Morrowind averts almost all of the basic tropes that most fantasy works strive to include, giving the world a wonderfully unique vibe. The land itself isn't the usual quaint English countryside. The political system isn't the usual feudal nobility with a hereditary line of monarchs at the top. The city designs are remarkably creative. The flora and fauna are utterly zany. The setting just looks and feels very, very different from the kind of thing you'd see in Tolkien or Warhammer or D&D or Dragonlance or Game of Thrones or whatever, and that can only be a good thing when most fantasy that comes out these days just seems to be more of the same.