Most Esteemed Scholars, Students of the School of Julianos, Synodites and Whisperers,

I thank you for selecting my query out of the multitudes that undoubtedly been submitted for this quarter's Academic Research search. I understand the importance and gravitas that accompanies being heard, even if by mundane letter (as opposed to dreamsleeve transmissiom, to which, for future reference, I am both familiar with and skilled, attending humility accompanying said statement), by the rare and glorious quarterly gathering of the heads of your respective institutions. Being but only a "merchant of His Word", I cannot claim to have the access to the plethora of tomes I once had shortly before and after the Oblivion Crisis where I mysteriously ceased aging (due to my seeing and physically touching the avatar of Akatosh during his/its battle with Dagon, although others say it is due to my strange tendency to recall a great library, and guarding such for an all powerful, orderly and crystalline master who called me Dyus....so hazy...) and assigned to this small locale of Shearpoint to await the opportunity to instruct whomever wins this accursed civil war in Skyrim in the finer arts of Jurisdiction, Jurisprudence and all other skills of ruling in the holy manner set forth by Julianos.

But enough pleasantries. My issue is as follows:

In the familiar tome "The Monomyth", there is a line that states "Auriel pleaded with Anu to take them back, but he had already filled their places with something else."

Do any know the nature of what Anu substituted in place of Auriel and the other Original Spirits? What could possibly "take the place of" a being such as Auriel? Could it happen again? What does it mean for a spirit sustituted thusly? Must it be another spirit substituting, or could possibly a man do such?

Oh, please don't take my question to suggest that those...ummm...vicious and blasphemous lies about Tiber Septim somehow becoming a GOD could...in fact...be true. No, I am a loyal servant of the Empire and would never make such a statement aloud...I mean, I would NEVER adhere to such foolishness. Tbe Thalmor are too perceptive, pervasive and thorough...I mean, I trust in the Emperor's wisdom on the true nature of such things...and not the instictive feelings of a priest/Scholar/simple Word Merchant such as myself.

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, for I remain...


Yours in the Scrolls,


The Word Merchant of Julianos

Dearest and most gracious Word Merchant;

I plead you do not take offense at my intrusion in matters of the Academic Establishment, as this inquiry of yours is all but directed at that vector. But I have been dutifully noting your involvement in Imperial affairs since the time of the Oblivion Crisis. More particularly upon the matter of the Two Statues, a topic that I will hereafter keep silent about, as I know how tender the subject is to you, especially after the Niben Bay Anomaly came to a close.

But I find this topic of spiritual substitution very interesting indeed. It is of even more importance given the number of times I have read The Monomyth and not until now paid the line in question any attention. Upon rereading The Monomyth, I came across this line which may provide a cultural corroboration:

While Ruptga is not anologous to Anuiel, the motif in begging for return to spirithood is quite curious. Also of interest is the theme that backward progress is not progress at all and is therefor impossible. What then are the implications made for Auri-el and this puzzling idea that Anuiel had filled the spot left open? Surely the bitter illusion known as Time is made all the more bitter when considering your obviously heretical but still scholastically important notion that Talos could fill the emptiness. I say this because at the time of the ordering of the et'Ada Talos had not yet existed, nor had Lorkhan died. How then is an empty spot filled by something that hasn't existed or happened yet? The notion of aetherial emptiness is also wholly reminiscent of the ensuing emptiness caused by Lorkhan's death. Could the two be one in the same? It would be expedient to believe this, but at this point in The Monomyth, Lorkhan has yet to die.

My theory is that Anuiel did not literally fill the emptiness left by the begetting of Auri-el, but instead changed fundamentally, so that a hole could not exist. Imagine a wound healing from the inside out rather than being plugged and filled in.

It has been an honor to see your continuing quest for knowledge.

Sincerely,

Red,

Chaplain of the Never-Mind

Dear Julianine Word Merchant,

The name of the entity you seek is, in the Nibenese of the Alessians, ACA-TUSS. Better known to our modern ears as Akatosh, as any philothoomist worth his weight in protographemes may well tell you.

