"The region inside the Ghostfence is dangerous, and the Nerevarine will need to be familiar with its particular challenges. After measuring skills and resources against Dagoth Ur's defenses, the Nerevarine will know better how to pace a campaign, alternating raids with improving skills, getting better equipment, and stockpiling resources... Dagoth Ur's kin have become markedly more powerful in recent decades, after remaining stable for thousands of years. If they can be individually isolated and destroyed, they will not be able to support Dagoth Ur in later stages of the war."
 - Vivec, "Plan to Defeat Dagoth Ur"

I never felt like the assault on the Sixth House citadels was much of a "campaign"; it was more the case that I was able to make a single trip up Red Mountain, grab the necessary artifacts and take out Dagoth Ur with ease. Dagoth Ur's "kin" certainly never presented much of a challenge. I wanted to make the idea of this campaign more of a reality, so that each Ash Vampire slain felt like an accomplishment, and progress towards the ultimate goal of killing Dagoth Ur.

This mod gives every one of Dagoth Ur's kin one or more special properties, inspired by the unique monsters in Diablo II. These "properties" can come in the form of new abilities, spells, or both. My aim was to make every Dagoth creature feel like a boss fight, each requiring different tactics and preparation. This makes them a lot more challenging, but hopefully also more satisfying. Only the named "Dagoths" have been changed, generic Sixth House creatures (i.e. "Ascended Sleeper", "Ash Ghoul") are unaffected.

Vivec's "Plan to Defeat Dagoth Ur" mentions the need to alternate raids with "improving skills, getting better equipment, and stockpiling resources". That should now be much more apparent; health, magicka and fatigue potions are obviously very useful, but now also you might consider a healthy supply of potions that allow you to resist magicka, or more specifically fire, frost, poison and shock. A good spell will also come in handy where a weapon just won't do the job, and vice versa.

This mod has been designed to interfere with the original game as little as possible; killing the seven Ash Vampires will still weaken Dagoth Ur in the normal way, Dagoth Gares will still greet you, and all new spells have been scripted, so the actual behaviour of the Dagoth creatures has not been affected. However, this may conflict with other mods that alter these creatures.

When a Dagoth comes in sight, a message box will appear telling you of their properties. The properties you might encounter are listed below; "Abilities" permenantly affect the creatures, "Auras" affect you whenever you come close to the creatures and "On Death" spells will be cast in your direction when the creatures die, so get out of there quick!

BLINDING
Aura: Blind (Note: a Fortify Attack effect is also applied to make up for the severity of the blindness)

CORRUPTING
Aura: Drain Health, Drain Fatigue

CURSED
Aura: Drain Attributes

EXTRA FAST
Ability: Fortify Speed

EXTRA STRONG
Ability: Fortify Strength, Fortify Endurance, Fortify Health

FIRE ENCHANTED
Ability: Immune to Fire
Aura: Fire Damage
On Death: Fire Nova

FROST ENCHANTED
Ability: Immune to Frost
Aura: Frost Damage, Drain Speed
On Death: Frost Nova

GHOSTLY
These creatures are slow but deadly.
Ability: Chameleon, Drain Speed, Fortify Strength (and enhanced damage)

IMMUNE TO MAGIC
Ability: Immune to Magic (ALL harmful magic)

IMMUNE TO PHYSICAL
Ability: Immune to Physical (ALL weapons)

MAGIC RESISTANT
Ability: Resist Magic (ALL harmful magic)

MAGICKA BURN
Aura: Drain Magicka

POISON ENCHANTED
Ability: Immune to Poison
Aura: Poison Damage
On Death: Poison Nova

REGENERATION
Ability: Restore Health

SHOCK ENCHANTED
Ability: Immune to Shock
Aura: Shock Damage

STONE SKIN
Ability: Resist Physical (ALL weapons)

THORNS
Any physical damage you deal to these creatures will be dealt back to you.
Ability: Thorns

I tried to give each Dagoth abilities that fitted with their location; for instance, several of those near lava have been made Fire Enchanted, and many of those in Dagoth Ur's citadel are somewhat more powerful than the others. At the bottom of this file is a full list of the Dagoths and their new properties - don't look if you don't want to spoil the surprise!

Reuploaded from Morrowind Modding History.