Tamriel Chronicles - Detailed info on Morrowind factions

Morrowind guilds and factions

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Factions added in Tribunal and Bloodmoon

Quests that you complete, your reputations and prestige, attitude of other game characters towards you and many other things depend on what factions you join. That's why choice of factions is nearly as important as initial character setting up.

Original game factions

Faction	Favored Attributes	Favored Skills	Notes
1. Ashlanders	Endurance Agility	Marksman Light armor Mysticism Alteration Spear Medium armor	Joined automatically during the main quest
2. Blades	Intelligence Personality	Speechcraft Marksman Light armor Sneak Restoration Long Blade	Joined automatically during the main quest
3. Camonna Tong	Strength Agility	Marksman Light armor Acrobatics Sneak Long Blade Blunt Weapon	Not joinable
4. Census and Excise	Intelligence Personality	Speechcraft Mercantile Marksman Light armor Sneak Long Blade	Not joinable and only a few related quests.
5. Clan Aundae	Willpower Intelligence	Acrobatics Unarmored Mysticism Conjuration Illusion Athletics	Vampire clan, Joinable if you are a vampire
6. Clan Berne	Willpower Speed	Marksman Short Blade Acrobatics Sneak Unarmored Athletics	Vampire clan, Joinable if you are a vampire
7. Clan Quarra	Strength Endurance	Hand-to-Hand Acrobatics Unarmored Destruction Athletics Long Blade	Vampire clan, Joinable if you are a vampire
8. Fighters Guild	Strength Endurance	Axe Long Blade Blunt Weapon Heavy armor Armorer Block	Joinable
9. Hlaalu	Speed Agility	Speechcraft Mercantile Marksman Short Blade Light armor Security	Joinable, Great House. Best for thieves, traders, agents etc.
10. Imperial Cult	Personality Willpower	Speechcraft Unarmored Restoration Mysticism Conjuration Enchant Blunt Weapon	Joinable
11. Imperial Knights	Endurance Personality	Athletics Long Blade Blunt Weapon Heavy armor armorer Block	Not Joinable
12. Imperial Legion	Endurance Personality	Athletics Spear Long Blade Blunt Weapon Heavy armor Block	Joinable. Good Legion armor as quest rewards.
13. Mages Guild	Intelligence Willpower	Alchemy Mysticism Illusion Alteration Destruction Enchant	Joinable
14. Morag Tong	Speed Agility	Marksman Short Blade Light armor Acrobatics Sneak Illusion	Joinable, though only Dunmer accepted
15. Nerevarine	Personality Luck	Speechcraft Marksman Restoration Mysticism Spear Block	Hidden from the Character but joined automatically during the main quest.
16. Redoran	Endurance Strength	Athletics Spear Long Blade Heavy armor Medium armor armorer	Joinable, Great House. Best for warrior characters.
17. Sixth House	None	None	Not Joinable
18. Talos Cult	None	Athletics Spear Long Blade Blunt Weapon Heavy armor Block	Not Joinable, found in Gnisis. No reaction settings available.
19. Telvanni	Willpower Intelligence	Mysticism Conjuration Illusion Alteration Destruction Enchant	Joinable, Great House. Best for mage characters.
20. Temple	Personality Intelligence	Unarmored Alchemy Restoration Mysticism Conjuration Blunt Weapon	Joinable, probably the best faction. Many unique items can be obtained through Temple quests.
21. Thieves Guild	Agility Personality	Marksman Short Blade Light armor Acrobatics Sneak Security	Joinable
22. Twin Lamps	Speed Intelligence	Speechcraft Sneak Security Unarmored Athletics	Not Joinable, related quests from Ilmeni Dren (Vivec) when you free more than 20 slaves.

Factions added in Tribunal and Bloodmoon

Faction	Favored attributes	Favored skills	Notes
23. Dark Brotherhood (Tribunal)	Agility Speed	Marksman Short Blade Light Armor Acrobatics Alchemy	Hidden from the character, not joinable. No reaction settings available.
24. East Empire Company (Bloodmoon)	Personality Willpower	Speechcraft Mercantile Security Long Blade Medium Armor	The only joinable faction in Solstheim
25. Hands of Almalexia (Tribunal)	Strength Endurance	Security Athletics Long Blade Heavy Armor Block	Not joinable. No reaction settings available.
26. Royal Guard (Tribunal)	Strength Agility	None	Not joinable
27. Skaal (Bloodmoon)	Strength Willpower	Conjuration Athletics Axe Heavy Armor Block	Hidden from the character, not joinable. No reaction settings available.

Factions' attitude towards each other

The reaction values are used to calculate the disposition (based on a 0 to 100 scale) adjustment on the following formula:

Disposition Adjustment = (Reaction * fDispFactionMod ) * (fDispFactionRankBase + (FactionRank * fDispFactionRankMult))

In TES Construction Set you can not only change the disposition adjustment numbers, but also variables in the formula above. Default game settings are: fDispFactionMod = 3 ; fDispFactionRankBase = 1 ; fDispFactionRankMult = 0.5, now we get more understandable formula:

Disposition Adjustment = (Reaction * 3) * (1 + (FactionRank * 0.5))

Reaction is the value from the table, FactionRank - your rank. Disposition adjustment is what we need, it can be positive or negative depending on Reaction.

