Dagoth Ur ' s Plans Content . [ The following documents were prepared by Temple scholars and agents of the Inquisition for Lord Vivec . ] From interrogation of captured Sleepers and other Sixth House cultists , from study of manuscripts written by cultists and victims of dream - induced mania , from interviews with Lord Vivec concerning historical campaigns against Red Mountain , and from broad conjectures and inferences made upon these materials , this is our best estimate of Dagoth Ur ' s motivations and objectives in this most recent phase of his war upon Morrowind . Plans to Establish and Expand the Sixth House . Phase 1 : Secure Red Mountain against Tribunal intruders . Deny Tribunal access to the Heart , weakening the Temple while securing Red Mountain for the creation of Akulakhan . Keep the construction of Second Numidium a secret . Phase 2 : Create passive servants in ever - widening circles around Red Mountain by broadcasting compulsions couched in dream imagery to susceptible subjects in their sleep . Establish a major operational base at Kogoruhn for further operations in the ash wastes . Establish smaller bases near small port villages and in lower - class waterfront districts in Vivec . Infiltrate and subvert smuggling syndicates . Recruit willing followers from disaffected populations , including the underworld , the poor , and rabid anti - Imperial activists . Phase 3 : Expand from smaller bases to other towns and villages , and recruit and indoctrinate subjects made susceptible by dream sendings . Occupy abandoned towers and ruins , and train corrupted cultists as raiders and irregular troops . Identify , discredit , and decimate possible sources of political resistance . Phase 4 : Use assassination and terror to weaken , distract , and disrupt the Legions and the Imperial bureaucracy , along with their Hlaalu sympathizers . Inspire popular uprisings of the native poor against the foreign rich and powerful . Summon Sleepers and Dreamers to Dagoth Ur to work on Second Numidium . Inferring Dagoth Ur ' s Perspectives . Dagoth Ur thinks on a large time scale - - for the most part , in the outside - of - time scale of the divine consciousness . He thinks that only obstacles of mythic scale are worth consideration . He believes he is fated to rule Morrowind , to free Morrowind of the Empire , and to become the new hard - loving Father of Morrowind . Given that perspective , the only opposing forces Dagoth Ur worries about are the Tribunal , the Daedra , the Emperor , and the Incarnate . With the Tribunal ' s loss of Sunder and Keening , and with the diminishing resources of Vivec , Almalexia , and Sotha Sil , Dagoth Ur believes he has permanently gained a decisive strategic advantage . On a mortal timescale , the battle may last for centuries , but the outcome is not in doubt . And Akulakhan may be a device for dramatically reducing the time scale for a decisive victory . The myth of dynamic invincibility of the Emperor and the Empire has long been an unquantifiable and intimidating threat , but recent rumors of unrest in Cyrodiil , of the Emperor ' s failing health , and the unsettled question of the succession have diminished the scale of that threat . Nonetheless , the revelation that the Nerevarine is a pawn of Imperial intelligence , hand - picked and sent to Morrowind by the Emperor himself , may cause Dagoth Ur considerable anxiety . The Daedra represent no coherent obstacle to Dagoth Ur . Nonetheless , their personal abilities and their influence upon their fanatic followers is considerable , their motives and actions obscure , and Dagoth Ur remains concerned about them . The Incarnate represents Saint Nerevar , a mythic force that has previously defeated Dagoth Ur , and Dagoth Ur is obsessed with this threat . At the same time , Dagoth Ur knew Nerevar personally , knew that he was a mortal man with faults and weaknesses . Dagoth Ur may have some hope of seducing or negotiating with Nerevar ' s reincarnation . Further , when Nerevar and the Tribunal defeated Dagoth Ur , they were strong and allied ; now the Nerevarine and the Tribunal are weak , opposed , and divided . Therefore , though the Nerevarine and the Tribunal represent the most serious threat to Dagoth Ur ' s plans , he still has good reason to believe that this time he will prevail . A Recent Timescale of Dagoth Ur ' s Activities . [ Much of the following timescale is based on inference from incomplete information . ] before 2E 882 : Dagoth Ur and his kin lie dreaming beneath the sills of Red Mountain . 2E 882 : Dagoth Ur and his ash vampires awake refreshed and emerge from lower Red Mountain into the Heart Chamber . Dagoth Ur ritually binds himself and his brethren as heartwights in a ritual of his own devising . First stages of construction of Second Numidium [ conceived during the Long Sleep ] are begun by heartwights and atronach constructs in a chamber near the Heart of Lorkhan . Keeping the Second Numidium project a secret from the Tribunal is a high priority . 2E 882 : The Tribunal arrive at Red Mountain for their annual ritual bathing in the heart ' s power . Dagoth Ur and ash vampires ambush the Tribunal . The Tribunes are driven away , and prevented from restoring themselves with Kagrenac ' s tools at the Heart of Lorkhan . 2E 882 - 3E 417 : Intermittent Tribunal campaigns assault Red Mountain . The Tribunal and supporting forces seek to force access to the Heart Chamber , but are repeatedly driven back . Dagoth Ur recruits Sleepers and Dreamers through dream sendings . Cultists are recruited through dream compulsion . Weaker cultists become corprus beasts ; stronger cultists advance through stages towards the powers of the Ascended Sleeper s . 3E 400 : Kogoruhn reoccupied by Dagoth Uthol and fortified as an advance base for Sixth House operations . Blight storms more frequent and widespread . Soul sickness spreads in regions close to Red Mountain . 3E 410 : Sixth House bases founded near Gnaar Mok and in waterfront areas of Vivec . Sixth House operatives exploit smuggler organizations and communications to spread their influence among victims unbalanced by Dagoth Ur ' s dream sendings . 3E 415 : Small cells of Sixth House cultists in every town in Vvardenfell . Larger Sixth House operations are concealed in remote dungeons where creatures are bred and cultists are trained for the coming struggle . 3E 417 : Almalexia and Sotha Sil lose the artifacts Keening and Sunder to Dagoth Odros and Vemyn . Vivec rescues Almalexia and Sotha Sil , but failing to recover Keening and Sunder , the Tribunal retreat from Red Mountain in disorder . Surviving Buoyant Armigers companions know the Tribunal was forced to retreat , but do not know how serious a reversal the Tribunal has suffered . The Three Tribunes return to their respective capitals and continue to perform their ritual functions . The Tribunes continue to grow weaker without access to the Heart , and because of resources required to support the Ghostfence . The inner circle of the Temple priesthood has begun to suspect the Tribunes have suffered seriously from wounds and demoralization in the wake of reverses at Red Mountain , but do not recognize the scale of the problem . 3E 426 - 427 : Campaign of Sixth House assassinations of prominent Imperial citizens and Hlaalu Imperial sympathizers . Sudden increase in number and seriousness of attacks by cultists and victims deranged by soul sickness .