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§14 – HERMAEUS MORA; whose sphere is scrying of the tides of Fate, of the past and
future as read in the stars and heavens, and in whose dominion are the treasures of
knowledge and memory. 19
He describes himself as
"The riddle unsolvable. The door unopenable. The book unreadable. The question
unanswerable." 20
Unlike most Princes, Hermaeus Mora does not take on a humanoid form at all, manifesting
instead as grotesque assemblages of eyes, tentacles, and claws, or a featureless purple
vortex known as the Wretched Abyss.
Apocrypha is Hermaeus Mora's plane of Oblivion, an endless library where all forbidden
knowledge can be found. The books all have black covers with no titles, and the library is
haunted by ghosts forever searching for knowledge. 21
§15 – HIRCINE, whose sphere is the Hunt, the Sport of Daedra, the Great Game, the Chase,
known as the Huntsman and the Father of Man-beasts. 22
Hircine created the various therianthropic diseases which transform mortals into beasts,
and is therefore the guardian of were-creatures. 23 They reflect his sphere admirably,
hunting at night and being hunted by day. Hircine is a sportsman who enjoys giving his prey
a chance for victory, however small. He is typically portrayed with a great spear and either
the head or skull of a deer. 24
The Hunting Grounds is a realm of Oblivion created and ruled over by Hircine. It has been
described as a realm of dense woodland and vast grasslands populated by were bears, wild
cattle and unicorns. 25
19
The Book of the Daedra
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Hermaeus_Mora
21
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Apocrypha
22
The Book of the Daedra
23
Despite the lack of proof for the existence of were-creatures in the world, one would often associate him
with the concept of “otherkin”. This concept, in which one sees themselves as either partially or entirely
(either physically or spiritually) non-human. This concept is also related to the concept of Species Dysphoria.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_dysphoria; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin.
24
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Hircine
25
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Hunting_Grounds
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