36 of Vivec I

He was born in the ash among the Velothi, anon Chimer, before the war with the northern men. Ayem came first to the village of the netchimen, and her shadow was that of Boethiah, who was the Prince of Plots, and things unknown and known would fold

themselves around her until they were like stars or the messages of stars. Ayem took a netchiman's wife and said:§0 §0 §0'I am the Face-Snaked Queen of the Three in One. In you is an image and a seven-syllable spell, AYEM AE SEHTI AE VEHK, which you will

repeat to it until mystery comes.'§0 §0 §0Then Ayem threw the netchiman's wife into the ocean water where dreughs took her into castles of glass and coral. They gifted the netchiman's wife with gills and milk fingers, changing her sex so that she might give

birth to the image as an egg. There she stayed for seven or eight months.§0 §0 §0Then Seht came to the netchiman's wife and said:§0 §0 §0'I am the Clockwork King of the Three in One. In you is an egg of my brother-sister, who possesses

invisible knowledge of words and swords, which you shall nurture until the Hortator comes.' §0 §0 §0And Seht then extended his hands and multitudes of homunculi came forth, each like a glimmering rope through the water, and they raised the netchiman's wife

back to the surface world and set her down on the shoals of Azura's coast. There she lay for seven or eight more months, caring for the edgg-knowledge by whispering to it the Codes of Mephala and the prophecies of Veloth and even the forbidden teachings

of Trinimac.§0 §0 §0Seven Daedra came to her one night and each one gave to the egg new motions that could be achieved by certain movements of the bones. These are called the Barons of Move Like This. Then an eighth Daedroth came, and he was a Demiprince called

Fa-Nuit-Hen, or the Multiplier of Motions Known. And Fa-Nuit-Hen said:§0 §0 §0'Whom do you wait for?'§0 §0 §0To which the netchiman's wife said the Hortator.

'Go to the land of the Indoril in three months' time, for that is when war comes. I return now to haunt the warriors who fell and still wonder why. But first I show you this.'§0 §0 §0Then the Barons and the Demiprince joined together into a pillar of fighting

styles terrible to behold and they danced before the egg and it's learning image. §0 §0 §0'Look, little Vehk, and find the face behind the splendor of my bladed carriage, for in it is delievered the unmixed conflict path, perfect in every way.

What is its number?'§0 §0 §0It is said the number is the number of birds that can nest in an ancient tibrol tree, less three grams of honest work, but Vivec in his later years found a better one and so gave this secret to his people.

'For I have crushed a world with my left hand,' he will say, 'but in my right hand is how it could have won against me. Love is under my will only.'§0 §0 §0The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.