"Gate of Annihilation Part 2":
Divis Fell is not easily accessible, and he is reluctant to share the secrets of the Oblivion Gate with Morian Zenas. Fortunately, my master's knowledge impressed Phil and taught him the method (to open the Gate of Annihilation). To state the steps (to open the Gate of Annihilation) here would break my commitment to Zenas and Phil, so I wouldn't give it away even if I could. If there is ever a dangerous thing to know, this is it. I won't reveal too much, other than to say that Phil's plan relies on a series of portals to the realms from a long-missing, possibly dead, Telvanni wizard. Regarding the shortcomings of the limited number of people entering it, after weighing the relative reliability and the safety of those entering it, based on the information we received, we consider ourselves lucky.
Then Morian Zenas left this world and began his adventure. I stayed in the library transcribing his information (telepathically) and helping him with any research he needed.
'dust. ' he whispered to me on the first day of the voyage. Despite the bleakness of the word itself, I could hear his excitement in his voice echoing in my head. 'I can see from one end of the world to the other in a million gray shadows. There is no sky, no earth, no air here, just particles, floating, falling, rotating, surrounding me. I must levitate and breathe magically...'
Zenas explored the hazy land for some time, encountering steam creatures and smoke palaces. Although he has yet to meet the Daedra, we can conclude that he is in the Ashpool, said to be the home of Malacath, where pain, betrayal, and broken promises fill the bitter air like ash.
'The sky is on fire. 'I heard him say this as he moved to the next area. 'The land is like mud, but you can walk through it. All around me I saw the blackened remains of a battle that had been fought here in the distant past. The air is freezing. I cast warm flowers around my body, but it still felt like daggers made of ice were stabbing me from all sides. '
This is Coldharbour, and Molag Bal is the Daedra of the realm. Zenas sees this as a future Nirn under the rule of the Cruel Lord: desolate, barren, and full of pain. I could hear Morian Zenas weeping at what he saw and shaking as the Imperial Palace was covered in blood and excrement.
'So beautiful. ' Zenas gasped as he entered the next realm. 'I'm half blind. I saw flowers and waterfalls, majestic trees, a silvery city, but it was all blurry. The colors flow like water. It's raining now and the wind smells like perfume. This must be Moonshadow where Azula lives. '
Zenas was right, and surprisingly, he even had an audience with the Queen of Dawn and Dusk in the Rose Palace. She smiled, listened to his stories, and foretold the coming of the Nerevarine. My master found the shadow of the moon so enchanting that he wanted to stay and be half-blind forever, but he knew he had to move forward to complete this journey of discovery.
'I'm in the storm. 'He told me as we entered the next area. He painted dark, twisted trees, roaring spirits, and billowing mist. I think he may have entered the place where Merunes Dagon died. But then he quickly said, 'No, I'm not in the forest anymore.' There was a flash and now I was on a ship. The mast was badly broken and the crew had been massacred. Something is coming through the waves... Oh, God! Wait, now I'm in a dank dungeon, in a small room...'
He was not in the Land of Death, but in the Nightmare Swamp, Valmina's nightmare realm. Every few minutes there would be a flash of lightning and reality would shift, always becoming more terrifying and shocking. From a dark castle, to a lair of ferocious beasts, to a coffin in a moonlit swamp in which he was buried alive. Fear overcame my master and he quickly crossed over to the next realm.
I heard him laughing, 'Now I feel like I'm at home.' '
Morian Zenas described to me an endless library, with shelves stacked on top of each other in all directions. The pages floated on a mysterious wind he couldn't feel. Each book has a black cover but no title. He couldn't see anyone, but he could feel the ghost moving among the bookshelves, rummaging through the books, searching.
This is an anomaly where all kinds of forbidden knowledge can be found, and it is the home of Hermoeus Mora. I felt a chill in my consciousness, but I couldn't figure out whether it was the master's or mine.
Morian Zenas never left for another realm known to me.
During my visits to the first four areas, the master often spoke to me. But once in the Apocrypha, he became quieter, seduced into the world of research and learning, a passion that dominated his heart during his time on Nirn. I desperately tried to wake him up, but he closed his consciousness to me.
Then he whispered, 'It can't be...'
'No one will guess the truth...'
'I have to learn more...'
'I see the world, the last shimmering illusion, crumbling around us...'
I shouted to him, begging him to tell me what happened, what I saw, what I learned. I even tried to conjure him as a Daedra, but he refused to leave. Morian Zenas is lost.
The last time I heard from him was six months ago. It had been five years before that. Before that it was three years. His thoughts cannot be explained in any comprehensible language. Maybe he's still in the Apocalypse, lost but happy, trapped in a trap that he refuses to escape.
I would save him if I could.
I would silence his whispers if I could. "
Just as Talstein, a famous scholar, historian and author of the Ximu Brain Trust, an authority on Skaar and a senior scholar and researcher at the Grand Library, told the Lord.
Unlike most demon gods, the demon god of knowledge, Hermoeus Mora, does not appear in human form. Instead, he has thousands of eyes, tentacles, claws, and an indescribable purple vortex called the "Abyss of Misery" that is entangled with each other. Hermoeus Mora controls a realm of annihilation called the Apocrypha. Followers of the God of Knowledge call it the "Endless Library of Apophis", which is filled with black books and all forbidden knowledge can be found here. This realm is forever haunted by the ghosts of mortals seeking knowledge. Stacks of books form mazes and spiral columns, discarded pages and floating books reach into the glowing green sky, small lanterns float in the fetid air acting as light sources, the realm is covered in a sea of ink and tumbling tentacles, Hemoyu S. Mora is everywhere...
In addition to magical teleportation, mortals can most easily enter the Tome by reading the Black Books, forbidden tomes that have been deliberately scattered throughout Tamriel by the Daedron's followers over time. Most mortals who gain access to the secrets of the Apocalypse are driven mad by the endless revelations. Like the final fate of the mage Morian Zenas, chronicled in The Oblivion Gate, who famously disappeared in the Apocalypse during his voyage through Oblivion.
However, everything has two sides, and those who successfully travel through the Apocalypse will gain powerful knowledge and the power it contains. All in all, Hermoeus Mora's domain is a treasure trove of endless knowledge and memories. As he himself said: "An unsolvable riddle, an unopenable door, and an unreadable book."
It's a pity that all the black books in Apophis' endless library were eaten by Mimir Mirak, and the souls of the wise men bound by the black books were also devoured together. Therefore, the "greatest mage of all time" Morian Zenas could not escape the fate of being devoured.
It brings together all the black books and all the wise men in Tamriel since ancient times. One can imagine how powerful the pseudo-knowledge demon Mirak Mimir is.
From the high-dimensional perspective of the shelter, this may be a "plot counterattack" in response to the lord's deep involvement in the main plot. This is the so-called "plot rebalancing".
The lord suddenly felt that Miraak Mimir, the pseudo-knowledge demon in "The Elder Scrolls", really looked a bit like the demon king who merged with the player in "Lord of the Rings".
"When you go deep into annihilation, annihilation is also going deep into you." Closing the book gently, the lord said with emotion.
