after not touching the game for a year I decided to fire Morrowind back up for the hell of it (mostly because of the oblivion news).. I hadnt tried this in a while and my charachters level is much higher than it had been.. in any case, I loaded up on restore healths, marched to the palace in Vivec..
and after a solid 30 minute battle I killed Vivec, it still says that the path of destiny or whatever is broken, but Dagoth Ur has been dead forever, so Im sure that is just a hold over warning from before I beat the game. He drops a Dwemer artifact of some sort.. I have no idea what it is but it has a value of 1. I figure I will take it to that guy in Tel Vos who likes Dwemer stuff, or that living Dwarf/machine thing in that tower where I was cured of blight.. see if they can do anything with it. If anyone has done this before and can tell me if you can do anything with the Dwemer artifact, I would appreciate it