The book you are referring to is The Seed , vol 2 of Marobar Sul's 'Ancient Tales of the Dwemer' - and any scholar would tell you to be wary of Marobar Sul He is a rather disreputable sort, and whilst it appears that there is some truth in his tales, it pays to read the footnotes at the end of the book.

As to your question Veet, we can offer only clues to the truth - here is a line from The Monomyth -

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Even the hist acknowledge this being

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Now a brief explanation of why this line is important, consider the following two lines -

Even they acknowledge this being
Even Dave acknowledges this being

Its a long shot i know, but because it says acknowledge rather than acknowledges it is referring to a group rather than an individual

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The rest of the Argonians are primitive, reclusive, and practice heathen rituals of nature worship that necessitates a proximity to a certain type of spore-tree, which grows only in the interior of their native swamplands.

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Question; Would the "spore tree" spoke of in the Pocket Guide be refering to the Hist? It would seem to fit since we do know the Hist are worshiped by the Argonians.

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I agree actually, it could be that the whole story is true, just with Dunmer instead of Dwemer - and that there is only one hist left

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Where in the story does it say that all the Hist in Black Marsh are gone except for one? It only deals with the annhiliation of the Hist in one village in Morrowind ... or did I miss something?

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"Why did the trees die?" asked Kamdida.

"When there were Argonians only in this land, we never cut trees for we had no need for fuel or wooden structures such as you use. When the Dwemer came, we allowed them to use the plants as they needed them, provided they never touched the Hist, which are sacred to us and to the land. For many years, we lived peaceably. No one wanted for anything."

"What happened?"

"Some of your scientists discovered that distilling a certain tree sap, molding it and drying it, they could create a resilient kind of armor called resin," said Sigerthe. "Most of the trees that grew here had very thin ichor in their branches, but not the Hist. Many of them fairly glistened with sap, which made the Dwemer merchants greedy. They hired a woodsman named Juhnin to start clearing the sacred arbors for profit."

The old Argonian woman looked to the dusty ground and sighed, "Of course, we Argonians cried out against it. It was our home, and the Hist, once gone, would never return. The merchants reconsidered, but Juhnin took it on his own to break our spirit. He proved one terrible, bloody day that his prodigious skill with the axe could be used against people as well as trees. Any Argonian who stood in his way was hewn asunder, children as well. The Dwemer people of Lorikh closed their doors and their ears to the cries of murder."

"Horrible," gasped Kamdida.

"It is difficult to explain," said Sigerthe. "But the deaths of our living ones was not nearly as horrible to us as the death of our trees. You must understand that to my people, the Hist are where we come from and where we are going. To destroy our bodies is nothing; to destroy our trees is to annihilate us utterly. When Juhnin then turned his axe on the Hist, he killed the land. The water disappeared, the animals died, and all the other life that the trees nourished crumbled and dried to dust."

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"What will happen?" asked Kamdida. "Will the Hist return?"
"No. But some part of their power will."

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He returned to his house and fire. The next morning when he awoke and opened the door, he found that his cottage was entirely sealed within an enormous tree. He picked up his axe and delivered blow and after blow to the wood, but he could never break through. He tried side chops, but the wood healed itself. He tried an upper chop followed by an under chop to form a wedge, but the wood sealed.

Much time went by before someone discovered old Juhnin's emaciated body lying in front of his open door, still holding his blunted, broken axe. It was a mystery to all what he had been chopping with it, but the legend began circulating through Lorikh that Hist sap was found on the blade.

Shortly thereafter, small desert flowers began pushing through the dry dirt in the town. Trees and plants newly sown began to live tolerably well, if not luxuriantly. The Hist did not return, but Kamdida and the people of Lorikh noticed that at a certain time around twilight, long, wide shadows of great, bygone trees would fill the streets and hills.

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This part makes me think that their is still one more Hist, that only the woodchopper could see and feel, that means that their is one hist or none, it says that the life began to return later on wich means that there were no More hist early one, seeing that there was no more life, or pherhaps their were but one was just not strong enough.

In any case there is atleast one Hist's power active wether the tree is there and cloacked from all, or is just not there i don't know, but according to this book there is at least the power on Hist.

But as Phil_t pointed out there is to little info on the hist to be sure.

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"What will happen?" asked Kamdida. "Will the Hist return?"
"No. But some part of their power will."

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This says that their is still the power of the Hist active in the Black Marsh, it says that they will not return but the power will, and before that they state the Argonians will soon die. I don't know i think the book is correct especially since its state's on the bottom that the Argonians themselfs had the same book, only without the Dunmer changed into Dwemer.

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Lorikh, while clearly not a Dwemer name, simply does not exist, and in fact "Lorikh" was a name commonly used, incorrectly, for Dunmer men in Gor Felim's plays. The Argonian versions of the story usually take place on Vvardenfell, usually in the Telvanni city of Sadrith Mora

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