#boethiah

Junelezen 2026, Day 8: Monster

Shaken and speechless from the nullifications of his brethren, he whipsered: "Have mercy upon us!"

eat the priest to please Her.

betray your most trusted.

kill this man for me (ignore that I have traumatized two of your best friends).

beat this priest into submission.

bring me my star peasant.

kill the mage to free my blade no one will miss him

cleanse my ruin instrument of cleansing light

get drunk with me

kill this man my hunter. oh you turned it inside out? perfect.

go kill the ill-blessed because he betrayed me. hope you catch my blessing ;)

you are never in control. you will replace septimus.

casbanie, a boethran priest and part of a small travelling blood theatre troupe

he is a joyous and reverant soul. dunmeri theatre was an interesting topic for my own soul

Well. I have no reason to think his story changes. I'm still of the belief that he found something he couldn't stomach, and that he consorted with daedra.

But its the how, that changes.

Trinimac arose, as we know him, because of ancestoral worship. Well, you can only make new gods through old gods. Match a behavior long enough, and you become one and the same, regardless if you were two before. Collective Belief can be a terrifying thing on Nirn.

Before that, there had to be equivalencies of, what I call, the "twelve" (stumbled on when I was making my own OCs on the matter), as a default, because they appear Everywhere, even in religions that came from other faces of Nirn.

And that's the eight... with four more.

We know the Eight: Akatosh, Kynareth, Mara, Dibella, Julianos, Zenithar, Stendarr and Arkay.

But then there's the other Four: Y'ffre, Magnus, Lorkhan (of course), and the artificial planet they made--Nirn. The dead, you could say (Lining up suspiciously like the House of Troubles... )

But you might've noticed that a lot of the Mer religions lack a lot of the mainstays of the Men religions.

Julianos is often missing. Zenithar is missing too--though he appears as the more ancient, argonian born Xen (probably for good reason). But so is Kyne.

And Kyne is a very important entity, because she's the wife of Lorkhan.

That's where Boethiah comes in. Because Boethiah's name is derived, from Boe-Thea, "Cow Goddess".

So I propose that ther had been an original elven aspect of Kyne, called Boethiah, but when Trinimac's worship came in, it and by extension he, began to absorb all the Warrior Aspected Gods. That included Bothiah-Kyne's station as a Warrior.

And the result was Bothiah we know. You can't dislodge Kyne like you can dislodge Xen, because Kyne is filling in for Lorkhan's absent aspects (where Lorkhan is Space and Spirit, Kyne is Air and Nature).

And you'd take on the knowledge from her--of the Murder that took place, of the Plan she went along willingly for and why.

This aspect taking would result in the minor imperial Kynareth not having a warrior face (after all, can't mesh what isn't there anymore), and Trinimac disembowling himself as the new Boethiah "ate him up inside" (as both the new free warrior god and as Guilt--and perhaps, in a twisted way, a kind of terrible godly c-section birthing), and with the result of him revealing the truth because of it, additionally cause a mortal world religious shattering that left a permanent mark.

... That's a lot more interesting than what ESO has going on, huh?

ADDENDUM:

Finding out that Boethiah had been Kyne was by accident, and wasn't what I was expecting at all. Turns out there had been more hidden secrets in Morrowind if you just knew a bit more Greek.

I'm also convinced that it was Azura that changed Trinimac's Aldmer into the Orcs. After all, she's the lady who caused the Khajiit, and changed the Chimer into the Dunmer--she's a very changy kind of god.

So I was randomly looking up greek myths, mostly about the Golden Fleece from the Argonauts, and I came acros something.

The name of a Greek region, Boeotia. And I thought, "That looks suspiciously like Boethiah".

So I went digging, because I got this nagging feeling...

Boeotia is the latin name for the region. It is pronounced "Bo-ae-o-ti-a" in latin.

... which is nearly exactly like Boethiah.

But there's a greek origin to the latin name-- "Boiōtós".

And THAT, has a origin we can follow: "Boṓtēs", like the constellation.

And at that point, there was only one origin left-- Bootes comes from Bous... Meaning "Cow".

But what about the rest of Boethiah's name? Well pronounce it like Greek-- Bo-ae-thea. "Cow Goddess".

Who else is the cow goddess of Tamriel? Kyne or Kynareth.

take on the boethiah-trinimac myth that i might use as an eyecatcher for a post about goblinken eusociality. interpretations vary on whether boethiah was exposing trinimac's lie to the surface or relieving him from the facade.

Every Squad Got the:

Left to right top to bottom:

Divayth Fyr: tax evader

Dumac Dwarf-king: guy who screams “it’s time to duel!” In any situation

Voryn Dagoth (Dagoth ur): homophobic homosexual

Boethiah: Shady af comebacks

Máni Nerevar (Nerevarine/nerevar): this one just trying his best

Mephala: Gay wine aunt

Almalexia: influencer slash war criminal

Sotha Sil: Dilf in training

Soren (sheogorath/jyggalag): manic pixie dream girl

Azura: Finsta baddie