All I know is I had a few Flin, a bit of a scuffle, and now I'm on a boat to the frozen north. If I knew what my work was at this place, I'd know how I'd be affected. Joy.' What do you know of the island's climate? How do you think it will affect your work, and what will you do to cope with it? 'From what I hear, it's cold.

Gotta report to Fort Frostmoth tomorrow for my new assignment. Who are you, and where do you come from? What do you mean to do in Solstheim? 'My name is Ligur Pontius, recently of Cyrodiil. It's creepy, but what can you do? He consents to an interview (I consent to buy him a Flin), and then my quill and parchpad are ready. He looks a bit like Hugh Grant, like many of his Imperial fellows. My tablemate is a staring, blinking Imperial. No juicy scrib jelly or tender guar filets await me here I take a seat on a bench, gnawing tough bear jerky with the rest of the passengers. This is not the pleasure cruise I once took from Sadrith Mora to Dagon Fel. I follow the brochure to Khuul, and hop a ship bound for Solstheim, northwest over the rocking sea. That morning paper I was reading wants a new story. I kick the slippers and don my investigative gear, snatching the camera collecting dust on my shelf. He looks like a Bosmer in fur armor - a mean Bosmer, or at least, a sober Bosmer. The front cover hosts snapshots of a frozen lake and rustic cottages but inside a different caption catches my eye: Nords and Rieklings and Bears, oh my! Below it is an image of a little man on a boar. I've never seen that in Mournhold or Vvardenfell, have you? It is magic. and the photos show me pale, mothy-looking stuff falling from the sky. I'm sitting and reading the morning paper when a glossy brochure drops through my mail slot. These Sweetbarrels need more watering than you'd think.

I've been kicking around in Mournhold for a while, lately exchanging my glass boots for a pair of fuzzy house slippers. Other interviews and information on the upcoming expansion are available at the Elder Scrolls Official Site. She chats with the Bloodmoon designer: first as an Imperial soldier on his way to Solstheim, then as a werewolf lurking among the snow-freighted trees outside the Imperial fort of Frostmoth. My Telvanni witch Withershyn (as always, only marginally in-character, and dreaming of Ordinators and jacuzzis) journeys to the remote, frozen island of Solstheim, where the new story takes place. Full-time Bloodmoon Guru and part-time werewolf Mark Nelson joins me for a two-part, in-character interview on the expansion. 'Elder Scrolls fans and werewolf aficionados eagerly await Bloodmoon, the latest Morrowind expansion from Bethesda Softworks, due for release this May, 2003.

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