W-GN#3: Talos Shrines
>##W-GN#3: [Talos Shrines](http://boot-and-blade.tumblr.com/image/12722711405)
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>Today, the Emperor, and indeed the Empire itself, recognizes that allowing the worship of Talos was a mistake. For by doing so, by allowing the worship of Talos as a Divine, the Empire actually did its people a great disservice: for this only succeeded in weakening the memory of the man Tiber Septim and his many extraordinary (though mortal) deeds; and pushing people away from the Eight Divines, the true gods, who do deserve our love and reverence.
>And so, the Empire admits it was wrong. The Talos Mistake will not be repeated. May we find centuries of peace and prosperity with our new Thalmor friends, and continue to share a spirituality that binds together all the cultures and races of Tamriel.
-*The Talos Mistake*^1
>Respected citizens of the White Hold-
>Recent reports from your area suggest the presence of illegal worship in the form of propitiation to the man Tiber Septim, anon Ysmir.
>An investigation is currently underway to substantiate these as yet unresolved indications- the particular nature of which, for reasons of security, may not presently be divulged- with the gladly-received assistance of your own state’s guard.
>It is imperative that any information pertaining to degenerate activities or the identities of their perpetrators, is brought to the attention of local law enforcement or directly to Thalmor Justiciar Anachaeriiloanevalorinil, A.Qu.L.A.Val.Inil, who will be quartered in Whiterun for the duration of the review.
>As should be known to all: the veneration of any mortal spirit unattested to ascend by confirmed astrological measures of dracochrysalis is illegal by your own gov’t’s laws and odiously offensive to the general piety of your communities.
>Information leading to the capture of degenerates and cessation of illicit activities, will be rewarded, proportionally to assistance rendered, by the Jarl’s Court.
>-Justiciar Saruanirernil, S.A.E.Nil
-Thalmor Missive, posted circa: 198^2
Such as these previous documents might only hint at how the Thalmoric abrogation of Talos and the honour of Divus Tiberius’ lifted spirit, stood at its very heights, for their persecutive campaign favoured largely the barbaric and covert approach to the trappings of law, justice, or honour. Even these evidently empty courtesies, as expressed by any such antebellum missives, bulletins, pamphlets, or the like, were soon relinquished for a terse and coercive language, as the re-opening of armed hostilities in 200-201 [Stormcloak Uprising], inspired and allowed the Thalmor to enter Skyrim with complete inquisitorial authoritie and the religious zeal to exactify their supremacy; vindicated under theo-legislative precepts of the White-Gold Concordat, the total purgation of the fellowship of the Divine was come underway and over the home of Nords like a pall.
Skyrim, the land Ysmir Tiberius knew as (at least ⅓) his nativity (say Acturians), was not ripe nor willing for the occasion of devotional adjustment. The multiplied evincements of Talos’ pre-eminence were arrayed thro’out the holdings of the Fatherland in a vast web of intimate cultural anchorage, that to each merest household was allotted a sigil, a totem for the Dragonborn God, that those least villages organized about communal dedications enshrined to unity within Him, for all Nords were conglomerated thusly in the fellowship of Talos. Such was their faith, that only the pan-Mundic lobotomy committed with various atrocities by the Thalmor captors of the nerve center White-Gold, the neutralization of the agency of Talos, would dull them to surrender the appurtenances of it. For it is known that Talos was dis-unioned, to what extent remains unanswered, from his sovereignty of the Wheel thereby, and plunged the cultures of men (least-wise those most strongly devoted to the deity) into a temporal dissonance, defeatism, compliance approaching negalism, giving woeful birth to such perfidies as *The Talos Mistake* and other odious propaganda. What prevented the race’s total self-annihilation progressing in this vein- as was probably the hope of the Alinori- is dubiously conjectured. The involvement of the Dovahkiin’s imminent soul, the reverberant wing-beats thereof through vicinal years potentially restoring mankind’s spirit, is a matter of suspect, if popularly a scholarly stand-point. Whatever power intervened to the re-invigoration of the Nordic peoples did so in time to salvage more lasting proofs of their loyalty to the Dragonborn God, ifn’t all.
