alna’amurokam
Volume One
¹By the word, I wind the gears.
ow does one come to know the Clockwork God and Father of Mysteries?
³Our Lord Vivec and the Lady of Mercy, Almalexia, are known to us.
⁴Their faces are known to us. Their words are known to us. But what of Sotha Sil?
⁵He who is distant in both position and intent. Ever watchful, but seldom seen. Ever worshiped, but seldom heard.
⁶He is the Mainspring Ever-Wound—the unmoved mover, hidden within His Clockwork City, whose voice is the Divine Metronome.
⁷As Tourbillon, I speak His truth as I know it. I say the words in sequence so they can be known by the people.
⁸The sequence is but a shadow of the truth, but minds such as ours cannot bear the ordered unsequence.
⁹Minds such as ours cannot truly know themselves. Not yet.
¹⁰The First Truth of the Mainspring Ever-Wound is the truth of Nirn. ¹¹The soul of Nirn has two faces. The first is known to us—the Nirn-Prior, or the Nirn of Many Parts. ¹²It is a Nirn in pieces, assembled by the unsteady hand that has yet to find itself. ¹³Its oscillations irregular, its going train disrupted by fear and delusion. Its faults are not in its parts, but in its assembly. ¹⁴Each gear is a god. Each spring is a thought. But a mechanism built by many hands cannot know the precision of the master craftsman. ¹⁵The et’Ada Gears cannot bring forth a true Nirn, because they know only its parts. They cannot see the whole. ¹⁶The Eye of Sotha Sil ignores such division. ¹⁷Where the broken gods see only pieces, our Father Sotha Sil sees the whole. He sees the Second Nirn.
¹⁸The Second Nirn. The inchoate Nirn-Ensuing. The thought-form that anticipates the world to come: Tamriel Final. Anuvanna’si. ¹⁹Only Sotha Sil knows its shape. Its nature lies forgotten in the before-time when Anu broke itself for wisdom’s sake. ²⁰Our lessers know the Source as two forms: Anu and Padomay, but this binary is without merit. ²¹One of Lorkhan’s Great Lies, meant to sunder us from the truth of Anuic unity. ²²Our father, Sotha Sil, would have us know the truth: there is no Padomay. ²³Padomay is the absence of value. The lack. A ghost that vanishes at first light. A Nothing. ²⁴There is only Anu, sundered and known by many names, possessing many faces. The one.
²⁵When Anu broke itself, it did so to understand its nature. ²⁶In its sundering, the values that swam in its vastness thought to know themselves. ²⁷The et’Ada Gears gave themselves many names and set their will to building. ²⁸Alas, they heeded the counsel of Lorkhan and forgot the face of Anu. ²⁹They thought themselves distinct and whole. And so, many hands assembled the world, each with separate intention and selfish purpose. ³⁰The Nirn of Many Parts was the result. A broken and leaking steam-ship that lists ever wind-ward.
³¹But rejoice, children of the Tribunal! In His wisdom, the Mainspring Ever-Wound seeks to reclaim our lost heritage. ³²His heart is oiled and calibrated, pumping dark truth as blood. ³³His mind is the God-Mortar where the fractured values of Anuic nature are ground and weighed—unified through His will alone. ³⁴From this great labor, a new Nirn will be born. Tamriel Final. Anuvanna’si. ³⁵I pray that we see the fruit of His labor—a perfect world, without et’Ada Gears. Without the illusion of change. Water-tight and everlasting.
³⁶By the word, I wind the gears.