Almalexia has ruled Morrowind for thousands of years alongside her fellow gods Vivec (seen in the base game) and Sotha Sil, who call themselves the Tribunal, and are worshipped by the Dark Elf people. After the completion of one of the side quests, a group of mechanical creatures called Fabricants suddenly attacks Plaza Brindisi Dorom. The creatures emerge from the statue in the middle of the plaza, and after their attack, a secret passageway to a Dwemer ruin is revealed. Since the creatures are mechanical, it is suspected that the secretive god Sotha Sil is behind this attack. The player then has to investigate the ruins and complete a few more side quests, in order to reconstruct Nerevar's lost sword called Trueflame. Upon acquiring the sword, the player is sent to the Clockwork City in order to kill Sotha Sil. The player continues to explore all the rooms of Clockwork City, finally arriving to find Sotha Sil dead. When the player tries to leave the room, Almalexia appears and alleges that she had killed Sotha Sil and instigated the attack in Mournhold, in order to gain more power and control over the citizens and the Tribunal. Having been driven mad by the Heart of Lorkhan, she perceived Sotha Sil's silence as mockery. The player is then forced to kill her before returning to Mournhold. As the player exits Almalexia's temple in Mournhold, the Daedric Prince Azura reveals that the Heart of Lorkhan drove Almalexia mad and made her hunger for more power, and that mere mortals cannot become gods without consequences. By destroying the Heart of Lorkhan and killing Almalexia, the player continues fulfilling the Nerevarine prophecies, particularly the death of the Almsivi Tribunal. "Tribunal" was originally the working title of the third main "Elder Scrolls" installment, which would have taken place on the Summerset Isles, a province far southwest of Morrowind. Bruce Nesmith contacted Clyde Caldwell in 1996 and commissioned him to do an early cover art for the game. After the setting of the third game was changed from Summerset to Morrowind, the title of the game was changed, and "Tribunal" was later re-purposed as the name for the game's first expansion pack. The expansion was announced on September 6, 2002, by Bethesda. "Tribunal" was generally well received in the gaming press. Among aggregate review sites, Metacritic scored the PC version of the game with an 80 out of 100, and GameRankings scored it at 81 out of 100.