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!!Reman Cyrodiil

->''"I AM CYRODIIL COME."''

A Dragonborn that appeared in the latter parts of the First Era, after the Dragon Break. He defeated an Akaviri invasion force under mysterious circumstances. Though he never took the title of Emperor himself, his lineage founded the second Empire, which lasted even past the end of his lineage at the end of the First Era into part of the Second Era under the leadership of the Akaviri Potentates.

->''"And this thing I have thought of, I have named it, and I call it freedom. Which I think is just another word for Shezarr Who Goes Missing."''

--> ''"Morihaus, your son, mighty and snorting, gore-horned, winged, when next he flies down, let him bring us anger"''

* WarReenactors: Every year, new initiates to the Order of Diagna play the role of Orcs in a recreation of the Siege of Orsinium in Shinji's honor.

A mighty warrior who built the Arena in the Imperial City.

* ActionSurvivor: Presumably, he is one of those survivors to whom the best techniques have been passed.

* TheRashomon: Much like Nerevar's death, there are several variants of Dumac's death or disappearance. He may have disappeared along with the rest of the Dwemer people, he may have been struck down by Nerevar, and he may also have been killed by Dagoth who was then attacked by Nerevar.

* BackFromTheDead: Has died and come back to life at least three times. He first died while reversing the curse of Orkey and Alduin, one that turned he and all of the Nords into children, but made himself too old by mistake and died. He came back to life through unknown means to lead the Nordic invasion of Morrowind, but was killed by a coalition of Dwemer and Chimer forces at Red Mountain. He was again brought back to life by the Greybeards, who summoned him from Sovngarde, to aid in the fight against the Kamal invaders from Akavir. He was finally killed a third time by Zurin Arctus who trapped Wulfharth's soul within the Mantella, but not before killing Arctus with his dying breath.

* ThePurge: His first new law as High King of Skyrim was to order this, slaughtering the members of the Alessian Order within Skyrim's borders.

* BackFromTheDead: Has died and come back to life at least three times. He first died while reversing the curse of an unspecified "evil god," believed to be Alduin and/or Orkey, that turned he and all of the Nords into children, but made himself too old by mistake and died. He came back to life through unknown means to lead the Nordic invasion of Morrowind, but was killed by a coalition of Dwemer and Chimer forces at Red Mountain. He was again brought back to life by the Greybeards, who summoned him from Sovngarde, to aid in the fight against the Kamal invaders from Akavir. He was finally killed a third time by Zurin Arctus who trapped Wulfharth's soul within the Mantella, but not before killing Arctus with his dying breath.

* RapidAging: After using Thu'um to age up everyone in Skyrim (after Alduin and Orkey made them children) he aged himself up too fast and died for the first time.

He was a master of the Thu'um and fought under Wulfharth to secure the heart of Lorkhan in Red Mountain. After they were defeated severely, he meditated for seven years, then came out to found the Greybeards.

* BadassPacifist: Seventeen other masters of the Voice tried to shout him down. They failed.
* HeroicBSOD: He spent seven years wondering how it was possible that the strongest Voice users and the best of the Nords could be defeated.
* TechnicalPacifist: Although he fought seventeen other masters of the Voice, he also set the Greybeards' policy of non-intervention in worldly affairs, and of studying the Voice for the sake of it.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: What he planned to do for all of the Dwemer people using the Heart of Lorkhan.

The last king of the Dwemer, he and Nerevar united their people into to drive the invading Nords out of Morrowind. He became a close personal friend of Nerevar, and even attended Nerevar's wedding to Almalexia, presenting them with a pair of specially enchanted swords as a gift. He mysteriously disappeared along with the rest of the Dwemer people following the Battle of Red Mountain. (Though some accounts have him being killed by either Nerevar or Voryn Dagoth prior to the event that caused the disappearance.)

* TryFittingThatOnABusinessCard: Chief Tonal Architect, Magecrafter, High Priest, High Engineer, Arcane Philosopher, and Pioneer in the field of Mythopeic Forces.

