No allegory or mystery, no Tower or Endeavour. She just comes right out and says it...
"Yet I know that they must walk this path. A mortal cannot become what they are meant to be without first understanding what they are."
It seems reasonable that Dremora would know things about mortals that mortals do not know about themselves. It was Boethia and Mephala who taught the Chimer about Lorkhan's test.
Or am I reading too much into it?
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