The Elder Scrolls Treasury III - The Imperial Library

towards → Mount Kand. Go north around Mount Kand and along the north side of the → Foyada.NchurdamzA → Dwemer ruin far south of → Sadrith Mora and southwest of → Hlormaren.NecromancyNecromancy is not illegal, per se, in the → Empire, though body and spirit are protected asproperty, and may not be used without permission of the owner, and public display of the livingdead is widely prohibited. → Mages may purchase corpses and souls for philosophical research,and may do with them as they wish in private. Necromancers and → vampires are widely confusedin the public mind, and persecuted, but in remote locations, necromancers are free to pursue theirstudies without legal interference.Lit.: Blasphemous Revenants (TEST I 2 : 240). Corpse Preparation (TEST I 2 : 305).NerevarNerevar is a First Age hero of the → Dunmer people. Ages ago, Nerevar was a legendary Dunmergeneral who, in ancient times and with the power of the great Ring of the Ancestors, →One−Clan−Under−Moon−and−Star, united the Dunmer Houses and defeated the evil Dwarves, →Nords, → Orcs, and traitor Dunmer at the Battle of → Red Mountain. Nerevar was one of thefounders of the First Council of → Great Houses, and friend and companion of → Vivec, →Almalexia, and → Sotha Sil, who later became the gods of the → Tribunal Temple. ByProvidence, the faithless → Dwemer were utterly destroyed, and their allies and the traitor →Dagoth Ur were defeated. Nerevar himself died in the battle.Nerevarine (Nerevarine Cult)The → Ashlanders have a prophecy that one day the ancient → Dunmer hero → Nerevar will bereborn to honor ancient promises to the tribes and unite the Dunmer against the invaders to restorethe ancient Dark Elven nation. According to legend, the prophesied Nerevarine will cast down thefalse gods of the → Tribunal Temple, restore the traditional → ancestor worship practiced by theAshlanders, and drive all → outlanders from → Morrowind. Both Temple and → Empire outlawthe cult: the Tribunal Temple says this is a false and profane superstition, and the → Ordinatorsdeal mercilessly with those who profess such beliefs: But it persists among the Ashlanders, whocare little for Imperial or Temple → law.Nerevarine PropheciesNchurdamzThe → Ashlanders have a mystical tradition of interpreting dreams and visions as prophecies.These prophecies are recorded in verse, and may be lost or garbled over the generations. But the →Dissident Priests have collected many ancient prophecies of the → Nerevarine, many of whichthey believe to be genuine. Collectively these are called the → Lost Prophecies of the Incarnate.One of the sacred missions of the Dissident Priests is the collection and study of these prophecies.146