The thread name is pretty self explanatory.
Here are some texts that feature the word in full capitals:
http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/vivec_mephala.shtml
http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/lessons.shtml the word ALMSIVI is at the end of each sermon.

It's short for "AYEM AE SEHT AE VEHK."

Well the quick answer is that it doesn't.

The somewhat longer answer is that, when it is done, it's 'cos CAPS MAKES THINGS FUNKAY.

I see, thank you

I would guess that it's because it's from the Daedric alphabet, which doesn't have lowercase letters.

IT'S CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!

Actually, that is an interesting question. Even if it is an acronym, there are still several non-English (well, you know what I mean) words in all capital letters.

Same reason as YWHY or LORD, get it in capitals. The first was at first written with only consonants so it would be unpronounceable. The second is a translation of this, but kept the capitals to indicate the original was a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton. ALMSIVI fills the same role, it' the name of god.

That aside, all Elnofex is written in capitals.

I imagine it's as Proweler said, as well as wanting to further elevate the appearance of power and importance of Morrowind's three living God-kings.

ALMalexia Sotha SIl VIvec

Dont you mean the three ONCE living gods? Sitha Sol and Alamexia both die in Tribunal, and in the mainquest you have an option to kill Vivec. If you don't then he gets kidnapped by daedra and he doens't have any powers left after you leave Morrowind.

The kidnapping is a rumor; even though the Trial's canon is debatable, no one has said that it isn't true.

[inflamatory] Oblivion killed the loar, it doesn't count anyways [/inflamatory]



Actually on a moderately more serious note, I seem to remember somewhere that the Tribunal had both mortal and divine existences concurrently, and the divine one was eternal. That may end up in a bizarro 'outside of time' fake-out.

That is definately what they would want us to think, and is part of the propaganda spread by Vivec and the 36 Lessons. On the other hand, it seems to fit the metaphysical 'style' of the universe, and "Lord Vivec's Sword-Meeting With Cyrus The Restless" also seems to confirm this idea.
Personally, I don't think the idea of ALMSIVI simply losing their divinity does seem likely.

It depends on their actual relationship with Shor's beating heart. Did they actually fuse their minds and souls with it somehow, or were they simply leeching off it like parasites? If it's the former, then they're truly part of the Missing God now and can therefore not truly be killed. If it's the latter, they're all dead and gone for good, with the possible exception of Vivec (no official word from Bethesda as to whether or not the Trial was to be taken as canon yet. New novel superficially seems to reject his CHIM, but the Loveletter also contains elements from the novel and states he returns much later in the fifth age).

I think focusing on their mortal and divine aspects misses the point of what they truly are - Archetypes.

Vivec - the Thief
Almalexia - the Warrior
Sotha Sil - the Mage

These three have always existed and worked in tandem on the Mundus. They took the shape of the Tribunal in Morrowind, and took up arms against themselves, as Tiber Septim, who was also another Tribunal of sorts


Talos - the Thief
Wulfharth - the Warrior
Zurin Arctus - the Mage

Actually it's ALMalexia SIl VIvec. Sotha is just Sil's house name, kinda like if you called Almalexia "Indoril Almalexia". The difference being that "Sil" is a very short name while "Almalexia" is long enough on its own, and Sil was the last scion of House Sotha while there are plenty of other Indorils.