This worship eventually spready to the entire town, causing them to abandon the Divines and re-dedicate their church to the Deep Ones.Īll of this is a direct reference to the Lovecraft story The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Eventually, the player will discover a series of caverns connected by trap doors in almost every home in the settlement. The player can eventually uncover that long ago, miners in Hackdirt discovered creatures known as the Deep Ones, and began worshipping them. When the Hero of Kvatch arrives at the town they find its inhabitants strangely hostile. The quest 'A Shadow Over Hackdirt' has the player travel to the area in search of Dar-Ma, the daughter of an Argonian merchant named Seed-Neeus. Hackdirt is a small town in Cyrodiil just south of Chorrol. For more specific examples, fans of the franchise can look to locations like Hackdirt in Oblivion.
The alien design of the creatures and people in The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind likely took influence from Lovecraft's work to some degree. There are plenty of surface-level references to Lovecraft in The Elder Scrolls games.
