Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25267426-20150910055507/@comment-28589830-20150914211357

1 probably

2 most of the sources i know claim it's connected to love, but as vivec has achieved CHIM, he might also know quite a bit about it.

3 he is definitely a living god at the time of TES 3, though his means of achieving godhood are not related to CHIM (he used the heart of lorkhan for it.). it is however possible to use CHIM to become a god, as Talos has done that.