I hope no one will use this table to calculate disposition of every NPC he's going to talk to. However it is very useful in choosing what faction or great house is better to join. Numbers are quite small, but the formula above shows that actual game disposition adjustment depends on faction rank. The higher is your rank, the bigger is adjustment number.

If you joined a faction and wish to know disposition towards you, find your faction in the top row and match it with desired faction from the left column.

	A s l a n d e r s	B l a d e s	C a m o n n a T o n g	C e n s u s a n d E x c i s e	C l a n A u n d a e	C l a n B e r n e	C l a n Q u a r r a	E a s t E m p i r e C o ®	F i g h t e r s G u i l d	H l a a l u	I m p e r i a l C u l t	I m p e r i a l K n i g h t s	I m p e r i a l L e g i o n	M a g e s G u i l d	M o r a g T o n g	N e r e v a r i n e	R e d o r a n	R o y a l G u a r d	S i x t h H o u s e	T e l v a n n i	T e m p l e	T h i e v e s G u i l d	T w i n L a m p s
Ashlanders	+3	-1	-1	0	-3	-3	-3	-1	-2	-2	-1	0	-2	-1	0	0	-2	-1	-3	-1	-1	-2	0
Blades	-1	+3	-2	0	-2	-2	-2	+2	0	0	+2	0	+2	0	0	0	0	+2	-3	0	-1	0	0
Camonna Tong	-1	-2	+3	0	0	0	0	0	-1	+1	-1	0	-2	-1	0	0	-1	0	-1	0	-1	-3	0
Census and Excise	-3	+2	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clan Aundae	-3	-2	0	0	+3	-3	-3	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-1	0	0	-2	0	-3	0	-3	-1	0
Clan Berne	-3	-2	0	0	-3	+3	0	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-1	0	0	-2	0	-3	0	-3	-1	0
Clan Quarra	-3	-2	0	0	-3	-3	+3	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-1	0	0	-2	0	-3	0	-3	-1	0
East Empire Company	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fighters Guild	-2	0	-1	0	-2	-2	-2	+1	+3	+1	+1	0	+2	+1	0	0	+1	+1	-3	0	-1	0	0
Hlaalu	-2	0	+1	0	-2	-2	-2	+2	+1	+3	+1	0	+1	+1	0	0	-1	+2	-3	-1	+1	-1	0
Imperial Cult	-1	+2	-1	0	-2	-2	-2	+2	+1	+1	+3	+2	0	+1	0	0	0	+2	-3	-1	-2	+1	0
Imperial Knights	-2	+2	-1	0	-2	-2	-2	0	+1	+1	+2	+3	+2	+1	0	0	+1	0	-3	-1	-2	-1	0
Imperial Legion	-2	+2	-2	0	-2	-2	-2	+2	+2	+1	+2	0	+3	+1	0	0	+1	+2	-3	-1	-1	-1	0
Mages Guild	-1	0	-1	-1	-1	-1	0	+1	+1	+1	+1	0	+1	+3	0	0	-1	+1	-3	-3	-2	+1	0
Morag Tong	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nerevarine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Redoran	-2	0	-1	0	-2	-2	-2	+1	+1	-1	0	0	+1	-1	0	-4	+3	-1	0	-1	+2	-1	0
Royal Guard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+3	0	0	0	0	0
Sixth House	-3	-3	-1	0	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	0	-3	-3	0	0	-3	0	+3	-3	-3	-3	0
Telvanni	-1	0	0	0	-1	-1	-1	-1	0	-1	-1	0	-1	-3	0	0	-1	-1	-3	+3	-1	0	0
Temple	-1	-1	0	0	-3	-3	-3	0	-1	+1	-2	0	-1	-2	0	-8	+2	-2	-3	-1	+3	-1	0
Thieves Guild	-2	0	-3	-1	-1	-1	0	0	0	-1	+1	0	-1	+1	0	0	-1	-1	-3	0	-1	+3	0
Twin Lamps	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0

Green numbers indicate positive attitude, red - negative.

The adjustments are not always reversible. Telvanni are neutral towards Twin Lamps, but Twin Lamps hate Telvanni (for obvious reasons).

Note that all joinable factions have +3 attitude towards themselves, so when you rise up to high ranks everyone from your faction will admire you.

As you can see, Morrowind is full of antagonisms and hostility - red cells prevail. The most friendly are the three guilds (Fighters, Thieves, Mages), Imperial factions and House Hlaalu. All the others consider most factions as rivals (unless they are neutral). Telvanni, vampires, Sixth house and ashlanders dislike everyone except for themselves. Non-joinable factions are mostly neutral, as well as Morag Tong. These guys kill everyone they must kill and don't care about personal likes or dislikes.

Factions that have no reaction settings, in other words all zero, not included in the table. These are: Talos cult, Hands of Almalexia, Dark Brotherhood, Skaal.

Table based on UESP materials, statistics can be found in TES CS: Character -> Faction menu item.

Morrowind Faction Map

Map where locations of most important guilds and factions are shown.

- Fighters guild