Board Thread:Morrowind/@comment-35782287-20190412163532/@comment-1255618-20190412173750

Funny enough this same topic has been on my mind recently too. xD

This is just my speculation on my part, but I think the reason that she went insane while the others didn't (though a case could be argued for post-godhood Vivec) is because of the way she went about "mantling" Boethiah. The other Tribunal members incorporated the aspects of their "Anticipations" better, maybe because they were already like them. In contrast, Almalexia seems to have only incorporated the aspects of Boethiah she liked into her primary "original" personality, which begs the question of whether Boethiah's aspects as the rebel and the betrayer existed within Almalexia, especially if the Tribunal altered history after becoming gods to make it so they never had to betray and kill Nerevar in the first place. Were there secondary personalities to Almalexia we weren't aware of?

This is totally guesswork on my part, but my pet theory is that Almalexia was maintaining a kind of "divine multiple personality disorder" which allowed her to manifest different personalities as the situation demanded. So if she needed to be a compassionate mother figure or an empathetic lover, she could be that; if she needed to be a warrior-hero for her people she could also be that; if she needed to be a ruthlessly sociopathic pragmatist that could out-manipulate even crueler enemies, she could be that too. Radically different psychologies she could switch between at will. But when she lost her powers, she was forced to integrate these parts into one personality, and she lost control. Unsurprisingly, the thing she ends up doing is betraying the Tribunal and causing anarchy, aspects of Boethiah's personality she had probably been repressing the most.

It would be extremely ironic if Almalexia ended up reincarnating in the same way Nerevar did, having to comes to terms with and perhaps atone for her past actions. If she does incarnate again I like the name of 'Alexia' for her since she'd be Almalexia missing the ALM(SIVI) part. :)