Shade-Seeker nods obligingly and offers what he knows: "in the Empire, we recognize the Nine, the eight Aedra--Akatosh, Arkay, Dibella, Julianos, Kynareth, Mara, Stendarr, and Zenithar--who created the world, and the once-mortal Talos, who ascended to join them."

"There are also Daedra, the spirits who did not participate in the world's creation. The greatest of them, their princes, rival the gods in power, and oversee agendas of their own. Beyond those, there are also lesser beings, half-gods and figures of myth. Of this last group, I can personally attest to both their resilience and their ultimate mortality. Like the Aedra and Daedra, if their body in the world is slain, their soul retreats to Oblivion but may return again in time. If one confronts that soul in Oblivion, however, and triumphs over it... that death is final, by the grace of the Nine."