What are the consequences of beating Tribunal before Morrowind’s main quest

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I'd like to know what could happen if I finish Morrowind's expansion Tribunal before finishing the main quest. I mean, will I get powerful items, or be able to talk to Vivec if I haven't met him yet? Can I kill the dummer king and take his ring? That sor of things

Best Answer

No, as far as this site explains, the extension assumes that the main quest is complete (or at least progressed far enough). Though it may confuse one if they never started the main quest, it should be ok to do the extension pack before the main quest.

EDIT: Killing the king won't have any negative effect other than losing a reward from him, according to this forum and a wiki excerpt one user included.

Related Solutions

Can you still become Arch-Mage of the Mage’s Guild if you kill Trebonius before getting the quest to become Arch-Mage

Without the use of console commands? You can effectively do anything with console commands. The only way other than that, if you've already killed him, is if you killed him while already being a "Master Wizard" at the actual time you killed him. (The rank in the guild directly preceding Arch-Mage) If you weren't, then no, you can't become Arch-Mage.

If you are not opposed to using Console Commands, the easiest thing to do would be

Find his corpse.
Open console commands (~ key on PC, typically)
Click on his corpse.
Type 'resurrect' without the apostrophes.
Press Enter. He should then be alive again. If he attempts to attack you afterwards, open console commands again, referencing him, and enter 'stopcombat'. Then you can bribe him to like you more, and not attack you.

Hope this helps. :)

UPDATE

If you can't find his body, you can also try:

[resurrect trebonius artorius] (without the brackets)

["trebonius artorius"->resurrect] (with quotes, no brackets though)

If he still wants to kill you when he sees you,

["trebonius artorius"->setfight 0] (with quotes, no brackets)

If you want to see him immediately after entering this, you can use the placeatme command:

[placeatpc "Trebonius" 20,10,1]

LASTLY

If you want to be cheap about it, and skip straight to completing the guild quest and becoming Archmage, you can

[PCRaiseRank "Mages Guild"] in order to gain a rank

[Journal MG_Guildmaster 100] to complete the quest.

What are all the Factions i can join and their restrictions

This is a complete list of the joinable factions in Morrowind. A quick Google search of any one of them should be able to help you find any notes regarding how you join them. Don't forget: Joining certain factions closes you off to other ones, and you cannot advance in certain factions beyond a certain point if you've already done a certain amount in another faction. For example, if you've killed the heads of the Thieves Guild for the Fighter's Guild questline, you obviously cannot advance in the Thieves Guild without console commands. There are other NPC factions, and not all these factions will appear in your faction list, but they are all player factions nonetheless.

House Hlaalu

House Redoran

House Telvanni

Blades (Necessary, joined during the main quest)

East Empire Trading Company (Comes with Bloodmoon Expansion)

Fighters Guild

Imperial Cult

Imperial Legion

Mages Guild

Thieves Guild

Ashlander Tribes (Only technically one faction, but becoming friendly with the Ahemmusa, Erabenimsun, Zainabs, and Urshilaku puts you on friendly terms with all the others. You automatically do this during the Trials in the main quest)

Morag Tong (don't listen to the comments that say you cannot join. This is FALSE. You can join by going to their Vivec headquarters in the Arena Canton. In the storage area underneath the arena, talk to Eno Hlaalu. He can initiate you with a quest. This is the only way to join, you cannot join in their guild halls)

Tribunal Temple

Aundae Clan

Berne Clan

Quarra Clan (These are vampire clans. You can only join ONE of them. It will not appear in your faction list, but it will affect the bonuses you receive as a vampire, and what vampire quests are available to you.)

Hope this helped! :D

UPDATE

As for the latter part of your question, if you go to this page on the wiki:

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Factions

There is a chart down at the bottom that shows the prospective relationships between the guilds, including NPC factions. What that means is that it shows the likelihood to like and/or attack you on sight based on your belonging factions.