alna’shoreshik
Sermon One
e was born in the ash among the Velothi, anon Chimer, before the war with the northern men.
²Ayem came first to the village of the netchimen, and her shadow was that of Boethiah, who was the Prince of Plots,
³and things unknown and known would fold themselves around her until they were like stars or the messages of stars.
⁴Ayem took a netchiman’s wife and said:
‘I am the Face-Snaked Queen of the Three in One. ⁵In you is an image and a seven-syllable spell, AYEM AE SEHTI AE VEHK, which you will repeat to it until mystery comes.’
⁶Then Ayem threw the netchiman’s wife into the ocean water where dreughs took her into castles of glass and coral. ⁷They gifted the netchiman’s wife with gills and milk fingers, changing her sex so that she might give birth to the image as an egg. ⁸There she stayed for seven or eight months.
⁹Then Seht came to the netchiman’s wife and said:
‘I am the Clockwork King of the Three in One. ¹⁰In you is an egg of my brother-sister, who possesses invisible knowledge of words and swords, which you shall nurture until the Hortator comes.’
¹¹And Seht then extended his hands and multitudes of homunculi came forth, each like a glimmering rope through the water, ¹²and they raised the netchiman’s wife back to the surface world and set her down on the shoals of Azura’s coast. ¹³There she lay for seven or eight more months, caring for the egg-knowledge by whispering to it the Codes of Mephala and the prophecies of Veloth and even the forbidden teachings of Trinimac.
¹⁴Seven Daedra came to her one night and each one gave to the egg new motions that could be achieved by certain movements of the bones. ¹⁵These are called the Barons of Move Like This. ¹⁶Then an eighth Daedroth came, and he was a Demiprince, called Fa-Nuit-Hen, or the Multiplier of Motions Known. ¹⁷And Fa-Nuit-Hen said:
‘Whom do you wait for?’
To which the netchiman’s wife said the Hortator.
¹⁸‘Go to the land of the Indoril in three months’ time, for that is when war comes. ¹⁹I return now to haunt the warriors who fell and still wonder why. But first I show you this.’
²⁰Then the Barons and the Demiprince joined together into a pillar of fighting styles terrible to behold and they danced before the egg and its learning image.
²¹‘Look, little Vehk, and find the face behind the splendor of my bladed carriage, for in it is delivered the unmixed conflict path, perfect in every way. What is its number?’
²²It is said the number is the number of birds that can nest in an ancient tibrol tree, less three grams of honest work, ²³but Vivec in his later years found a better one and so gave this secret to his people.
²⁴‘For I have crushed a world with my left hand,’ he will say, ‘but in my right hand is how it could have won against me. Love is under my will only.’
²⁵The ending of the words is ASV.