Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-173.76.160.189-20140908200216/@comment-72.74.78.209-20141009201134

It's very confusing.

Anu, i think is the God of light, while Padomey is the spirit of the void (everything outside the universe). Anu and Padomey fought over something, i guess the later wanted the universe to stay as a void of nothingness while the earlier wanted to create something new. The accounts vary. Anyways, they both killed each other. Anu's blood became the Aedra and Padomey's blood became the Daedra. The mortals (men mer beasts ect) were created from the combined blood of Anu and Padomey, so they became good and evil.

Lorkhan's myths vary. The Almer, Bosmer, Dunmer, Kajiit and Redguards believe he was a Daedra who pretended to be an Aedra and tricked the other Aedra into creating a new universe, like Anu before them. But than he magically bound the others to Mundus (the solar system of Nirn) and they became the planets. Lorkhan declared himself lord of the universe or something, but Akatosh fought and killed him and turned his heart into a magic stone for some reason (as seen it TES 3 morrawind).

The Nords, Imperials and Bretons believe that Lorkhan was Shor, the god of the afterlife, who created the world out of devine mercy, but that Akatosh felt that he would become corrupted and killed him (or at least bannished him to the underworld as the nords believe). Therefore the divines were never forcably bound to Nirn and are just as powerfull as the Daedra

The Daedra never agreed to construct Nirn. They instead decided to create they're own realm, Oblivion. However, most of them (Azura being a noticable acception) became cruel and corrupt, being made from the blood of Padomey and all. They dispised Nirn and Mundus and decided to torment it's inhabitants by interfearing in they're lives. Mehrundes Dagon and Molag Bal have both tried to invade Nirn and make it part of they're plain of Oblivion, but both times they failed.

PS. Alduin isn't Akatosh. The empire are just morons.