cina’amurokam
Volume Four
¹By the word, I wind the gears.
ow I speak to you of Sotha Sil’s silence.
³The children of ash sometimes ask, “Where is our Clockwork God? Why does only the Tourbillon speak His truth in mortal sequence?”
⁴They ask in hushed tones, with brows creased by fear.
⁵Do not flee from such questions, child of the Tribunal. These are the little blasphemies that lead to wisdom—the faultless flame that turns ignorance to steam.
⁶For the Mainspring Ever-Wound is the Father of Curiosity, and curiosity is the joyful destroyer.
⁷Only in sundering can things be made whole. Only the disassembled engine can be scrubbed and made clean.
⁸So, smash the old machines! Topple your mind’s idols! And from the wreckage, assemble new truths—flawless and water-tight.
⁹Do you see now, child of the Tribunal? It is the silence of Sotha Sil that gives birth to the intrepid mind. ¹⁰Knowledge must be found—and to find a thing, it must be hidden. It is not enough to be told. ¹¹The whirr of the machine is as silence to the one who lives within it. ¹²A turbine ever-oiled does not know the lack of oil—does not know the purpose of oil. And so it is with truth.
¹³Now, you must know that curiosity is not without cost. ¹⁴ALM forgive this heresy! VI forgive this heresy! I speak the words in sequence only. ¹⁵Pay heed to the laws of golden masks, but know also their limits. Pay heed to the songs of dancing glass, but know also the boundaries of their scale. ¹⁶Their truth is the truth of inertia. Of gravity. Their hearts are vessels filled with liquid brass—resistant to harm, but incapable of movement. ¹⁷The Mainspring Ever-Wound spurns that which does not move. ¹⁸In the Nirn-Ensuing, that which does not move shall be fed to the Kiln-Amaranthine where Seht’s quiet wrath burns like the sun, and broken cogs are made whole. ¹⁹The Wheels Eternal must spin. The Tamriel Final must tick and tock. Anuvanna’si. ²⁰Each and each must take its place in the whole. For if even one piece is missing, the whole is not whole.
²¹By the word, I wind the gears.