Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-28667390-20160607010623/@comment-9212235-20160612215250

Hadebrand,

This question and its answer are complicated. Every culture has a different tale pertaining to the Missing God. Your people, for example, see him as the unwanted last child of Fadomai's litter who was touched by Namira's darkness. The Altmer see a evil who tricked their Aedra so they punished him. The Cyrod story is similar but ends with Shezarr's betrayal. My people's story of Sheor is simolar. Only the Nords seem to see Shor as someone who willing gave his heart. My time here in my adoptive home of Winterhold has lead me to an obscure text called Shor, Son of Shor, which speaks of the War of Manifest Metaphors in which Shor spits out his heart and gives it to Nirn so that she may be whole. The Bosmer don't even believe he created Nirn Everyone seems to have their own take on what happened.

So to address your question is actually quite difficult. Theough my studdies of the divine, I have come to the conclusion that they are all pieces of a shattered whole, much like the Time Dragon. When the original being was killed, he was ripped into many divine pieces, what many in my line of work refer to as sub-gradients. You and I are also sub-gradients. To put it plainly, we exist on different levels and distances from the Godhead. The further one is, the more aware they are, but also more mortal and fragile. These known Missing Gods are shards of the original Space Serpent, who we in the schollarly world call LRKHAN. With the nature of the Dawn Era, it is impossible to know which story, if any, are true. It is entirely possibke that they all are.

I hope this at least begins to answer your question. If you have further inquiries please do not hesitate to write back.

Signed, Malzabor, Professor of Metaphysical Studies College of Winterhold