#auri-el

[iamnotshazam]

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?

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Statue of Auri-El

Pre-release image for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

*Dev credit Unknown*

[guiquart]

❄️☀️⏳ It was a college assignment, and I decided to draw the coat of arms of the snow elves. Don't take it as something serious, I just decided to share something from my life.

I need to try my hand at vector graphics.

[monstersandmaw]

Chantry of Auri-el (ruins)

(feel free to use for reference etc.)

[tes-trash-blog]

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.

[elavoria]

tesinktober2023 prompt 30: god

Auri-El, golden god.

[nil-hahnu-okaaz]

[aethuviel]

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"

[mannimarcoiscool]

PRAISE AURIEL 🙏🙏🙏☀️☀️☀️☀️

[coffinsandroses]

Auriel's Vortex is this anything

[maximum118]

Nyrvus: I GUESS I HAVE ANOTHER SIBLING! Yay!~

Athnyis:. . .Oh gods another one?! As if Nyrvus was a handful.

~

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*

[krispydonuts12]

Auri-El and Akatosh.

Auri-el and Akatosh, so different in mind and body, but not in soul.

Unlike most of them these two get two separate designs.

…there’s really not much to say about Akatosh- That sure is a yellow dragon, lol-

Auri-el is mostly worshipped by elves; specifically Bosmer (begrudgingly), Falmar, and Altmer.

While once he may have shown more of the falmer in his design, now as the altmer are his main worshippers, he has transformed more into their image.

Based on (my headcanons) altmer standards, he is meant to mostly look like their “ideal” form, just as they crave to rise themselves.

Another one down! Standarr next! …probably. ….unless I get distracted. Heh.

[stymshots]

I chant be going in there.

[akatos-h]

Arch-CurATE Vyrthur 💅

[tes-trash-blog]

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.

[stupid-tes-nerd]

It's been SO LONG since I've posted about my OC's. So anyway here's Agarwen my Snow Queen 🥶❄️☃️