Individuals of the rank of Wizard or above achieve their rank through the exertion of power and authority, and not through any official recognition. Once a person is kin to the House, they advance through the service of a particular great Wizard. High ranking Telvanni therefore have strong views which are divergent from one another and definitely from the mainstream of Morrowind society. They area house of which embraces a certain conception of liberty as a value – one in which only those who are willing to completely embrace that libertarianism can rise to the top. House Telvanni are, in Vivec's words, iconoclastic, profane, and unconventional. They have absolutely no loyalty to any force or power but their own. They have mostly shunned the rest of Morrowind, preferring to live in their isolated sadriths where they can tinker in relative peace. They are cynics in the utmost, having achieved a state of lucidity through isolation and their pursuit of power and knowledge. While it is true that they have attained a certain mastery when it comes to the arcane arts, their character primarily revolves around their fiercely independent and competitive nature.
Understanding this reclusive and mysterious house goes beyond generalizing their character and pigeon-holing them into your typical "fantasy mage" tropes.
House Telvanni value power, knowledge, and especially the application of one in the pursuit of the other. House Telvanni is not of one mind on anything, it is a battle of all against all. As the later sections demonstrate, the house is built around individual wizards and their host of mages, coexisting with other magelords in a very uneasy peace mediated through the Parliament of Bugs. If any house is individualist, it is House Telvanni. House Telvanni's particular Tribunal is Sotha Sil. It visualizes some of the more alien concepts we hope to re-inroduce into our portrayal of House Telvanni. Some early concept art for House Telvanni by Michael Kirkbride. (Art by Michael Kirkbride/ digitized by PreistMorokei on deviantart) Nevertheless, it can be intepreted as conveying Telvanni mastery over natural forms. The sigil of House Telvanni is an abstract entity that can be seen as either a series of Sun and Stars, or as a towering Sadrith.
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