The chief tonal architect of the Dwemer who spent much time figuring out the secrets of the heart of Lorkhan. He probably engineered Numidium, and is almost certainly responsible for the disappearance of the Dwemer.

* MadScientist: He sought for the whole Dwemer race to achieve godhood, and is usually considered responsible for the Disappearance of the Dwarves.

The ancient council of Nerevar. They consist of: Almalexia, a high priestess of Great Hour Indoril and Nerevar's wife. Sotha Sil, a wizard mystic and sole survivor of Minor House Sotha. Vivec, a warrior poet born to poor netch-herders who would rise to become Nerevar's junior councilor (sometimes referred to as "General). And Voryn Dagoth, leader of House Dagoth and a trusted friend to Nerevar. After Nerevar's death, they each used the Tools of Kagrenac on the Heart of Lorkhan to become gods. The first three became known as the Tribunal, or ALMSIVI, the main deities of the Dunmeri Tribunal Temple. Dagoth would become known as Dagoth Ur, the "devil" of the Temple and antagonist to the other three.

* CompellingVoice: His "supernatural powers of persuasion." Further enhanced by his Dwemer-crafted and Azura-blessed ring, Moon-And-Star.

* FolkHero: For the Ashlanders. Also a Messianic figure, who is believed will return one day to strike down the "false gods" of the Tribunal. Whereas Vivec tried to claim that he was merely one of many saints to the Dunmer people.

* PoorCommunicationKills: A few of the versions of Nerevar's final days imply that his good friend Dumac did not know what Kagrenac was planning to do with the tools and heart, and would have stopped Kagrenac had he known. Thus, preventing the Battle of Red Mountain, the Dwemer's disappearance, and possibly Nerevar's death.
* PosthumousCharacter: Has been dead for around 4000 years by the events of the game. His death, prophesied reincarnation, and the subsequent use of the Heart of Lorkhan by the Tribunal and Dagoth Ur to obtain divinity are the catalyst for the game's plot. Everything we know of his life and death comes from in-game books and [[TheRashomon Rashomon]] style stories from key characters.

!!Dagoth Ur (a.k.a. Voryn Dagoth, Sharmat, The Dreamer, The Sleeper)

He was a loyal servant of Nerevar and trusted with many things. He realized what Kagrenac was up to and effectively started the Battle of Red Mountain. Once the battle was over, he wanted Nerevar to destroy Kagrenac's Tools. Instead, Nerevar gave him the tools, which may have corrupted him - either that, or exposure to the Heart of Lorkhan. He was never quite the same after that.

%%* AffablyEvil
* BadDreams: He gave these to his sleepers.
* BigBad: Of ''Morrowind''.
* MadDreamer: Hoooo boy... for a quick example, check out ''The 36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 15''.

!!Vivec (a.k.a. VEHK, V'Vehk, Vehk and Vehk)

->''"Love is under my will only."''

His mother was the wife of a netch-herder, or netchiman. Almalexia put some kind of spell related to Vivec into the mother and threw her into the ocean, where dreughs treated her well. Sotha Sil fished Vivec's mother back out of the ocean while declaring some sort of prophecy about unborn-Vivec. Daedra also came to lend power to unborn-Vivec. After the Daedra, other spirits came to interact with unborn-Vivec, and unborn-Vivec was able to talk back to them intelligently. Vivec's mother tried to head towards the lands of House Indoril (the house of Nerevar) but was captured by the Dwemer. The Dwemer recognized Vivec's future importance and tried to get him out of his mother, but found his mother to be quite indestructible. So, unborn-Vivec lulled his mother to sleep so that the Dwemer could have an easier time extracting him. After they finally got him out of his mother, they stuck him in a robotic simulacrum of his mother. His new Dwemer-built robot mom was set loose, and more spirits came to visit and converse with unborn-Vivec. However, his robot mom did not handle the ashes of Red Mountain very well and broke down. Nerevar discovered his broken Dwemer-crafted robotic mom and tried to bring it to Almalexia, but got into a dispute with his travelling companions. So, unborn-Vivec had to intervene by psychically-compelling Nerevar to get back on track to delivering him to Almalexia, even if that meant murder. Mehrunes Dagon tried to intervene and stop Nerevar's delivery of unborn-Vivec and his Dwemer-crafted robot mom to Almalexia, but unborn-Vivec blessed Nerevar so that he could pass unharmed. Finally, Nerevar was able to reach Almalexia and Sotha Sil at Mournhold, where they talked about the coming War of the First Council and what Vivec had to do with any of that. Once this discussion finished, Vivec fused with his Dwemer-crafted robotic mom to become an enlightened all-powerful all-knowing hermaphrodite demigod. Now that Vivec was fully-formed, it was time to start the War of the First Council.

