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[These are excerpts from this lengthy tome, describing the nature of each of the Daedra.]<br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/a_70x61.dds" width=70 height=61>zura, whose sphere is dusk and dawn, the magic in-between realms of twilight, known as Moonshadow, Mother of the Rose, and Queen of the Night Sky.<br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/b_60x61.dds" width=60 height=61>oethiah, whose sphere is deceit and conspiracy, and the secret plots of murder, assassination, treason, and unlawful overthrow of authority.<br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/c_59x61.dds" width=59 height=61>lavicus Vile, whose sphere is the granting of power and wishes through ritual invocations and pact.<br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/h_62x62.dds" width=62 height=62>ermaeus Mora, whose sphere is scrying of the tides of Fate, of the past and future as read in the stars and heavens, and in whose dominion are the treasures of knowledge and memory. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/h_62x62.dds" width=62 height=62>ircine, whose sphere is the Hunt, the Sport of Daedra, the Great Game, the Chase, known as the Huntsman and the Father of Manbeasts.<br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/m_65x62.dds" width=65 height=62>alacath, whose sphere is the patronage of the spurned and ostracized, the keeper of the Sworn Oath, and the Bloody Curse. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/m_65x62.dds" width=65 height=62>ehrunes Dagon, whose sphere is Destruction, Change, Revolution, Energy, and Ambition. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/m_65x62.dds" width=65 height=62>ephala, whose sphere is obscured to mortals; known by the names Webspinner, Spinner, and Spider; whose only consistent theme seems to be interference in the affairs of mortals for her amusement. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/m_65x62.dds" width=65 height=62>eridia, whose sphere is obscured to mortals; who is associated with the energies of living things. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/m_65x62.dds" width=65 height=62>olag Bal, whose sphere is the domination and enslavement of mortals; whose desire is to harvest the souls of mortals and to bring mortals souls within his sway by spreading seeds of strife and discord in the mortal realms. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/n_63x62.dds" width=63 height=62>amira, whose sphere is the ancient Darkness; known as the Spirit Daedra, ruler of sundry dark and shadowy spirits; associated with spiders, insects, slugs, and other repulsive creatures which inspire mortals with an instinctive revulsion. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/n_63x62.dds" width=63 height=62>octurnal, whose sphere is the night and darkness; who is known as the Night Mistress. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/p_59x62.dds" width=59 height=62>eryite, whose sphere is the ordering of the lowest orders of Oblivion, known as the Taskmaster. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/s_61x62.dds" width=61 height=62>anguine, whose sphere is hedonistic revelry and debauchery, and passionate indulgences of darker natures.<br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/s_61x62.dds" width=61 height=62>heogorath, whose sphere is Madness, and whose motives are unknowable. <br>
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<IMG src="Book/fancy_font/v_63x62.dds" width=63 height=62>aernima, whose sphere is the realm of dreams and nightmares, and from whose realm issues forth evil omens. <br>
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[Especially marked for special interest under the heading "Malacath" you find a reference to SCOURGE, blessed by Malacath, and dedicated to the use of mortals. In short, the reference suggests that any Daedra attempting to invoke the weapon's powers will be expelled into the voidstreams of Oblivion.] <br>
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"Of the legendary artifacts of the Daedra, many are well known, like Azura's Star, and Sheogorath's Wabbajack. Others are less well known, like Scourge, Mackkan's Hammer, Bane of Daedra...." <br>
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"...yet though Malacath blessed Scourge to be potent against his Daedra kin, he thought not that it should fall into Daedric hands, then to serve as a tool for private war among caitiff and forsaken. Thus did Malacath curse the device such that, should any dark kin seek to invoke its powers, that a void should open and swallow that Daedra, and purge him into Oblivion's voidstreams, from thence to pathfind back to the Real and Unreal Worlds in the full order of time." <br>
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[本書の長い記述から、Daedraの性質に関する項目を以下に挙げる。]<br>
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月の影、バラの母、夜空の女王の名で知られるAzuraは、日の出と日没の薄闇の時を司る。<br>
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Boethiaは秘密裏の殺人、暗殺、反逆、権力の転覆などの虚偽と陰謀を司る。<br>
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Clavicus Vileは儀式や契約と引き換えに力と祝福を授ける。<br>
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Hermaeus Moraは空と星の動きから、世界の過去と未来を読み、知識と記憶を支配する。<br>
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狩るもの、獣人の父として知られるHircineは狩猟を司る、娯楽、スポーツのDaedraである。<br>
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Malacathは契約と呪いの守護者であり、拒絶と排斥を司る。<br>
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Mehrunes Dagonは破壊、変化、革命、活力、野心を司る。<br>
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クモ、紡ぐ者、網を紡ぐ者などの名で知られるMephalaが何を司っているかは、命ある者にとっては理解し難い。気晴らしに世の中の情勢に干渉することが彼女のただ一つの一貫したテーマのようである。<br>
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Meridiaが何を司っているかもまたわかりにくい。どうやら命あるもののエネルギーと関わりがあるようだ。<br>
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Molag Balは命ある者の支配と隷属を司る。衝突と争いの種を蒔き、命あるものの魂を自分の支配下に迎え入れることが彼の望みである。<br>
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魂のDaedra、闇の支配者、おぼろな魂などの名で知られるNamiraは古代の暗黒を司り、クモや昆虫、ナメクジなど人々が本能的な嫌悪感を催す生き物と関連がある。<br>
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夜の女王として知られるNocturnalは夜と暗黒を司る。<br>
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監督者の名で知られるPeryteはObilvionの下層階級への指揮を司る。<br>
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Sanguineは享楽的なバカ騒ぎと放蕩、そして官能への耽溺を司る。<br>
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Sheograthは人知を超えた動機を持って狂気を司る。<br>
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Vaernimaは凶兆に由来する夢と悪夢を司る。 <br>
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[特に"Malacath"の項で「SCOURGE」に関する記載があるのに目を引いた。つまり、もしDaedraが武器の力を引き出すものなら、その者はOblivionの虚空へ流れ込まれるとある。]<br>
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「Azura's StarやSheograth's WabbajackなどDaedraの伝説的な工芸品のうちの多くは良く知られている。しかし、Scourge, Mackkan's Hammer, Bane of Daedraなどの名前はさほど有名ではない....」<br>
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「....Malacathは他のDaedraの一族に対抗するためScourgeに祝福を授けたが、彼はこれがDaderaの手に渡り、身勝手な目的で使われるべきではないと考えた。そして、Malacathはもしも闇の親族がその力を使うものなら虚空が開きDaedraを呑み込み、その者がOblivionの虚空の流れへと追放され、現実と非現実の間を永遠に彷徨うように呪いをかけたのである。」 <br>
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