The Lunar Lorkhan

The Lunar Lorkhan
Title	The Lunar Lorkhan
Full Title	The Lunar Lorkhan
Author	Fal Droon
Skyrim
Skill	Alteration
Weight	1
Value	60
FormID	0001AFCD
Oblivion
Skill	Alteration
Weight	1
Value	25
FormID	000243D8
Morrowind
Skill	Alteration
Weight	4
Value	350
FormID	BookSkill_Alteration5

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Main article: Books (Oblivion)

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The Lunar Lorkhan is a book in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and The Elder Scrolls Online.

Summary

Effects

Permanently increases the following:

• Alteration (Morrowind)
• Alteration (Oblivion)
• Alteration (Skyrim)

Locations

Morrowind

• Addadshashanammu
• Arkngthand, in one of the lower rooms containing lava
• Tel Fyr, Hall of Fyr

Oblivion

• Behind an overturned table in Henantier's Dreamworld during the "Through a Nightmare, Darkly" quest.
• Received as a reward in "Two Sides of the Coin" quest.
• Found as boss-level Conjurer and Necromancer loot.

Skyrim

• Bandit Camp: Pinewatch Heights (an unmarked location)
• Cragwallow Slope, in the central chamber.
• Faldar's Tooth, on a table at the top of the tower.
• Mzulft Boilery, in a locked room, next to a skeleton.
• Solitude Lighthouse, on a table in the far side of the room.

Online

• North of Tanzelwil, Auridon

Contents

I will not go into the varying accounts of what happened at Adamantine Tower, nor will I relate the War of Manifest Metaphors that rendered those stories unable to support most qualities of what is commonly known as "narrative." We all have our favorite Lorkhan story and our favorite Lorkhan motivation for the creation of Nirn and our favorite story of what happened to His Heart. But the Theory of the Lunar Lorkhan is of special note.

In short, the Moons were and are the two halves of Lorkhan's 'flesh-divinity'. Like the rest of the Gods, Lorkhan was a plane(t) that participated in the Great Construction... except where the Eight lent portions of their heavenly bodies to create the mortal plane(t), Lorkhan's was cracked asunder and his divine spark fell to Nirn as a shooting star "to impregnate it with the measure of its existence and a reasonable amount of selfishness."

Masser and Secunda therefore are the personifications of the dichotomy—the "Cloven Duality," according to Artaeum—that Lorkhan legends often rail against: ideas of the anima/animus, good/evil, being/nothingness, the poetry of the body, throat, and moan/silence-as-the- abortive, and so on—set in the night sky as Lorkhan's constant reminder to his mortal issue of their duty.

Followers of this theory hold that all other "Heart Stories" are mythical degradations [sic] [Do not change this to degradation. This misspelled word is how it appears in-game.] of the true origin of the moons (and it needn't be said that they observe the "hollow crescent theory" as well).

Appearances

• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• The Elder Scrolls Online (Part of Divines and Deities lore collection.)

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