Morrowind:Spirit of Nirn, God of Mortals

Book Information Spirit of Nirn, God of Mortals
ID	bk_spiritofnirn
See Also	Lore version
	40		3.0
Writer	Michael Kirkbride
Locations
Found in the following locations: Khuul, Thongar's Tradehouse Molag Mar, Redoran Stronghold Suran, Ralds Oril: Trader Tower of Tel Fyr, Hall of Fyr Vivec, Foreign Quarter, Jobasha's Rare Books Others, random loot

Spirit of Nirn, God of Mortals

Opinions of the god Lorkhan and the origin of creation

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Lorkhan is the Spirit of Nirn, the god of all mortals. This does not mean all mortals necessarily like him or even know him. Most Elves hate him, thinking creation as that act which sundered them from the spirit realm. Most Humans revere him, or aspects of him, as the herald of existence. The creation of the Mortal Plane, the Mundus, Nirn, is a source of mental anguish to all living things; all souls know deep down they came originally from somewhere else, and that Nirn is a cruel and crucial step to what comes next. What is this next? Some wish to return to the original state, the spirit realm, and that Lorkhan is the Demon that hinders their way; to them Nirn is a prison, an illusion to escape. Others think that Lorkhan created the world as the testing ground for transcendence; to them the spirit realm was already a prison, that true escape is now finally possible.