He personally tutored Nerevar in all the ways of wisdom and statecraft. He found Molag Bal, of all people, to be extremely attractive and had eight of Molag's children. Sadly, he had to then track down and defeat seven of those eight children - the eighth of whom was himself.

... at least, that's according to ''[[UnreliableNarrator The 36 Lessons of Vivec]]''. Alternatively, (and probably realistically,) Vivec was just a sneaky bastard who insinuated his way into Nerevar's court and betrayed him to get a hold of Kagrenac's Tools. Then he fabricated a religion, possibly by [[RealityWarping rewriting the past]] with said tools, revolving around the Tribunal with himself as the head.

What is certain about him is that he (along with Almalexia and Sotha Sil) used Kagrenac's Tools to cause themselves to become powerful godlike beings. He is half-gold half-ashen, representing some sort of bridge between the old Chimer race and the newer Dunmer race. And Azura seriously does not like him.

* ArcWords: "The ending of the words is ALMSIVI."
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: He claims to have achieved CHIM.
* BiggusDickus: One possible interpretation of his spear MUATRA.
** It's been outright stated by WordOfGod.
* BlatantLies: He stated that some of his sermons were false. He also mixed in lies with truths. And, of course, there's the fact that the Ministry of Truth is built into a rock that he named Lie Rock.
* CompellingVoice: He often claimed he had this sort of power, especially over Nerevar.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: He claimed that the Ministry of Truth, which was also his seventh monster-son Lie Rock, was held up by his peoples' love for him.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: He did this to his first mother as well as to one of his monster-sons, GULGA MOR JIL.
* TheTrickster: Goes with being an anticipation of Mephala, by his own admission.

!!Dumac (a.k.a. Dwarfking, Dwarf-Orc)

The last king of the Dwemer and a personal friend of Nerevar. Unfortunately, a few things happened, leading to him being the last king of the Dwemer.

* EvilFormerFriend: Dagoth Ur convinced Nerevar that Dumac had become evil.
* FireForgedFriends: With Nerevar, as they repulsed the Nords.

!!Kagrenac

The chief tonal architect of the Dwemer who spent much time figuring out the secrets of the heart of Lorkhan. He probably engineered Numidium, and is almost certainly responsible for the disappearance of the Dwemer.
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* MadScientist: He sought for the whole Dwemer race to achieve godhood, and is usually considered responsible for the Disappearance of the Dwarves.

!!Jurgen Windcaller

He was a master of the Thu'um and fought under Wulfharth to secure the heart of Lorkhan in Red Mountain. After they were defeated severely, he meditated for seven years, then came out to found the Greybeards.
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!!Nerevar Indoril (a.k.a. Hortator, The Caravan Guard)

The leader of the Chimer people and husband of Almalexia. After unifying Morrowind, he fended off an invasion by the Nords. Then, he fought the Dwemer all the way to the heart of Red Mountain until they suddenly disappeared. He was either mortally-wounded by Dagoth Ur or murdered by the Tribunal - in either case, he died because one or more individuals lusted after the power of the Heart of Lorkhan. He also had a special ring, the Moon-and-Star, given to him by Azura.

