Does that make Ald the bad and Magnus the ugly?

That's how I look at it.

This made me think of the Companion Cube.

Wel, Lorkhan is Akatosh, he could show himself as a dragon.

I Love Lady Nerevar's artwork.

As for Lorkhan/Shor/Sithis/etc., since he is supposed to represent a void or a sense of non-existence, wouldn't it be safe to assume that he truly has no form and all depiction of him are merely the limitations of mortals who depend of visuals and depictions for comprehension?

Honestly, I never thought of this; it's a very good point. The Dwemer are not that far off from the original Alt(d)mer in terms of time-period/number of "belief-leaps." Combine this with Velorian's point about the Dwemer scarab-man statue. They most likely would know better than anyone what he originally looked like before mythopoeia ran its course.

Relief commonly found on percussion instruments belonging to the natives of the "Reach" area of Northern Tamriel: http://i41.tinypic.com/2iuipi.png

My vision of pre-death Lorkhan is http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100215004517/bioshock/images/thumb/c/c4/Fontaine_First_Form.png/362px-Fontaine_First_Form.png from Bioshock or just that Hellenistic idea of human perfection: sculpted and bronze-like.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Thor.jpg, 'nuff said.

And http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_O0ch3ABb3L4/TOzuVAzMS7I/AAAAAAAACgk/PTvW37i-Z7c/s1600/Jose%2BBenlliure%2BGi%2Bl-%2Bla%2Bbarca%2Bde%2BCaronte%2B1919.jpg is exactly how I imagine Ysmir.

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Basically the http://www.sangam.org/taraki/articles/2006/images/Dali_New_Child_000.jpg is one of age. He starts out in a sort of Platonic form, like the paragon and perfect man, statuesque. When he arrives on Nirn he is immortal but doomed, and thus he becomes the likeness of the first men. After losing his divine spark he becomes old, haggard, ashen and physically weak and immaterial but held together and retentive of power seemingly solely because of hatred.

A great character.

Dude, Shor is Odin, not Thor.

Shor is far too biased in men's favor to be Odin.

Shor is a trickster-come-God-King patriarch who sacrifices himself for his own designs and sits in a hall of heroes for fallen Nords to drink with after they die. He also has a hammer.

Shor = Odin is the nearest anologue anywhere in TES mythology. Some of Odin's aspects got splattered over to different versions of Doom Drum, but TES doesn't get any closer to real-life mythology, outside of the Divines anyway.

I imagine him to look like Tsun, though more Warlike. Very Nordic. Snake and Scarab tattoos or warpaint.

Maybe a tattoo of a snake coiled around the hole in his chest.

Or an actual snake coiled up inside the hole in his chest.

I usually don't think of Shor as a grotesque monster, but hey whatever you want.

I agree with the Shor/Thor connection. Especially with the recent addition of the symbolism of the missing eye, Magnus seems a far more likely fit for Odin All-Father.

Lorkhan is basically a Mix of God/Loki-Nordic Trickstergod,/Thor And Odin all in one.

Also i did a concept a while back for what Lorkhan should look life tall twice the height of a High Elf.With Silvery Skin,Blue Celtic Spirals and tatoos.And A Moon mask.And long black hair and white glowing eyes.But when in Shor Form he would look like a Loki/Odin Mix.

It's more relevant how and why Odin lost his eye. Vincent is closer to right. But there are no direct correspondences here.

Surprised no one has mentioned Shor's scaled mane.

I envision his mask Looking like this except silver signifying his body is now part of the moons. http://www.layoutsparks.com/1/194111/castle-sky-moon-face.html

this. Shor is vaguely reptilian, draconic even, in my viewing. he's also tusked.

If I was to anthropomorphize him, it would be a combination of man, snake and insect, shedding it's own skin to become the New Man and to be metaphorically reborn, as rebirth is common for Shezzarines.

A shedded snakeskin revealing a molting scarab revealing a man with a hole in his chest, out of which crawls a snake.

Very good with the reptile thing, Reptiles like snakes are often portrayed as deceitful tricking and maleloviolent beings and Lorkhan is a trickster deceitful but its not known if he is benoviolent or maleoviolent.

His benevolency/malevolency is disputed.

Id say hes a mix of Both, it dosen't seem like he cares for mortals all to much but the world he created nirn which he sacraficed himself to save.
So i'd call him an Anti Hero god.

http://webspace.webring.com/people/nl/leondrel/Reptile_man.JPG Lol couldn't resist.

Totally in bad taste but... http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100214061623/halo/images/thumb/b/b5/ScarabH3.png/438px-ScarabH3.png

I've always thought of Shor as more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl.