The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon
Publication Information
Developer(s)	Bethesda Softworks
Publisher(s)	Bethesda Softworks
Game engine	NetImmerse/GameBryo
Release date	NA June 3, 2003 UK June 27, 2003
Modes	Single Player
Rating(s)	ESRB: T
Platform(s)	PC
Game Information
Setting	Solstheim, Morrowind
Time Period	3E 427

The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon is the second expansion pack for Bethesda Softworks's The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and is included in the Game of the Year edition, along with Tribunal.

Comparisons with other gamesEdit

Unlike the first expansion Tribunal, which added a city separate from the world map consisting of interior cells, Bloodmoon adds a large new island to the original world map, a cold northern territory named Solstheim. Rather than the Dunmer (dark elves) that are the indigenous race in the nearby Morrowind, Solstheim is populated largely by the Nord race. This is largely due to the fact that the island sits more or less astride the border between Morrowind and the Nord homeland of Skyrim.

AdditionsEdit

This expansion adds new enemies, the East Empire Company as a joinable guild, and the possibility to become a werewolf, akin to the inclusion of vampires seen in Morrowind. Bloodmoon also uses larger and more detailed environments, including snowfall, thus raising the computer hardware requirements, though the ash storms of the original game are much harder on computers than the snow of Bloodmoon.

As with Morrowind and Tribunal, Bloodmoon has many side-quests to finish and many caves to explore aside from its main quest. Unlike Tribunal, which is intended to be played after the completion of Morrowind's main-quest, Bloodmoon's main-quest is self-contained within the expansion. Also unlike Tribunal, the new area is alot more open, consisting of many new areas, towns, caves and ruins alike.

A number of new armor and weapon types have also been added. Also with the addition of hundreds of new detailed models, unique to this expansion.

StorylineEdit

In the Bloodmoon main quest, the Nerevarine starts by doing odd jobs for the Imperials' Fort Frostmoth on Solstheim. When the fort is attacked by werewolves, the Nerevarine must travel to the Nord village of the Skaal at the north of the island. The Nerevarine must then perform several rituals to be accepted into the village. Afterwards, knowledge of the Bloodmoon Prophecy, a ritualistic hunt led by the Daedra Lord Hircine, is revealed. The Daedric Prince takes the four greatest champions on Solstheim, including the Nerevarine, to his glacier home. He tells them that they must fight until only one is still living; if the Nerevarine survives, they must fight one of Hircine's aspects - strength (a bear), speed (an elk), or guile (where Hircine fights in his own form). The main quest is completed once the battle is won and the glacier home is fled.

External linksEdit

• The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon on Wikipedia