The ensuing courtroom battles remain a reminder of the tenacity possessed by [Nordic lawyers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8YBuwmtzYE) in matters concerning their heroes, their way of life, or- incidentally- their particular alcoholic proclivities, though these three may frequently intersect. As well, it had been an enduring travail to Alinori attorneys to subvert or somehow circumvent the technical bulwark of paper-work preserving Talos’ claimed sites, often to no avail. Employing protections in place for “historical landmarks” or endeavouring to prove that such idols were in respect of the mortal Tiber Septim rather than exaltation of his godhead, a few Nords were exceeding clever going about it. Most amusingly was the instance of the temple in Markarth, prevailing directly under the supervision of Justiciar Ondolemarimos, which the Jarl's men preserved by beginning the process of converting the space into a secular publick building, of their own volition. Of course, the continual delays and renegotiations of workers’ contracts, resulting always in the halt of re-construction, would infuriate Thalmor investigators at the imperial use of bureaucracy, for although none could go to worship there, neither could the Thalmor touch it malignantly.
As any expeditious traveler will note, undoubtedly, in traversing Skyrim’s divers Holds, much is to be say’d for the prevalence of the Dragonborn God in one particular visage: that crafted after the likeness of Pharmenion’s [Statue of Ysmir Over the Serpent (3E 14)](http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/elderscrolls/images/2/25/Talos_Shrine.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111028153932), imbued by the master with a mystical potency involving the secret doings and undoings of sidereal daemons of time and space, or so run tales. As with a countenance of unaccounted ages, Tiber Septim’s absolute gaze piles upon the snake-spirit of forebearance, His boot-as with the strength of all men- pressed to unravel its universal winding, and sword examples the true walking-path. Eyes encountering one another, serpent and [Sep](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Hunger_of_Sep)[tim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3ygE6H7PU), the true Tal[OS] blooms beyond summation at the gulf between, dragon wings, quenched of void milk, eviternal [Amen]. At least 22 copies were created by way of geo-mnemancy- rather, the Arcturians shall say, were they birthed from a quickening of Numidium [West-Warp], whereby the single statue scintillated like time-lines, each scion walking distances of space and years, to arrive, twenty-two in the past, twenty-two in the future- although -whatever the veracity of such- the aberrant magick within them was sadly not enough to keep a few from the lasting fires of Thalmor purification, which burn through aeons and carry smoke to zero-sums.
At the annual Witch’s Sabbath of Frostfall 13, 222 (interpolating betwixt ’08 and ’09 by post-draco buffering) among the matters discussed by the assembled magicians, one subject of intense interest was the matter spoken of by certain farmers who, whilst surveying odd crop-patterns on their lands, averred to have observed such images of Talos to walk at night in search of dragons or singing to waving welkin gusts like [boyish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4mHTjQQrqk) [lovers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV2jilTeuhM). Since no sorceror of geomancy claimed responsibility for this prodigy, it was proclaimed, ecstatically, a new divine mystery, or else the works of mushroom-medicated students of experimental harmonics unwilling to reveal their engenderment. Much was hypothesized, though little might have been marked at all with certitude, for the disinbalate phantoms of those icons claimed in the Thalmor aesthetic pogrom. Of all the prophecies regarding the second coming of the God of Man (and many are there), one speaks of these ghostly or golem-like figures, shambling to Throat of the World to confer with one another anent the life of man, and at the last to breath finally in sonorous, onyx tones, a harmony for the *ave* of the passing world. This tale will be recognizable to aficiandos of recent Cyrodilic stage-work, having been used to poetically philosophical effect by Gordon T. Veltorius for his *Conference of the Weasels*.
1. Imperial Black-List: Boethius Administration Mandate
2. Lainalten Cultural Archive