Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-62.31.43.199-20131118141224/@comment-62.31.43.199-20131124180540

Some great personal interpretations and theories on the subject arising from this whole discussion. If I can comment on some:

108.253.68.177 wrote: [...]perhaps auriel allowed vyrthur to get infected to see another side of his worship[...] Interesting. I had posed the possibility that IF Auriel did actively allow it, it could be to sacrifice the identity and well-being of his highest\closest priest for the sake of an entire race (the Snow Elf race and their "Mecca", the Chantry, didnt completely go extinct arguably thanks to Vyrthur's undead powers defeating the Falmer invasion). But your simpler possibility might be right.

Sardeth42 wrote: [...]the anuic dream fo the dead et'Ada could be perverted so as not to realise that letting his High-Priest become a Vampire was a bad thing..? Possibly taking in some of the ideas that him as a Vampire could preserve him while the other Falmer die or ...'degenerate' ...

While trying to understand your texts in this thread I get the feeling that you either over-analyse the divines lore to the point of arguable personal conclusions and relations, or you actually have a pretty advanced understanding of it lol. I am inclined for the second, as you made me think about it more deeply. Yet, focusing on the subject of discussion, do I correctly understand that you propose that maybe Molag Bal made this event happen as part of his enduring plot to subvert the Aedra's untampering protection of Nirn, and negatively influenced\tricked Auriel by making him think that there would be good reasons to allow it? Mmmh... StealthBlade98 wrote: [...]Perhaps Vyrthur just assumed he was supposed to be protected from everything when that isn't the case. [...]He claims he's close to a god yet the dragonborn just killed him[...]

Yes, just like I thought if simply Vyrthur's expectations were illegitimate: A mere elf being specially and directly protected by a God. Speaking of, did he ever really say he's close to a god as in he's almost godlike, or he rather said it as in he was religiously close to a god (Auriel)?

202.156.8.12 wrote: [...]he wanted to be one cause if he wasn't, he could have just prayed at the shrine of Auriel and cure his Sanguinare Vampiris quite easily[...]

Amperial wrote: [...]4000 years is a long time after all and Vyrthur might not even remember that this was the original case. [...]There is an alternative though: S**t happens. [...]Being close to a god is no guarantee for protection (or power)[...]

If it really is that easy to cure it, and also was thousands of years ago, then you're either tapping into an overlooked flaw by the lore writers (the highest priest of a God would surely know this and know how to pray more faithfuly and powerfully than anyone else), or you're tapping into further confirmation that Auriel truely forsake him. Both that or "S**t happens" (the whole illegitimate expectations point) seem a bit better than the "he let himself be attacked and bitten cuz he wanted it but then was disappointed so he decided to blame his God and spend immortality in a cave fabricating prophecies against him" thing. IMO