Lore:Marukhati Selective

The UESPWiki – Your source for The Elder Scrolls since 1995
Jump to: navigation, search
"[L]et the Staff of Towers be prepared for the ritual that will cleanse the protean substrate of the Aldmeri Taint. All Selectives are to initiate chants of Proper-Life and maintain them until a state of monothought is achieved. Then each shall Dance, duration-forward then volteface, till the Roll of Time winds withershins."
Fervidius Tharn, Arch-Prelate of the Maruhkati Selective[1]

The Marukhati Selective (also spelled Maruhkati) was an elite sect within the Alessian Order. Their beliefs are summarized in The Exclusionary Mandates. Due to their intense devotion to singularity, they considered all their beliefs equally important and crucial. They believed that the linear nature of time demonstrated that Akatosh is (or at least, should be) of a unitary essence. They asserted that Shezarr is "Singularly Misplaced and therefore Doubly Venerated", that "Proper-Life" as enunciated by Marukh is fostered by "monothought", and it serves to expunge the "Aldmeri Taint". They believed it was necessary to act in the mortal realm to achieve their divine goal to expunge this taint, and that "Akatosh is Time is Proper-Life is Taint-Death".

In Vindication for the Dragon Break, Fervidius Tharn (who became Arch-Prelate of the Selectives in 1E 1188)[2] summarized the Mandates by stating that the goal of the Selectives was "to reverse the error of Sanctus Primus and restore Ak-at-Osh to humanadic purity".

The ultimate fate of the Selective following the Dragon Break is unknown. Some conspiracy theorists believed they were still in existence in the late Third Era as a ruthless secret society.[3] Other sources record Marukhati in the period openly, possessing knowledge of the Numidium which few believed.[UOL 1]

Beliefs[edit]

The Exclusionary Mandates of Maruhkite Selection: All Are Equal
1: That the Supreme Spirit Akatosh is of unitary essence, as proven by the monolinearity of Time.
1: That Shezarr the missing sibling is Singularly Misplaced and therefore Doubly Venerated.
1: That the protean substrate that informs all denial of (1) is the Aldmeri Taint.
1: That the Prophet Most Simian demonstrated that monothought begets Proper-Life.
1: That the purpose of Proper-Life is the Expungement of the Taint.
1: That the Arc of Time provides the mortal theater for the Sacred Expungement.
1: That Akatosh is Time is Proper-Life is Taint-Death.
The Exclusionary Mandates

Essentially, their animosity towards all things elven was so great that they could not tolerate the notion of Aldmeri influence on their beloved Akatosh. When their rituals could not disprove this influence, the fanatical scholar-priests decided to exorcise the Aldmeri traits instead. The sect's secret masters channeled the Aurbis itself to mythically remove these aspects from the Dragon God.[4] A staff or tower (or one represented within the other) appeared before them. The secret masters danced upon it until it writhed and trembled and spoke its protonymic (its real, original name: "Tam! RUGH!").[UOL 2] The tower split into eight pieces and Time broke, becoming nonlinear. After one thousand and eight years (1E 1200-2208, the estimation recognized by the Elder Council), the pieces of the tower came to rest in Mundus, and the Middle Dawn ended.[UOL 3]

Every culture on Tamriel remembers the Middle Dawn in some fashion, mostly as a time of unaccountable spiritual anguish. Several texts survive this timeless period, all (unsurprisingly) conflicting with each other regarding events, people, and regions. Some say certain wars happened, some say the gods walked, and some assign a certain color to the sun. But almost always, sources seemed to contradict each other. Whether or not the secret masters of the Marukhati Selective were successful is unknown, and any records of their survival were destroyed by the War of Righteousness that ended the Alessian Order a hundred years later.[UOL 3] The only thing all cultures consistently agree upon is that, one by one, eight stars fell from the sky.

References[edit]

Note: The following references are considered to be unofficial sources. They are included to round off this article and may not be authoritative or conclusive.