Hermaeus Mora

==Summary==
Hermaeus Mora is the Daedric Prince of Forbidden Knowledge and Memory, whose sphere encompass the scrying of the tides of fate, the hidden depths of the sea, and the vast domain of Time, normally associated with the Dragon God Akatosh. Hermaeus Mora claims to be one of the oldest Daedric Princes in existence, having came to be from discarded ideas and schematic used by Magnus during the creation of the Mortal Plane. He rules over the Plane of Apocrypha, an eldritch and terrible library of Infinite size and scope wherein all forbidden and secret knowledge of both the past and future is hoarded and contained.
Unlike the other Lords of Oblivion, Hermaeus Mora does not appear in a humanoid guise at all, instead manifesting solely as a grotesque, shapeless mass of appendages, tentacles, cyclopean eyes and gaping maws that brings insanity to those that meet its gaze. Although not inherently malevolent like others of his kind, Hermaeus Mora's nature as a hideous and incomprehensible eldritch entity of pure madness puts him among the least favored Daedric Princes in Tamriel, with cultures throughout the continent seeing him as being to be feared and reviled. The sole exception are the Nords of Skyrim, who know him as Herma-Mora, the Woodland Man, who don't exactly worship the Demon of Knowledge, but see him as a Testing God that must be overcome through battle.
Interestingly, although primarily known as the Daedric Prince of Forbidden Knowledge and Fate, Hermaeus Mora is almost universally associated with the oceans and its waters. Texts will often comment on his relationship to the "tides of fate", and sometimes describe him as a cephalopod or crustacean from the dark deep, while Nordic pirates are known to throw the bodies of their victims into the sea in offering to Herma-Mora. Though strange at a first glance, these ideas are explained when one learns that the oceans of Nirn are constructs of time itself, and that within their water are contained the memories of all mortal entities. Thus, as the Daedric of Knowledge and Memory, Hermaeus Mora holds dominion over Nirn's oceans, controlling the ebb and flow of its tides, and uncovering all the secrets held within its abyssal depths.
==Powers and Stats==
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Name: Hermaeus Mora (Also called Herma-Mora, Hoermius, Hormaius, Hermorah). Known by many titles, such as The Woodland Man, The Gardener of Man, The Wretched Abyss, The Demon of Knowledge, The Abyssal Cephaliarch, The Old Antecedant, The Lord of Secrets, The Golden Eyes, The Scryer, The Inevitable Knower, The Guardian of the Unseen, The Knower of the Unknown, The Master of the Tides of Fate, The Hare, The Tide-King.
Origin: The Elder Scrolls
Gender: Inapplicable
Age: Inapplicable
Classification: Daedric Prince of Knowledge, Memory, and Fate, God, Ur-Daedra
Powers and Abilities: Abstract Existence (Type 1. Gods are described as "manifest metaphors"The Lunar Lorkhan and their actions as "ideologies given skin,"Michael Kirkbride - Reddit AMA existing as aspects of the Aurbis that each personify a specific concept,Monomyth: Altmeri "The Heart of the World" existing not as mere beings, but as the ideas themselvesJusticiar Tanorian's Dialogue), Acausality (Type 5. Gods from outside of the mortal plane are completely beyond linear time and reside in a state where all events are always happening simultaneously,Vivec (Morrowind)Pridehome: A Place Outside Time? being as such unbound by cause, duration, consequence and eventuality,Lord Fa-Nuit-Hen and Tutor Riparius Answer Your Questions 2On the Detachment of the Sheath with their lives being described as unable to support most of the qualities of a narrative.), Causality Manipulation (Similar in nature and power to other greater Ada such as the Eight Divines, who are stated to be capable of modifying both the past and the future at their leisureESO Live Lawrence Schick Interview), Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3 and 5. Gods are unbound by the concepts of Life and Death, which only came to be during the creation of the Mundus,Varieties of Faith in the Empire and even incomplete deities such as Vivec can resurrect themselves at will from the timeless world of the gods), Resurrection, Higher-Dimensional