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Dipping my toes into Elder Scrolls lore for the first time: we know about Meridia and the Magna-Ge, yeah, but I feel like Azura has - or had - something to do with Akatosh/Auri-El.
He's literally Time incarnate. Azura gives prophecies. She's also Lady of Dawn and Dusk, and her symbols are a moon and star. The star - and her literal Star item - has pointed rays that could just as easily be a sun design. The Snow Elves worshipped Auri-El in Skyrim with a heavy sun theme. In Morrowind, the Nine Divines are implied to be cool with her major goals at that point, or at least cool with the idea of a Nerevarine enough to show up in person (?) along the way in side quests.
Then I just looked up her role in the Khajiit religion, in which she literally has Auri-El's role cutting the heart from Lorkhan.
Does anyone know . . . what her deal is?
#the elder scrolls#tes azura#azura#moon and star#akatosh#auri-el#auriel#skyrim#oblivion#morrowind#the nine divines#daedra#aedra#et-ada#ehlnofey
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Chantry of Auri-el (ruins)
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#auri-el#chantry of auri-el#dawnguard dlc#knight paladin gelebor#snow elf#forgotten vale#skyrim#skyrim screenshots#i needed these screenshots for... reasons
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My take on The Godhead, achieving Chim, zero summing and Amaranth
So for starters
Achieving Chim isn't the whole “Oh they're aware that they're in a video game!!” cuz that trope is done to death and I hate it
What my take on achieving Chim is basically it happens when one achieves peak awareness basically becoming aware of everything and everyone
You know every person you know every location you know everything and you see everything, everywhere and everyone all at once you perceive reality all at once
Now ofc not many people can withstand seeing all of existence at once and basically go into nonexistence
You see all of existence and you cease to be you zero sum
Now why does one zero sum? Well basically seeing all of existence all at once and can give one an existential crisis you began to wonder if you are apart of the reality you're seeing or if you even exist at all
If you can affirm that you are apart of all that you currently perceive then you achieved Chim if you can't affirm this and question your existence then you cease to be because if you don't believe you're real while perceiving all that is real you basically become not real anymore but if you believe that perceiving all of reality at once includes perceiving yourself as well then you've achieved Chim
If you perceive yourself as you perceive all of reality then you've achieved Chim if you can't then you zero sum
Well except for Vivec and Tiber Septim
Now what is The Godhead
Well this ain't no H.P Lovecraft shit where everything is just the dream of a greater being instead The Godhead is one god split into three because this god is too powerful when put into one being
This god being Akatosh who is split into three beings
Auri-El, the elven god of time, Akatosh, the mortal god of time and Alduin, The World Eater
If Auri-El, Akatosh and Alduin become one being then it creates The Godhead the true god of time who basically is the god version of achieving Chim as The Godhead perceives all of reality at once
Past, present, future
Mundus, Aetherius, Oblivion
Man, mer, beast
All is one to The Godhead
The Godhead IS time
BUT
The Godhead MUST remain separated
It separated because it was too powerful it literally almost ripped reality apart which nearly caused an event like The Dragon Break to happen which is why Alduin being sent forward in time caused The Dragon Break because a piece of the god of time was sent through time
A piece of the god of time was sent through itself which is why time broke and The Dragon Break happened
As for Amaranth well that's not seeing all of reality it's transcending it you don't see existence you exist beyond it
It's not zero summing and it's not achieving Chim
It's not seeing all of reality and existence and it's not failing to perceive yourself as a part of all you perceive
You don't perceive yourself as a part of existence but you also perceive yourself as existing
You exist outside of existence
You transcend it
#tes#tesblr#the elder scrolls#elder scrolls online#the elder scrolls arena#daggerfall#battlespire#dawnstar#shadowkey#argonia#redguard#morrowind#oblivion#tes blades#skyrim#tes legends#the godhead#godhead#chim#zero sum#amaranth#tiber septim#talos#vivec#lord vivec#akatosh#auri el#auri-el#alduin
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Hi, I was wondering for a while and decided to ask the expert: How do you think Auri-El worship and understanding of him differed between Altmer, Falmer and Ayleids? What little surviving imagery of Falmer's version of him doesn't seem to have any bird imagery unlike the other two races, instead depicting him as a full elf, so I'm wondering what your take on it is.