The Auri El was ill-suited to the task of playing father-of-hours for our world. Hence, Chimaubrical forces beyond our ken conspired, then perpetrated the paravanomorphetic impregnation of the Merrish adarupa with a C0Dically-pure Shezarragarbha.

It's all very elementary. I can send you the relevant the paloenumerical proofs via Intersleeve spore if you're interested.

Best,

Andronicles Atomicus,

Professor Emeritus of Aurbiphysics, Secret University of Mir Corrup.

I will tell you. The second birth of the great aurbic-all-father is Man. The et'ada corruption known as the Aldmer/Thalmor is a Void-abortion and will be put to the sword of those cloaked in Storm.

For Talos!

- The Dragonborn of Winhelm

Imperial Subject,

Though your scholarly contributions are indeed substantial, I would do well to remind you that you are still under investigation for your mysterious subversion of Auri-El's will, in the matter of your seeming timelessness. Though we are not at this time convinced that you willingly broke the divine law, our... information retrieval squads are well aware of your location. Continued investigation in the matter of Auri-El's sister, http://www.imdb.com/media/rm765956608/tt0097757, would be most unwise.

With diamond certainty,
Tauriel of Minos

Says who?

Sirrah,

Whilst, as a devoted worshipper of the Eight Divines, I am reluctant to draw your mind to (and much less speak the names of) those unholy entities who through their own hubris and malice chose not take part in the blessed creation of our world I do wonder whether these Lords of Misrule may be those who usurped the vacant places of the holy Divines. I would point you towards the recently discovered correspondence between Chimere Graegyn and Tal Marog Ker (enclosed are the memo-spore lessonates to which I refer) in which Graegyn espouses the perverse notion that the Princes of Oblivion are somehow destined to trade places with the Divines themselves! Of course this is merely the blasphemous ravings of a mer driven beyond sanity by his reckless dealings with the profane however it may be that even the deepest falsehoods contain a kernel of truth.

Yours indubitably,

Hemzar Dak
2^nd Assistant to the Assistant Scribe of the Undersecretary of the Mournhold Mission Underchapel

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1249697-on-boethiahs-summoning-day/

Dearest correspondents,

I wish to dissuade further attempts by this convention to debate the merits of equating the Anuadic beings and not-beings to counterparts in the Yoku pantheon. While it is true that very clear parallels can be drawn, and indeed have been drawn in the work being debated itself (indeed, it could be called the purpose of the text!). However, sweating over the exactness of the correlation is the start of definite path to a Sithisial end to relevant discussion. Let us continue to discuss Anui-el, Auri-el, and the Aka-tusk, and so leave Ruptga on his broken islands.

With regards,
Sufjan Sarethi
Healer and journeyman scholar, Wayrest

Dearest Word Merchant of Julianos,

While my mythic studies outside my ancestral pantheon are limited, I would like to turn your attention back to an earlier part of The Monomyth, which discusses the genesis of these original spirits.

"Note that Tamriel and the Mortal Plane do not exist yet. The Gray Maybe is still the playground of the Original Spirits. Some are more bound to Anu's light, others to the unknowable void. Their constant flux and interplay increase their number, and their personalities take long to congeal. When Akatosh forms, Time begins, and it becomes easier for some spirits to realize themselves as beings with a past and a future. The strongest of the recognizable spirits crystallize: Mephala, Arkay, Y'ffre, Magnus, Rupgta, etc., etc. Others remain as concepts, ideas, or emotions. One of the strongest of these, a barely formed urge that the others call Lorkhan, details a plan to create Mundus, the Mortal Plane."

It appears that the spirits' mingling allows them to procreate. Thus, I imagine that Anu's filling of the roles left vacant by the earth bones' departure wouldn't be too hard, so long as the spirits left behind continued to mingle with each other.

Strength in Honor,
Riddle VIII of Rihad
3^rd Degree Sword-Scholar of The Gilded Sun.

P.S. Let no man, mer or beast force you to withdraw your beliefs.