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In the oldest fragments of the Marukhati commentaries, one line recurs, often crossed out, sometimes hidden in acrostics: "The One dreams of the Many, but the Many wake to find the One has eaten their faces."

They believed that Akatosh, the Dragon God of Time, had been "contaminated" by Elven influence. The Elves saw Akatosh as Auri-El, a being of beginning, of ascendancy, of linear, hierarchical time . Marukh’s followers wanted a god of eternal, unbroken stasis —a Time that does not progress but simply is . So they attempted to remove the "Elven bits" from the Dragon. They danced. They used tonal architects and ritual violence. And they succeeded— partially . maruhk

To speak of Marukh is to speak of the wound of certainty. Before the Prophet, the faiths of Tamriel were a lush, untidy forest—gods bled into ancestors, Aedra bickered like drunken uncles, and the mortal soul could wander the Many without fear of the One. Then came the monkey, and the forest became a single, straight road paved with skulls. In the oldest fragments of the Marukhati commentaries,

And yet, the deepest layer of the Marukhati text is not political but ontological . The Marukhati Selective were not satisfied with merely erasing gods. They sought to edit the divine source code. Their most infamous act—the Dance of the Selective at the Adamantine Tower—was not a prayer. It was a surgical strike. So they attempted to remove the "Elven bits" from the Dragon