Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-84.117.107.214-20170425191918/@comment-39703661-20190605030155

Muthsera,

Apotheosis and CHIM are not necessarily one and the same thing. Assuming that one doesn't disregard the 36 Lessons as wholly false, Vivec learned CHIM as a gift from Molag Bal's love on their wedding day, which was after Vivec's apotheosis. Thus, one may ascend to godhood without CHIM.

And vice versa.

Tiber Septim achieved CHIM during his mortal life, breathing away the jungles of Cyrodiil into its current geography. Then, at a later date, he died a mortal death. Apotheosis came afterwards.

Yours in the Scrolls,

---The Word Merchant of Julianos