Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11345660-20130908095939/@comment-3573184-20130912163146

Man of steak wrote: SajuukKhar, if the quests lie to your face, then who are you believing? The devs?

The curse was broken. Chaos is not Stasis, unless the Ultimate Time Paradox is applied, and the same applies for all the other bullshit you just spewed. Opposites cannot combine without violent, horrible, world-destroying events. MK

You guessed it. The Arena is a collection of pseudo-imagos, all the way down to the core. Lorkhan is Akatosh, the Dragon God of Time is the Missing God of Change.

Tamriel is an impossible place, built on impossible precepts. It's, frankly, a magic ball of sentient schizophrenia.

These are why the echoes in every corner of every myth. These are why the ease of men to immortals and immortals into frozen egos.

It is pure magic, thought up by the nagging itch called "if", which necessitated a "then", which in turn made everything scared that it would go away forever.

It is a baby universe with doom already marked on its head, because it cannot really exist, it has no real mother, and it doesn't understand how to get out, or why it might, or if it should because the rest of the void is a horrible thought filled with nothing.

This is attested many times throughout the games.

The stained glass window of Akatosh in Oblivion, which depicts him with two heads, one of a dragon, one of a man. With a normal statue depicting the same.

The statue of Talos, and the shrine of Akatosh, in Skyrim, which depict serpants eating a sword, with Lorkhan also being known as Sep, the snake. A symbolic refrence to Talos taking Lorkhan's place in the divines, Talos being both Dragonborn and Shezzarine, avatars of Akatosh and Lorkhan. Essentially making Talos the reincarnation of Lorkhan supplanting himself, who is also Akatosh.

A scene which is mirrored in Vivec City, with a statue of Vivec spearing a scarab, another symbol of Lorkhan, symbolic of him taking Lorkhan's powers via the heart.

Which was, in turn, referenced by Vivec himself in his Sermons, specifically Sermon 19

Vivec then saw the moths that would come from the starry heart, bringing with them dust more horrible than the ash of Red Mountain. He saw the twin head of a ruling king who had no equivalent. And eight imperfections rubbed into precious stones, set into a crown that looked like shackles, which he understood to be the twin crowns of the two-headed king. Vivec calls Tiber the two-headed king, referencing his dual avatar nature, which also connects back to the statue and stained glass windows of Akatosh having two heads from Oblivion.

Then we go onto the subjects of their parentage

Lorkhan is called the son of Padomay, and is saidthat Sithis begat him, and Akatosh is called the soul of Anui-El, who is the soul of Anu

If Sithis = Padomay = The father of Lorkhan, and Anu = Anui-El = the father of Akatosh, and Akatosh = Lorkhan, that would mean Padomay = Sithis = Anui-El = Anu would alos be true.

Which means stasis = change, time = space.