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Going Imga

  • Member
    April 14, 2016

    The most famous Imga is Marukh, forever associated with the Alessian Order and the Marukhati Selective - a particularly interesting piece of lore, especially the totemic ancestor worship. Marukh believed he had painful visions from Alessia about a century after her death prompting him to write the Seventy-Seven Inflexible Doctrines. (The Illusion of Death)

    Then did Maruhk know a Right Reaching, that one devoted to Proper-Life and Ehlnofic Annulment shall persist beyond the illusion of death—for indeed, the drive to expunge corruption can conquer even the Arkayn Cycle.

    This vision of "Ehlnofic Annulment" was to remove the elven aspects from the Dragon God of Time. This anti-elven sentiment was the consistent theme of the Alessian Order which survived for two thousand years after Marukh's time. A sect of the order, The Marukhati Selective, took this ideal to the next level and (possibly depending on which source you prefer) caused a Dragon break - The Middle Dawn - in their attempt to do this, as explained in Vindication for the Dragon Break:

    Thus it is our purpose upon Mundus to reverse the error of Sanctus Primus and restore Ak-at-Osh to humanadic purity. To say otherwise is vain and empty persiflage.

    Therefore let 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.

    Prophet-Most-Simian guide us! Misplaced Shezarr bless us! May our Wills in this be Enacted!

    Protean substrates and Aldmeri taint - those changeable aspects which make Akatosh both Alkosh and Auriel.

    According to a paranoid Bosmer in Skingrad, the Selective still exist...

    Marukh the Seer by Ksenia-z

    What do you think?

  • April 15, 2016

    I think that these guys were nuts.

  • Member
    April 15, 2016

    Literally, the Imgas went Imgas.

  • April 15, 2016

    Since the only actual Imga was Marukh, the rest don't have that excuse 

  • Member
    April 15, 2016

    Sorry guys, Going Imga was my little pun on the phrase, "going ape."

  • April 15, 2016

    Lol) Well, that's very matching then Marukhati Selective is the perfect illustration of it)))))

  • Member
    April 15, 2016
    Don't forget who also went nuts in paranoia... I don't believe a bit of what he says.
  • Member
    April 15, 2016

    I know, which is why I find it funny that Marukh, an Imga, went Imga.

  • Member
    April 15, 2016

    Ah good

  • Tom
    Member
    April 16, 2016

    Bless the Prophet-Most-Simian! By Saint Alessia, by Ak-at-Osh, by Shezarr!

    I freaking love the Selective. This is the shit I want in my fantasy. Monkeys and madman dancing for a millennia until time breaks and gods are exorcised.

    Imga are known for revering and trying to imitate Altmeri culture too.