So all the 8 Divines have an associated plane(t). They are like the corpses of the Divines, now bound to Nirn, if I am correct. Now Arkay, he is mentioned to have only appeared after Nirn was created, sometimes even said to be a former mortal. So how does he have a planet? Talos doesn't have one, and he was the only other Divine who appeared after Nirn emerged.

Talos can be said to have one, in that Lorkhan does: The sundered moons.

Only one old folk-tale myth claims that Arkay was once mortal. All the other pantheons place him right with the other Aedra.

Also, how could The God of Worms, Mannimarco, eclipse Arkay as the Reverent Moon if there wasn't an Arkay to eclipse?

Skooma, lots of it.

So, Arkay isn't actually an ascended mortal, but Malacath (for example) is. I wonder if next time around, he'd complain about all the weight gain.

I might dispute Malacath's state as an ascended mortal.

On the one hand we have lore from Oblivion which raises the question of whether Malacath was ever Trinimac to start with, or if he just took over his place or whatnot. If Trinimac and Malacath are separate entities, and especially if Trinimac is still around (as I imagine Gortwog or whoever it was that tried to resurrect his worship would probably insist). On the other hand even if Trinimac is Malacath, Trinimac was there for the original convention, making him one of the very original spirits who participated in creation - I'd say that certainly puts him a few steps above an 'ascended mortal' (afterall, there were many who participated in creation apart from those eight).

There was a nice theory about Trinimac being the Altmer Zenithar. By Fiore, IIRC.

And then there is 'Tsun.

Sheogorath used to be mortal. We know that for damn sure now.

Wait, what? O:

Is it anything I might have missed in the Pelagius quest? or a book?

EDIT:
Is he Pelagius? O:

Spoilers ahoy, cap'n.

Sheogorath was the hero from Oblivion. He mentions moths, blood, a severed head, and a fox, representing all major quest-lines. Dude that used to be Sheo is now Jiggywithit, who was killed immediately after by the other daedra for being a kill-joy.

But how does that show that he was mortal before?

I mean yes the CoC mantled into him, and the CoC was mortal, but it doesn't mean the very first Sheogorath was mortal.. no?

Granddaddy Sheogorath once sat me upon his knee, when I was but a wee sweetroll. He looked at me, perhaps somewhat hungrily (I credit my delicious glaze; I always did come out of the oven perfectly toasty, back then), and told me a story. His Name, he said, swallowing back the extra saliva, was a family heirloom of His. He made sure he passed it down to Himself when He was getting tired of it... I thought that seemed a tad ingenuous of him, as I felt that an inheritance was something you weren't supposed to give away until you were dead, not just tired of something and wanting to get rid of it, but I was just a sweetroll at the time, and godly matters were several crumbs above my ken. He seemed to imply, by his phrasing, that his Name had been passed down many generations ("every thousand years or so", was close to his exact phrasing; like I've mentioned, I was but a sweetroll, and words didn't stick as well as the dust on the floor from that one time he dropped me).

Now, naturally, I outgrew my sweetroll phase, and spend my days as a doorknob (although I have gotten many complaints about my efficacy as such, and they're starting to get to me), and my nights as the Night Mother, but I'll never forget what Granddaddy said next: "Now open wide, me lad, I'm getting hungry."

---Ms. Theodora Icot, a homeless widow of Windhelm, on her way to the Shrine of Talos for her daily soup

That's excellent :thumbsup: