With the recent revelation about Boethiah, what the hell does that mean for Trinimac?
Well. I have no reason to think his story changes. I'm still of the belief that he found something he couldn't stomach, and that he consorted with daedra.
But its the how, that changes.
Trinimac arose, as we know him, because of ancestoral worship. Well, you can only make new gods through old gods. Match a behavior long enough, and you become one and the same, regardless if you were two before. Collective Belief can be a terrifying thing on Nirn.
Before that, there had to be equivalencies of, what I call, the "twelve" (stumbled on when I was making my own OCs on the matter), as a default, because they appear Everywhere, even in religions that came from other faces of Nirn.
And that's the eight... with four more.
We know the Eight: Akatosh, Kynareth, Mara, Dibella, Julianos, Zenithar, Stendarr and Arkay.
But then there's the other Four: Y'ffre, Magnus, Lorkhan (of course), and the artificial planet they made--Nirn. The dead, you could say (Lining up suspiciously like the House of Troubles... )
But you might've noticed that a lot of the Mer religions lack a lot of the mainstays of the Men religions.
Julianos is often missing. Zenithar is missing too--though he appears as the more ancient, argonian born Xen (probably for good reason). But so is Kyne.
And Kyne is a very important entity, because she's the wife of Lorkhan.
That's where Boethiah comes in. Because Boethiah's name is derived, from Boe-Thea, "Cow Goddess".
So I propose that ther had been an original elven aspect of Kyne, called Boethiah, but when Trinimac's worship came in, it and by extension he, began to absorb all the Warrior Aspected Gods. That included Bothiah-Kyne's station as a Warrior.
And the result was Bothiah we know. You can't dislodge Kyne like you can dislodge Xen, because Kyne is filling in for Lorkhan's absent aspects (where Lorkhan is Space and Spirit, Kyne is Air and Nature).
And you'd take on the knowledge from her--of the Murder that took place, of the Plan she went along willingly for and why.
This aspect taking would result in the minor imperial Kynareth not having a warrior face (after all, can't mesh what isn't there anymore), and Trinimac disembowling himself as the new Boethiah "ate him up inside" (as both the new free warrior god and as Guilt--and perhaps, in a twisted way, a kind of terrible godly c-section birthing), and with the result of him revealing the truth because of it, additionally cause a mortal world religious shattering that left a permanent mark.
... That's a lot more interesting than what ESO has going on, huh?
Finding out that Boethiah had been Kyne was by accident, and wasn't what I was expecting at all. Turns out there had been more hidden secrets in Morrowind if you just knew a bit more Greek.
I'm also convinced that it was Azura that changed Trinimac's Aldmer into the Orcs. After all, she's the lady who caused the Khajiit, and changed the Chimer into the Dunmer--she's a very changy kind of god.
I am on the fence on whether or not Tsun is the man aspect of Xen or the man aspect of Trinimac. The Trinimac-Xarxes connection is obvious thanks to Arkay.
It makes the metaphor that Trinimac saw himself in Tsun to be little more than poetic instead of metaphysical, which I'm a bit miffed about.