Existence, Time Manipulation and Fate Manipulation (The nature of time in the planes of oblivion is completely subjective and determined exclusively by the will of the governing Prince, with the inhabitants of such planes being stated to not be subjected to time itself, but to their masters alone.Loremaster Archive: Chamberlain Haskill Answers Your Questions Hermaeus Mora in specific is said to have a particularly deep sway over the tides of time and fate, as they fall under his sphere of influence, causing him to stand out even among the other Daedric Princes in that regardImperial Census of Daedra Lords), Spatial Manipulation and Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (Being simply extensions of their being,Loremaster Archive: Fa-Nuit-Hen and Tutor Riparius Answer Your QuestionsMonomyth: Cyrodiilic "Shezarr's Song" a Daedric Prince's personal realms are under their full control both in form and structure, with the more charitable ones being able to freely alter their number of dimensions as to create vistas comprehensible to the minds of mortals on a whim, as well as adopt the trappings of linear time to better suit interaction with themLoremaster Archive: Fa-Nuit-Hen and Tutor Riparius Answer Your Questions 2), Large Size (Type 10), BFR, Teleportation, Telekinesis, Incorporeality, Telepathy, Portal Creation, Soul Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Magic, Chaos Manipulation and Probability Manipulation (Daedric Spirits come to power by harnessing the chaos of possibilities that is the void of Oblivion,Loveletter From the Fifth Era, The True Purpose of Tamriel being unable to truly create,Daedra Worship: The Chimer and instead only rearranging formless potential into something concrete), Reality Warping, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1. Immensely above minor gods such as the Ideal Masters, who are stated to live in a platonic ideal of their own making beyond the Mundus.Battlespire Athanaeum, page 115), Energy Manipulation, Law Manipulation and Physics Manipulation, Transmutation, Mind Manipulation Sound Manipulation and Information Manipulation (The entirety of the Aurbis is, in fact, a song,Michael Kirkbride - IRC Q&A Sessions and entities with divine power are capable of manipulating the underlying tones of existence by acknowledging that principle, shaping reality through the manipulation of stories and archetypes,Made Up Word Round Up making mythNahfahlaar's Dialogue and metaphorESO Live: Lore of the Clockwork City manifest)
Attack Potency: High Hyperverse level (As a Daedric Prince, Hermaeus Mora is one of the primary Ada that fundamentally maintain and comprise the infinitely-dimensionedRulantaril's Notes Void of Oblivion, holding absolute domain over and personifying one of the sixteen partitions that make up the entirety of the realm and represent the empty spaces behind the spokes of the Wheel of the MundusVehk's Teaching: ...the Tower)
Speed: Immeasurable. Omnipresent within Apocrypha 
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable
Striking Strength: High Hyperverse level
Durability: High Hyperverse level
Stamina: Infinite
Range: High Hyperversal (Can freely traverse through Oblivion, an infinite-dimensional void which encompasses all possibility and contains an endless number of individual daedric realms)
Standard Equipment: The Oghma Infinium, The Black Books
Intelligence: Nigh-Omniscient. Being the god and personification of forbidden knowledge, Hermaeus Mora is considered the wisest of all Daedric Princes,The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall with his awareness being said to cover all mysteries and secrets, from past, present and future, and his realm itself being nothing but an infinite library holding troves of wisdom of all kinds,Apocrypha, Apocrypha'' including those that would shatter a mortal's sense of reality.Epistle on the Spirits of Amun-dro, Vol. 2
Weaknesses: None Notable.
==Gallery==
HermaMoraSkyrim.jpg|Hermaeus Mora in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
HermaMoraOnline.jpg|Hermaeus Mora in The Elder Scrolls Online
WretchedAbyss.jpg|The Wretched Abyss, a manifestation of Hermaeus Mora
HermaMoraStatue.jpg|A Statue of Hermaeus Mora
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