Vivec and Nerevarine

[Seniosh]

That's a really interesting idea for a main quest.

I think wiping house Hlaalu off the map completely would be a bit problematic though, both in terms of lore and scale.

Lore-wise, house Hlaalu is the most well-connected to the Imperials. Helseth was never more than an imperial puppet, so they'd most likely offer aid. Plus, Hlaalu has enough money to hire lots of mercenaries, and they'd likely stand a decent chance, considering that Redoran and the Tribunal have been waning, whereas Hlaalu has only been getting stronger.

I think the real problem is that a lot of players would hate to see Hlaalu destroyed. Many of them still consider Balmora to be "home", and it wouldn't be very nice if we just killed everything on them would it?

[just read all 11 pages of the previous main-quest thread]

It looks like most of the plans did in fact revolve around having a great house war, but nobody was actually destroyed from it. Then they can show the rising influence of whichever house won.

Also, the plan was to have the player join either Hlaalu/Imperials, Redoran/Temple, or Telvanni, and whichever house he joined would be the victor. There were also plans for Nords and 6th House, as well as some ideas for Argonian invasions, but that would probably be far too complicated.

Rest assured, your ideas are on the right track, maybe just a bit extreme what with the genocide of the Hlaalu

Other really cool ideas included having the Nerevarine only appear in dream-form, similar to the introduction to TES3 with Azura. If you put enough distortion into the voice, it could be any race or gender, and thus not a problem lore-wise. Vivec could similarly give the player instructions through dreams, because lore says he's disappeared, and the player did have the option to kill him in Morrowind and the expansions.