Behold, the reason I left a TES Amino!
My Tribunal demi-god, who started as a hypothetical AU but I fell in love with him so much I added him to my main canon. His name is Aithilo Raamando, and it was so nice to draw him again. I always have a hard time giving him a proper squint- I blame Sotha Sil for that being passed down. That and the just noticeable gap between his front teeth.
On ESO, he’s a Sorcerer Archer and if I ever remake him in any of the other games, he most likely will keep that class. During the 2nd Era, he was the Hero of the Ebonheart Pact.
There is a very long and complicated story behind him, that maybe I’ll post about later or if anyone asks, but I don’t want to bog down this post. The short story is, I had always wondered if any of the Tribunal had a demi-god, would Lorkhan claim that child as HIS? Would the child be born with their own divinely given powers, or would they too steal from the Heart? What would happen to them once the Heart was destroyed? If Lorkhan claimed them, what would stop him from possessing their body as a new vessel? People claim Magnus possesses powerful mages when he so chooses. What would stop Lorkhan from claiming a new body and new heart?
Aithilo has had a rough long life, but despite the questions above and the hell they brought on, he is happy and comfy in the 4th Era. And I will add here that he does have future vision abilities, but not alike his father’s. He dreams of different versions of the future, never knowing which will come to pass. Also he has terrible nightmares of the past, especially when on Vvardenfell, which is why he was raised away from Morrowind.
I first want to say, this is all my take on what it would be like, obviously. If you think it would go another way, all the more power to you and your Tribunal demigod OC.
Second, I understand this is mildly lorebreaking to a degree and many people see Sil as not ever desiring children or love. Again, good on you. But this is how my Elder Scrolls world works with my OCs, and they are in no way harming your world or your OCs.
We good? Good.
Anyways, a rant about Aithilo Raamando, son of Sotha Sil.
Note: My theory is that if a demigod of the Tribunal existed, that demigod would also count as Lorkhan’s. That demigod would be born with its own divine power, which is directly from Lorkhan, after all. Lorkhan took note that events were rushing forward, and his heart would be destroyed. He’d need a new vessel, a new heart, and since Sotha Sil had provided a demigod, Lorkhan had a means to return to Tamriel, to seek vengeance tenfold.
Now, to Aithilo-
Aithilo was raised for nine hundred some years as the son of Divayth Fyr. His mother had passed during his birth, leaving Aithilo to be raised by his uncle and his husband. About a few months later, Divayth came and claimed the child was his- Rasulu, Aithilo’s mother, had told her brother Raiynes that the father would come to claim their son, and “please don’t be scared, there’s more to him than there seems.” They had both been Ashlanders, so the concepts of the House dunmer and the Tribunal had always rubbed them the wrong way. But now Raiynes was married to an altmer hubby and lived in Valenwood with different views, and he couldn’t fight against his sister’s dying words. So Divayth was accepted as the father without question.
When Trechire was in the Clockwork City, she got up close to countless memories of Sotha Sil that had been stored away. Among them, she witnessed the clear cut evidence that Sotha Sil had fathered Aithilo. As Master Raamando was like family to her, she confessed to Aithilo what she had seen. When Aithilo confronted Divayth, the old wizard finally revealed the truth.
Aithilo was not completely angry with Divayth- Sotha Sil had never come to claim him, despite Rasulu having asked him to. Divayth had come when he had learned Sil had abandoned the idea, because “your mother was worth something, and her child not having the education and upbringing befitting her legacy was a disgrace”. For all his life, Aithilo had dealt with people asking “You don’t act like Fyr at all!” or “How do you deal with a father like that?” Aithilo had always laughed it off, knowing Divayth was quite a handful, but had always remembered the kinder moments his father had shown, and learned to just take the criticism with stride.
But he had no idea what to think of Sotha Sil. Aithilo had seen for himself the foul murder; in his nightmares the scene had replayed over and over again. He had seen the shade of Auriel shoot an arrow and knock the heart from Aithilo’s own chest. He had cried in fear as three figures tried to rip his heart out. What haunted him most was the visions of a metal man crying, his hands encrusted with dried blood.
How was he supposed to look upon his fellow dunmer without guilt overtaking him? He knew for a fact what the Ashlanders taught was true. The dunmer had been betrayed, cursed, for a murderous act by a deceptive Tribunal. Sotha Sil hadn’t even bothered to claim him, but had abandoned him to grow up with his intense night terrors of his father’s sins, offering no aid, no words of comfort, or of apology. Aithilo had lived the way Raiynes had told him his mother had- loving Tamriel and all its secrets with her whole being. He saw unequal value within his world, from Y’ffre, and then from the Hist. Sotha Sil taught that this world was broken, poisoned, and needed to be replaced.
How could he come from such a disgusting individual?
His father’s identity haunted him, and by the end of the 2nd Era, it had overtaken his life. None of the Tribunal could have guessed what a demi-god from them would lead to. Lorkhan saw his opportunity, and if Aithilo hoped to stop the mess his father had helped to make from spreading any further, he had to sacrifice walking the face of Tamriel for the rest of his days. He held off Lorkhan overtaking him as long as he could, isolating himself on Artaeum, all up until twenty years before the events of Morrowind. Then his strength withered, and Lorkhan had his way.
My point being that the pressure placed upon Aithilo was him pondering if he ever had his own life, or if he was destined to just be another mistake the Tribunal had made, which needed to be corrected.
