The ship docks at the port of Seyda Neen, and your release paperwork acts as a character creator. The introduction is unassuming enough: You wake up a prisoner on a ship headed for Vvardenfell, an island in Morrowind, itself a province of Tamriel – the continent where every Elder Scrolls game has taken place. Indeed, in many ways Morrowind marked the high point of Bethesda’s experimentation, if not a more general pinnacle for the industry’s willingness to experiment with large, expensive, open-world undertakings. So much more, in fact, that, with the possible exception of Shivering Isles – the masterful DLC for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Bethesda hasn’t been able to make anything as deep, strange, or immersive since. That memory might seem apt, given that The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was quite the trip when it released 20 years ago, but there was a lot more to Bethesda’s open world than psychedelic plants. These days most people remember the giant mushrooms.
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