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Rewards from Mutually Exclusive Factions in Morrowind?

By John Peck •

In The Elder Scrolls III:Morrowind, several of the player joinable factions are mutually exclusive, most notably, the three Great Houses of Telvaani, Redoran, and Hlaalu. While I'm familiar with the general bent of each (Telvaani are mages, Redoran warriors, Hlaalu thieves), and I know the general recommendation is "When in Doubt, Choose Telvaani," because the rewards are generally considered superior, and Telvaani is the basis for some excellent mod content as well.

What I'm curious about though is if there's a single listing somewhere comparing the rewards of the three paths against each other, to allow for a choice based on the rewards, rather than the skills involved. The Wiki sadly doesn't consolidate this info, though it has a listing of all the quests for each faction, the rewards are not broken out, so finding them requires a lot of digging. Is there a better resource?

Again, to be clear, I'm specifically interested in only a listing of rewards which are unique or rare items (not gold or soul gems or rep or other things available in abundance elsewhere), which are exclusive to one faction which restricts your ability to join others. The current answers to this question provide a listing of which exclusive factions exist, and of the non-unique rewards for one of these factions. Neither of these is what I am asking for.

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No. There is no single list that compiles it all, but I'll do my best to make you one.

Thankfully you are only concerned with "the three Great Houses of Telvaani, Redoran, and Hlaalu" and Vampire Clans as typing up the full list for every faction in the game exceeds the character limit for answers. There are thankfully only 95 Great House quests and 6 Vampire quests.

I typed up all quests and rewards as "rare" could apply to many of the magical items, scrolls and skill books. As quest items are technically unique as there is usually only one of each them, I noted(#) these where applicable. Unique Items are also noted(*). Artifacts are noted(!) a well. Only items exclusively available to the quest or that are needed for the quest have been noted. For reference, he wiki's Unique Armor, Unique Weapons, Unique Clothing, Quest Items, Weapon Artifacts, Armor Artifacts, and Clothing Artifacts pages were referred to and are as close as you are likely to get to a single list of awesome stuff.

