Exegesis of Merid - Nunda Content . By Phrastus of Elinhir Truly , the Tract of Merid - Nunda is one of the strangest and least understood works of mythohistory that has come down to us from the early First Era . It exists only in partial manuscript form , a single copy of which resides in the library of the Arcane University at the Imperial City . ( Or at least it did , though since the Mages Guild was blamed for the disappearance of the Emperor Varen and driven out of Cyrodiil , I don ' t know what has become of their once - admirable library . ) Fortunately , I was granted an opportunity to study the noted Tract in detail while the Guild was still in possession of it , and made a personal copy for myself so I could continue to unravel its mysteries once I ' d returned to Elinhir . The problem of understanding the Tract of Merid - Nunda is twofold : First , the extant document is clearly part of a larger work , drawn from seemingly somewhere in the middle , and without the preceding and following portions of the work we have little context for the part that remains . Second , the Tract is written in a peculiar argot that employs Ayleid phrases in a late Nedic syntax , including many words of unknown origin that don ' t appear in any other source . However , working outward from fragments previously translated by Wenegrus Monhana and Herminia Cinna , I believe I can shed some new light on certain key passages in this mysterious manuscript . Our format shall be to provide the translation of each passage , followed by my interpretation of its meaning . " … were known as the Nine Coruscations , who followed the parabolas that led away from Magnus . Merid - Nunda was of these Sisters , as was Mnemo - Li , as was Xero - Lyg , as was … . " This appears to identify the " Daedric Prince " Meridia with the so - called Star - Orphans , those Anu ic ur - entities that separated from Magnus when that Divine withdrew from the creation of the Aurbis . The best - known of these Star - Orphans is probably Mnemoli the Blue Star , who is associated with un - time events , and was said to be visible even in the daytime sky at the time of the Dragon Break . " … thus we call upon Cenedelin to bind the earth , as we speak to Merid - Nunda regarding the light , for she is the scintilla that fears not darkness , and swims the waves of pull and spin … . " For the Ayleid s , of course , Light was one of the four elements of creation , and this passage seems to confirm that Meridia was the personification of Light to the Wild Elves . Though I am certain of this passage ' s translation , I confess the meaning of the final phrases eludes me . The next passage was quite difficult , but its translation adds an entirely new episode to our accounts of the Dawn Era : " The Lords of the Chaos - Realms chided Merid - Nunda for her trespass and bade her return to Aurbis , claiming all existing spheres as their own . But Merid - Nunda formed of her substance a great drag - lens , and the light of Magnus was bent thereby . The rays [ carved ? focused ? ] a new sphere from the chaos , which Merid - Nunda , [ laughing ? sparkling ? ] , did claim for her own . " This appears to recount the origin of the Colored Rooms , as Meridia ' s Oblivion realm is known , seemingly formed directly out of the stuff of chaos by an act of divine will . And finally : " … thus does Merid - Nunda [ ride ? slide ? ] across the rainbow road from end to end , at one end stretching the dragon , at the other end compressing him … . " A curious passage indeed . The " dragon , " of course , traditionally refers to the Divine we know as Akatosh , the God of Time . This seems to suggest that by traveling the " rainbow road " ( a reference to the prismatic refraction of light ? ) , Meridia can in some sense alter the rate at which time flows forward . Altering the " speed " of time ? Is this merely an absurd conceit of the late Ayleid sorcerer - priests , or a genuine insight into the nature of one of the least - understood Daedric Princes ? Who can say ?