Ebony - Blood of a God?

Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:43 am

So I've read that ebony was the blood of a god. Is it Lorkhan's? I was thinking about it because it's my understanding that a good majority of ebony mines are in Morrowind, where his heart likewise was. Was his heart relocated to Morrowind or was it discovered there? What relevance is there to using what could be Lorkhan's blood to make Daedric armor?

Funky questions, I know.

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Amy Cooper
 
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Post » Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:40 pm

Yes, ebony is Lorkhan's blood. His heart ended up in Morrowind during the Dawn Era after it was torn out by Trinimac and Auriel fastened it to an arrow and shot it there, with the impact creating Red Mountain.

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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:29 am

You're quite correct about Lorkhan.

Ebony is a magical material that can withstand a supernatural amount of stress without fracturing or denting and for that reason it is used for amour and weaponry.

I suppose that because it is an inherently powerful magical material it is also capable holding powerful enchantments, which is what daedric armour is, armour infused with the soul of a lesser daedra. As such it is probably the best or maybe even the only material that can hold such magics.

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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:02 am

See, I was wondering if, because Lorkhan is so close to being both Aedra and Daedra, that was why you could make Daedric armor out of it.

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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 9:39 am

Interesting idea.

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Post » Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:20 pm

One thing about Ebony that I wondered is with the Heart of Lorkhan missing from Morrowind, would it still be considered "divine" blood?

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Jani Eayon
 
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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:39 am

The Heart isn't any less divine just because it went missing. Someone would have to establish that it was a fake, or that the Heart fell to Nirn someplace completely different (or never actually fell to Nirn at all) to call ebony's nature into question.

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Crystal Birch
 
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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 9:38 am

But if ebony is indeed the blood of Lorkhan, how come the Dremora clearly have large amounts of it available in the Deadlands? I think it might just be common superstition that it is divine blood.

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Nick Swan
 
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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:52 am

Wow... after reading all this stuff in the lore section, it's hard to play a TES game the same way. lol

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Post » Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:56 pm

I don't think that you need Ebony to make Daedric Armor,ebony is just the best material available on Nirn to make it.

Madness Armor is also Daedric Armor (my opinion) and you can't get Madness Ore in Tamriel.

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Post » Sat Jul 13, 2013 10:50 pm

It could be that the blood of a daedra is similar to Lorkhan's bood. Madness Ore may be the same deal :shrug:

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Post » Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:45 pm

It is the same deal. Daedric Princes are quite literally the realms they own. So when you mine madness ore, you're mining part of Sheogorath.

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Heather Stewart
 
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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:58 am

Good.

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Jade Payton
 
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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:21 am

I'd suspect it's divine blood, but not necessarily Lorkhan's (as the Dremora clearly have plenty of ebony). It's also volcanic glass. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

I don't think that's exactly the case. The Daedric Princes constructed their realms using aetherial refuse, and Jyggalag has seemingly been able to leave the Shivering Isles forever. That's not to say that Mehrunes Dagon couldn't fill his own realm with his blood or something like that.

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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 9:46 am

I was always under the impressions the Daedric Realms are truly part of them. I liked the idea in Shivering Isles to basically meet Sheogorath in his own head...

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Post » Sun Jul 14, 2013 2:22 am

They definitely reflect their prince (as the Dark Seducers say, the Shivering Isles are a reflection of Sheogorath) and the Prince definitely has major power over the realm, but the http://www.imperial-library.info/content/nu-mantia-intercept-letter-7 says they constructed their realms.

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