We, Aedra

Listen, brothers and sisters, for we have been lied to again! Not only did the Trickster God curse us with mortality, our own Aedric gods did as well, for we are not that different from the “divines”. They are using us, my people, and have always done so. But not for longer now.

They cursed our ancestors, weak as they were from Creation, sundered by the evil Lorkhan, to lose their immortality. Today, I call upon everyone to reject these so called “gods”, and not bow down to any other being than ourselves, for they are not to be trusted. And why you might ask? It is because they have used us, brothers and sisters, they have used us. We are to them not their favoured children, not the ones they concern themselves with because they care. Oh no, people. To them, we are nothing more than a well, a source of power. We have given them their forms, and their power. And how do they thank us? They strip our souls of knowledge and Aetherial power, having us relearn everything we have worked our whole lives towards.

And what is this power used for? Surely not for helping us poor mortals, but purely for their own gain, for we are their sustenance. And with this in mind, people, with this in mind, we are able to destroy the beings that have cursed us. They require us, and if we stop, we can finally sunder these demons, as they have sundered us. For if we give up the worship of the Aedra, they will turn into nothing more than a shade of their former selves. How big is the influence of the Nedic gods of old? Non. that is to say. And how much mightier is the Time Dragon than Phynaster? Or Ebonarm? Infinitely mightier, that is to say. And all that, just because of a bigger cult.

But we are not unlike them, for our souls can be shaped like theirs as well. In Sovngarde, the ancestors of the North still reside, even though all souls get wiped. Our stories and tales of hero’s shapes them, creating a collective memory. These are the powers we hold, and this is why the “gods” have put us in this prison, to feed of our power.

But how do they take our power you might ask? They harvest our very souls, stripping them of all our hard labour and knowledge, using this raw, Aetherial power to still their ferocious hunger. And don’t expect the Daedra to treat you any better; Oh no, people. These demons of Oblivion also want your essence, but the only difference is that they do not NEED it. They just hunger for it. So today, my brothers and sisters, we will resent the gods, the Aedra and the Daedra, both Anuic and Phadomaic. But we will not stop there: We will destroy everything linked to these pretenders. We will destroy their temples and their shrines. We will storm the metaphysical Towers that uphold Mundus, tearing down the structures our ancestors were tricked into building.

Let us make Mundus collapse, and make us retake our rightful position of pure et’Ada, unsundered and uncached. Today, brothers and sisters, we will bring forth the end of everything, the oh so glorious and freeing end!