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Lore:Bendu Olo

Bendu Olo was the  n King of   who led the   against the   of   shortly after the   of  .     is said to have aided him in this victory,   which is marked as the time when Colovia began to overshadow eastern  , leading to the  .  When he returned to the city, he began converting what was then known as Anvil Fortress into Anvil Castle.  His notes became a rare source of information on the Sload, and were disseminated by scholars for many years. 
 
Taking the title Earl of Outer Cheydinhal following the   in the  s, General Turpis "Volte-Face" Tharn married a niece of Admiral Bendu Olo and set about fathering numerous descendants,  thereby connecting the Tharn family to Olo's lineage.  , possibly Bendu's descendant, was instrumental in ending the  's infestation of   in  . 
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Bendu Olo's name is used quite frequently by Bethesda as a placeholder for the player's name in pre-release material:
In Morrowind, early builds have the player's name listed as "Bendu".
In Oblivion, Bendu Olo's name appears as the default name for the player character through the Oblivion Construction Set.
For Skyrim, the example character in the game manual and the official tutorial for creating a quest in the Creation Kit is Bendu Olo.
In the preview video for Blades shown at Bethesda's E3 conference in 2018 and Character Creation, the name of the player character is Bendu Olo.
 

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Lore:Borgas

of   was a  ic High King and the last in the line of the Ysgramor dynasty   and Harald's final descendant.  He is also believed to have been the last monarch to wear the legendary  .  During his reign, he outlawed the traditional Nordic pantheon of deities  in favor of doctrine based on the   in  . This act would become known as the "shadow of King Borgas" and lasted for over a hundred years until it was violently reversed by High King  . 

He was also one of Marukh's chief supporters, however as the prophet's teaching began to spread, hostility grew between the   of   and the  . Borgas traveled to Cyrodiil to urge a joint war against the Bosmer, but fell victim to Valenwood's infamous Wild Hunt in  .   He carried his horn, called the "Horn of Borgas", the moment he died.    wrote that he was killed for the "iniquities" of his Alessian faith.  His body was presumed destroyed during the Hunt,  but was secretly returned to Skyrim and buried with the Jagged Crown in the Nordic tomb of  .  

Following his death, a   was held to determine his successor as he had no children.  Supposedly,   of Winterhold was the obvious choice for succession, however the Moot's failure to appoint him High King ultimately ignited the War of Succession. Skyrim would spend the next fifty years in turmoil.  

In  , an officer of the Stormcloak rebellion, Galmar Stone-Fist, learned of Borgas' place of burial while searching for the fabled Jagged Crown. The Last Dragonborn recovered the crown from Korvanjund amidst a scramble for its recovery between Imperial and Stormcloak soldiers, who fought in the ruins. Deep within the ruin, old king Borgas was found slumped on a throne wearing the crown&mdash;his ancient corpse having taken the form of a powerful draugr. The crown was recovered from Borgas, but it is unknown whether the crown was given to the Stormcloak leader Ulfric Stormcloak or the Imperial claimant, Elisif the Fair. Whatever the truth, it was said that the crown would have been a potent symbol of legitimacy for either Jarl in their claim to the throne of Skyrim. 

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Lore:Camaron

(or Cameron), also known as the White Moon,  was a ruler of the Kingdom of   in the  .  He was the husband of Queen  , and father of Arthago,  ,  , and  . 

During Camaron's rule, a disagreement between Sentinel and the Kingdom of   over the Isle of   sparked a   in  . He died at the   the following year, killed in a duel with Daggerfall's young King   which ended the war.   

History
Early Life
Camaron was born in  .  It is not known when he ascended to the throne or married, but he and   are said to have been King and Queen of   upon the birth of their first child, Arthago, in  . It is said that the king and queen showed little affection toward the prince, embarrassed that the heir to the throne was "sickly". Princess  , born a year later, was the clear favorite.  The princes   and   were born in   and  .  When Arthago vanished in  , it was rumored the   had carried him off. In truth, the king was disgusted by his son, and the royal couple paid to have him kidnapped and killed. 

