Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.248.190.66-20141119163353/@comment-9212235-20141120182800

I'll try to keep this simple. My explanation will be leaving some details out so that I'm not typing all day. Alright here it goes.

In another universe Anu loved Nir. Padomay was Anu's brother. Padomay also loved Nir but Nir rejected Padomay. Padomay killed Nir and Anu mourned and slept in the sun and dreamed and became the Ameranth. This dream is the Aurbis. Within this Dream his mind fractured and his fractured half opposed him and took the form of Padomay, the brother he now hates. Anu is order and Padomay is chaos. There is not good vs. evil in TES. They opposed each other and the interplay between them created the et'ada (who are the beings that eventually become all other beings). Anu did not like the chaos that had been created and birthed his soul into the Aurbis which is Anui-El. Anui-El helped provide order and Padomay birthed his soul into the Aurbis who is Sithis. Anui-El then birthed Aka and time began. The et'ada created their realms and I've relatively happy and orderly but this was too much order for Sithis. So Sithis birthed Lorkhan and told him to destroy it. Aka was shattered into pieces, Auri-El was the first. This was retroactively changed to Akatosh after he was created in the first era. Other shards of Aka include Alduin, Alkosh and so on. Lorkhan flew into the void, which is the bit surounding the Aurbis and looked back and saw the wheel, the metaphysical construct of the Aurbis. He saw it turned sideways and the axis and saw the I which is the tower. With this he realized what it all means and understood that this was a dream and wanted to teach people to CHIM and eventually create a new dreamer, a New Ameranth. Immortals were not capable of CHIM so he devised a plan to create a mortal realm. He convinced or tricked (depending on the point of view) other et'Ada to help create the realm. Magnus was the architect and realized that in order to create Mundus (the mortal realm) he must sacrifice his power and said F that and left. His leaving tore a giant hole through Oblivion into Aetherius. This is the sun. His followers, the Magna Ge, also left but their homes are smaller. These are the stars. Those who became the Daedra did not join Lorkhan in creating Mundus. So eventually those who would become the Aedra found out they would lose their power. They convene in Ada-Mantia, the Adamantine Tower and Auri-El and Trinimac killed Lorkhan, ripped out his heart and shot it across Tamriel. It landed in Vvardenfel and created Red Mountain. His body was ripped in two and thrown into the sky and became the moons. His soul b3came Shor, Sheor, and Shezarr. His mind might have been put into Jyggalag 59 make him crazy. This event is known as Convention and begins normal linear time and ends the Dawn.

For some additional clarification. The et'ada that eventually became mortals split into two groups, the Ehlnofay and the Wandering Ehlnofay. The Ehlnofay eventually become the Aldmer who become the Lefthanded elves, Altmer, Ayleids, Bosmer, Chimer (who become the Dunmer), Falmer, Dwemer, and Khajiit.

The Wandering Ehlnofay align with Lorkhan and become Man who go to Atmora, Akavir, and Yokuda.

Those who lost almost all of their power became the Earth Bones, animals, plants, rocks, and lesser creatures.

I hope this helps things.