Lord VivecVivec is a Warrior Poet God of Dunmer people, best known from Elder Scrolls game Morrowind, where we could meet him in his Palace in Vivec city. I will not talk so much about his life and myths surrounding his journey to the Red Mountain, for it is already all well known, but I will try to analyze some of the more secretive and esoteric aspects of this character and express my own interpretation of his philosophy and mysticism.

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In my opinion, Vivec is one of the most interesting and complex video game characters, and ever since playing the game for the first time, I’ve felt that his writings, teachings and actions grew into a consistent esoteric system shrouded by cryptic poems which is very open to subjective interpretation. His so called Walking Ways are pathways to godhood – and Vivec speaks about reaching heaven by violence. Tribunal itself reached godhood by striking the Heart of Lorkhan, therefore by violence. This concept of action or rebellion against natural order of the Cosmos is a key element in Vivek’s teachings. Although violent and rebellious, it is also an act of Love.

But, more about that bit later.Michael Kirkbride is a loremaster and author of ”The 36 Lessons of Vivec”. I’m not sure if he created the character of Vivec, but he definitely (re)shaped his character into this mystic figure we all know today.

(Note that none of this breaks the NDA, as you get to visit Artaeum in the Queen's Decree quest, but revealing information past that is against the NDA) level 2. Original Poster 3 points 1 year ago. I should say that those aren't masser and secunda, and there is a third that you can see from the right angles. They're all orange. Once you get to Artaeum, speak to Loremaster Celarus inside Ceporah Tower in the large room you enter (he’ll have a quest icon above his head) to get the starting quest ‘ The Psijics’ Calling ‘ to join the Psijic Order. The first step of this quest is to go to the Wasten Coraldale Delve in Summerset and retrieve the ‘ The Augur of the.

Kirkbride himself said that Vivec’s look was inspired by Ardhanarishvara, which is a form of Hindu god Shiva in his dualistic, hermaphroditic nature. Right side of Ardhanarishvara is male Shiva and left one represents Parvati, the feminine aspect. Masculine right side stands for traditional values and if we look at Vivec, we see that he is half golden and half blue, where his right, golden side represents Chimer, the original, traditional Dunmer. Export wifi passwords android without root. Ardhanarishvara – androgynous form of the Hindu god Shiva and his consort ParvatiEven before reading about Kirkbride’s inspirations, I always felt strong eastern influences in Vivec’s character. Not just that his look strongly resembles some ascetic yogi, but his teachings and sermons remind me of some ancient Hindu/Buddhist sacred scripts lost in the isolated temples of the East, cryptic words of wisdom awaiting for a worthy, wandering pilgrim seeking knowledge of the true nature of the Universe. And speaking of eastern influences, I also have to say that Vivec associates me, in a way, of bodhissatva. That is, a person who attained subtle, awakened state of being, but remains in this world in order to help others.

Now, I’m not a follower of any specific religion or dogma so please don’t think I am preaching or promoting any kind or religious or philosophical doctrine. I’m simply analyzing Vivec’s complex character and through comparison and associations of his philosophy and metaphysics with different ideas and forms of ”our own world” I hope to give him a status of a valid teaching which can be of practical use for anyone. Indeed, Vivec says godhood is there for anyone.

CHIM is always here (everywhere and nowhere), we are just too blinded by the mundane, illusional every day reality which binds us deep into the cyclic existence of life and death, birth and rebirth. It’s only on us to awake and see it.

And, although point of this study is pure entertainment, giving it some sort of crazy wisdom and seriousness is, in my opinion, not a bad thing. People nowadays make existential philosophy out of everything – movies like Matrix or Fight Cub, Spaghetti monsters, UFO’s. Then why not out of video games as well? And what video game could provide more and better material for that? Reflecting and exercising rich and enigmatic world of Elder Scrolls Universe can really be useful. We all create our pocket worlds, our subjective universes, we live through dream images and metaphors. But that is a theme for some other article which I plan on writing soon.

Now let’s go back to our floating friend Vivec.It’s not really known when exactly Vivec attained CHIM. It definitely didn’t happened when he gained powers of Lorkhan’s heart, since that would mean Almalexia and Sotha Sil would achieve it as well, and we all know they never did. I believe that exact moment of awakening of Vivec – attainment of CHIM is on purpose mystified and pushed into the sphere of mythos, therefore out of linear flow of time and space as we usually know it, for a reason of making it universal, absolute, timeless, therefore more real, more true in a weird sense. This is the reason for romanticisation of Vivec’s life that we read in his sermons. They are not purely made to tell lies, they are a ”new” reality of a living god who resides outside of space/time continuum. Platonic dialogues, for example, are also sometimes confusing as they contain conflicting situations making it hard or impossible to determine their exact date.

