Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-68.46.224.31-20141031215338/@comment-24349111-20141102154500

King in the North wrote:

68.46.224.31 wrote: Alright one final thing, you explained where all the different variatons of the Aka subgradeients game from, but what about the other gods? Julianos and Zenithar and the other parts of the Eight, are they also just parts of Aka and Lorkhan? I find that the Aka Oversoul, and the Lorkhan Oversoul, are the most referenced because of their sheer number of aspects, most notably in the case of the former with Akatosh, Alkosh, Auri-El, Alduin etc, and because of their diametric relationship. I suppose that Auri-El can be seen as the most Anuic, and Lorkhan being the most Padomaic, with the Monomyth, among other sources, status that Lorkhan is the soul of Sithis and Auri-El the soul of Anui-El. The rest of the gods would fall between the spectrum. The likes of Zenithar and Stendarr do have their own Oversouls, with their Nordic counterparts being Tsun and Stuhn respectively, for example, but it seems to me that the other Divines have less explicit variation across cultures than the Time God and the Space God. I assume that is essentially because Space and Time are the 'foundation' of everything, both IRL and in TES. This can be observed from the fact that Lorkhan and Aka both appear in some form in almost all religions existing on Nirn (except Daedra worship, though they're often mentioned in it as well).

What I mean is, that Space and Time are not able to be ignored, since they're omnipresent. Mercy can be ignored, trading can be ignored, etc. But Space and Time can't be ignored, which is why so many shards of Lorkhan and Aka exist.