The War of Betony
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In  , the independent Isle of   agreed to vassal itself to King   of the nearby  . This drew the ire of King Camaron, who cited a two hundred year old agreement that stated Betony was a traditional holding of Sentinel. When diplomacy failed, Camaron's warlords naturally advocated for war. However,  , the wise woman of  , foresaw death and defeat if that were to happen, and warned against further hostilities. Camaron ignored her warnings, and declared war on Daggerfall.   

The war did not go well for Sentinel; the kingdom won a few skirmishes, but was defeated in the major battles. Daggerfall stood poised to win the war outright with one more victory, but Lysandus suddenly pressed for a peace treaty. The two sides met at  ; Camaron made some concessions, and the kingdoms agreed to jointly rule Betony. However, Lord  , the Daggerfall scribe who drew up the treaty, substituted a false, offensive document for the kings to sign. When Camaron realized the deception, he flew into a rage and Reich Gradkeep became a bloodbath. The king himself slew Lord Vanech, and the forces of Sentinel retreated to the   to regroup, while the armies of Daggerfall pursued them as far as the  . Between these sites lay the flowering meadowlands of  .   

One week later, the armies met at the  . As the battle commenced, a sudden, unnatural fog descended upon the combatants. When it lifted, King Lysandus lay dead, an arrow in his throat. Daggerfall's Prince   was quickly crowned king, and he challenged King Camaron to a duel (though some sources claim it was Lord  ). The King of Sentinel was slain, ending the war in Daggerfall's favor.   
 

Notes
King Camaron was portrayed by Project Leader and programmer Julian Lefay in the cinematic preview for TES II: Daggerfall shown at Winter CES 1995, from which the above image is taken. 

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Lore:Celarus

Celarus was leader of the   for at least 290 years as of  .   (  records him as the leader of the Order as far back as at least  ). Celarus was Loremaster of the Order under Ritemaster Iachesis and later Ritemaster Valsirenn by  .  He was the author of  .

'' '' mentions a sage by the name of Celarus, though it's unclear if they're the same person. 
 
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Lore:Divad Hunding

was the only son of  , born in     late in his life by an unknown woman. Although the son of a famous  , Divad rejected the Way of the Sword from early on, leaving his training at age 16 to take the life of a bard instead. He traveled widely for several years, gaining a great deal of fame and recognition for his singing. 

Although he officially forsook the sword, it was rumored that he continued to practice the Way known as Shehai Shen She Ru -- the Way of the Spirit Sword. When Emperor   began to persecute the  , Divad was first on his list due to his fame. The emperor sent 100 of his best guards to arrest him, and they arrived while Divad was eating with his elderly mother. They successfully arrested him and had him in chains when one of the guards cruelly struck his mother, killing her. That instant, the spirit of the Way awoke in Divad, and he turned his own chains into weapons, slaying four guards and escaping out of the window. He became a prominent figure in the resistance against Hira, rumored to appear everywhere the emperor's plans went awry. He approached his father as well, and ultimately convinced him to lead the war against the emperor, with Divad as an advisor and soldier. 

Divad and Frandar later took part in the great Ra Gada migration to mainland  . With his band of Sword-Singers, he forged and wielded five mighty Shehai to defeat the goblinkin occupying the land and make it safe for settlement.  For these accomplishments, Divad is considered one of the great heroes of Redguard legend, yet in the epic poem ''Divad's Chagrin'', it is said that he deeply regretted having to leave behind his music and turn to war.  Divad's tomb is located in the sacred  , alongside his father's, but his body was laid to rest in ancestral crypt of the   at some point.   By the late-Third Era, Divad's interment in a tomb in Antiphyllos was considered genuine. 

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Lore:Elysana

was the daughter of   and   of  . Carolyna died in  , and a few years later, Eadwyre remarried.   became Elysana's stepmother, and the princess gained elder step-siblings in   and  .  

