Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.118.67.131-20140926151711/@comment-5824038-20140926154209

Well, there's certainly a lot of questions there. Okay, so... I'll answer as many as I can, but other users will have to help out.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that Padomey and Sithis had a big punch-up, and their blood fromed the aedra and daedra, as well as those other guys like Magnus.

Lorkhan, or Shor to the Nords (none of the TES lore is helped by the fact that every god has to have about 3 different names, depending on who you ask...) tricked the gods into creating the world, and all those who gave up part of their power to create the mortal plane bacame aedra, while those who didn't became the daedra, and ruled over Oblivion. (You may know this part already, I don't know.)

Sithis and Padomey and Anu... again, it's all just the annoying name thing. Same with people like Y'ffre and that lot. Trinimac was the leader of a group of chimer, and when Boethiah tricked him into walking into her mouth s/he ate him and he became Malacath, and all of his followers were transformed into the Orsimer (or pariah folk). Magnus helped create the mortal plane, and at the last moment got cold feet and tried to run away, leaving a tear in the "veil" as it were that led to Aetherius (the holy realm of the gods, or something like that...). That tear is the sun, and that allows magic to be present on the mortal plane as it basically leaks through form Aetherius.

Akatosh and Alduin. Okay, so... that book with all the bad spellings in it was a Nord saying thet they're separate, and that's what the Nords believe (I think). To them Alduin is the god of destruction, and I thik they see him as separate form Akatosh. The Imperials, I think, believe they're the same being. I seem to remember Alduin, when you're fighting him, saying 'I am the first born of Akatosh!' but I may be misremembering. that. If he does say it, then that would suggest he is separate.

Hope this helped! I don't think I answered all of the questions, and I may have said stuff that wasn't relevant, but that's my understanding of TES lore about the beginning. If I got stuff wrong, I'm sure some helpful person will leap in and say what a naughty boy I've been.