Can't start without this, of course.
"Wake up... You were dreaming." I hear a nearby voice say, "What's your name?"
I tell him my name is Amp.
"Well, not even last night's storm could wake you. I heard them say we've reached Morrowind," my fellow prisoner says, while the footsteps of a guard in heavy fur boots steadily draw nearer, "I'm sure they'll let us go."
"This is where you get off... Come with me!" The guard hauls me off, out of the boat. I'm pointed to an Imperial patrolman waiting for me the dock. I walk down to him, and he asks me where I'm from. I tell him...
I'm a local.
He shuffles me into the Census office, where I explain that I am trained in the art of spycraft, and explain that I was born under the sign of The Lady. He gives me papers, to take, and instructs me to show them to yet another person to shuffle me around. I leave the room, into the unoccupied one adjacent... I wonder what they were thinking. I grab anything that looks like it would fetch me some profit if sold, and stuff it in my pants.
They even left a lockpick near a lockbox with 30 gold in it. It's as if they wanted me to rob them blind. I wander on through, find a ring in a barrel next to the next building. Inside, the guard captian gives me a package and says something about a guy in the nearby city of Balmora, named Caius. I think I have to take it to him. I'll get to that later. Maybe.
Free at last, I run out of the office, and dash to the nearest tradehouse, where I sell everything I stole before it's missed, and promptly get myself ready to travel.
Light armor, and a silver short sword. Awww yeah.
Once that was done, I immediately felt compelled to leave the town I was in, and climb up a nearby hill to survey my surroundings.
First, I look down on the small village I just left, Seyda Neen.
I move to a slightly taller adjacent hill to see further to the southeast, where I can clearly see the grand city Vivec.
Finally, I turn my eyes north, toward my destination. I can't see Balmora from here, I don't think, but I can see a smaller fortress town nearby, and on the horizon, what appears to be some kind of ruin emerging from a mountain. Between everything, a wide expanse of untamed wilderness.
Oh yeah... This is going to be a good day.