In the years prior to the  , the princess became locked in a power struggle with her stepbrother for the throne. The law of succession favored Elysana, but Helseth was now the eldest, and he (and Barenziah) held much influence. While Elysana cultivated an air of innocent vapidity, in reality she had become as ruthless as the prince; among her allies was the influential noble  , to whom she was betrothed—and who held the key to an  . 

This period saw the arrival of an  , sent to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of   of  . The Agent was drawn into the siblings' machinations; Helseth hatched a scheme to blackmail  , head of the Elder Council, into changing the law of succession in his favor. Elysana retaliated by manipulating the same Agent into unwittingly helping her assassinate Lord Castellian. The princess later attempted to have the Agent assassinated as well, but this plan failed. 

Elysana's plans for the throne were dealt another blow when Lord Woodborne was exposed by the Emperor's Agent as Lysandus' murderer, and killed.  However, when King Eadwyre finally died some years after the Warp in the West, Elysana emerged victorious. After ascending to the throne, the new queen banished Helseth and Barenziah from the court of Wayrest. 

By the close of the  , Queen Elysana had borne two children by her new royal consort.  The queen also forged an alliance with Wayrest's old enemies, the  s of  , and was considered by many contemporaries to be the most feared ruler in western  .  

 

Notes
"Queen Elysana" is mentioned multiple times in the  . However, the letters are purported to have been written in  , during which time King Eadwyre and Queen Barenziah were still ruling the kingdom.

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For game-specific information, see the Daggerfall article.

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Lore:Gaiden Shinji

was a   hero of the   and the leader of the  , who was killed during the  .   He also founded the Arena in the  , and was its original Blademaster.  He is best known for his famous proverbs such as "the best techniques are passed on by the survivors" or "honor wears the face of your next opponent".  The combatants of the Arena refer to him in a manner most would reserve for gods, often saying things like "by Shinji", "Shinji be with us", and "for Shinji's sake". 

Gaiden Shinji played a crucial role during the Siege of  . In  , King Joile of   sent him a letter, which proposed a joint attack on the   capital city. Agreeing to provide aid, an alliance was formed between the Order of Diagna and the armies of Daggerfall and Sentinel. The armies amassed and began a campaign for the destruction of Orsinium.   During the campaign, the Breton armies of Daggerfall, the Redguard soldiers of Sentinel, and the Yokudan Order of Diagna invaded the Orc homeland. The Orcs gave much resistance and proved themselves to be fearsome and brutal warriors, just as they did in the past. However, King Joile already planned to betray the Redguards and invade Hammerfell after having destroyed Orsinium. He and his   general,   of the  , tricked the Orc hero   and his  , who initially did not take part in the war, to join King Golkarr of Orsinium. Afterwards, he manipulated Shinji into having a duel with Bloodtusk over Orsinium's fate. During the duel, Mercedene ordered Joile's archers to kill both combatants, effectively removing the most powerful warriors of both Orsinium and the Order of Diagna for Joile.  Even before Orsinium was finally destroyed in  , King Joile executed his plan of invading Hammerfell, but he was defeated and killed at the   by the   warrior  .   

Shinji always wanted to be buried wherever he would fall, so Bloodtusk's brother   and Shinji's friend   decided to build them both a tomb in western  . The tomb became known as  , and was rediscovered in   by a pair of scholars, Lozruth the Orc and Sharela the Redguard. With the help of the  , they managed to unseal the tomb, and experienced visions of the last moments of Shinji's life during the Siege of Orsinium.  
 
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Lore:Greklith

Prince   of   was the son of King   and Queen  , and brother of   and  .  Greklith became heir to the throne of Sentinel following the disappearance of their eldest sibling, Prince Arthago.    Greklith died of a plague near the end of the  .  
 

History
Prince Greklith was born in  , the third child of King   and Queen   of  .   His name was an ancient   word meaning "strong king", and appropriately he is said to have been a very strong, very healthy boy—unlike the Crown Prince, Arthago. However, his sickly sibling vanished under mysterious circumstances in  , making Greklith the heir to the throne. 

