shaln am nirn
Spirit of Nirn
orkhan is the Spirit
of Nirn, the god of all mortals.
²This does not mean all mortals necessarily like him or even know him.
³Most mer hate him, thinking creation as that act which sundered them from the spirit realm.
⁴Most humans revere him, or aspects of him, as the herald of existence.
⁵The creation of the Mortal Plane, the Mundus, Nirn, is a source of mental anguish to all living things; ⁶all souls know deep down they came originally from somewhere else, and that Nirn is a cruel and crucial step to what comes next. ⁷What is this next?
Some wish to return to the original state, the spirit realm, and that Lorkhan is the Demon that hinders their way; ⁸to them Nirn is a prison, an illusion to escape.
⁹Others think that Lorkhan created the world as the testing ground for transcendence; ¹⁰to them the spirit realm was already a prison, that true escape is now finally possible.