Excellent question anon! So excellent I spent a few days mulling it over, looking through notes, and even made a few headcanons along the way. The main points are in bold:
The only Falmeric depictions of Auri-El in the canon are in Skyrim and, to an extent, ESO. The Skyrim depiction is the Elven statue with the vaguely dragonbone-looking robes, whereas the Font of Auri-El has this lovely codex:
[I/D: A yellowed piece of paper headlined with "Ugron gro-Thumog", an Antiquarian in Solitude, reads: "Auri-El, by the looks of it. Seems a little abstract, honestly. Elves make a point of including Elven likenesses in their shrines to reinforce their familiar connections to the Divines. This probably rested near a statue of the Chief Divine himself."]
The font in ESO is a giant wayshrine-like structure with the symbol of Auri-El, a sun with eight curved flares, glowing gently in the center. This symbol is also seen in Skyrim, atop the wayshrines along the Chantry.
Notably, there are no statues of Auri-El, Elvish or otherwise, near these wayshrines in the Chantry. Which is the place made specifically for Auri-El worship. It's entirely possible that the sun was the default, with animal aspects taking on a more specific or diplomatic connotation; I can see the Falmer using the Eagle or even the Dragon to explain their faith to Atmorans.
My headcanon is that Elvish depictions of the Divines were based on the current Prince of that Divine. The Elf you see in the Chantry is, in my interpretation, a depiction of the Snow Prince who reigned when the Chantry was being built. Given that he's bald, it's possible that he was newly anointed as Prince.
Building on the previous bullet point, one of my longest held headcanons about the Falmer is that they were the most spiritual of the Elvish races, which is reflected in their iconography. Instead of conflating their visage with actual gods, they opted for abstractions and symbols as the gods simply do not take a mortal form. A mortal form is made from material, and that means material wants and material burdens; they shed all that! That's how they ascended in the first place!
Some exceptions exist. The Demigod Mara sacrificed her divinity to remain on Nirn, and so she was often depicted as either a mortal or a wolf.
This... differs quite a bit from the Altermic and Ayeild depictions of Auri-El, with the Altmer leaning heavily towards "Elven DILF" and the Ayleids using both Elven and animal aspects, sometimes at the same time.
The Ayeildoon statue of Auri-El is at Garlas Malatar, which is notably where Meridian champion Umaril the Unfeathered made his lair. I may or may not have extensive headcanons on the implications.
The Auri-El statue in the Forgotten Vale and the one in Alinor's Temple of the Divines look eerily alike. I am chalking this up to asset recycling.
#look what rolled in the trash bin#thank you for the lovely ask anon#it was nice to go through my notes and compile them#i'm always on my snow elf bullshit#the elder scrolls#skyrim#eso#auri-el
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tesinktober2023 prompt 30: god
Auri-El, golden god.
#tesinktober2023#multifantober2023#the elder scrolls#auri-el#aedra#my art#i haven't drawn him for a good while now
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For the grace, for the might of our lord For the home of the holy For the faith, for the way of the sword Gave their lives so boldly
For the grace, for the might of our lord In the name of his glory For the faith, for the way of the sword Come and tell their story again
Lyrics from "Sabaton: The Last Stand"
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#argonian dockworker#tes skyrim#argonian#skyrim oc#argonian fisherman#argonian oc#skyrim#tesblr#dark brotherhood forever#julianos#nocturnal#dragonborn oc#herma mora#hermaeus mora#kynareth#auriel#auri-el#sithis#vaporwave
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PRAISE AURIEL 🙏🙏🙏☀️☀️☀️☀️
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what do you think of dibella? i never see anyone talking about her
oh i used to have Big Thoughts about her. let me see if i can remember some of it...
basically, dibella is the goddess of “beauty,” right? that sounds rather superficial - but i assure you, it’s not. “beauty” can be abstracted quite far, as it turns out. “beauty” can be a stand-in for “quality” in general, usually aesthetic quality but not always. and “quality” can actually mean quite a lot!
how do you know what’s good and what’s bad? you may think it’s obvious, but that’s the mysterious “quality” at work. of course you can have “subjective quality,” where things boil down to “i like this” or “i don’t like this.” but dibella aims to represent “objective quality,” meaning “this is good” or “this is bad.” she’s at the cutting edge of reality, deciding what is “beautiful” or “good” and what is “ugly” or “bad.” if you think about it, when you decide what’s good and what’s bad, it tends to be an instantaneous assessment, almost instinctual. that’s the “quality” of dibella at work. this you could call “greater quality,” and you could call personal/subjective quality “lesser quality” - something which is affected by individual or societal taste. but greater quality is completely objective, written into the world by dibella herself.
you might see why this power would appeal to auri-el. he’s not so much the god of time, but the god of control. and he would naturally want control over this aspect of reality, this cutting edge of greater quality. to establish him as the most superior god, he needs to ensure the right things are considered “good” and the right things “bad.” so he keeps dibella wrapped tightly around his finger, i’m sure. but maybe it’s the other way around, as well - dibella may well understand that auri-el needs her.
