Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.58.163.238-20130703034923/@comment-13446185-20131209051504

This MK guy is a lore riter?

Yes, in fact he used to be one of the head writers and developers for Bethesda until he left after TES: Morrowind.

MK writes lore mostly outside of the game but he still does help the guys at Bethesda in regards to the lore, despite not working for Bethesda anymore.

'Have you even red his article? Alduin's?'

If you're willing to believe everthing this wiki tells you than you mine as well give up on the lore. This wiki can't really be trusted as it needs alot of work done on it's lore concepts, you have to look up the lore from actual sources.

Plus Alduin's article says nothing that refutes what I'm saying.

Let me tell you what exactly a Mirror-brother is.

A mirror-brother is basically a diety that is a copy of another diety, but different in someway.

Think of an actor, this actor has played many roles in different movies, these characters have very different ideas, personalitys, goals, their all around way of thinking is much different from each other.

Now imagine each of these "characters" is actually a seperate being from the "actor". They can be physically and emotionally different but they are still technically the same person as they are all derived from the "actor".

A mirror brother can be born from a certain diety, but it doesn't mean they are necessarily birthed from them directly. Alduin for example was created through Nordic belief, hence him being known as the nordic aspect of Akatosh, stating he is birthed from Akatosh basically means that had Akatosh not existed, Alduin would not exist either.

From what I've observed the idea of "Mirror-brothers" can vary in three different ways.

Aspects- The most prominent of the ideas, and is basically what I just explained above. The whole dieties coming from other dieties business.

Avatars- Avatars can only really be considered mirror-brothers if they are also gods (ex. Wulfharth is not a mirror-brother of Shor as Wulfharth was a mortal). An avatar is sort of a down-gradient of an original god, a good example would be Anu birthing his own soul as Anui-El when the Aurbis formed and then Anui-El later birthing his soul as Auri-El.

Avatars can be down-graded all the way to mortals.

Opposites- Opposites would be like Padomay-Anu; Sithis-Anui-El; Lorkhan-Akatosh (Auri-El);

Beings that are literally the exact same but just complete opposites. Kind of a Yin-Yang feel toward it, Akatosh=Time; Lorkhan=Space;