Oh, and if you want lore info, try not to stray from
this site.
EDIT: ooh, that reminds me of one of my favorite lore bits. In
Where were you when the Dragon Broken?, Mannimarco says this:
The Maruhkati Selectives showed us all the glories of the Dawn so that we might learn, simply: as above, so below.
Now, what does that mean? I think it is referring to this:
Void to Aurbis: naught to pattern.
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Aurbis to Aetherius: possibility to maintenance by time.
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Aetherius to Oblivion: creation to destruction.
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Oblivion to Mundus: debris of all possibility to anchor of all things.
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The echo of the Void is Oblivion. The echo of Oblivion is now mortal death. Death results in reappropriation of spirit towards its aligned AE—either to the god-planet Aedra or the Principalities of Oblivion. Vehk’s name for this transaction, mentioned above, is “lunar currency”.
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Mundus to Mortal Death: centerpoint to the soon recycled.
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Here we come to the Scripture’s greatest resignation: to imagine the subcreation AFTER mortal death, which by pattern would mean an echo of Mundus, and through this imagining, the failures of so many.
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Mortal Death to Z (Z being the state-gradient echo of Mundus Centerex): antinymic to [untranslatable].
As above, so below: the subgradient below is an echo of the subgradient above. Death is the echo of Oblivion is the echo of Void, just as Z is the echo of Mundus is the echo of Aetherius.
Z is the Dreamsleeve, often used by wizards as a sort of thought internet, and is where Vivec built his Provisional House. The Dreamsleeve is where mortal souls come from; it may be described as a sort of amalgam of all free will and mortal thought.
More importantly, Z is where one may undergo sensory deprivation and achieve Amaranth, which the Loveletter describes much better than I can.
I could go on so much about this and how this one book in Morrowind (and Dragonborn) foreshadowed other stuff so much with just 4 words and how amazing that is, but I think this post is big enough.