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Tyranny of the Sun

A [[Lore:Snow Elf|Snow Elf]] named Vyrthur served as the Arch-Curate at the Chantry of Auri-El during the First Era. His position in the Chantry was such that he was said to commune with Auri-El himself. When he was afflicted with [[Lore:Vampire|vampirism]] by one of the initiates of the Chantry, he felt betrayed that Auri-El would allow such a thing to happen to him.{{ref|name=Vyrthur|[[Skyrim:Arch-Curate Vyrthur|Arch-Curate Vyrthur]]'s dialogue in [[Skyrim:Dawnguard|Dawnguard]].}}

Vyrthur sought revenge on Auri-El by creating a [[Lore:Tyranny of the Sun|Tyranny of the Sun]]prophecy which, if fulfilled, would becloud the sun for eternity. Such an act would sunder the connection between [[Lore:Aetherius|Aetherius]], the plane of the gods, and [[Lore:Mundus|Mundus]]. This in turn would eliminate Auri-El's influence on [[Lore:Nirn|Nirn]]. This was to be achieved by corrupting Auriel's Bow and using it to loose an arrow, soaked in the blood of a Daughter of Coldharbour, into the sun. Vyrthur began to publicize the prophecy with the intent of drawing a Daughter of Coldharbour to him.{{ref|name=Vyrthur}}

[[Lore:Harkon|Harkon]], an ancient [[Lore:Vampire Lord|pure-blood vampire]], became aware of the prophecy when he uncovered the Moth Priest's writings. As a vampire, the sun was his greatest enemy and for many years he had sought a solution to this problem. When he discovered that the fulfilled prophecy would plunge the world into eternal darkness, he became obsessed with its realization.{{ref|name=Harkon|[[Skyrim:Lord Harkon|Harkon]]'s dialogue in [[Skyrim:Dawnguard|Dawnguard]].}} He came to possess two of the Elder Scrolls the Moth Priest had identified, one of which declared that ''"The Blood of Coldharbour's Daughter will blind the eye of the Dragon."''{{ref|name=Val|[[Skyrim:Valerica|Valerica]]'s dialogue in [[Skyrim:Dawnguard|Dawnguard]].}} Realizing that his own daughter, [[Lore:Serana|Serana]], could be used for the blood sacrifice, he sought to learn more. Before Harkon could proceed any further, his wife fled from him and took Serana and the Elder Scrolls with her. She hid one scroll with Serana deep within an ancient Nordic tomb and escaped to the [[Lore:Soul Cairn|Soul Cairn]] with the other. As a result, the prophecy lay dormant for the next several thousand years.{{ref|name=Val}}

In {{Year|4E 201}}, Harkon discovered the whereabouts of Serana and the Elder Scroll and sent a group of his followers to retrieve her. Instead, she was released from her tomb and escorted back to her father by the [[Lore:Hero|Last Dragonborn]]. With Serana's Elder Scroll returned to him, Harkon kidnapped a Moth Priest in order to decipher the prophecy.{{ref|name=Dawnguard|Events of [[Skyrim:Dawnguard|Dawnguard]].}} The Moth Priest eventually revealed another part of the prophecy that was congruous with the events of the time: ''"Among the night's children, a dread lord will rise. In an age of strife, when dragons return to the realm of men, darkness will mingle with light and the night and day will be as one."'' The priest also revealed that the fabled bow of Auri-El was somehow involved, but without the other two scrolls its location remained a mystery.{{ref|name=Dex|[[Skyrim:Dexion Evicus|Dexion Evicus]]'s dialogue in [[Skyrim:Dawnguard|Dawnguard]].}}

After retrieving the other two Elder Scrolls, one from the Soul Cairn and the other from deep within a [[Lore:Dwemer|Dwemer]] ruin, the Last Dragonborn used all three to perform the [[Lore:Ritual of the Ancestor Moth|Ritual of the Ancestor Moth]] within a secluded ancestor glade. The ritual revealed the location of Auriel's Bow, and the Dragonborn subsequently traveled with Serana to retrieve it. The bow was located in the Chantry of Auri-El, guarded by Arch-Curate Vyrthur himself. By luring Serana directly to him, Vyrthur's vengeance against Auri-El almost came to fruition; however, Serana and the Last Dragonborn were able to defeat and kill Vyrthur. With the bow in the possession of the Dragonborn, it is unknown if the prophecy was stopped or reshaped.{{ref|name=Dawnguard}}

I removed this from the page. This is duplicated content from Lore:Tyranny of the Sun and doesn't belong here. A short summary would be fine but I've just linked to the full article instead. —⁠Legoless (talk) 15:57, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Fine with me really, I went through finding various sun things to add them into the page. Tyranny of the Sun was one of those, But a link to it is just fine to me. Besides, this page still needs a lot of work, added what I could find. There is still a lot of stuff, like the Dwemeri artifical suns, to a lot of lore on the sun and stuff. That is out there. To make this a full fledged page. I know there is unique Nirnroot lore too, related to the volcanoic explosion that I think covered the sun that would need looking into as well. TheVampKnight (talk) 17:02, 9 January 2023 (UTC)