User blog comment:Madman97/The CHIM Theory: Why I don't think it exists/@comment-3315619-20131127053921/@comment-3315619-20131129190912

Amaranth is only an OOG concept discussed by Kirkbride, first introduced in the Loveletter from the Fifth Era in 2010. Besides a vague reference there, he's mentioned it in several internet messages.

"To the close dreamers, don't forget the Amaranth. There *is* one step beyond CHIM, but you're right in that it is not godhood. It's the flowering of a statehood where the images you give birth to in your dream-- stolen (?) from first dreamer-- wakes up. Wails knowing free will. And begins to dream in the same way. Children of liberty without end, and then the music lives forever as a pirate radio tuned against the rules of Heaven and the vulgarities of Hell."

"We haven't seen a fleshed-out alternative to CHIM to support something more preferable, but I promised a long while back to provide one. We'll see. I will say that, CHIM or not, there is no evidence that either Talos nor Vehk achieved Amaranth. If they did, Tamriel would be in their rearview mirror. The Amaranth deserves its own topic, really. Its core concept is the most divisive among the mystics, in my opinion."

(On when he concocted these ideas) "CHIM came first, in the earliest studies of the Wheel and the structure of the Aurbis. It kind of birthed itself when I spun the Wheel and saw the "I", and that's when I knew where Lorkhan was going with all of this. The Amaranth first appeared in the Loveletter, which was a refining of my mythology and its natural "end point"."

Further information will be coming in a 64-page online comic which is due to be released around the same time as ESO.