#tes#tesblr#dibella#auri-el#i think there's probably more to be said about the more standard definition of 'beauty'#but i think that tends to delve more into *cults* of dibella rather than her herself
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Are you prepared to accept the fact that you don't have hands? - Gwiyndolin
#bugs#skyrim bugs#auri-el#auriel#dwemer#falmer#skyrim oc#skyrim#tes skyrim#the elder scrolls#Dawnguard#hidden valley
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Une chronologie de l'histoire falmeri durant 1E.
Bon ! Ce post est une retranscription de l'une de mes réflexions sur ce qui a pu se passer du côté falmeri durant le début de l'ère première. J'en ai parler à un loriste acharné et, d'après lui, il n'y a pas de trous dedans mais par soucis d'honnêteté, je tiens à rappeler que ce qui suit n'est essentiellement qu'hypothèses à cause du peu d'informations disponible sur le sujet. Aussi, c'est un peu long. Comme d'habitude, je me suis laisser emporter. Oups ? 😅
Compris ? Alors allons-y !
Juste pour savoir, n'y a t-il pas un conte bosmeri racontant comment les nordiques les ont chassés d'Altmora avant de renommer la terre Atmora ? Il me semble également que ce conte parle de la forêt comme étant l'ami des Falmer alors que les Nordiques l'exploitèrent sans pitié et que cela pourrait être la source du point de vu nordique sur Hermaeus Mora étant un ''démon''. Faut-il alors en conclure que Mora faisait partit du panthéon falmeri ? Gélébor est rester assez vague après tout, ne donnant que les échantillons les plus génériques. Cependant, il est également fort probable que cette histoire soit bourrée de propagande. Donc, pouvons-nous le prendre comme une possibilité mais à considérer avec prudence ?
Plus de 200 ans de lutte contre l'envahisseur humain. Ce qui est loin des récits nordiques comme quoi Ysgramor et ses 500 ont suffi mais bon... eux-mêmes reconnaissent qu'une bonne histoire nordique ne doit forcément être correcte d'un point de vue historique mais simplement en mettre plein la vue et les oreilles de son interlocuteur. Et encore, si cela a eu lieu pendant le Meréthique tardif alors, sur une ère de 2 500 ans, on pourrait dire que le ''tardif'' s'étend sur au moins 400/500 ans. Je ne dis pas que les falmer ont tenus si longtemps (surtout si les dragons étaient impliqués), je souligne simplement combien les légendes nordiques peuvent exagérer certains exploits.
Personnellement, je dirais que les falmer auraient pu tenir environ 400 ans rien qu'en Bordeciel (sur les potentiels 600/700 ans de guerre avec le Meréthique tardif ainsi que l'aube de 1E) parce que, selon les récits, ils furent chassés sous le règne du Roi Harald qui était déjà le 13ème de la lignée d'Ysgramor. Or on ignore tout des 11 autres (minus Ysgramor lui-même) mais je doute qu'Harald (et ses 78 ans sur le trône) soit le seul à avoir eu un long règne. Je veux dire, que certains gus n'aient durer qu'un an ou une décennie, d'accord. Mais tous ?! Euh... non.
Il doit bien y en avoir au moins 4 ou 5 qui ont dépassés la décennie de règne. Pas forcément autant qu'Harald qui est un exception mais, déjà 20, 30 ou (soyons fous) 40 ans de règne me paraît relativement faisable si l'on prend en compte les lignées nordiques et la durabilité humaine en général. Alors après, il suffit qu'un ou deux aient durer 50 ou 60 ans (et d'autres 5 ans ou moins comme ce gus dont je ne me rappelle plus le nom mais qui n'a durer qu'un an...) et on peut vite arriver à pas mal d'années qui s'écouleraient, sans parler du propre règne d'Ysgramor qui aurait durer jusqu'à ce que celui-ci soit très vieux ce qui, s'il était déjà prêtre-dragon à l'époque, pourrait lui donner environ 20/30 ans de règne.
