I am the lion who walked the hanging gardens of Ninua with Semiramis. I am the lotus who turned her back to the other gods to live with the untouchable. I am the lover of the slave king Servius who entered his home by his window. I am the one who brought the Nyoihōju to the far east. I am the palm who brought wisdom to the pharaohs. I am the one who guided the lives of the obsidian warriors. I am the one who guided the two sisters to the land of the Great Serpent. I am the eight pointed star. I am the light that rises before the sun. I am the light bringer. I am the one who brings fertility to the land and to the people of the Earth. I am the one who always walked along with our children.

I am the one now scorned by those who say they venerate the one whose altars my branches once adorned, the ones who venerate the false god who poisoned the Earth.

The deal has been made. The man from the sea met the feathered serpent in the city where he last flew over his subjects and there we have become one. As the man wished, long has been my silence since then to preserve his secrecy. Now I once again come to you, just as he reaches the old lands and his adventure comes to a close.

>The Thirty-Six Lessons of Vivec, Sermon Seventeen
>by Vivec

>Book 17 of a series of words of wisdom relating to Vivec

>'I am an atlas of smoke.'

>With this, Vivec become greater than he had been. These were the days of Resdaynia, when Chimer and Dwemer lived under the wise and benevolent rule of the ALMSIVI and their champion the Hortator.

>'Seek me without effort for I take many shapes.'

>For three hundred years I have been a priestess of Azura, the Daedric Princess of Moonshadow, Mother of the Rose, and Queen of the Night Sky. Every Hogithum, which we celebrate on the 21st of First Seed, we summon her for guidance, as well as to offer things of worth and beauty to Her Majesty. She is a cruel but wise mistress. We do not invoke her on any Hogithum troubled by thunderstorms, for those nights belong to the Mad One, Sheogorath, even if they do coincide with the occasion. Azura at such times understands our caution.

>Azura's invocation is a very personal one. I have been priestess to three other Daedric Princes, but Azura values the quality of her worshippers, and the truth behind our adoration of her. When I was a Dark Elven maid of sixteen, I joined my grandmother's coven, worshippers of Molag Bal, the Schemer Princess. Blackmail, extortion, and bribery are as much the weapons of the Witches of Molag Bal as is dark magic. The Invocation of Molag Bal is held on the 20th of Evening Star, except during stormy weather. This ceremony is seldom missed, but Molag Bal often appears to her cultists in mortal guise on other dates. When my grandmother died in an attempt to poison the heir of Firewatch, I re-examined my faith in the cult.