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Possibility of the Vestige mantling Ithelia
Arcturus
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With Ithelia exiled beyond the bounds of the Aurbis, her name and nature have been struck from the memory of existence—erased from time, history, and myth. Only two beings still recall her: Hermaeus Mora, who willed the memory to persist, and the Vestige, whom he bound to this knowledge as both witness and potential inheritor. In preserving this forbidden remembrance, Mora may have done more than defy fate—he may have set the stage for a new god to rise.
Ithelia’s absence has left a wound in the fabric of Oblivion. Her realm lies empty. Her sphere—paths untaken, unrealized potential, lost futures—now drifts unanchored. And yet, her divine essence lingers. It is not gone, merely unclaimed. In the mythopoeic reality of the Elder Scrolls, where memory sustains truth and belief shapes being, this creates a profound opening.
There are six known Walking Ways—methods by which mortals have transcended into the divine, and it is the Fourth Way, the Steps of the Dead, that now stands open before the Vestige. When a divine is forgotten, their absence creates not merely silence, but shape—a space that can be filled. And if one walks in that space, knowingly or not, they begin to become what was lost. In such moments, the dead god’s power may recognize a new will, a new vessel. The void does not remain empty forever. It adapts.
The Vestige is uniquely suited for this path: soulless, deathless, already walking a liminal road between mortality and myth. They remember. They act. And if they continue to reflect the nature of the Prince of Paths—reshaping outcomes, choosing possibility over fate, opening doors no one else can see—they may do more than honor Ithelia’s memory.
They may become her echo. Or her successor.
Ithelia’s absence has left a wound in the fabric of Oblivion. Her realm lies empty. Her sphere—paths untaken, unrealized potential, lost futures—now drifts unanchored. And yet, her divine essence lingers. It is not gone, merely unclaimed. In the mythopoeic reality of the Elder Scrolls, where memory sustains truth and belief shapes being, this creates a profound opening.
There are six known Walking Ways—methods by which mortals have transcended into the divine, and it is the Fourth Way, the Steps of the Dead, that now stands open before the Vestige. When a divine is forgotten, their absence creates not merely silence, but shape—a space that can be filled. And if one walks in that space, knowingly or not, they begin to become what was lost. In such moments, the dead god’s power may recognize a new will, a new vessel. The void does not remain empty forever. It adapts.
The Vestige is uniquely suited for this path: soulless, deathless, already walking a liminal road between mortality and myth. They remember. They act. And if they continue to reflect the nature of the Prince of Paths—reshaping outcomes, choosing possibility over fate, opening doors no one else can see—they may do more than honor Ithelia’s memory.
They may become her echo. Or her successor.
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✭✭✭✭✭Seeing the Hero of Kvatch possibly became Sheogorath, I can see the Vestige becoming elevated somehow at the end of ESO1
