Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-98.232.175.28-20140410070627

I'm trying to understand the details of Mundus metaphysics, and the motivations of the Aedra. According to the Thalmor, Lorkhan tricked the Aedra into creating Mundus, depowering the mer. And I guess creating humans or something? Then, Auri-El defeated him and killed him. They want to undo Lorkhan's actions by destroying Mundus.

Except that Auri-El is Akatosh, who rather clearly does not want Mundus destroyed. I mean, he saved it during the Oblivion Crisis. (I was going to say that he wouldn't care if MD ruled it if he wanted it gone, but seeing as how MD is the Prince of Destruction, he would probably be trying to destroy it too, so Auri-El defeating him makes even less sense.)

And then we have Shor. Who seems to be on fine terms with the Divines, since he's apparently Kynareth's husband, right? And he does seem to exist, so he's probably not entirely the same as Lorkhan.

I'm guessing, at this point, that Shor/Shezzar and Lorkhan are like Akatosh and Alduin, related, shards of each other, and close enough that people confuse them as the same entity. So that Shor is one bit of Lorkhan, and the Altmeri demon who tricked/somehow offended the Aedra is another. (It does seem like something of that sort happened, given the Convention.)

Basically my question is this: the Divines seem to be on good terms with both humanity and Shor. If they were tricked by Lorkhan into depowering, then they really shouldn't be.

And you know what, I'm not even going to get into Sithis and the All-Maker, because this is complicated enough as it is. 