Morrowind mod 'Feminist Nerevarine' lets you side with women more often
Morrowind is one of the most-modded roleplaying games of all time, and a lot of those mods focus on big sweeping changes like overhauling UI and adding new locations, or rebuilding the whole dang thing, or delightful-yet-absurd technical upgrades like adding footprints.
Others, meanwhile, make smaller tweaks. That's the case with the Feminist Nerevarine mod from AliceL93. The title is a little overblown—it doesn't rewrite Morrowind as a feminist parable—but by changing a few quest options, it highlights the number of times Morrowind didn't give us the option to take a woman's side in a dispute, or even just be polite.
«In some Morrowind quests where there was a conflict between a man and a woman, you didn't have the opportunity to side with the woman,» writes AliceL93. «In other quests, a woman required something from you, and if you wanted to refuse it, the game forced you to do so in a rude manner. And there were also quests where a man overstepped the boundaries of a woman, and you didn't have the opportunity to refuse helping him.»
For example, one quest has you steal a naughty adult book from a lady so that a a man named Aengoth can use it as blackmail leverage against her family. The mod adds the option to keep the book, refusing to hand it over, under the argument that you won't let him blackmail the woman with her private life.
«The characters in these quests don't necessarily have to agree with you, if you take these choices,» AliceL93 writes. «For example, if you refuse to hand over the book, Aengoth will scold you that you won't be popular in the Thieves' Guild with that attitude, and even hints at hiring someone to steal the book from you. I thought that it's important to keep these characters true to
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