Im going to share this once more, and likely once more only, so, if youre interested in TES lore, and specifically the creation myth as well as the Morrowind theme, I sincerely recommend that you copy and paste this somewhere. Here it goes. Long ago, there was an entity who had fallen deeply in love, but his brother loved the same person, so he, out of jealousy, killed his loved one. That brought such distress to him that he fell into a coma of sorts, he hid in a sun and started dreaming. Thus he became The Godhead. From his dreams sprung Anu and Padomay, Stasis and Change. These brothers (the term used in the loosest sense here, solely on being related but different forces) accidentally created Nir, Grey maybe, personification of creation itself. But Padomay grew jealous of the relationship between Anu and Nir and out of spite decided to break her. Nir was killed and Creation was shattered, maimed forever. Anu then fought Padomay and they were cast out of time forever, even though they still exist and will always exist as long as there is Order and Chaos. You might have thought to yourself, Didnt that happen twice?, yes it did. Everything in the Dream mimics original Godhead and his mind, everything comes from it. In this case Anu was avatar of the Dreamer while Padomay represented Godheads brother and Nir their shared love. Same scenario of two mirror brothers, one being force of Stasis, The King and one being force of Change, The Rebel always repeats. The souls or core concepts of Anu and Padomay on which all of creation runs are called, Anui-El (IS) and Sithis (IS NOT). Eventually from endless energies and blood of Anu and Padomay came the Etada (Etada means original spirit, while Ada means just generally any spirit), each representing different idea and concepts. Etada tended to categorize themselves with Anu or Padomay. Auri-El, Kyne and other Etada that represent forces of Order are called Anuic, while more chaotic ones like Mehrunes Dagon or Molag Bal are Padomaic. Later after creation of realms those who were Anuic became Aedra, which means our ancestor in Ehlnofex, because Aedra took part in creation of the world. While those Padomaic spirits who did not take part in creation and created their own solo realms became Daedra, which translates to not our ancestor (though that was not always the case, Jyggalag for example is a Daedra, but he is clearly Anuicly aligned.) In the Dawn Era, time, in the shape of Akatosh (Ara, Auriel, Auri-El ToshRaka, AKHAT; take your pick), was non-linear. It flowed freely wherever it wanted, without direction, form of shape. In this temporal soup floated the souls of the proto-Mer. Think pea soup, except with millions of Ada of all sorts instead of peas. Time, in this form, was a single point. It was called the Ur-Tower, Ada-Mantia. Except it was not really a point or a tower, but more of a sound. Bom. (0:00 to 0:01 of the song) The EtAda saw it, and it was good. Except for one. A being born from Padomay who wanted no name, but eventually came to be first known as Lorkhan (LKHAN, Shor, Sep, Shezarr, maybe even Shepard). Having little interest with the rest of the EtAdas activities, or more likely inactivity, he spent his time wandering the Aurbis (all of existence), eventually coming to the very edge. He saw the universe, shaped like a wheel with eight spokes. Then he look at the wheel from another perspective, and looked like a Tower, a perfect line. An I. I. This was his first word, and he would never, ever forget it. He understood everything right then and there, all of creation and its true nature was revealed to him. Wanting to share this revelation with the other Ada but knowing that none of them would be able to comprehend it as they were, he came up with a plan for a creation and showed it to Magnus, The Grand Architect. Magnus went along with the plan and recruited the help of the Etada that we know as Aedra today: Akatosh, Dibella, Julianos, Kynareth, Mara, Stendarr, Zenithar and many other lesser spirits that you probably never heard of to serve as the basis of their creation. Except that they did not know this last part, Lorkhan had fooled them. Their divinity was drained into the creation, or re-creation of long shattered Nir, Nirn was born. When they discovered they were tricked the EtAda were not amused. Magnus buggered off into infinity along with his servants, tearing through the edge of Mundus and creating The Sun and The Stars in the process...yeah, everything you see in sky is a giant non euclidean portal to realm of infinite energy, the original crib of Etada, The Aetherius. Others gave Lorkhan his due: Trinimac tore his heart out and Auriel(Elven aspect of Akatosh) shot it out over the sea, where it landed in a spot and created a crater that would gain the moniker Red Mountain. The halves of Lorkhans body became the moons Masser and Secunda, the last visible remnants of a corpse god. But this was just as planned, throughout the whole thing the Heart of Lorkhan was laughing at them like a maniac, because Red Mountain was Red Tower, the second Tower, and the beat of his heart would be added to the sound of Akatosh. His Heart would become the prison for The Dragon God of Time. Bom bom. (0:01 to 0:07 of the song) This completely, utterly and irrevocably clogged spacetime. Because there now was a second point in existence, time could no longer flow anywhere it wanted and had to flow from Akatosh to Lorkhan. With time becoming linear, Nirn could start to grow. Aedra were drained and dying, so they had to reproduce, create worshipers or someone that could sustain them. Slowly Ehlnofey, the Earth Bones, Ada of all forms and shapes, some descendants of crazy reproduction, started popping up. Some created simple truths and laws for Nirn, for example gravity, others reproduced more, creating less energized spirits that slowly stabilized in different ways, slowly becoming mortal. Bom bom. (0:07 to 0:39 of the song) The Mer, one of the first to mortalize were not not pleased by this. They blamed Lorkhan for their predicament, naming him the Doom Drum, bringer of mortality, death and the herald of all misfortune. But they made the best out of the situation, and the races of Mer prospered. New Towers came into existence, one by one: Walk-Brass Tower, White-Gold Tower, Snow-Throat Tower, Crystal-Like-Law, Orchalc, Khajit and Tree-Sap. Bom bom. (0:39 to 1:19 of the song) But, as time went on (something new back then), more and more happened. New peoples stood up. Empires were founded and fell. The races of Men were discovered, the beast races prospered, and the Empires of Men were founded. Bom bom. (1:19 to 1:42 of the song) Yet nothing is eternal. The Thalmor, the ruling faction of the High Elves, desires nothing less than the destruction of the Doom Drum and all of creation so time once again becomes non-linear, mortality would get destroyed and they could return to their eternal soup-floating. Removing Lorkhan would stop the music of existence, and everything once again becomes singular. Bom bom. Bom. (1:42 to 1:55 of the song) And then... silence. https://youtube/watch?v=ZWuNf4gxwuM
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:11:49 +0000
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