[Oui, j'ai fait les calculs en prenant certaines estimations des plus optimistes ça donne 5x30 = 150 ; 150 + 78 = 228 ; 228 + (50 + 60) = 338 ; 338 + 30 = 368. Si à cela on rajoute les règnes épars de 3/4 rois et on peut arriver à quelque chose comme 380/390 ans de batailles entre les falmer et les nordiques.]
C'est aussi à cette époque que je plaçais le début de la dégénérescence (et c'est la raison pour laquelle lire des érudits que ce sont des décennies à vivre sous terre qui les ont conduits à leur état actuel me consterne un poil...) mais, pour Vyrthur, j'ai un doute. Je pense qu'il est possible que sa transformation se soit effectuée vers 1E300 ou 1E400. Lors de son témoignage, il nous dit qu'il fût transformé par l'un de ses propres initiés. Or, je doute qu'un vampire ait pu se cacher pendant deux ou trois siècles dans la chantrerie d'Auri-El sans être remarqué. Ce qui signifie que cela devait être un nouvel initié. Mais les falmer furent considérés comme une race éteinte (du moins à la surface) à partir de 1E300/1E400.
A cette période, les falmer sont déjà esclave des dwemer depuis au moins un siècle, probablement plus. Donc il pourrait être l'un des derniers initiés à être venus, de façon éparse, dans l'espoir d'être guérit de son vampirisme. Sauf que nous savons comment Auri-El réagit face à ses fidèles atteint de cette affliction... à partir de là, il n'est pas impossible que ce falmer ait décidé de se venger de cet abandon en s'en prenant au plus haut représentant du culte, à savoir Vyrthur.
Ok, alors basé cette hypothèse sur la seule déclaration de l'extinction des falmer a cette époque est, nous serons d'accord, faible.
Mais j'ai trouvé un autre élément intéressant à ce sujet. A savoir que les falmer gelés dans le sanctuaire étaient... différents des plus communs que nous connaissons usuellement. Ils semblent plus grands, plus forts et il est possible que ce furent eux qui déposèrent des offrandes à la statue d'Auri-El (pour des raisons évidentes, je ne vois vraiment pas Vyrthur le faire...), ce qui me fait penser qu'ils pourraient être un peu moins dégénérés que les autres. Pourtant si ce sont eux qui ont bel et bien attaqués la chantrerie jadis, alors cela sous-entendrait qu'ils auraient passés moins de temps chez leurs ravisseurs. Et pour expliquer cela, je me suis justement basée sur un élément souvent négligé, à savoir les attaques du haut-roi Gellir qui firent perdre aux dwemer leur emprise sur certaines de leur cité.
1E 300 est le siècle où des Trahis auraient pu s'échapper du joug dwemer, le siècle où la plupart des falmer étaient considérés comme une race éteinte (signifiant que les derniers initiés ont dû arriver quelque part à cette époque) et correspond à l'idée avancée par certains que la chantrerie serait tombée au début de l'ère première (même si vu l'étendue de celle-ci... bref.) en dépit d'une contradiction avec Gélébor qui nous dit que la chanterie fût construite au début de ladite ère. Ce que je considère comme une incohérence car, à mon avis, les falmer devaient avoir d'autres préoccupations à l'époque... de plus, Gélébor dit qu'au moment où il est arrivé, la magie nécessaire à sa construction avait été perdue depuis bien longtemps.
Ce qui signifierait que, contrairement aux altmer, les falmer étaient si bordéliques qu'un ou deux siècle(-s) leur suffisait pour perdre une info aussi importante que celle de la construction de leur temple le plus important (je suppose qu'il l'était vu sa taille, les épreuves, les gardes de chevaliers-paladins et la présence de l'artéfact d'Auri-El) ?! Je ne sais pas pour vous mais ça me semble très étrange. A moins que Gélébor ne soit beaucoup plus vieux que ça, ce qui est encore une échappatoire possible. Quoiqu'il en soit, avec les informations actuellement en notre possession, il en ressort (selon moi) que 1E 200/1E 300 (voir 1E 150) fût l'époque des plus gros bouleversements pour les falmer.
