Theres a new article up in IGN don't see it posted here yet so here it is.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/116/1161193p1.html
Not really any new info but a good ready anyway!

vivec is a [censored]

This.... whatever he said, I'm sure its good.

Just finished reading it minutes before I saw your post lol.

I don't like the paragraphs about Akatosh and Alduin. I think the lore is pretty clear that Akotash and Alduin are one in the same.

That list is...odd.

I'd place Clavicus Vile way higher and probably put Vivec at #1, or if not Vivec, then Lorkhan. How could Lorkhan not even make the list, really?

What they didn't put Talos or Azura on the list and they went with Jyggy over Sheogorath

Are you kidding me :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

vivec isnt god hes a fraud....with a really really creepy stare...you know like roghugh's

We all know Ius should be on that list.

Sithis and the Night Mother noticeably absent.

Great read though, thanks for posting!

This. Vivec is just a back stabbing pretender who likes to float.

It's the famous theme of duality that Elder Scrolls lore is known for. They are the same god, yet they are two different entities. Two heads of the same coin. It's the same thing as comparing Zeus to Jupiter/Jove.

I would have definitely included Azura and Sheogorath on there somewhere, the two of them seem pretty cool. But this is just the personal list of some guy, and not a "who is the most popular god" contest. But I do appreciate this list because it did teach me a few things that I didn't know. I know next to nothing about the Redguard/Yokudan gods, though the unique, primal, spiritual aspect of them seems very interesting and a welcome change from the rigid Greco-Roman pantheon structure everyone else has. This other guy Phynaster I've never even heard of. You can live longer by simply walking in shorter strides? Really? Do Altmer have a lower base speed than everyone else?

And though the entire Talos-Tiber Septim-Underking-Wolfharth-Zurin Arctus-Numidium situation is convoluted beyond understanding, is Stendaarr actually stated to be a brother of Tiber Septim, or is that just imperial bonus points for making a "related to a god" claim, like how Roman emperors claimed to be the son of Mars, or Jupiter, or what-have-you?

Vivec may not have been a natural god in the way of the Aedra or Daedra, but he was just as legit as any of them in his time.

When he says Stendaarr is Tiber's brother he really just means friend or homey.

He said brother but he meant bruthuh.

Not really. He was just a mortal who tapped the power of the heart. No different than Almalexia and Dagoth Ur, each of which 'ascended' through treachery. Putting Vivec on the list without Azura is a bit odd.

The entire Tribunal + Dagoth were nothing but phonies IMO.

I think he just should have listed all the gods so i could read about them

What is the Op Ed writer's problem with Elves. He seems like a complete *self-censored*. Though I share his positive attitude towards Diebella. Though it will amuse me no end if half the skimpy outfit wearing lasses in any quest related to her are Altmer. That would show him.

Seeing how he wrote his own bible and he is known to be a lying poet, and that the dark elves are easy to trick, I never considered the possibility that he might be a god while playing Morrowind. Then I came to the forums years later and everyone thought he was a god, so I'm all "Lol, whut?"

Poets use lies to tell the truth. Vivec, the God, did not kill Nerevar. Vivec, the mortal, did.

Yes, he stole godhood from the Heart of Lorkhan, but that didn't make him any less powerful than any of the other gods at the time. His power waned, as he was not a natural god and he could not keep refreshing his power at the Heart. But he changed the Mundus. He made it so he always was.

And I was sure he lied about that. That's the first lie a pretender god would tell.

Vivec? I could walk straight into his house, slap him with the back end of a hammer, and proceed to kick the crap out of him. Now what kind of god is that? <_<

You go and try to do that to Sheo and see what happens.

Ign needs to stop.......

The Vivec in Morrowind was his avatar, not unlike Hircine in Bloodmoon.

I'm pretty surem Vivec was Vivec, he never made an Avatar of himself, and all matters he delt with personally...from wiping out the Druegh cities and civilization, to impregnating Reguard Kings turned female....that ()()()()() needs to gtfo he f'ed with existence waay to much not to get an axe in the face, and he tries to be all remorseful and glory at the end of the Morrowind MQ pffft Hey lies even when he lies.....

He told Cyrus personally he knows what its like to kill the husband of his sister, He himself took part in nerevars death and his attempts at disassociation with his Crazed "sister" and Profane "brother" proves that once a theif always a theif as he made evident with his battle against Cyrus.