Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25551198-20150913232125/@comment-28545689-20170130212653

Ottoman Hold wrote: When you get cursed, you're full of hatred, so much that you do over-the-top stuff. That's most likely what happened. Azura's anger towards the defiers was so intense that Azura spread it to all Chimer. You mean "when you curse", right? Because getting cursed means to receive a curse, not to give it. Good hunch though. I actually gave it a bit of though, and either the whole idea wasn't thought out too well by the devs, or there's more to the story than we know. If you think about it, from lore we know that Azura didn't much contribute to Chimer society, and the fact that the future-tribunal betrayed and murdered Nerevar was a display of piety towards Boethia (lord of unlawful change of authority and plots) and Mephala (lord of murder), and the two princes didn't curse the Chimer, only Azura did. Methinks she cursed the whole lot of them because they were all traitors (by Boethia) and murderors (by Mephala), and that the death of her champion (Nerevar) was the last straw. If you think about it, Azura doesn't even have a well-defined sphere of influence, and she seems to genuinely care about her subjects, as such, it's possible that the Chimer didn't originally worship her as much as the other two, or that she always acted as a kind of balancing force so that the Chimer (and later Dunmer) wouldn't kill each other off by following the other two princes.