Arkay

==Summary==
Arkay is the Aedric God of Life & Death, and a part of the Pantheon of the Eight Divines. Strangely, unlike the other deities of Mundus, Arkay is seemingly not one of the Et'Ada birthed through the interplay of Anu and Padomay at the dawn of existence, but rather a being who ascended to godhood after the Mortal Plane's creation.
According to a popular, though unlikely legend, Arkay was once an ordinary shopkeeper who collected books to satisfy his passion for knowledge. Upon finding an ancient tome containing mysteries of life and death, he studied it to the point of obsession, becoming consumed by the secrets of its pages and ignoring everything else in his life, which made him fall mortally ill. As he laid in his deathbed, Arkay saw a vision of the goddess Mara and begged her to allow him to continue his studies beyond death so that he could teach them to mortals. In reply, Mara transformed Arkay into the God of Life & Death. Other, more believable myths simply hold that Arkay either did not exist before, or was an extremely lesser spirit who obtained power and purpose as consequence of, Mundus' creation. As the very concepts of Life & Death were meaningless and indistinct from one another before the invention of the Mortal Plane, this idea certainly holds merit.
Whatever the truth, Arkay is a popular deity in Tamriel, particularly in societies where Akatosh, his father, is seem as too distant and incomprehensible by the layman, allowing him to act as the intermediary between mortals and the King of the Gods. Arkay is often associated with the harvest and agriculture, as the cycle of the seasons is akin to the cycle of life & death, and his cults are usually responsible for handling funeral and burial rites. Perhaps the most unusual interpretation of Arkay is found in Skyrim, where he is known as Orkey. He is viewed as a treacherous deity, and an enemy of Shor and the Nords, who steals the lives of mortals and condemns them to unworthy deaths of illness and old age, as opposed to glorious death in violent combat.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Arkay (Also called Ark'ay, RKHET, Orkey, To-Arcka, Tu'whacca). Known by many titles, such as The God of Birth and Death, The Lord of the Wheel of Life, The Tricky God, The God of Nobody Really Cares, The Snake, The Old Knocker, etc.
Origin: The Elder Scrolls
Gender: Inapplicable. Depicted and referred to as male.
Age: Inapplicable.
Classification: Aedric Divine, God of Life & Death, Possibly a Former Mortal
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), Magic, Avatar Creation, Cosmic Awareness, Creation, Reality Warping, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation, Life and Death Manipulation (Created, and exists as, the concepts of life and death themselves, and administers the continuation of their cycle throughout the Mundus), 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), Time Manipulation, Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 5 and 9. Gods are unbound by the concepts of Life and Death, which came to be during the creation of the Mundus and only applies to mortals,Varieties of Faith in the Empire and even incomplete deities such as Vivec can resurrect themselves at will from the timeless world of the godsVivec (Morrowind)), Power Bestowal, Law Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, Omnipresence, Nigh-Omniscience, Causality Manipulation (The Divines are stated to be capable of modifying both the past and the future at their leisureESO Live Lawrence Schick Interview), Soul Manipulation, Large Size (Type 10), 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 (Should be comparable in power to the Daedric Princes of Oblivion, as a portion of the Eight Aedra's power contained in the Amulet of Kings was enough to empower the Vestige such that they were able to battle against and defeat Molag Bal within his own realm of Coldharbour, and Mannimarco was likewise confident that the Amulet would allow him to overthrow Molag Bal and ascend to godhoodThe Chim el-Adabal)
Speed: Omnipresent within the Mundus
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable
Striking Strength: High Hyperverse level
Durability: High Hyperverse level
Stamina: Infinite
Range: At least Low Complex Multiversal, likely higher
Standard Equipment: None Notable.
Intelligence: Nigh-Omniscient
Weaknesses: Bound to the Mundus
==Gallery==
ArkaySancreTor.jpg|Statue of Arkay in Sancre Tor
ArkayStatue.jpg|Statue of Arkay in Cheydinhal
Tu'whacca.jpg|Drawing of the Yokudan Tu'Whacca
OrkeyArt.jpg|Nordic illustration depicting Orkey as the Snake Totem
KeeperOfTheHall.jpg|The Keeper Of The Hall, an Avatar of Tu'whacca 
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Abstract Entities
Category:Acausal Characters
Category:Causality Users
Category:Concept Users
Category:Cosmic Entities
Category:Death Users
Category:Energy Users
Category:Evil Characters
Category:Flight Users
Category:Genderless Characters
Category:Gods
Category:Good Characters
Category:Higher-Dimensional Beings
Category:Immortals
Category:Information Users
Category:Intangibility Users
Category:Law Users
Category:Life Users
Category:Magic Users
Category:Male Characters
Category:Matter Users
Category:Neutral Characters
Category:Incorporeal Characters
Category:Orcs
Category:Reality Warpers
Category:Regeneration Users
Category:Resurrection Users
Category:Shapeshifters
Category:Snakes
Category:Soul Users
Category:Sound Users
Category:Space Users
Category:Spirits
Category:Telekinesis Users
Category:Telepaths
Category:Teleportation Users
Category:The Elder Scrolls
Category:Time Users
Category:Large Sized Characters
Category:Creation Users
Category:Absorption Users
Category:Omnipresent Beings
Category:Video Game Characters
Category:Nigh-Omniscient Beings