Morrowind:Speed

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Speed is the governing Attribute for Athletics, Hand-to-hand, Short Blade and Unarmored. It affects:

  • How fast you move in the game world, which includes swimming.

Character Creation[edit]

The starting values for Speed vary by race and gender:

Race M F Race M F
Argonian 50 40 Khajiit 40 40
Breton 30 40 Nord 40 40
Dark Elf 50 50 Orc 30 30
High Elf 30 40 Redguard 40 40
Imperial 40 30 Wood Elf 50 50

The following classes receive a +10 Bonus to Speed:

Notes[edit]

  • Since there is no fast-traveling via the map in Morrowind, a higher Speed attribute can reduce the time to travel from location to location.
  • Speed also increases the distance covered when jumping forward, allowing someone with a high Speed value to jump over larger gaps without the need for magic effects such as Levitate or Jump.
  • Movement speed is heavily affected by a character's weight. For that reason, races such as Orcs or Nords can be surprisingly swift, despite the low starting speed. This also gives the heavier races a higher potential movement speed, as attributes and skills cap at 100 for all races, while weight is fixed
  • A good way to increase your speed (semi-temporarily) is to cast a 100% resist Magicka spell and then equip the Boots Of Blinding Speed, allowing you to resist the blindness effect of the boots until you take them off again and therefore use the boots without being blinded (the resist Magicka does not affect the positive increased speed). See the boots' quest page for details and tips. Remember that the beast races - Khajiit and Argonians - cannot wear the boots at all.
  • The speed attribute does not affect the speed of most aquatic creatures due to a coding oversight, so trying to absorb, damage or drain the speed of these creatures is futile. This glitch is not fixed by OpenMW due to the heavy gameplay changes it would cause.