I Got to Preview Tamriel Rebuilt's Poison Song Update

Storyline (spoiler-free overview)

• Tamriel Rebuilt: Poison Song adds major new content to Morrowind, including the ability to join new factions tied to House Indoril:
  • House Indoril on the new island of Gorne
  • The Temple Guard / Ordinators (elite temple guards) after reaching the appropriate point in the Ordinator join location
• The House Indoril questline added in this update is described as roughly one-third of the faction’s main questline (about as long as the base game’s Great House questlines), with additional narrative expansion planned beyond these initial quests.
• Broadly, the Indoril arc involves:
  • House Indoril internal business and enforcement, such as:
    • cliff racer operations
    • chapel assignments
    • shipments
  • Rival tension with House Hallalu, including suspicion that Hallalu tampered with a shipment
  • Investigation across settlements, leading toward Alik’r Desert and Orsinium Fields for additional Ordinator questlines

Gameplay highlights & key locations

New island: Gorne

• Introduces a new island featuring:
  • new Indoril chapels/administrative strongholds
  • a new Indoril tile set inspired by Tribunal-era Mournhold ruins
• Sandal House is highlighted as a showpiece interior:
  • It’s where players can join House Indoril, via Sandus / the main chapel tower area.
• Early gameplay is designed to be approachable:
  • even if you’re mostly low-level, the preview indicates you can survive and learn while still finding plenty of higher-level loot elsewhere.

Questing examples from Gorne

• Cliff racers
  • An early “classic faction quest” style task: eliminate them.
  • Serves as an intro while the player is still very low level.
• Artifact/shipment retrieval loop
  • Involves requests to recover “pan of it”, a secret liquid tied to Indoril ancestral rites/communion.
  • The travel mechanics push you away from Gorne toward the next region.

Travel and regional expansion: Sundered Scar

• Mentions nearby boat travel, and notes that Sundered Scar has been heavily remade into a:
  • hostile volcanic wilderness
  • described as high-level
• Darvonis, the region’s largest city, is portrayed as:
  • utilitarian and cold
  • featuring new quests and NPCs
• A central excursion element is a Dwemer dig site:
  • Kemel-Ze is revealed as a mega dungeon completed after ~18 years
  • Includes custom assets, puzzles, and traps

Orethan Fields & new settlement: Othrenis

• Adds lush terrain and a new Indoril-aligned town west of Almalexia’s region (Almalexia / House Indoril’s capital area).
• Notable details include:
  • a distinctive interaction with a “sick” water strider-like creature, which hints it could become a quest later
  • a grass market rumor involving a notably unusual situation: a Nord woman reportedly being sold as a slave, framed as an investigative hook

Chapel of Nenav (major highlight)

• Described as one of the most standout preview areas:
  • strong worldbuilding
  • interiors that feel like they “always belonged” in Tamriel
• Progression includes:
  • A House Indoril quest from Giller Verelnim, sending you to Aim Ral to investigate reports involving a suspicious Hallalu woman
  • A Morag Tong chapter present on-site (joining Morag Tong still requires completing the base-game requirements in Vivec)
  • Getting supply items (noted as six jugs of punavit) from Juval Andris, connected to fears that House Hallalu tampered with shipments
• The update also signals varied quest structure:
  • some quests are short/simple
  • others become multi-part, multi-region journeys with interwoven storylines

Ordinators: joining and what to expect

• After returning and turning in the relevant Indoril quest at Nenav:
  • the player is promoted to Oathman
  • then travels to the Ordinator join location
• Roa’thir → Almas Thirr
  • Almas Thirr is the Indoril stronghold where Ordinators are trained
  • To join:
    • go to the upper waistworks
    • speak with Tavis Lothandus
    • he explains required skills and implies the player must be higher than level 1 (exact threshold not stated in the preview)

Notable gameplay/strategy notes and tips (as implied by the walkthrough)

• Explore early without fear
  • Tamriel Rebuilt content is portrayed as friendly to early explorers, with high-level loot and interesting areas available throughout.
• Expect faction-quest opener combat, even at low level
  • Many faction questlines start with straightforward tasks (e.g., cliff racers) before expanding into deeper investigations.
• Use the world’s travel variety
  • pacing includes silt striders/boats and movement between regions.
• Follow quest hooks across regions
  • A chapel request can branch into broader story threads, including Indoril vs. Hallalu themes and Ordinator questlines that spread into other regions.

Gamers / sources featured (mentioned at the end)

• Soul (the video’s presenter/creator)
• Nexus of sources credited in the subtitles:
  • Tamriel Rebuilt developers / the Tamriel Rebuilt project team (referenced generally; no specific individual dev names provided)
• Imperial Archaeological Society
  • appears in-world as an organization (not a real-world source)