yep, about 3 years before the start of morrowind, Mr. Ur broke off from his main band to start a solo career in the vaporwave genre. This was one of the few hits. After 2 years of trying he had run out of passion and more importantly money. That's pretty much why Mr. Ur, that was the name of his most popular album and stage name, did what he did in Morrowind, he had quit his passion in life, needed a job and money. Real shame about how he was brutally murdered, god I remember reading about that in the paper and not knowing how to feel.
@@aintnoslice3422 they're both you cup of coffee with extra salt, the hell you think argonians and khajiit are considering to be beast races, and why do you think they can't wear hats or boots?
Levels of Morrowind complexity: 1. Helping average people with everyday tasks about hard life in Morrowind. 2. Helping the interests of guilds involved in receiving practical services and their ambitions against one another. 3. Helping the interests of the great houses in their games of political intrigue in pushing the island of vardenfell towards one of their realms of influence 4. Helping the interests of nations and the empire on morrowind's future as a provisional government and its traditional heritage. 5. Helping the interests of literal gods on their abstract wars of influence over the right of divinity over the people of Morrowind. 6. This bullshit.
I have found the way out. Open a separate device, put on a worse version of dagothwave, turn of the sound on your current device. Repeat however many times are necesary.
