Lore talk:Dyus

Immortality

Interview With Two Denizens of the Shivering Isles has Dyus state

"As a librarian, I found a certain satisfaction in my work. As chamberlain, everyday I yearned for death. It was Lord Jyggalag’s whim that I would despise the role I was molded to fit. After my first few deaths, he grew impatient with me and stripped my mortality away. However, even he did not anticipate that I would survive his downfall. Lord Sheogorath could have ended me, but he chose to imprison me instead, in case he needed my services. Now I wait for the end of times, when I might be allowed to die.

In Shivering Isles, Dyus states:

"Following each cycle of the Greymarch, Sheogorath has cast out or killed every aspect of Order found in the Shivering Isles. I alone have survived. Sheogorath cannot bring himself to destroy the knowledge that I possess. Instead, he has confined me to this place and 'forbidden me to die'. I have not seen another creature until fate, predictably, sent you to me."

I am going to move Interview with Two Denizens take on it to the notes section, since in-game lore trumps outside lore sources.Zebendal (talk) 00:44, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

I've undone the two recent edits as I don't think there's a contradiction here. It is entirely possible that both Jyggalag and Sheogorath forbade Dyus from dying; Jyggalag stripped his mortality away, and Sheogorath continued to forbid his death. Both these statements can co-exist on the page and I think the previous wording is fairly neutral on this. In comparison, I don't think the wording of the note is particularly good. —⁠Legoless (talk) 18:01, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm going to edit the reference of that specific sentence to point to Two Denizens rather than Dialogue, since that's the specific source for that statement. --Enodoc (talk) 19:05, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Good catch, apologies. —⁠Legoless (talk) 20:09, 15 January 2021 (UTC)