So, remove the originality and imagination in order to make people more comfortable with old ideas that have been done to death instead of old ideas that have been forgotten and reborn? I think I'll pass. Go read the Sword-meeting. Aside from which, it's all stuff you can find in real myth and legend presented differently.

The Grey Maybe (existence) is what happens when the abstracts of Anu (stability, stasis, existence, white, impossibility) meets Padomay/Sithis (Chaos, change, non-existence, black, certainty-of-occurrence). Individually, either one is powerless. Together, existence is possible. Then just work that downwards. Akatosh is time, which is pointless without space (Lorkhan), so it takes both to make Nirn. Similarly, Shezzar is big on mortal races and Akatosh is big on Dragons, and Dragonborn, kin to both, are vital to how the world functions this kalpa.

Here's a basic idea of how Anu and Padomay work. I know nothing of how instruments work, but let's compare it to music.

Anu is the one, loud, everlasting sound. All the sounds the instrument can make at once. Forever. Every chord, every piano key, ect. That's not music. That's a loud, annoying, sound that makes your ears bleed. Padomay is no sound. Again, that isn't music. Mixing them together, the sound varies, the volume changes, ect. Without both, you get nothing that really matters.

Essentially, Anu is everything. Padomay is what makes it so you don't get everything for eternity all at the same time.

One of the many reasons why the Dark Brotherhood svcks.

thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisthisthisthisthis. If it helps, I'm a musician, and you're spot on. "Music is the silence between the notes" - Claude Debussy. Sound without silence is inherently devoid of rhythm, for one. A drum, for instance (perhaps of the doom variety), produces a sound that rapidly decays into silence. By alternating sound and silence, it creates a rhythm, like a hearbeat.

This anology is.... so perfect. Like the Sharmat's claim that he's older than music? yeah.

It is. It's perfect.

Thanks, both of you.

*smacks head* DOH! I didn't see this till you mentioned it!

Anyway, great anology, Silent!

So if the King is Sound, the Rebel is Silence, what does that make the Observer? The composer? The listener? The melody? Who was the Observer to Anu and Padomay anyway?

Maybe Lorkhan?

Lorkhan is too padomaic to fit into the Observer role IIRC.

How about Anui-El?

Those two are just the same as Anu/Padomay, along with Anui-el/Sithis so it doesn't work. I'd say Nirn would be closer to the Observer for the Shor/Auriel part.