Nice work Chaos... (sorry dont feel like spelling the first part)

That lays down a wonderful background.

But I wouldn't say that the empire is completely defeated. They still have their interests  .

Alright the possible factions so far are as follows. It's what state they are in and things like that. I will also state why the other factions aren't around. Some of these reasons might be changed if anyone thinks of something better.

House Hlaalu: As I stated before, money is useless, the Empire support has been dropped due to low public opinion and the fact that the Legion is weak. They had Duke Vedam ousted from Grandmaster because he was a Duke and thus a servant of the collapsed empire, he was replaced by a young enterprising man of questionable intent who has burning ambitions to raise Hlaalu's power.

House Telvaani: With the Imperial control dying down Telvaani seems to be more interested. They don't want the sites of dwemer research to be misused by stupid warriors or to be exploited by greedy thieves. They also lust for power and respect they feel they aren't getting. The old fart they used to have was replaced in a vicious coup by a young upstart mage (young in Telvaani terms) who is enraged by the state of things and is quite power hungry.

House Redoran: With the Imperials gone and the Tribunal collapsed House Redoran feels the world is too chaotic and faithless, they wish to fill the spot of their former "rulers" and rule with their own brand of Redoran law, based off of their teachings of the house. The former Grandmaster (I forget his name ) was a corrupt man whom was holding Redoran back from glory. He was publicly challenged by a ambitious young noble and slain. The young noble was voted into the office of Grandmaster. The young noble is a very militant man and is revered as a great warrior and a tactical genius but he can be quite merciless towards those he views as enemies and he can also be quite close minded.

House Dres & Indoril (not in): Contact has been cut off from the mainland by the remaining members of the legion. It isn't easy getting to and near impossible getting from Vvardenfell. Dres and Indoril don't view Vvardenfell as very important and they are involved in their own struggles on the Morrowind mainland.

Mages, Thieves, and Warriors Guild (not in): The thieves have retreated from Vvardenfell viewing it as dangerous and too much of a risk and they are reciving heavy assault from Hlaalu who views them as outsiders and troublemakers and from the Cammona Tong who views them as competition. The fighters and the Mages guild are viewed in a extremely hostile manner by the citizens of the House cities as Imperial Institutions and outsiders. They have been decreed unlawful by every house on Vvardenfell and thus most buildings have been torn down by angry mobs and any who could fled did and those that couldn't were killed.

Imperial Legion (In): Since all contact is cut off from the mainland even Imperial Legionarres aren't allowed on the mainland. Since the Legion has recived massive assaults from every city they have occupied and being decreed unlawful by the House cities the remenents of the Legion have gone into hiding in small camps and some soldiers are scattered in caves and ruins. Most attempts to unite the scattered legionarres has been unsuccesful.

Tribunal & Ordinators (definently not): With Almalexia and Sotha Sil dead and the heart of Lorkhan destroyed the Tribunal lossed massive amounts of faith and power. The people started to mistrust the temple for being lied to for so long. Eventually the lack of faith was too great and the Ministry of Truth fell from the sky crashing into vivec's palace killing the former god. The High Fane was extremely damaged and most the inhabitants were killed along with the Archanon. With their leaders dead the remaining priests just lost complete faith in their dead gods though there are small cults still worshiping the old ways. The public now despises the Tribunal and their servants the Ordinators. The Ordinators no more had Empire sanctioned power or the power of the temple and they were rejected by the public and the houses. Many Ordinators quit and a few would rather die than accept what the world had becomse so they committed suicide.

Well the Vivec part is wrong...

Vivec was killed in the RP... so....

One question, why is everyone hating the legion now???

if none of us were to join say telvanni, for example, then we could just kind of forget about that house (say that they were destroyed) in order to keep the rp easy to understand and follow

k so we got a goal (i think) but how do we go about completeing it?  and perhaps the fighters/mages guild since they were kinda kicked out of cities constructed some sort of camp or something in north vvanderfel and possibly banded together?

one question can we be in the East Empire Co.? 'cuz I would like to be the head honcho for some reason.

i edited this, guess no one noticed so here it is

*cries* oh well I would love to be the boss of Hlaalu or an assasin or something fun/important.

now what is the plot? kill the other houses?

Morag Tong (Considering It ) The Morag Tong really wasn't a big player in the conquest game and this still remains true. Some of their members might be encountred during the house wars as contracted assassins but they aren't all that important

Sounds good. BUT if we start with a clean slate there is no way to 'perserve their relationships'. I mean, the relationship is related to the history of what they've been through. And if that stuff didn't happen they never knew each other. etc.
It wasn't a big player because the wars weren't going on. Right now they'd be BIG in buisness. As not only are they assassins, but you don't lose honor from using them (*Honorable* Writ of Execution anyone?). So all three houses would be using 'em. 

perhaps events might even escalate the remaining legion soldiers to the point where they form an alliance with the ashlanders since they are the minority groups?  The Imperials begging the Ashlanders to be allied with them would be a complete change in the way the Vvardenfell has always worked, might be interesting.  Just throwing some ideas around.

killing stuff is awesome!!!  wasn't the morag tong in vivec though?  or some little assassination business....

Well were not starting off with a clean slate...

It's already been decided that this new RP will take place several years after the current RP.

If you've read the current RP from start to finish you'd notice how similiar what you said and the RP are...

So yes Vivic is dead, no the whatever didn't fall on him.

And yes the capitol of cyrodil is pretty much a battleground so the empire is crazy...

and the EEC could still exist... its could of broke away from the empire

Status Quo is  the normality. Making things how they have always been. Such as in this the status quo would be The houses not dominating Vvardenfell and just bickering as before and the Legion being in charge. But mostly what I meant by status quo was peace.

killing stuff is awesome!!!  wasn't the morag tong based in vivec though?  or some little assassination business....

Many of us decided the rough outline of the plot a while back.. and that this RP would be a contiuation of the last.

and the EEC could still exist... its could of broke away from the empire

Well more of a political/fighting RP was out goal.. maybe some depth?

I don't really see a point in having them, there is no way they could've survived, with all this people hating the Empire stuff going on.  The EEC would've been attacked, who would they tax and trade with???

And I mean preserve relationships like Dantrag's char had something for Minque's char and maybe they can still have whatever was going on with eachother in this one too... just as long as it makes sense.