They become timeless words of wisdom through the mythologization, becoming new myths and myths are magic. They move us more stronger than any other force. It’s a magic of words. And who else could use magic of words better than Poet god Vivec himself? Goddess AlmalexiaAedra and Daedra are not just parts of this Dream, like men or mer are, they are some kind of guardians who keep the Wheel spinning and balance the Universe. Allow me to give you an example. I often imagine it like an online forum.

It’s not the most fortunate example, I know, but bear with me. Imagine if all inhabitants or npc’s, if you want, are simply registered users on a forum. Once you are born you are registered. And forum users live through their personas, masks – they mostly have fake names and use different pictures as their avatars. It’s not realy them, but only their masks, projections and opinions.

But they live their entire lives on this forum and know nothing about true reality. Gods and demons, on the other hand, are moderators or maybe even administrators of the forum. They control content, threads, posts and make sure spam and trolls get punished.

Difference between regular user and administrator is that first one can log out and leave forum anytime he wants. Through CHIM. Administrator is bound to control and look over the forum as long as it’s there. He is unable to leave. Maybe he knows about CHIM and other reality but he can’t really leave and in order to keep the forum working, he needs to keep users logged in. So he confronts them soon as they rebel. And when users log out, they don’t cease to exist, they only leave virtual reality and finally start living real life.

But, virtual reality is not fake in itself. It is definitely real in it’s own terms.

It becomes fake or lower reality only when we ascend into the higher level and can view lower reality from this new angle. It’s a multidimensional game. There is nothing wrong with staying on the forum, We can learn a lot in it, grow, make mistakes and then learn some more. Calculated reality could appear real to its inhabitants, as long as they remain within it, because people in the virtual reality only know their world from the information they receive. Information is reality.

But sooner or later, we will be ready to grow out of it, to log out and meet out true selves. This is when gods and demons come in the game. They are a forces of cosmos that try to keep you in. Not just gods, but also institutions, society, culture, your friends, you name it. They are predefined forces of resistance, of objective universe that flows in certain way and keeps you in, in a sleep like state.

A dream within a dream. Dream creates sensation of time and space, makes everything cyclical, just like a Clockwork City. Endless repetition of cycles withing cycles and so on.

So we flow in circles minute by minute, day and night, we follow flow of seasons, and make little seasons within days and even seasons within life. We need to have this flux or we could go crazy and feel lost.

Flow makes us like a leaf swaying on the wind. We have no control, but only blindly follow external forces and have false feeling of some kind of security.

Passive existence.And then Vivec comes into the game. He is a rebel spirit who confronts the Dream reality. He is a taboo breaker and his antinomianism angers Azura who fights back, trying desperately to maintain order within the Universe.

Daedric prince uses it’s most powerful weapon – Nerevarine, who is a personified sword of Azura, another tragic hero in already tragical world of Morrowind. Azura is finally defeated during the trials of Vivec, because gods are helpless when confronted to CHIM, true knowledge and power of the nature of reality, and Nerevarine leaves Tamriel, cursed in his immortality to helplessly witness the doom and destruction of his native land and his people. Doom caused by his own actions. Nerevarine reminds of a tragic greek hero. Odysseus was wiser when he rejected immortality and false godhood when on the island of Circe, because he knew gods are jealous on our mortality and envy our ability to enjoy each moment to the fullest. But even so, in the end, they both ended as a tragic wanderers.Vivec is the archetype of a rebel, wisdom seeker and mad saint who is beyond conventional good and evil. Love inside him is evenly balanced with Death.

He can be set in any period of time or any place and he will still keep this role. He is controversial because he escapes the life of repetition. Love shines from his lucid dream images unto everyone who steps on his Walking Way.In the end, I wanted to say few words about Michael Kirkbride. In my opinion, he saved ES lore by destroying the canon and making it’s subjective. What he did is a separation of a universe from a official direction of ”multiplayerisation” which can only lower the standard of a game in order to make it good for anyone. Quantity over quality.

But in Kirkbride’s version, we all have our own ES canon, our own version. Ever since I heard of ES going online, I knew the series is doomed.

Sure, it will make tons of money but dealing with the hordes of screaming fans roaming through Tamriel is not how I imagine my perfect Elder Scrolls experience. Maybe it sounds selfish, but I want ES universe just for myself. There are many other games out there filled with thousands of trolls and spammers and teenagers high on hormones. ES is not for that.