* preceded quests can be accessed outside of the faction
*Unique Item* #Quest Item# !Artifact! Quest Reward
Hlaalu Stronghold Stronghold Disguise 500 gold and #Native Gah-Julan Bonemold Helm# Alchemical Formulas None Inanius Egg Mine 500 gold or 1000 gold or 1500 gold Guar Hide Squeeze 1000 gold Delivery for Bivale Teneran 500 gold and Extravagant Pants and Exquisite Shirt
* The Death of Ralen Hlaalo 1000 gold Epony Trade 1000 gold and Glass Boots and Glass Greaves and Glass Cuirass
* Bank Courier 50 gold
* Murudius Flaeus's Debt 543 gold Escort Tarvyn Faren 500 gold Telvanni at Odirniran 500 gold or 1000 gold Exterminator 1 gold or 1000 gold Ashlander Ebony 1000 gold The Shipwreck 'Prelude' 500 gold (#Daedric Wakizashi# is turned in) Guard Ralen Tilvur 1000 gold An Admiring Sponsor Sponsorship Sealed Orders 100 or 500 gold The Caldera Spy 500 gold or 1000 gold or 1000 gold and 2 Scroll of Golnara's Eye-Maze and 2 Scroll of The Fourth Barrier Erroneous Documents *Amulet of Domination* or Murdrum Ring or 2 Scroll of Uth's Hand of Heaven and 2 Scroll of The Black Storm and 2 Scroll of Tranasa's Spelltwist Rent and Taxes -100 gold or None or 100 gold or 400 gold or 500 gold Shipment of Ebony 500 gold or Dire Shardbolt Ring Velfred the Outlaw 500 gold or 1000 gold Kill Banden Indarys 1000 gold Bero's Support None Kill Reynel Uvirith 1000 gold Literacy Campaign None
* The Twin Lamps None
* Free Hides-His-Foot None Control the Ordinators None (#Robe of St Roris# turned in) Dealing with Orvas Dren Promotion to Grandmaster in the Hlaalu faction
Redoran Stronghold Stronghold
* Mudcrab Pests 2 Hackle-Lo Leaf Deliver Cure Disease Potion None Founder's Helm None (#Redoran Founder's Helm# is turned in)
* Trouble with Bandits 2 Hackle-Lo Leaf Guard Sarethi Manor 200 gold Old Blue Fin 10 Dreugh Wax Ashimanu Mine None Kagouti Den None Shishi Report None Kill Gordol *Enchanted Ebony Spear* Rescue Varvur Sarethi Promotion in the Redoran faction Clear Varvur Sarethi's Name None (#Suspicious Ash Statue# is turned in) Ondres Nerano's Slanders None Shurinbaal None The Mad Lord of Milk Ebony Closed Helm (#Delyna's Locket# is turned in) Duel with Bolvyn Venim Promotion to Archmaster in the Redoran faction Ash Statue 4 Quality Restore Health Potions and 1 Cure Blight Disease Potion and 1 Cure Common Disease Potion Find Fedris Tharen 1 Cure Common Disease Potions or 4 Cure Common Disease Potions
* Find Beden Giladren None Recover Shields from Andasreth #Redoran Banner Shield# Mission to Morvayn Manor Amulet of Mighty Blows (#Morvayn Ash Statue# is turned in) Evidence of Corruption None Shut the Mines Down Ebony Boots Taxes from Gnisis None Nalvilie Saren None Miner Arobar's Support *Arobar's Amulet* and Redoran Master Helm
* Meril Hlaano's Slanders Holy Shield Redas Tomb None (#Redas War Axe# and #Redas Robe of Deeds# and #Redas Goblet# are turned in, but will be given back once promoted to Archmaster) Duel of Honor None Slay Dagoth Tanis Ancestor's Ring (#Nervion Ancestor Ring# is turned in) Slay Reynel Uvirith None Slay Raynasa Rethan None Escort to Koal Cave Steel Firesword Armor Repair Debts Glass Frostsword
Telvanni Stronghold Stronghold Muck Cure Common Disease Spell Black Jinx Demoralize Humanoid Spell and Demoralize Creature Spell (#Black Jinx# is turned in) Sload Soap 250 gold or 500 gold Staff of the Silver Dawn Glass Jinkblade and Blind Spell (*Silver Staff* is turned in) New Clothes 500 gold and Mark Spell and Recall Spell (#Therana's Skirt# is turned in) Slave Rebellion Firestorm Ring and/or Toxic Cloud Ring or Command Creature Spell and Command Humanoid Spell Dwemer Books *Ondusi's Key* and *Amulet of Admonition* and Second Barrier Belt and *Surefeet* Dahrk Mezalf Dwemer Shock Centurion Guard and Ring of Lightning Storm Three Questions for Baladas Demnevanni None or 3 Messenger Scrolls Mission to Nchuleft *Gothren's Cephalopod Helm* Coded Message 500 gold (you get 7 Healing Potions and 4 Water Walking Potions and 4 Swift Swim Potions that you may need to use) Cure Blight 500 gold Daedra Skin 300 gold and Paralysis Spell Auriel's Bow *Daedric Cuirass* and *Daedric Greaves* or 11,111 gold (!Auriel's Bow! is turned in) Flesh Made Whole Amulet of Spell Absorption and 4 Summon Golden Saint Scrolls (Female only) (*Amulet of Flesh Made Whole* is turned in) Drake's Pride 10 gold (#Robe of the Drake's Pride# is turned in) Baladas Demnevanni Silver Staff of Peace and Promotion to Aryon's Mouth in the Telvanni faction Mudan-Mul Egg Mine Alteration Skill Book Wizard Spells Destruction Skill Book Odirniran 7 Milyn Faram's Scrolls and *Silver Staff of Hunger* and Illusion Skill Book Mages Guild Monopoly *Aryon's Dominator* Shishi Alteration Skill Book and Destruction Skill Book and Silver Staff of War Recruit a Mouth *Aryon's Helper* and Promotion to Wizard in the Telvanni faction Kill Raynasa Rethan None Kill Banden Indarys None Archmagister Gothren Promotion to Archmagister Ring of Equity *Ring of Equity* Amulet of Unity *Amulet of Unity*
Aundae Blood Ties Services in Ashmelech and #Aundae Signet Ring# (#Sinyaramen's Potion# is turned in, but you can get infinite amounts wearing the ring) The Vampire Hunter *Aundae Amulet* and *Light of Day* (as loot when not vampire) and *Darksun Shield* (as loot) and access to Aundae cattle
Berne The Blood of the Quarra Services in Galom Daeus (#Blood of the Quarra Masters# is turned in) The Vampire Merta *Berne Amulet* and access to Berne cattle
Quarra The Cult of Lord Irarak 1000 gold and Services in Druscashti The Quarra Amulet *Quarra Amulet* and access to Quarra cattle

