Monomyth : Lorkhan and Satakal Content . Lorkhan This Creator - Trickster - Tester deity is in every Tamriel ic mythic tradition . His most popular name is the Aldmer i " Lorkhan , " or Doom Drum . He convinced or contrived the Original Spirits to bring about the creation of the Mortal Plane , upsetting the status quo much like his father Padomay had introduced instability into the universe in the Beginning Place . After the world is materialized , Lorkhan is separated from his divine center , sometimes involuntarily , and wanders the creation of the et ' Ada . Interpretations of these events differ widely by culture . Below is one of the better known . Yokuda n , " Satakal the Worldskin " " Satak was First Serpent , the Snake who came Before , and all the worlds to come rested in the glimmer of its scales . But it was so big there was nothing but , and thus it was coiled around and around itself , and the worlds to come slid across each other but none had room to breathe or even be . And so the worlds called to something to save them , to let them out , but of course there was nothing outside the First Serpent , so aid had to come from inside it , and this was Akel , the Hungry Stomach . Akel made itself known , and Satak could only think about what it was , and it was the best hunger , so it ate and ate . Soon there was enough room to live in the worlds and things began . These things were new and they often made mistakes , for there was hardly time to practice being things before . So most things ended quickly or were not good or gave up on themselves . Some things were about to start , but they were eaten up as Satak got to that part of its body . This was a violent time . " Pretty soon Akel caused Satak to bite its own heart and that was the end . The hunger , though , refused to stop , even in death , and so the First Serpent shed its skin to begin anew . As the old world died , Satakal began , and when things realized this pattern so did they realize what their part in it was . They began to take names , like Ruptga or Tu ' whacca , and they strode about looking for their kin . As Satakal ate itself over and over , the strongest spirits learned to bypass the cycle by moving at strange angles . They called this process the Walkabout , a way of striding between the worldskins . Ruptga was so big that he was able to place the stars in the sky so that weaker spirits might find their way easier . This practice became so easy for the spirits that it became a place , called the Far Shores , a time of waiting until the next skin . " Ruptga was able to sire many children through the cycles , and so he became known as the Tall Papa . He continued to place stars to map out the void for others , but after so many cycles , there were almost too many spirits to help out . He made himself a helper from the detritus of past skins , and this was Sep , or the Second Serpent . Sep had much of the Hungry Stomach still left in him , multiple hungers from multiple skins . He was so hungry he could not think straight . Sometimes he would just eat the spirits he was supposed to help , but Tall Papa would always reach in and take them back out . Finally , tired of helping Tall Papa , Sep went and gathered the rest of the old skins and balled them up , tricking spirits to help him , promising them this was how you reached the new world , by making one out of the old . These spirits loved this way of living , as it was easier . No more jumping from place to place . Many spirits joined in , believing this was good thinking . Tall Papa just shook his head . " Pretty soon the spirits on the skin - ball started to die , because they were very far from the real world of Satakal . And they found that it was too far to jump into the Far Shores now . The spirits that were left pleaded with Tall Papa to take them back . But grim Ruptga would not , and he told the spirits that they must learn new ways to follow the stars to the Far Shores now . If they could not , then they must live on through their children , which was not the same as before . Sep , however , needed more punishment , and so Tall Papa squashed the Snake with a big stick . The hunger fell out of Sep ' s dead mouth and was the only thing left of the Second Serpent . While the rest of the new world was allowed to strive back to godhood , Sep could only slink around in a dead skin , or swim about in the sky , a hungry void that jealously tried to eat the stars . "