However, after King Camaron was killed in battle in  , Akorithi assumed the regency. Greklith was a regular fixture in the throne room of the Citadel of   during her reign.  Ironically, Greklith fell victim to a plague in the years following the  , never having taken the throne. 

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For game specific information, see the Daggerfall article.

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Lore:Hale

Hale can refer to two things:

Hale (settlement), a settlement in the Shivering Isles
Hale the Pious, former King of Skyrim
Lore:Hoag Merkiller

Hoag Merkiller was the short-lived High King/High Chieftain of Skyrim in the mid-late fifth century of the First Era. He was a seasoned warrior from a prestigious background as a fighter and a monarch, in fact, his predecessor was his father, Kjoric the White.  and he was one of the tongues.  In his time serving under the First Empire of the Nords, he used the pseudonym, Fenja, but he is remembered in Dunmeri history as HOAGA, the Mouth of Mud.  

History
The precise date of Merkiller's birth is currently unknown, although he was alive during the lifespan of the  , in the early First Era and known to have been present in the  , which ended in  .  In that time, he went under a pseudonym, Fenja, and destroyed seventeen   villages and two   strongholds. According to   mythology, HOAGA used an unheard technique to swallow the earth around him and use it on his fallen soldiers, to re-invigorate them, albeit at the expense of their speed. He was eventually driven out of the fight. 

Years later in  , Hoag Merkiller and his father, Kjoric the White were present at the coronation of Emperor   of the  , among many other legendary warriors at the time, including   and  . The circumstances regarding Hoag Merkiller's death and even his father is shrouded in inconsistency. While one source claims that Kjoric the White died in   defending his post from the First Empire and Gorieus,  others state that he died defending  .   Afterward, Hoag Merkiller took the helm of High King, and joined the fight against the First Empire with the  .  During his reign, he was well-acquainted with the   of  , often fighting alongside them and appointing the head of the clan as his thane, but they eventually turned towards evil. 

At some point, he was involved in a battle with the Direnni that took place between 1E 461 and   and lost in battle.  It is widely recorded that the High King died at the   in  ,  but some other sources say that he died defending Falkreath and even fell at the exact same spot his father died on.   In any case, his heir,    of   ascended to the throne of High King  roughly around  . 

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Lore:Jurgen Windcaller

Jurgen Windcaller, a Nord warrior who came to be called Jurgen the Calm, is said to have had the strongest thu'um of the First Era, possibly of all time.  As a militant thu'um wielder, or "Tongue", he utilized his voice as a weapon and a way to grow in strength, like many Tongues of the time.  This changed for Jurgen, however, when the Nordic armies suffered an ignominious defeat at Red Mountain. Jurgen would use the defeat as inspiration to discover the Way of the Voice and found the Greybeards, wielders of the voice who practiced fierce pacifism.   

Following the defeat at Red Mountain, Jurgen began to look inward for answers as to how the strength of their Voices could fail.  After seven years of introspection and contemplation of the history of the Voice, Jurgen finally realized that the Nords had grown arrogant with their use of the thu'um, much like the Dragons before them did. The Gods had not gifted them their thu'um for conquest and have been punished for misusing them, much like the dragons before them.  He came to the belief that Voice should be used solely for the glory and worship of the gods, not the glory of men; that it was a means of attaining enlightenment, not a means of attaining power.   

Jurgen returned to the Tongues in order to convince them of this way of thinking. They did not take to it easily, however, and Jurgen is said to have done battle with seventeen Tongues at once.  It is said that Jurgen swallowed the Shouts of these Tongues for three days until they lay exhausted. Afterwards, they acknowledged the superiority that the Way of the Voice has given him, and traveled with him to the highest slopes of the Throat of the World, where Jurgen set his new home, devoting it to the studies of the Way of the Voice as a philosophy of peace and inner balance. The monks who followed him came to be called the Greybeards, and devote themselves to meditation at secluded High Hrothgar.   Upon his death, Jurgen was buried at  , an ancient fane in the marshes of Hjaalmarch. 

