Helseth, representing his own house of Hlaalu, formed an alliance with House Dres. Sometime in the later Third Era, the Nerevarine and Vivec disappeared from Morrowind, leaving King Helseth the sole power in the region. In their detailing of Dagoth Ur's plans, they state that he wishes to "Recover ancient territories stolen by Skyrim and Argonia." The Dunmer and the Argonian races, perhaps unsurprisingly, have a "long standing and bitter hatred for one another".
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Interestingly enough, the documents prepared for Lord Vivec by the Temple imply that Black Marsh retains control of some historically Dunmer provinces, despite their loss in the Arnesian War. The Black Marsh's armies were destroyed, but an Argonian was able to capture and murder an influential Dunmer merchant called Roris who was later made a saint by the Dunmeri Temple. There have been some small attempts to convert the residents of Black Marsh to the Cyrodiilic pantheon of the Nine Divines, but most have been unsuccessful.ĭuring the later years of the Third Era, Black Marsh came into conflict with its Dunmer neighbors to the north in the bloody Arnesian War. These changes were eventually remedied as the land's administration chose to return to previous methods of business. "Resdayn was the last of the provinces to submit to Tiber Septim like Black Marsh, it was never successfully invaded, and was peacefully incorporated by treaty into the Empire as the Province of Morrowind." Imperial domination changed little of the tribal organization of Black Marsh's society, but wrought disastrous changes to its economy, as the small farms of Argonian peasants were replaced with massive cash-crop farms, and traditional forms of transportation were usurped by foreign methods unsuited to the native terrain. Though it is not directly indicated in any in-game lore, a passage in the book A Short History of Morrowind implies that Black Marsh was incorporated into the Empire by treaty or pact rather than by military dominion. A possible contradiction ensues with an earlier account from Morrowind, which states that "No army of Morrowind or Black Marsh has ever threatened the security of any other Imperial province, let alone the security of Cyrodiil itself," but this particular passage could be explained in any number of ways, particularly given that the book in question-The Eastern Provinces Impartially Considered-is generally polemical.īlack Marsh was eventually to be incorporated within the Cyrodiilic Second Empire in 1E 2837. The last of these Argonian armies was defeated by a Cyrodiilic force. In 1E 2811 Argonian armies from Black Marsh came into conflict with the neighbouring Cyrodiilic Imperials. The novellas 2920, The Last Year of the First Era and The Wolf Queen respectively state that the major Black Marsh city of Soulrest had an Argonian battlechief by 1E 2920, and that Lilmoth had an Argonian priest-king by the first century of the Third Era. A small corner of it survived to become Black Marsh in Tamriel, but most of their realm was sunk beneath the sea." Argonians came to inhabit Tamriel in small, preliterate communities by the Early Merethic Era.Ĭanonical information for the period in-between the mythic origins of Black Marsh and the latter part of the Third Era is sparse. "The Hist were bystanders in the Ehlnofey war, but most of their realm was destroyed as the war passed over it. The region presently known as the Black Marsh was once part of a much greater landmass within the domain of the Hist, but the greater part of the region was flooded during the wanderings of the humanoid Mer races. The earliest inhabitants of the Black Marsh and environs are believed to have been the Hist, great life-giving trees of unknown capacities. The native Argonians organize themselves on the tribal level with success and efficiency, and are only loosely integrated into the ruling Empire. Foreign agricultural, colonial, and commercial ventures beyond the slave-trade have met with abject failure. The region possesses a tropical climate, lending its plants the capacity to overturn all attempts to cultivate them. Black Marsh is lush and threatening, teeming with poisonous plants and violent predators. Argonians thrive in the foreboding swamps of Black Marsh.
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An alternate name, Argonia, is also used by the Mer races of the Elder Scrolls series, following the name of an obscure ancient battlefield, and to avoid the negative connotations of the term "Black Marsh".
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It is presented as the homeland of the reptilian humanoid race of Argonians, and a race of sentient trees known as the Hist. Is a region that is largely covered in dense swamps, and is located in the south-east section of the continent of Tamriel.