Can you tell us something about necromancy and lichdom in Ayleid culture?
“There is a particular weapon that came from the city of Abagarlas in Cyrodiil called the Mortuum Vivicus. Historically this necromantic weapon’s form was never discerned but it was created for the purposes of a King named Anumaril. If memory serves me--that city greatly revered Molag Bal and wished to use the Mortuum Vivicus on the Merid-Nunda worshiping city of Delodiil and failed.(If I may diverge from the topic momentarily, Delodiil was actually used as my bridge from Oblivion to Mundus during The Plainmeld. Such tapestries The Aurbis weaves.)It is easy for a historian to see that Ayleid culture was quite literally composed of light and dark. Hardly a balance was ever achieved between the cultures of necromancers and templars of Merid-Nunda, but the artifacts of the Mundane-walking princes were quite formidable. To this day I can presume that the wars and strife in the fourth era are quite tame compared to what transpired in my people’s time. Of course, I only witnessed the very end of my people in that regard.Lichdom however, I had not actually known about these practices until a copy of A Guide to Ascendancy graced my libraries once I had been given knowledge of the barsaebic Ayleids in Black Marsh. I studied this in the second era out of curiosity and relevancy to current events. However, it is not in my nature to purposefully bring pain to others, so I simply settled for what I had read. Unfortunately, even the barsaebic Ayleids had flesh gardens that incorporated Saxhleel, but the ulterior motive was familiar with achieving lichdom through the suffering of others. From the notes I gathered, their gruesome practices were much more efficient with the Saxhleel compared to the nedes. In the culture of my people, necromancy was accepted due to how important the study of magicka was despite it’s connotations with malevolent deadra. There was no need to hide it as most feel the need to now, it is both a shame as a study but a necessary precaution to protect others from that power.