Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.118.67.131-20140926151711/@comment-17114085-20140926161605

Anu and Padomay are two cosmic forces, Anu is stasis and Padomay is change. Anuiel is the soul of Anu, and Sithis is the soul of Padomay. Aurbis is the Grey Maybe created by the overlap of Anu and Padomay. Sithis is the embodiement of the Void and Anuiel is most likely the embodiment of Aetherius. The Daedra and the Aedra were created by Anu and Padomay. The Aedra have both Anuic and Padomaic 'blood', while the Daedra are wholly Padomaic. Lorkhan is Padomaic, but he isn't considered a Daedra. Lorkhan got the 'gods' together to make Mundus, the realm of Nirn. Those that didn't contribute were the Daedra. Those that helped were the Aedra. However when the Aedra found out that creating Nirn was absorbing too much of their power some started to leave, like Magnus. In the end only Lorkhan and the 8 divines remained behind. The Divines killed Lorkhan for tricking them and then placed his heart in Red Mountain. The rest of his body became the moons and the other Divines became the planets. The stars and the sun are actually holes in the fabric of Mundus, from which the other gods like Magnus escaped, that lead to Aetherius.

As for what Maximus said about Trinimac, he was a god that led a group of Aldmer, not Chimer.

As for Alduin and Akatosh. Alduin is the oldest of the Dragons, and is the Nordic God of Destruction, the bringer of the End-Times. Like Maximus said the Nords believe him to be a separate entity from Akatosh, as they seem to share absolutely zero similarities. Alduin is not the Chief diety, nor the God of Time to the Nords. It is widely believed that the dragons were created by Akatosh, and Alduin does call himself the 'First born of Akatosh'. Though it is unclear if that is actually true. Again, like Maximus said, some Imperial Scholars think that Alduin is just the Nordic equivalent of Akatosh.