* FireForgedFriends: With Dumac, as they repulsed the Nords.
* FolkHero: For the Ashlanders, whereas Vivec tried to claim that he was merely one of many saints.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In-game accounts mostly feature him running around trying to stop people killing each other.

* GodInHumanForm: As a Shezzarine and Dragonborn. While not quite CompleteImmortality, he possessed abilities far beyond those of typical mortals and is directly connected with up to to divine beings.

* HeroicAlbino: Hence why one of his titles is "Whitestrake," and he was known to have white hair even when he was young.

* HumansAreSpecial: The Divines are said to "belove" the races of men in particular, who find "strength-in-weakness" in their mortal forms (as opposed to most of the Elves who feel that the mortal world is a prison) and who live despite always being doomed to death in the end.

* DivineIntervention: His spirit has been known to take form as the various "Shezzarines" throughout history. Usually, this form is as one of the races of men whenever they are threatened, and then he helps to advance their cause. Often, this is accomplished by killing lots and lots of elves. Pelinal Whitestrake, Wulfharth Ash-King, Tiber Septim, Zurin Arctus, and the Underking are all believed to have been Shezzarines.

* DivineIntervention: The few times they actually exert their power on Mundus are usually the last push to save the world.

* IHaveManyNames: Auriel/Auri-El to most elven religions, Alduin to the Nords (if Auri-El counts...), Akatosh to many Man-ish religions, either Satakal or Ruptga "Tall Papa" to the Redguards (perhaps both) Alkosh to the Khajiit, AKHAT to the Dunmer, and Bormahu[[note]]translates to "Our Father", roughly[[/note]] to the Dragons, and is sometimes known as the Aka-Tusk. Tosh'Raka of Akavir is believed to be a mortal who mantled him and rules the Ka Po' Tun as their dragon god-king. May also be the All-Maker to the Skaal, unless that's Anu.

Goddess of Air and Heavens. According to some myths, she was the first et'ada to agree to Lorkhan's plans to create Mundus. Known as Tava in Yokudan tradition, Kyne to the Nords, Kaan to the Dragons, and Khenarthi to Khajiit.

* CueTheRain: She is responsible for rain; a phenomenon that is said not to have occurred before the removal of Lorkhan's divine spark.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Arguably, in Morrowind. While Azura takes a highly on a highly benevolent image of attempting to help free the Dunmer from the threat of Dagoth Ur, the primary reason why the Nereveraine was actually sent to Vvardenfell was to undermine and destroy the Tribunal (who stole her worshippers from her and killed her previous champion, Nerevar) In addition, Azura herself played a highly active role in bringing about the destruction of Morrowind, and she only warned a handful of her followers to leave (allowing for the rest to die horribly as punishment from turning on her). [[TheBadGuyWins She is also the only party in all of Morrowind to end up with ''everything'' she wanted]] (Dead Tribunal, her former worshipers are firmly hers again, those who didn't worship her are enslaved and destroyed, amazing PR...)

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite playing an active role in the events that would eventually lead to the destruction of the homeland, the Dunmer religion still highly reveres Azura.
** In fact, the destruction of the Dunmer homeland has made Azura ''more'' revered in the Dunmer religion and was what ultimately ended worship of the Tribunal (her greatest enemies)

Note; Elder Scrolls lore is really weird; in game text can't really be trusted, as most of it is written by characters with political view points (or just wrong information). Out of game text can be somewhat trusted, except that there is a tendency for it to be left unofficial and later contradicted. As such, it would be wise to avoid definitively saying something; chances are, someone else has an equally correct source saying the complete opposite. In addition, due to time alterations which aren't explained in detail by an objective source, its entirely possible that both are actually correct.

* EternalHero: As a Shezzarine. Plays it the straightest since he has returned at least three times.

The most powerful and important Aedra are the Eight Divines. Due to the ascension of Tiber Septim (described below) and his transformation into the god Talos, a new pantheon was created, the Nine Divines. The Divines are well recognized, respected, and worshipped throughout Tamriel.