Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25443668-20140921053510/@comment-26516965-20150227213446

You guys make it complicated. I recommend The Annotated Anuad and Aedra and Daedra books - you will understand everything after reading them. When you explain TES lore, go with basics first, then go into things a'la Grey Maybe and CHIM.

Lorkhan was the one to trick the divines into creating Mundus. Later, when it was already too late, the Aedra, divines who participated, noticed that it costed them some of their power and they fled. The ones who didn't help are the Daedra. This also explains the fact Daedra have more influence on Nirn than Aedra. Also, the Aedra bring stasis and Daedra bring chaos.

The divines who didn't make it and got trapped in Mundus became the Earth Bones - they turned into the laws of nature (the Bosmer believe the god Y'ffre became laws of nature and was one of the first ones to die), into elements, into the basics of the world...

Sithis is above Aedra and Daedra, in a way. You will see in the books, he simply comes from Padomay and "gave birth" to Lorkhan. He is worshipped as the god of the Void and death, somehow.