#new idea for kragenhome: a clinic/soup kitchen/hideout/portal the hell out of here combination

[sleepymarmot]

So far Kragenmoor and the Sathram Plantation provided the Morrowind experience most authentic to TESIII: running errands for the people who embody everything you stand against, because you need their assistance for the greater good.

This also gave me a pretty good opportunity to get a clearer picture of Giren Lloran's background.

I have planned for a while for her to be a quietly discontent house Dunmer from Stonefalls who used the chaos of the Akaviri invasion as an opportunity to go rogue. She helped some number of slaves escape, left with them, and engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Akaviri with a bunch of other renegade Dunmer and runaway Argonians (as opposed to Mondryn Sarethi, who was in the main army).

Now, in the light of various Stonefalls quests, it has become clear that back then her goals should have been not just to fight the invaders but specifically to protect enslaved people from them. So I suppose her group was helping some of them escape Stonefalls, while others stayed to join the fight.

This backstory made it very ironic that the leader of House Dres praised her and called her a good ally, completely unaware that she's one of his enemies that go years back. Her polite smile was partially genuine, because she was glad that her cover was not only preserved but reinforced. She was getting a good grade in stealth! I specifically took the stealth route for the main quest, because it was probably similar to what she used to do.