Noteworthy items from the three Great Houses:

Noteworthy items from the Vampire Clans:

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What you ask for is difficult to pin down because there is a lot of variation based on player choice. For example here's a quick and dirty chart I came up with just for House Hlaalu. Note: the values listed are the maximum values (assuming the wiki is accurate) you can earn for completing that quest. Many quests award multiple items. The values listed are the sum of all the monetary value of the items you'd receive.

Quest Gold Item(s) Faction Rep World Rep
Disguise 500 150 5
Alchemical Formulas 5
Egg Mine 1500 10
Guar Hide Squeeze 1000 5
Delivery for Bivale Teneran 500 180 5
The Death of Ralen Hlaalo 1000 10 1
Epony Trade 1000 53600 10 2
Bank Courier 50 5
Murudius Flaeus's Debt 543
Escort Tarvyn Faren 500 5
Telvanni at Odirniran 1000 10 1
Exterminator 1000 10
Ashlander Ebony 1000 5 1
The Shipwreck 'Prelude' 500
Guard Ralen Tilvur 1000 5 1
An Admiring Sponsor
Sealed Orders 500 5
The Caldera Spy 1000 580 10 1
Erroneous Documents 2332 5
Rent and Taxes 400 5 1
Shipment of Ebony 500 79
Velfred the Outlaw 1000
Kill Banden Indarys 1000 10 1
Bero's Support 15
Kill Reynel Uvirith 1000 10 1
Literacy Campaign 5
The Twin Lamps 5 1
Free Hides-His-Foot 5 1
Control the Ordinators 10 8
Dealing with Orvas Dren 1
Stronghold 1
Totals 16493 56921 175 22
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So I did a little digging and I found this table:

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made more helpful by this key:

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and finally, this formula:

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

Now, I'm told you can only join one of the three great houses (at least without the uses of bugs), and you can join both Thieves and Fighters Guilds (though it takes some work) and neither have problems with the mage guild. You can't join the temple once you become Nerevarine, but that's not really related. I think you only join one vampire clan, but I don't have a source for that one.

Let me know if this helps.

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As far as item rewards go, Telvanni is by far superior. The only reason not to go telvanni would be if you didn't want your home to be a mushroom tower.

You get glass weapons, dwarven crossbows, enchanted jewelry, as well as an enchanted helmet that lets you conjure a dremora lord and daedric chest and leg armor enchanted with 50 points of feather each. Telvanni is not interested in the affairs of other organizations and are also the most powerful house. Their lords are not concerned with money or even other members of the house.

Redoran and Hlaalu are both relatively bland organizations worried about territorial claims and political infighting. Although some Hlaalu house members are funny, that is about the extent of the character in those houses.

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