Quick Character Creation

Jiub, Socucius Ergalla, Sellus Gravius, that guard outside, and Nerevar in all of his reincarnations are tired of dealing with each other. They have been forced to act out this short sequence of events for nearly the last 20 years, and they always end up back where they started sooner than they'd like. They have nothing nice to say to you either, most recent Nerevarine. Waking from the most recent iteration of this nightmare, your character realizes the dream has become reality. They won't be able to stay awake for this...

Quick Character Creation is a mod that speeds up character creation to the time it takes you to make your character. You still start with Jiub and end with Sellus Gravius, but all of the repetitious middle steps are cut by fading to black and moving you on to the next essential step. There are 4 steps:

• Jiub — Enter Name
• Guard — Choose Race & Appearance
• Socucius Ergalla — Class, Birthsign & Review Choices
• Sellus Gravius — Duties & Package
  

There are no tutorials of any kind, and no time for them anyway. Fargoth's Engraved Ring of Healing is left alone in the barrel and you have to backtrack for it. You could say that balances out the far-fetched roleplaying above by not forcing you to dig through barrels. If you wish to steal the limeware platter or any of the tutorial items, you can go back for them too, but the guard won't be so lenient if you are caught.

There are still voice lines but I changed all of them to quick generic lines to reflect the made-up "explanation" for your character blacking out. Everyone just wants you to get the paperwork done so they can get a few days of rest before the next Nerevarine shows up.



There is nothing new about shortening character creation, but I was not able to find a mod on Morrowind Nexus that effectively cuts the sequence without going straight to the end. A lot of mods try to make the process longer, move it somewhere else, or add extraneous features like extra starting money. If you want a shortcutted vanilla character creation, enable this mod. Otherwise, disable it.

Recommended Mods

• Merlord's Starting Equipment (requires MWSE) — Gives you starting equipment based on your class right after talking to Sellus Gravius.
• Merlord's Character Backgrounds (requires MWSE) — Similar to the traits system in Fallout: New Vegas, but tailored for Morrowind.
  

Alternative Mods

• Skip Tutorial — This is another option if you don't like the way my mod works. It has 3 options, with my solution falling somewhere between "Skip Tutorials" and "Quick Start".
  

Quick Character Creation edits 19 of the 21 chargen scripts, 15 of which have been blanked except for local variables so existing references are not messed up. It also edits 3 lines of Sellus Gravius' dialogue. No objects or cells have changed so any mod changes to the Census and Excise building are fine so long as they keep Socucius Ergalla and Sellus Gravius in the same position with room in front of them. It would be simple enough to edit the 3 scripts that use PositionCell too if the C&E Office is dramatically different.

CharGenNameNPC (Jiub, transports to Guard outside)
CharGenRaceNPC (Guard, transports inside to Socucius Ergalla)
CharGenClassNPC (Socucius Ergalla, transports to Sellus Gravius)

It is obviously not compatible with other character generation mods.

My Other Mods

• Playable Game of Ur
• Moving Minecarts
• Questline - Vivec Lighthouse Keeper
• Nine-holes
• Thirteen Telvanni - a Dunmeri Card Game
• Writer of the Third Era
• Preview Warning for Tamriel Rebuilt (and Creating Your Own TR_Preview)