Gauntlets28 said:
I can speak about the Elder Scrolls having wacky prices all day. Especially Oblivion. Solid silver urn? I'll give you 5 septims! A book, in a world apparently lacking in any sort of functioning printing press? I'll give you 20 septims! And then, when I bought Dragonborn for Skyrim, I found I could buy bottles of Flin. Flin in Morrowind was expensive as hell, real "save it for the end game" expensive, being about 4 times as pricey as your average bottle of plonk. So I get Dragonborn, and somehow, on an essentially abandoned outpost on a distant island, in a time when most places that produced flin were obliterated by a meteor strike, a volcanic eruption, an invasion and a tsunami, it is somehow CHEAPER than it used to be. So cheap, it's the same price as most of the other stuff.
Actually Flin was imported from Cyrodiil so its production wouldn't have been hampered by Vvardenfel getting blown up.
As to why its so cheap in Skyrim compared to Morrowind however? Not a clue. Perhaps in the 200 years since the events of Morrowind production has been able to increase or perhaps it simply fell out of favor and with a sharp drop in demand the price fell.
But thats just speculation based on absolutely nothing
Also everything in Morrowind was pretty crazily priced except for the really cheap crap. Gold was also in abundance compared to say Skyrim. Your average random side quest in Morrowind payed like 200 Drakes on average plus another couple hundred from loot. And there were a lot of quests.
In Skyrim the average random quest payed me diddly squat
So perhaps there was some inflation issues in Vvardenfel?
Once again though I'm just talking out my ass