Chaotic Creatia : The Azure Plasm Content . By Doctor Rhythandius As a Doctor of Transliminal Mythomysticism , I have long been interested in the soul / body problem , the reformation of the Daedric body post - banishment , and the formation of the body around the essence commonly known as the " vestige . " Since our enforced relocation to Coldharbour , courtesy of Our Luminous Lady , I have had considerable opportunity to observe these processes first - hand , and now in a position to confirm many hypotheses that , upon Mundus , were fated to remain mere conjecture . It has long been understood that a Daedra , who lacks the Anu ic animus known as the " soul , " is not killed when its body is destroyed . A Daedra slain upon Mundus is merely " banished " back to its plane of origin , where its morphotype , or " vestige , " gradually forms a new body , so that eventually the Daedra lives again . ( This happens as well when a Daedra is slain in its native Oblivion . ) Furthermore , we have long known from the Daedra themselves that their bodies are formed from the very stuff of chaos , the " creatia " of Oblivion , a shapeless but energetic material that accretes around a vestige until it conforms to the morphotype ' s inherent pattern . Back on Mundus I had naively envisioned this creatia as some sort of misty , amorphous material swirling in a void somewhere . After our arrival in Coldharbour , it was some time before I realized that its ubiquitous pools of blue slime , the substance we ' ve come to call " Azure Plasm , " was in fact the form that creatia takes upon this plane . By extension , I reasoned that chaotic creatia takes a different but planar - appropriate form in every realm of Oblivion — and this theory was later confirmed for me by the rogue Xivilai known as the Sojourner , who has had direct experience of numerous planes of existence . In fact , it was the Sojourner who first introduced me to one of those secret grottoes where one can observe the process of plasm - accretion in action . ( To find such grottoes , where Daedra are " born , " it is necessary only to observe the slow flow of the Azure Plasm and follow it to its destination — for plasm - accretion causes a slow drain on adjacent pools . ) It was fascinating to watch a vestige gradually absorbing Azure Plasm and converting it from the general to specific , so that over time it slowly took on the size and shape of a hulking , reptilian daedroth . Then there are the poor slaves known as the Soul Shriven . Each is a mortal kidnaped from Mundus at the moment of death , his or her soul stolen by Molag Bal for some unthinkable purpose , and given in exchange the vestige that enables him or her to form a counterfeit body here in Coldharbour . But they are not native to Oblivion , so a Soul Shriven ' s body is a sad imitation of the body worn in life , suffering rapid wear and decay until it dies — a death that is no liberation , for its vestige only forms a body once again , over and over , ad infinitum … . Such are the facts . What follows is speculation , born of conversations with the Sojourner during his infrequent and unpredictable visits . His theory is that the Soul Shriven ' s bodies are flawed because they have lost the focusing principle of their Anuic souls , so their vestiges are imperfect patterns . I concurred that this was likely , and then proposed the theoretical possibility of a Soul Shriven who , despite having lost his or her soul , possessed some other intrinsic Anuic aspect . This shall - we - say " paragon " Soul Shriven would form an unflawed body in Coldharbour that was a perfect duplicate of the body worn in Mundus . In fact , if this paragon bore a sufficiently high Anuic valence , upon contact with Padomaic creatia its body would form almost instantaneously . The Sojourner scoffed at my theory , but seemed taken with the idea nonetheless . He went on to speculate that if such a thing were possible , it would probably occur in a situation where the Mundus was in existential jeopardy . In that case the Heart of Nirn would spontaneously generate such " paragon " individuals as a way of defending itself from destruction , in a manner analogous to the way the mortal body fights off infection . Ah , Sojourner — how I miss your stimulating conversation . Such flights of fantasy ! And yet , given the wonders I ' ve seen in my prolonged existence upon this plane , is anything really impossible ?