Crafting Motif 8 : Orc Content . Being notes by Doctor Alfidia Lupus for a series of pamphlets on the major cultural styles of Tamriel ( Dr . Lupus was Imperial Ethnographer for Potentate Savirien - Chorak from 2E 418 to 431 ) I saw Divayth last night , briefly , at the Torchbug . I told him I truly cared for him , but that Morian had won my heart . He clouded over like a storm in the Jeralls , but then took a deep breath and managed a dignified exit . Oh , I do hope he ' ll be all right . Though I confess , I ' m more worried about Morian . His experiments with Divayth are reaching their climax , when Morian will open a gate and personally make a visit to Oblivion . He says he ' s going to try for Azura ' s realm of Moonshadow , as he says that ought to be relatively safe . Safe ! I ' m as anxious as a scrib on a griddle . I dearly want to see Morian before he goes , but he says he must concentrate on mastering the ritual and can ' t be interrupted . He did send a note by Seif - ij saying I should take his place representing the University at the Potentate ' s state dinner for the new envoy from Orsinium . He must really be busy to skip that event , as I know he was keen to go . Well , all the better for my Racial Motifs project , I suppose — work , work , work will take my mind off my worries ! The new province of Orsinum doesn ' t have an embassy yet , so for the dinner the Potentate ' s snake - staff set up a row of pavilions on the grounds of the White - Gold Tower . To honor Envoy Thuggikh they were all decorated with authentic Orcish paraphernalia imported from Wrothgar , so I got out my journal and took notes during the interminable speeches . Strange to think that a folk as brutish as the Orcs seem to be could design and create objects of such sophistication ! Of course they ' re known across Tamriel as fine armorers , but I ' d always assumed that was due to their great strength rather than skill . A glance at their arms and armor was enough to show me how wrong my assumption had been . Though never ornate or over - embellished , their metalwork , though even simpler and more utilitarian than the Nords ' , displays a deep understanding of the laws of proportion , symmetry , and harmonic congruity . An Orcish sword may be a weapon of violence , but to contemplate the dynamic sweep of its blade , visually balanced by its heavy but shapely hilt , obviously molded to flow into the hand of its wielder — why , it ' s almost restful and reassuring . Afterwards at the reception I was happy to see somebody I recognized in Lady Opel the Arch - Magister . She greeted me warmly and , over some West Weald wine and Eidar cheese , asked me how things were going with me and my pair of wizards . I told her I thought I ' d made a terrible muddle of things , but she assured me everything would work out in the end . She said she ' s known Morian for ever so long , and he ' s really quite sensible beneath his fussy old - man ways . She was glad he ' d found someone as clever as I to keep him from completely vanishing into his laboratory . But as far as I ' m concerned , that ' s exactly what he ' s done . I think I ' ll go talk to Seif - ij again — maybe he can help me get through to Morian before he leaves .