Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3186827-20130111110332/@comment-3186827-20130115122146

124.176.168.237 wrote: Well, Vivec is arguably the biggest narcissist and egoist ever, and on top of that a lying scoundrel. One should take what the hear from him with a grains of salt. Still, CHIM is I believe canon (Mankar mentions it), and one should also mention the Walking Ways, the Wheel, the Tower (not the Towers) and all that stuff. Anyway, I remember it being implied somewhere that Vivec using CHIM created two dimensions (possibly in the Imperial Library), one where he is born a god and his adventures go as they did in the Sermons and didn't kill Nerevar. Then there is the other where he is a mortal, kills Nerevar along with Almalexia and Sotha Sil (like this if you consider MK's stuff canon: http://www.imperial-library.info/content/foul-murder) and then taps into the heart and achieved apotheosis.

~TESClaymore FOUL MURDER is canon for sure - the lesson 36 of the sermons spells it out! Plus the whole "poisoned candles, poisoned robes, poisoned invocations" is mentioned in Nerevar at Red Mountain.