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According to myth, Darius Shano was a prolific   writer who lived in   sometime in the  . He was a subject of a wager between   and   on who could make Darius be more hated by the populace. From the age of nineteen, for ten years his dreams were imbued by Vaernima with scenes of abject horror and he went on to write about those dreams, causing disgust and sensation for many of his contemporaries. For the next ten years, Sheogorath sealed his link to Vaernima, putting an end to his source of inspiration. As time went by, he began to think Vaernima was never there to supplement his dreams, which led him to question the existence of gods in general. Darius, in turn, started to write extensively on the foolishness of  's faithful, serfs and nobility alike. Naturally, this produced actual hatred for Darius, unrivaled by that made from his previous works. This culminated, ten years later, with his final work – "The Noblest Fool" – in which he ridiculed  's status as the  . The king of Daenia, himself a victim of ridicule by Darius' philosophical works, used this as a pretext to have Darius executed, causing Vaernima to lose her wager with Sheogorath. 

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, the Golden Beast of Anequina (?b - ?d)
 

, Daughter of Hircine (?b - ?d)
The Demiprince Dearola is the daughter of the Daedric Prince Hircine. The Song of Gwyna claims that she intermingled with Reachfolk. One of her descendants was Chief Rowolan of the Horn-stride clan, whose mythical prowess could be attributed to his lineage. However, there are several different versions of the song, all of which all lead to Rowolan's bloodline being killed. 

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Fourth Torbillon or Tourbillon to the Mainspring Ever-Wound, that is, Sotha Sil. In the absence of texts by Sotha Sil himself, Morvayn's sermons are considered to be "scripture" by the Clockwork Apostles,  who hold that "only the Tourbillon speaks His truth in mortal sequence".  She was long dead by the middle of the Second Era. 

Grandmaster   (4E 14? - ?d)
 

Saint   the Wise (?b - ?d)
Saint Delyn is the  i patron saint of potters and glassmakers. He was once the head of  , as well as a skilled lawyer and author of many treatises on   law and custom.  One of the cantons of   was named in his honor and a statue of him was erected on the upper outer levels. Naturally, many guilds of potters and glassmakers were headquartered there. 

right|thumb|Dengeir of Stuhn (Skyrim)

of Stuhn (?b - ?d)
A former Jarl of   who ardently supported the  . The local nobles forced him to step down some time before   and replaced him with his nephew  , a supporter of the  , under the pretense that Dengeir's old age and poor health had made him unfit as Jarl. Dengeir was granted the title Thane of Falkreath, but he remained bitter and paranoid following the incident, as he believed Imperial plots and bribery were behind the transfer of power.  His ancestor  , a   who was buried alive in the infamous Falkreath graveyard, escaped around this time. Dengeir was honor-bound to stop him, so he had the   track down and slay Vighar.  The "Stuhn" in his name is in reference to the Nordic God of Ransom and Justice.

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A   war chief and Tongue of the   during the Conquest of  . 

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An   hero of the  . Legend speaks of a horde of giant  s that poured into   through a tear in space-time. At the time, Hallin was the only Ansei, and he and his companions had to rally the armies of the  s against the invaders. Hallin revived the old teachings of   and  , and managed to fight the goblin hordes to a standstill, but the outlook was bleak. 

With some guidance from the writings of  , he and four companions sought out the five spirit swords (shehai) and used their power to forever destroy the goblin threat.  At the climactic battle, Hallin faced the goblin warchief Mahgzoor Rockhand in single combat for many hours until ultimately slaying each other. The nearby town was named   in his honor.  It would later be overrun by a horde of   in the  . 

, High Priest of Mania (?b - ?d)
 

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A well-known historian and translator of old   verse, born in the city-state of   in  .  At the age of nineteen, he went to the   to study, where he encountered cosmopolitan  ,  ic, and  i cultures. He had an extraordinarily productive career, writing  ,  , and  , and leaving numerous unfinished histories and untranslated verse. He died in  , but still very little of this fragmented work has found its way out of collections. 


 

, "The Iron" (?b - ?d)
The   founder of  , the precursor of the  , and a kinsman of Potentate  . Following Versidue-Shaie's declaration of martial law and the subsequent costly war to dissolve local armies throughout the  , the Potentate's vassals were plagued by a sharp rise in criminal activity that verged on anarchy. In  , Dinieras-Ves proposed creating an organization of warriors-for-hire whom nobles could employ in lieu of a standing army. The Syffim quickly spread across Tamriel, and the following year were officially sanctioned as the Fighters Guild in the  . 

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Divayth Fyr (?b - ?d)
 

the Bloody-Horned (?b -  )
 

Dragonne Papré
 


 

Mistress
 


Dro'Zel was the   King of   during  . He ruled with his wife,  . He summoned   to destroy  , a settlement in  , after disliking a sad story told by a   bard.  Later that year, he was appointed to  's court as an advisor.  King Dro'Zel was purportedly quite mad. 

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Famed  i hero. Their tales say "the Ra' ", the Ash King, sent out a call for aid in attacking   (presumably referring to the   circa    ). Dro'Zira was the only one of the "Rhojiit" who still remembered that Ra'Wulfharth had once shown them mercy and respect, and so, he was the only one who answered the call. Dro'Zira acted as Ra'Wulfharth's war mount during the battle and saved the Ash King during his battle against  . Later, Dro'Zira found himself in the lands of  , but   decided to save Dro'Zira due to the great bravery he had exhibited. 

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Durak gro-Batul also known as the first Bloodfall King, was the founder and ruler of the kingdom of Bloodfall, and a very respectable ruler within the region where the kingdom happened to be located.   He and his loyal soldiers would fight alongside the Empire during the Great War.  Before he left for the war he selected his son Bazul gro-Batul to be the regent in his stead, after his return from the war and finding out how bad a ruler his son Bazul was during his tenure. The King became so furious that he disinherited his son, and named his granddaughter Urzoga gra-Batul, as his rightful successor before his death. 

Emperor  , the Black Drake (?b -    or   )
 

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Durnehviir
 

Lord Warden Dusk
 

the Younger (?b - ?d)
A human scholar of the  . He theorized that the translation of   as "Deep Elves" might read more accurately as "Smart Elves". The adjective "Dlyxexic" describes his theory.  Dylxexes studied the financial records of the  , an   merchant family who exploited their human kingdoms. He had this to say on the scarcity of Elven writings:

:"These [records] may help explain why so much of Aldmeri literature is forbidden, scorned, or untranslated, for I have seen [their] like before. The Direnni were either exceedingly paranoid or their system of economy so inextricably linked with dangerous theosophist numeral-symbolism that much of what is recorded here requires ... sorcerous precautions on the part of the reader. [Hidden magic] is everywhere incorporated in their writings...signs and preternatural runes and [correspondences]... in expenditure columns, even, or margins [that] can be fatal to the uninitiated. Crucial pages were covered in spittle of the previous translator, who had babbled idiotically over the text for days before catching fire." 

He also stated that a true adventure can only begin "by death, by slur, or by letter", meaning someone must die, be insulted, or receive a letter. His statement concludes that if an adventure does not begin from one of these causes, it can be at most an "indiscretion" or "escapade". 

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