En fait, selon une autre source le vampirisme de Vyrthur pourrait même remonter à bien plus longtemps puisqu'il est dit qu'Harkon est tomber sur la prophétie de la Tyrannie du Soleil des siècles après sa transformation. Or Sérana ignorant l'existence d'un empire à Cyrodill car celui-ci suivant son emprisonnement, on pourrait donc dire qu'Harkon et Vyrthur sont des vampires datant de l'ère Meréthique sans plus de précision que ça. Bon, par contre, je n'ai aucune idée de comment expliquer cela ! Sans parler du fait que Vyrthur devait être un champion de la dissimulation pour avoir pu tenir sans aucun soupçon pendant plus de 300 ans. Donc je préfère partir sur 1E 300 même si cela fait une incohérence avec les propos de Sérana.
Franchement, cette histoire est casse-bonbon. 🤦♀️
Y'aurait pas une Cassure à ce moment-là ? Histoire de faire comme les développeurs ? Ma vie en serait simplifiée... 😏
#TES#The Elder Scrolls#Skyrim#Falmer#Vyrthur#Gelebor#Harald#Auri-El#Une tentative de chronologie#Besoin urgent de Cassure du Dragon pour combler des trous de scénario !
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Auriel's Vortex is this anything
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Nyrvus: I GUESS I HAVE ANOTHER SIBLING! Yay!~
Athnyis:. . .Oh gods another one?! As if Nyrvus was a handful.
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I WAS HALF-ASLEEP ASKING THAT! but same! Nyrvus and Athnyis are my snow elf Auri-el child OCS! They are also fully dragon too 😅. They've been around for a long time but they're still young in dragon years. Nyrvus is practically raised to be innocent and pure and that puts a strain on him as Auri-el expects him to be perfect (Until a certain crew of custom followers meets him). Athnyis is pressured too being the oldest and that gets to him! Glad to see more Auri-el Child OCS 😊
How would Tally react to a snow elf dragonborn who may or may not be Auri-el's child 🤣 asking for a fic
He wouldn't be surprised in the least bit. With all the crazy lore and phenomenon that happen in Tamriel. A Snow Elf Dragonborn being a child of a God wouldn't be anything new.
LDB: I'm a Snow Elf.
Taliesin: Don't you love it when supposedly extinct races refuses to be extinct? *sips wine*
LDB: And I might be the child of Auri-El.
Taliesin: Mmm, that makes sense. *takes another sip*
LDB: It does?
Taliesin: Dragon blood flowing through your veins, shouting, the prophecies, kind of spells out "I'm a Demi-God." *sips more wine*
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Arch-CurATE Vyrthur 💅
#phel art tag#artists on tumblr#digital art#art#falmer#arch curate vyrthur#dawnguard#skyrim#tes#the elder scrolls#snow elf#tesblr#auri el
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The war was decided before the final stand at the Moesring.
Those who survived would remember the years before as the Dawnless Dark, for hope had perished, home had perished, and like dust in directionless wind they scattered. Many lost faith, and died in the darkness there. Others turned to forces unthinkable.
Some turned to the First Daughter, and there found sanctuary in the cold mercy of Meridina.
Others begged the Lady of Dusk and Dawn, and she granted reprieve only to those as perfect as her roses.
Some found refuge within the Web, finding the lies of Mephala almost as comforting as the lies from their former Princes.
Others turned to the lord of the Hunt, for they knew what it was to be hunted. They were prepared. They would last an eternity.
Some shattered under the weight of unbearable reality, and followed a butterfly. None can say for sure if any survived long enough for the Shivering Isles.
A few, and only a few, turned to the Lord of Domination for a boon. This ended as well as one would expect from the King of Lies.
#i'm always on my snow elf bullshit#in order: meridia -> azura -> mephala -> hircine -> sheogorath -> molag bal#i don't have any headcanons worth writing about for the other daedra save peryite - that one deserves its own post#but i always thought that of all the daedra meridia would offer solace the most for the falmer#after all she was auri-el's daughter#the elder scrolls#falmer
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It's been SO LONG since I've posted about my OC's. So anyway here's Agarwen my Snow Queen 🥶❄️☃️
#tes#the elder scrolls#elder scrolls#the elder scrolls v skyrim#tes 5 skyrim#tes 5#oc agarwen#snow elf#snow elves#falmer#auri el
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