Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24300598-20131230071513/@comment-25047024-20140211231711

TheDreamweaver wrote: This is pretty interesting, I can't help notice that it bears a striking resemblence to Buddhism. Has CHIM in some way been confirmed to be true or is it just one of the creation theories?

Also where have you read about it in such detail? Before I started reading this forum I'd only heard of it from the Mythic Dawn and it just seemed some spurious claim to imortality set forth by a crazy cult leader. Big parts of TES lore were inspired by RL religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism, so it isn't really surprising that one can find connections to RL religions in TES lore. For example, Vivec was inspired by the hermaphrodite god Ardhanarishvara. Look at this Screenshot of Vivec and then at this picture of Ardhanarishvara. The similarity is quite obvious.

CHIM is confirmed to be true. It's mentioned several times in the 36 Lessons of Vivec and indirectly mentioned in the Black Book Waking Dreams and in Heimskrs dialogue about Talos. The biggest evidence that shows us that CHIM is canon is Cyrodiil. It was once a dense jungle, but Tiber Septim (who achieved CHIM) removed the jungle from Cyrodiil with his CHIM powers.

The really obscure texts can only be found on the Imperial Library, although some obscure texts such as the Loveletter from the fifth Era have also been ported to this wiki.