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The Thirty-Six Lessons of Vivec from TES III: Morrowind, 140 characters at a time.

The worlding of the words is AMARANTH.


“Love alone and you shall know only the mistakes of salt."


"For I have removed my left hand and my right, he will say," she said, "for that is how I shall win against them.”


She took her people and made them safe, and sat with Azura drawing her own husband's likeness in the dirt.


… thin ruptures of dissent, food for scarabs and the Worm.


And in her Biting she tunneled up and then downward, while her brother and sister smeared across heaven,


This was a new and lunar promise.


The light bent, and Vivec awoke and grew fangs, unwilling to make of herself a folding thing.


She gave him her skin to wear into the underworld.


His mother survived him and laid his body on the altar of Padhome.


He became sick after Red Mountain, with the nix-blood and fever, and was infirm a hundred years.


At eleven, he sung to an ashkhan.


He marched with his father in the ash, growing strong in the hooks and sail, able to run a junk through silt.


Of it, Vivec remembered the laughing of the netchimen of his village when the hunts were good.


The light bent, and somewhere a history was finally undone.


The signal fires wondered if they mistook this for surrender, for Vivec had told the void that he could learn to undo it all.


He roared up and fed his fingers to mammoth ghosts.


Wheeling, he spread into an insect salve, worn on the neck of hist-bulbs when at challenge.


The light bent, and Vivec donned a cuirass made of red plates of jewel, and a mask that marked him born in the lands of Man.


He undid his eastern light, saying to the ALMSIVI that through war, they had become brides in glass, which no power could observe.


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