because i have never understood what he is

It's not necessarily an "he." Moreso an "it." It's the soul of Padomay, who is change to Anu's stasis. In the Beginning Place before Time started, Anu (Order) and Padomay (Chaos) clashed, which subsequently created the Aedra and Daedra, who in turn made up the Mundus as you see it. As Anuiel, which is the soul of Anu, is "Everything," Sithis is "Nothing," or rather, the Void.

Basically, Sithis is Nothingness.

Read http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/anuad.shtml for a good start on these concepts. Then I'd suggest you read http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/monomyth.shtml next.

Hmm, **Blows dust off 'Lore for Dummies'**

Chapter One: What is Sithis?Firstly, Sithis is not the God of Death! The Dark Brotherhood are psychopaths that murder lore as well as people!NIRN. Nirn is the plane of our existence. In the language of the et'ada, that is, the spirits that became Aedra, and Daedra, the Ehlnofex, means ARENA. Nirn is the interplay of the opposing primordial forces Anu and Padomay, or Anuiel and SITHIS. Anu is life, infinite energy abudance. Anu is the sum of all limitlessness. Infinite-ness essentially. Sithis is entropy, ending, death. Sithis is the sum of al limitation. Nothing essentially. Yet it does exist.I still dont understand!If you lived forever, your life would be completely Anuic in nature.If you never existed, your non-life would be comepletely Padomaic in nature.But you dont live forever, your life-spans sum, is the interplay of Anuiel and Sithis, you exist but not forever.But that sounds like the Dark Brotherhood! They said....**SLAP**Just because you kill someone, doesnt make Sithis stronger!I still don't understand.You are six feet tall, not infinite feet tall, nor zero feet tall. Anu is the infinite tree, that Sithis cuts down to size.Is that like 'What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?'*GASP* Such insight! Yes. Nirn is the answer to that question. Things exist, but not infinitely, and not forever. Neither is the birth of new things halted.I think I get it now.Hey, you'll catch on. I had to be kidnapped and brainwashed by MK Lore-Khan cultists before I really understood.That means nothing to me.Just stay away from proweler, Luagar2, and Albides, and you should be okay. OMG!! There they are!! RUN!!! They have the Monomyth in hand and lots of spare time! WE'RE DOOOOMED!!

thank you

also is the night mother a dunmer

We don't know who the Night Mother is for sure. There is much debate about it.

Who is the Night Mother, you ask? There are many, many theories, but none have been proven conclusively, which effectively eliminates anyone saying that the Night Mother IS as Dunmeri female. For example, here is one such theory from http://www.imperial-library.info/obbooks/fire_darkness.shtml:

"Who the Night Mother is, where she came from, what her functions are, no one knows. Carlovac Townway in his generally well-researched historical fiction 2920: The Last Year of the First Era tries to make her the leader of the Morag Tong. But she is never historically associated with the Tong, only the Dark Brotherhood.

The Night Mother, my dear friend, is Mephala. The Dark Brotherhood of the west, unfettered by the orders of the Tribunal, continue to worship Mephala. They may not call her by her name, but the daedra of murder, six, and secrets is their leader still. And they did not, and still do not, to this day, forgive their brethren for casting her aside."

Additionally, you may want to read http://www.imperial-library.info/obbooks/sacred_witness.shtml.


Yours in the Scrolls,


___The Word Merchant of Julianos

Why do people always ask about Sithis and never Anuiel?

Edit: Scratch that, I know why. There's no organisation to confuse the issue in the case of Anuiel. Also, Anuiel is rarely mentioned, if at all, outside of the texts (and infrequently mentioned within them), whereas Sithis is one of the few lore topics discussed by NPCs in Oblivion.

I think it's probably the more radical Dunmer view on it that probably contributes to it a good deal, as well. There is even a text (more than likely) written by a Dunmer TITLED Sithis, even though its probably moreso about Lorkhan. In my eyes, they probably have the most unorthodox view on it in the Empire. But that's just my opinion.

Anu is taken for granted, Sithis is lamented.

Pfft.

Another good point. :lmao:

Closed at request of OP.