Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-68.46.224.31-20141031215338/@comment-9212235-20141101033751

I'll give this a shot. I haven't read Pelinal's blog so hopefully I don't repeat some stuff, I'm sure his blog is spot on.

1. Some of the Aedra and Daedra are a single being with a different name (Azura and Azurah for example). Some are similar beings, all having to do with each other, yet are separate. There are two notable examples; Lorkhan and Aka, but there are others.

1a. Lokhan is a sub-gradient of Sithis who is a sub-gradient of Padomay (so it goes like this: Padomay > Sithis > Lorkhan). They're basically the same thing but "lesser" beings. They're fragments of a whole. When Lorkhan was killed by Auri-El and Trinimac, he was shattered and split into several other sub-gradients. His body was split in two and now are the moons. His heart was flung across Tamriel and created Red Mountain where it impacted. His soul was also shattered creating the Void Ghost who is Shor and then also Shezarr. His mind was (probably) put into Jyggalag which made him made and turned him into Sheogorath. Fragments of his soul also turn up as Shezarrines such as Pelinal, Reman, all the pieces of the Talos oversoul, probably every Prisoner, etc.

1b. Aka is the time oversoul (sub-gradient path is Anu > Anui-El > Aka) who was shattered by Lorkhan. This shattering created sub-gradients which we know as Aka-Tusk (might actually be Aka), Auri-El, Alduin, Akatosh*, Auriel*, Bormahu, Tosh-Raka*, and Alkosh. Also came lesser time aspects, the Jil and Dov. Eventually also Dovahkiin when Akatosh was created. The absolute first created was Auri-El. Retroactively, the first was Akatosh cuz he's half Auri-El.

Names with * were created after and then retroactively (cuz time god) created.

1c. I'll give a simple explaination of the uniqueness of Akatosh, as he is the God of Spacetime, he is a combined Shor and Auri-El and when that happened be became the chief divine of the Eight.

So to explain it all, these pieces of the whole are separate, but a part of the same oversoul. Additionally, all Aedra (not Daedra) are affected by mythopoeism, which is strickly defined as the creation of myth through story. In TES it is usually used in a similar, more metaphysical way to explain the interaction between mortal's worship and the Aedra. Mortal worship is capable of changing an Aedroth into what that culture wants them to be. This is most easily seen when Alessia slaped mer and nord gods together to make the Eight.

2. Talos and divinity. This is a great one.

The When: Simple answer, the Warp of the West.

The How: This isn't really simple, but it can be simplified by saying he obtained divinity by a few of the Walking Ways. He mantled Lorkhan, achieved CHIM, and enantiomorphed. (Am I missing one?)

The Why: Talos mantled and became Lorkhan. He fills the hole of the Missing God and stabalizes Mundus. This is why the Altmer want him gone.