Vivec City

Many ultimately chose to leave rather than continue living under mounting resentment.

During the opening years of the Fourth Era, Bar Dao began descending once again toward Vivec City.

With Vivec no longer present to hold it in place, the suspended moon could no longer remain above the city.

A magical device known as the Ingenium was created to keep Bar Dao aloft.

Some believed this arrangement had been made with the approval of Clavicus Vile, who benefited from the souls consumed by the process.

A Dunmer named Sul destroyed the Ingenium while attempting to save his lover from being sacrificed to power it.

With the machine gone, Baardal resumed its original fall and struck Vivec City with the full force of its descent.

The impact destroyed the city and triggered a chain of natural disasters that devastated Vvardenfell and much of Morrowind.