The Truth in Sequence : Volume 1 Content . Taken from the sermons of Deldrise Morvayn , Fourth Tourbillon of the Mainspring Ever - Wound . By the word , I wind the gears . How does one come to know the Clockwork God and Father of Mysteries ? Our Lord Vivec and the Lady of Mercy , Almalexia , are known to us . Their faces are known to us . Their words are known to us . But what of Sotha Sil ? He who is distant in both position and intent . Ever watchful , but seldom seen . Ever worshiped , but seldom heard . He is the Mainspring Ever - Wound — the unmoved mover , hidden within His Clockwork City , whose voice is the Divine Metronome . As Tourbillon , I speak His truth as I know it . I say the words in sequence so they can be known by the people . The sequence is but a shadow of the truth , but minds such as ours cannot bear the ordered unsequence . Minds such as ours cannot truly know themselves . Not yet . The First Truth of the Mainspring Ever - Wound is the truth of Nirn . The soul of Nirn has two faces . The first is known to us — the Nirn - Prior , or the Nirn of Many Parts . It is a Nirn in pieces , assembled by the unsteady hand that has yet to find itself . Its oscillations irregular , its going train disrupted by fear and delusion . Its faults are not in its parts , but in its assembly . Each gear is a god . Each spring is a thought . But a mechanism built by many hands cannot know the precision of the master craftsman . The et ' Ada Gears cannot bring forth a true Nirn , because they know only its parts . They cannot see the whole . The Eye of Sotha Sil ignores such division . Where the broken gods see only pieces , our Father Sotha Sil sees the whole . He sees the Second Nirn . The Second Nirn . The inchoate Nirn - Ensuing . The thought - form that anticipates the world to come : Tamriel Final . Anuvanna ' si . Only Sotha Sil knows its shape . Its nature lies forgotten in the before - time when Anu broke itself for wisdom ' s sake . Our lessers know the Source as two forms : Anu and Padomay , but this binary is without merit . One of the Lorkhan ' s Great Lies , meant to sunder us from the truth of Anuic unity . Our father , Sotha Sil , would have us know the truth : there is no Padomay . Padomay is the absence of value . The lack . A ghost that vanishes at first light . A Nothing . There is only Anu , sundered and known by many names , possessing many faces . The one . When Anu broke itself , it did so to understand its nature . In its sundering , the values that swam in its vastness thought to know themselves . The et ' Ada Gears gave themselves many names and set their will to building . Alas , they heeded the counsel of Lorkhan and forgot the face of Anu . They thought themselves distinct and whole . And so , many hands assembled the world , each with separate intention and selfish purpose . The Nirn of Many Parts was the result . A broken and leaking steam - ship that lists ever wind - ward . But rejoice , children of the Tribunal ! In His wisdom , the Mainspring Ever - Wound seeks to reclaim our lost heritage . His heart is oiled and calibrated , pumping dark truth as blood . His mind is the God - Mortar where the fractured values of Anuic nature are ground and weighed — unified through His will alone . From this great labor , a new Nirn will be born . Tamriel Final . Anuvanna ' si . I pray that we see the fruit of His labor — a perfect world , without et ' Ada Gears . Without the illusion of change . Water - tight and everlasting . By the word , I wind the gears .