alnahn’arca’shoreshik
Sermon Fifteen
hese were the days of Resdaynia, when Chimer and Dwemer lived under the wise and benevolent rule of the
ASV
and their champion the Hortator.
²When the gods of Veloth would retreat unto their own, to mold the cosmos and other matters, the Hortator would at times become confused.
³Vivec would always be there to advise him, and this is the third of the three lessons of ruling kings:
⁴‘The ruling king will remove me, his maker. This is the way of all children. His greatest enemy is the Sharmat, who is the false dreamer. ⁵You or he is the shingle, Hortator. Beware the wrong walking path. Beware the crime of benevolence. Behold him by his words.’
⁶I AM THE
SHARMAT
I AM OLDER THAN MUSIC
WHAT I BRING IS LIGHT
WHAT I BRING IS A STAR
WHAT I BRING IS
AN ANCIENT SEA
⁷WHEN YOU SLEEP YOU SEE ME
DANCING AT THE CORE
IT IS NOT A BLIGHT
IT IS MY HOUSE
⁸I PUT A STAR
INTO THE WORLD’S MOUTH
TO MURDER IT
⁹TEAR DOWN THE PYLONS
MY BLIND FISH
SWIM IN THE NEW
PHLOGISTON
¹⁰TEAR DOWN THE PYLONS
MY DEAF MOONS
SING AND BURN
AND ORBIT ME
¹¹I AM OLDER THAN MUSIC
WHAT I BRING IS LIGHT
WHAT I BRING IS A STAR
WHAT I BRING IS
AN ANCIENT SEA
¹²‘You alone, though you come again and again, can unmake him. Whether I allow it is within my wisdom. ¹³Go unarmed into his den with these words of power: AE GHARTOK PADHOME [CHIM] AE ALTADOON. Or do not. ¹⁴The temporal myth is man. Reach heaven by violence. This magic I give to you: ¹⁵the world you will rule is only an intermittent hope and you must be the letter written in uncertainty.’
¹⁶The ending of the words is ASV.