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Sithis
ithis is the start of the house. Before him was nothing,
²but the foolish Aldmer have names for and revere this nothing. That is because they are lazy slaves.
³Indeed, from the Sermons,
‘stasis asks merely for itself, which is nothing.’
⁴Sithis sundered the nothing and mutated the parts, fashioning from them a myriad of possibilities. ⁵These ideas ebbed and flowed and faded away and this is how it should have been.
⁶One idea, however, became jealous and did not want to die; like the stasis, he wanted to last. ⁷This was the demon Anui-El, who made friends, and they called themselves the Aedra. ⁸They enslaved everything that Sithis had made and created realms of everlasting imperfection. ⁹Thus are the Aedra the false gods, that is, illusion.
¹⁰So Sithis begat Lorkhan and sent him to destroy the universe.
Lorkhan! Unstable mutant!
¹¹Lorkhan had found the Aedric weakness. While each rebel was, by their nature, immeasurable, they were, through jealously and vanity, also separate from each other. ¹²They were also unwilling to go back to the nothing of before. ¹³So while they ruled their false dominions, Lorkhan filled the void with a myriad of new ideas. These ideas were legion. ¹⁴Soon it seemed that Lorkhan had a dominion of his own, with slaves and everlasting imperfections, and he seemed, for all the world, like an Aedra. ¹⁵Thus did he present himself as such to the demon Anui-El and the Eight Givers: as a friend.
[ ¹⁶Such was the plan of Lorkhan:
To destroy the false gods, free their slaves and reveal their illusion.
¹⁷And this is how he achieved it:
He told them that he was tired of his dominion and wanted to create a new one. This was foolish enough to arouse the curiosity of the always satisfied Aedra.
¹⁸They watched Lorkhan perform his work. Magnus was the first to express an opinion on this new domain. ¹⁹For Lorkhan had duped them all and so Nirn was created. ]
²⁰Thus, go unto the Sharmat as a friend.
AE HERMA MORA ALTADOON PADHOME LKHAN AE AI