Prophecy, pre-destination, and free-form gameplay: the Nerevarine prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’
‘Morrowind’, Bethesda’s 2002 game, marries an explicit attachment to the type of free-form, gaming experience that allows for intensely personal character creation and role-play, with a rich and complex main storyline based on the theological concept of prophecy - the story of the reincarnation of t...
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Heidelberg University Publishing
2015
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Online - Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet
Year: 2015, Volume: 7, Pages: 161-184 |
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Morrowind
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/ Live action role playing
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pre-destination
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