A stained glass depiction of Dibella
| “ | The skies over Wayrest are stormy and changeable, more often gray than blue, but some mornings in Second Seed the sun rises into heavens blue and clear, and a mild, warm breeze blows in from the Iliac Bay. It was on just such a morning, under trees fragrant with blossoms, that I was welcoming several new novices to their vocation in the House of Dibella. |
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| ~ Dibella's Mysteries and Revelations |
Summary
Dibella is the Aedric Goddess of Love, Beauty, Arts and Sexuality, and a part of the Pantheon of the Eight Divines. She one of the Et'Ada, the Original Spirits who took shape as consequence of the interplay between Anu and Padomay at the dawn of the universe. Like the rest of her kind, Dibella was originally boundless and ineffable, but through the creation of Space and Time obtained individuality and crystallized into being. She was among the Et'Ada who followed through with Lorkhan's plan to create the Mortal Plane, though it is unclear if she was tricked into limiting and binding herself to the Mundus, or did so willingly for the sake of creation.
Dibella is among the most popular deities of Tamriel, and is worshiped throughout the continent in a variety of forms and interpretations. Her myriad cults can range from moral teachings on love and relationships, religious artistic and aesthetic expression, worship of femininity itself, and even erotic instruction and ritualistic lovemaking. As a deity of sexuality, Dibella is often shunned by the more conservative cultures on Tamriel, who see her as a goddess of debauchery and denounce her priestesses as prostitutes. Other, more open-minded societies, meanwhile see Dibella as a goddess who embodies love in its purest form, and who expresses the beauty that can be found in all aspects of creation.
Powers and Stats
Tier: High 1-B | Low 1-A | High 1-A
Key: Aedra (Bound to the Mundus) | Et'Ada (Bound to the Aurbis) | Unbound Et'Ada
Name: Dibella. Known by many titles, such as Our Blessed Lady, The Lady of Love, The Passion Dancer, The Queen of Heaven, The Moth Goddess, The Bed-Wife of Shor, etc.
Origin: The Elder Scrolls
Gender: Inapplicable. Depicted and referred to as female.
Age: Inapplicable.
Classification: Aedric Divine, Goddess of Love, Beauty, Sexuality and Art, Et'Ada
Powers and Abilities:
Abstract Existence (Type 1. Gods are described as "manifest metaphors"[1] and their actions as "ideologies given skin,"[2] existing as aspects of the Aurbis that each personify a specific concept,[3] existing not as mere beings, but as the ideas themselves[4]), Magic, Spatial Manipulation, Avatar Creation, Cosmic Awareness, Creation, Reality Warping, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation, Life and Death Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1. Immensely above minor gods such as the Ideal Masters, who are stated to live in a platonic ideal of their own making beyond the Mundus.[5]), Time Manipulation, Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 5 and 9. Gods are unbound by the concepts of Life and Death, which came to be during the creation of the Mundus and only applies to mortals,[6] and even incomplete deities such as Vivec can resurrect themselves at will from the timeless world of the gods[7]), Power Bestowal, Law Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, Omnipresence, Nigh-Omniscience, Causality Manipulation (The Divines are stated to be capable of modifying both the past and the future at their leisure[8]), Soul Manipulation, Large Size (Type 10), Sound Manipulation and Information Manipulation (The entirety of the Aurbis is, in fact, a song,[9] and entities with divine power are capable of manipulating the underlying tones of existence by acknowledging that principle, shaping reality through the manipulation of stories and archetypes,[10] making myth[11] and metaphor[12] manifest)
All previous powers and abilities on an immensely greater scale, as well as: Acausality (Type 5. Gods of Dibella's ken are completely beyond linear time and reside in a state where all events are always happening simultaneously,[7][13] being as such unbound by cause, duration, consequence and eventuality,[14][15] with their lives being described as unable to support most of the qualities of a narrative.[1] Can access fully static states of existence outside of Aurbic Time, in which all of her actions occur eternally and continuously, even when, from a linear perspective, they are already long accomplished[16]), Existence Erasure (The Et'Ada are stated to be capable of submitting othe spirits to "sithite erasure."[16]), greatly enhanced Law Manipulation and Physics Manipulation (The Convention of the Et'Ada eternally defines and shapes the laws and nature of the mortal plane from outside of time,[17][16] and ensures Lorkhan is left bound in place, unable to return from death as Gods do[18]), Large Size (Type 11)
All previous abilities to unfathomably greater degrees, as well as Transduality (Type 2) and Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2)
Attack Potency: High Hyperverse level (Should be comparable in power to the Daedric Princes of Oblivion, as a portion of the Eight Aedra's power contained in the Amulet of Kings was enough to empower the Vestige such that they were able to battle against and defeat Molag Bal within his own realm of Coldharbour, and Mannimarco was likewise confident that the Amulet would allow him to overthrow Molag Bal and ascend to godhood[19]) | Low Outerverse level (Dibella, much like the majority of the Eight Divines, was among the Et'Ada who made their domains and homes within Aetherius,[20] the ocean of pure magic that encompasses[21] and exists in a "more real" state compared to the Mundus and the infinitely-dimensioned void of Oblivion,[22] being a greater infinity compared to it, and who themselves assisted in shaping the Aurbis into its current form in the beginning of time[23][24]) | High Outerverse level (In their original states, the Et'Ada were entities that partook in the primordial interplay between Anu and Padomay, existing as sparks of divinity directly descended from their first interaction, before everything else came to existence, and being the primal state of being which Ruling Kings of the Aurbis return to through their attainment of CHIM[25])
Speed: Omnipresent within the Mundus | Immeasurable | Immeasurable
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable
Striking Strength: High Hyperverse level | Low Outerverse level | High Outerverse level
Durability: High Hyperverse level | Low Outerverse level | High Outerverse level
Stamina: Infinite
Range: At least Low Complex Multiversal | High Outerversal
Standard Equipment: The Brush of True Paint
Weaknesses: Much like the other Aedra, she is bound to the plane of Mundus | None Notable
Gallery
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Lunar Lorkhan
- ↑ Michael Kirkbride - Reddit AMA
- ↑ Monomyth: Altmeri "The Heart of the World"
- ↑ Justiciar Tanorian's Dialogue
- ↑ Battlespire Athanaeum, page 115
- ↑ Varieties of Faith in the Empire
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Vivec (Morrowind)
- ↑ ESO Live Lawrence Schick Interview
- ↑ Michael Kirkbride - IRC Q&A Sessions
- ↑ Made Up Word Round Up
- ↑ Nahfahlaar's Dialogue
- ↑ ESO Live: Lore of the Clockwork City
- ↑ Pridehome: A Place Outside Time?
- ↑ Lord Fa-Nuit-Hen and Tutor Riparius Answer Your Questions 2
- ↑ On the Detachment of the Sheath
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter #4
- ↑ Aurbic Enigma 4: The Elden Tree
- ↑ Mythic Dawn Commentaries
- ↑ The Chim el-Adabal
- ↑ Pocket Guide to the Empire, 3rd Edition/Arena Supermundus
- ↑ Cosmology
- ↑ Monomyth: Yokudan, "Satakal the Worldskin"
- ↑ Vehk's Teaching: ...the Tower
- ↑ Vehk's Teaching: More about Aedra - Daedra
- ↑ More on the Psijic Endeavor
Discussions
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