Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25424906-20141016183510/@comment-13446185-20151204022228

Sothas wrote:

Also, the book Sithis is highly inaccurate. Sithis is physics.

Sithis is a great book, one of my favorites to be honest.

It brings a complete opposite interpretation to the Altmeri view of Sithis, where instead of Sithis being Anui-El's shadow, it is the blank slate in which Anui-El came into existence. The book also provides a very interesting idea, that since Sithis was nothing, it was essentially a universal canvas of unlimited potential, but Anui-El enslaved that canvas to a single image "stasis asks merely for itself".

It also contains a very interesting interpretation of Lorkhan, in which he is still painted in his traditional Altmeri trickster light, but instead of being an antagonist, he is trying to destroy the Aurbis and release the universe from the enslavement of the Aedra and Anui-El (not to mention it's also where 'Lorkhan = Sithis incarnate' originates).

And, just as icing on the cake, the book was almost certainly written by Vivec as it contains a message clearly left for the Nerevarine "Go unto the Sharmat Dagoth Ur as a friend" (and is also gifted to you by one of the failed incarnates).

I think you're making a mistake brushing it off like that.