Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-4705438-20140201121316/@comment-24349111-20140626125920

Voidcube wrote: Can someone explain some words to me? I started reading the previous thread thinking I was a pro when talking about TES lore, but some of you showed me otherwise :O I had just finised reading a bit about CHIM and thought it sounded amazing, and then I found this thread. The things I want to understand is Chim, which from what I understand is godmode or something, but that even the daedra or aedra dare to use it. And how do you obtain it? Amaranth, Walking ways, Godhead and Dreamsleeve I don't get at all, except Godhead and Walking ways has something to do with CHIM. I'd like to know what Anu actually is, and the same with an Enatiomorph. And when you where talking about anu and padomay you also mentioned Nir. What's that? CHIM is a state of mind which a person can achieve when that person fulfills two requirements: 1. Knowing and understanding that 'Reality' is a dream of an unconscious being and that individuality doesn't actually exist, 2. Having enough Willpower and being arrogant/narcistic enough to still maintain a form of individuality. If a person does not fulfill the second requirement, that person Zero Sums. Zero Sum-ing is becoming absolute 0, i.e getting permanently erased from the Godhead's dream. A CHIMster can alter things in the Godheads dream, but there are still certain limits to it, because if a CHIMster alters too much, the Godhead wakes up, which destroys the whole Dream.

The Amaranth is, as far as I know, the lowest subgradient. There's currently only one known Amaranth, Anu. Anyways, a person can achieve Amaranth by first achieving CHIM. However, since CHIM is based on selfishness, that person has to become selfless in order to achieve Amaranth. The Amaranth becomes the new Dreamer, and dreams a new Universe. However, the downside to Amaranth is that the 'New Godhead' doesn't have any power over his own Dream, which means that he looses practicly all of the power he had while he still was a CHIMster.

The Walking Ways are basicly 6 ways to achieve divinity. These are (in a not specified order) Enatiomorph, Mantling, CHIM, Brass Tower (as in, merging an extreme amount of souls into a divine being, like Kagrenac did with Numidium), the Prolix Tower and the Scarab which becomes the New Man.

The Godhead is the Dreamer of the Dream. That's it.

The Dreamsleeve is a bit complex. It's, as far as I know, a Hivemind-like realm in which the Souls of deceased people get 'recycled' (as in, their personality gets stripped off the soul and destroyed while the soul enters a new body). The Dreamsleeve can be used for communication, for example, through Memospores.

Anu and Padomay are the first subgradients after the Godhead. Anu is Order and Stasis, while Padomay is Chaos. Nir is the Observer and maybe the Catalyst of the Enatiomorph between Anu and Padomay.