» Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:51 am
We have 3 different perspectives, mannish, merish, and redguard..ish.
* The mannish (and dunmer) view sees his creation of Mundus as divine mercy, as he created a world where the lesser spirits are given freedom from predictability and can ascend to higher state of being than the gods. Also, his sacrifice was made to show others on what NOT to do.
* The merish view (mainly altmer and I'd say dwemer) sees him as a trickster, who convinced the other gods to weaken themselves in order to be a giant a-hole. Some escaped, and some never participated and are named daedra (not our ancestor). The elves fancy themselves to be awesome kick ass gods back then, but thanks to Shor, everyone became weak pieces of poop, and men are nothing but wandering [censored] faces of Shor. But you must remember the altmer are extremely self-centered and do nothing but go around and smell their own farts.
* As for the redguards, http://imperial-library.info/content/morrowind-monomyth-yokudan-satakal-worldskin, I can't for the life of me recount it.