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Notes
On his tomb in Ustengrav, the word "Windcaller" is spelled out in the Daedric alphabet. 
An excerpt in ''The Improved Emperor's Guide to Tamriel'' credits Jurgen Windcaller with the discovery of the Thu'um.

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For game-specific information, see the Skyrim article.

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Lore:Marukh

(sometimes spelled Maruhk; also called Marukh the Seer,  the Prophet-Most-Simian, and Monkey Prophet Maruhk ) was a   prophet who rose to prominence during the   and became especially esteemed among the inhabitants of  n  . Marukh's teachings sparked the massive cultural and spiritual movement known as the  , a theocracy that transformed the Empire and the continent. He also wrote the  , which provided the basis of law during the Order's rule of the  .   Marukh is credited with the credo "all are guilty until they have proven themselves innocent", which went on to become the basis for the Tamrielic legal system. 

Marukh's teachings both brought identity to  , codifying the pantheon most civilized Tamriellians worship to this day, and brought conflict due to the more severe strictures he espoused. His teachings began to question the validity of Elven rule after speaking to the "Enlightened One", Saint Alessia, in a vision. These sentiments led to an increasingly abstract and unknowable depiction of a Single God.  They heavily influenced the Alessian Order and their secret sect, the  . The priesthood of Marukh saw no difference between spiritual and political matters. This was the religion of the Alessian Empire, and it taught that to resist the Emperor was to resist the Gods. 

As Marukh's teachings began to spread, hostility grew between Camoran Dynasty and the Empire. One of Marukh's chief supporters, the  ic High King,  , traveled to Cyrodiil to urge a joint war against the  , but fell victim of Valenwood's infamous  . This ultimately led to the eventual dissolution of the Alessian Reform of Marukh in Valenwood. . 

Notes
The  s of the Iliac Bay celebrate Marukh's Day on the 9th of Second Seed. It is a solemn holiday, as befits the equally solemn prophet. 

"Marukh's Abyss" is the name of a little-known realm. 

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Lore:Morgiah

was the daughter of   and   of  , and the younger sister of Prince (and future King)  . 

Morgiah was named after Symmachus' mother, and was known to be well loved by her father. Sadly, the princess was born in troubled times; the kingdom was plagued with civil unrest as a result of the  . In  , at the age of eight, Morgiah accompanied her mother and brother on a journey to the Imperial City. Barenziah was there to plead with   for aid, and hoped the presence of the children would soften his heart. However the (false) emperor remained unmoved, and that evening word came that Symmachus was killed in a revolt. The surviving royals were forced into exile, That same evening, Barenziah met  , and within a few years the pair were wed. Morgiah again became a princess, now of the Kingdom of  .  

In the years prior to the  , Princess Morgiah had garnered a reputation as a "manipulative witch" among the people of the kingdom. She saw little future in Wayrest, as Helseth and Eadwyre's daughter   fought for succession. As a result, Morgiah sought to arrange a marriage with  , ruler of the Kingdom of   on  . To secure the king's hand, she endeavored to give him that which he desired most—to speak again with a son who had died. To this end, Morgiah made contact with the notorious necromancer  , in the   of  . With the help of an  , the deal was struck. Mannimarco held up his end of the bargain, and in return Morgiah promised to give him her "first", though exactly what this meant remains a mystery. Morgiah and Reman were wed after a three year engagement. 

As a  , Queen Morgiah was not particularly well-liked by the culturally xenophobic   of Firsthold either, and is known to have quelled a revolt during the early years of her rule.  The couple had two children by the end of the  ,   and  , who were both Dunmer in appearance despite being half-Altmer. Regardless of appearances, however, the children were considered rightful heirs to the throne.  
 

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The events surrounding the attempted uprising against Queen Morgiah's rule are detailed in  .
For game-specific information, see the Daggerfall article.

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