Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-62.31.43.199-20131118141224/@comment-24590102-20140320011039

Something I came across, which I missed in my travels, is the identity of the Marukhati Selective as a fanatical religious sect of the Alessian Order. As a member of this sect, or one of it's subsects being a "Human Marahkati" (sic.), Xal is not only a Dwemer with one foot in the Dwemer culture, but he is also a member of a sect with his other foot firmly planted in a rigid creed or dogma. He will, thus, interpret his own people and their deeds in terms of this doctrine because it is the only way for him to reconcile the facts of his people with the mythology of his religious beliefs.

So the whole business of Xal describing the Dwemer as "pious souls" and portraying Kagranac as some sort of high priest sacrificing "their golden souls" strikes me as meagerly a narrow religious interpretation of something which is either beyond the understanding of that religion or beyond its ability to accept (i.e. outside its cosmology). This is another example of why I think it prudent to allow for the distortions which alternative perspectives can impose on the way things are communicated - and, as a major modern consideration, it stands to reason that such themes will find their way into modern literature, film and RPGs.