Lore:Sadrith Mora

Sadrith Mora (translated as "Forest of the Mushrooms" in the Dunmer language)  was one of the four cities on the district of Vvardenfell, for which it served as the district seat of power for the Great House Telvanni. The city also serves as the home of the Telvanni Council, but only one of them lived in the city, that being the councilor in Tel Naga, the central tower in Sadrith Mora. Most ways into the city for common-folk is through the sea or teleportation, and if anyone wanted to enter the city, they must acquire a certification of hospitality.  
 

Layout and Geography
thumb|left|Map of Sadrith Mora Region
thumb|right|The Gateway Inn
Sadrith Mora is built on the largest island in the middle of the  , between   and the  . It shares the island with a large   called  ,  and an ancestral tomb of Clan  ,  one of the thirty revered families of Vvardenfell.  Typically, the island is inaccessible by foot, always either by boat or through some method of teleportation.  But in the mid-Second Era, there was a waterlogged, mostly unmarked path that ran through Tel Fyr and across the Zafirbel Bay to Sadrith Mora's docks.  The region is marked with tall and arched rocks and riddled with the district's largest species of mushroom.  Outside of the city are operations overseen by Telvanni slavers, such as mines and   farms. 

Tel Naga was the epicenter of Sadrith Mora and it was the largest building in the city, surrounded by the stone bricked street, tall samples of   mushrooms, and other Telvanni towers. The docks were located on the west side of the city. It was divided from the rest of the city by the Gateway Inn, a two-story inn, and the only service in Sadrith Mora accessible to foreigners without hospitality papers. The city's north side is Sadrith Mora's great market, home to the city's greatest artisans and traders, and further north is the Telvanni Council House, a large orb held together by mushroom stalks. The path that extends from the south leads to  , the Empire's bastion in Telvanni jurisdiction. In the center of town is the seat of power, Tel Naga, the largest tower in the city and residence of the Telvanni councilor in Sadrith Mora. 

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History
In the mid- , Tel Naga was occupied by the Archmagister of Vvardenfell's House Telvanni,   and the Gateway Inn was placed on the other side of the city, away from the docks.  In  , a magically talented   slave,   met with the council of Telvanni mouths and was freed from her bonds, then proceeded to the rank of a hireling, in service of Nelos Otheri.  With help from an  , she attained the role of oathman  and along the way, clashed with Magisters such as   of  . As time passed, Sun-in-Shadow continued her work to become a magister. 

By the late  , Tel Naga was occupied by Councilor  , which in turn made him Master of Sadrith Mora and its surrounding environs.  A year later in  , the   appeared on Vvardenfell to fulfill the   and become acknowledged as the Hortator of House Telvanni. They traveled to Sadrith Mora to meet with Master Neloth, who nonchalantly gave them his blessing and dismissed them just as quickly.  After the events that transpired in  , the Arch-Mage of Vvardenfell's  ,   gave the order for death to the Telvanni Councilors.  And while it is unknown how the other councilors faired, Neloth had survived the ordeal and at some point moved northwest into  , where he constructed a new tower called  . 

In that same year, there were rumors that the Gateway Inn was haunted and it displeased the Prefect of Hospitality,  . Neloth's mouth,   tried to kill the   multiple times, but it came back every time. Eventually, the Prefect enlisted the help of a traveler who exposed the perpetrator as  , a   expert of the local Mages Guild, who did it as revenge against Angaredhel when he brought her to the magistrate for entering the city without hospitality papers. 

When the   crash-landed on top of   in  , it caused a great chain reaction to   and resulted in an eruption that laid waste to Vvardenfell. Sadrith Mora was one of the great casualties in the entire district and many reports were sent out to the province at large. Many people on the mainland mourned the loss of their loved ones on the island. The event has since been remembered as the  , but in time, a   councilor in   started a relief effort to rebuild and support the settlements hit the hardest on the island. It is unknown how badly Sadrith Mora was hit in the event. 

Culture
As it is customed to House Telvanni, anyone that wants to enter Sadrith Mora proper must first obtain a certification of hospitality from the Prefect of Hospitality in the Gateway Inn, as it was dictated in the  . 

There is a book called   written by the playwright,  , under the alias of "Marobar Sul" that is an adaptation of an Argonian tale created by slaves in southern Morrowind. The setting in the story varies in different tellings but usually, they take place on Vvardenfell, specifically in Sadrith Mora. "Sul" claims that the original story is based on his rendition. 

Along the shores of Sadrith Mora and the rest of Zafirbel Bay are very rare seashells called Red Star Shells, which are very valuable in the eyes of House Telvanni. They can be found on the shoals of the region.  A Sadrith Mora quilted snood is headwear popular among people of high power, meant to reflect their position. 

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See Also
For more information, see the Morrowind and ESO articles.
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