An apparition of the reader's body remains in Mundus, tethering their life force. Storms of notorious strength purportedly rage over Apocrypha.Īpart from magical teleportation, Apocrypha is most easily entered by mortals through the reading of Black Books, tomes of forbidden knowledge displaced from time and scattered across Tamriel. Discarded pages and floating tomes fill the fetid air, as if pulled by invisible string. Some areas of the realm are consumed by darkness which can kill any who enter it. The plane is covered in a sea of ink and roiling tentacles, while Hermaeus Mora is omnipresent over all, taking glee in tormenting mortals from his realm. Intricate ruins and monstrous carvings can be found among the stacks.

Stacks of books form mazes and spiraling pillars that can reach as high as the illuminating green sky. The realm is haunted by the ghosts of mortals forever searching for knowledge. The geography of the realm varies, with some areas being open with fields containing odd flora, other areas are an endless library consisting of untitled books with black covers, where all forbidden knowledge can be found, and the crackling towers of learning mingle with archways of despair and confusion. Apocrypha Īpocrypha is a realm of Oblivion created and ruled over by Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of Knowledge and Fate. They can range from beautiful to desolate some may not even resemble worlds as we think of them, containing nothing but dust and smoke, or changing constantly. Each plane is supposedly very different in appearance, depending upon the nature of the prince who rules it. The sixteen realms of the Daedric Princes, referred to by the general term Planes of Oblivion, can be very extensive Molag Bal's plane is described as being an apocalyptic replica of all of Nirn, and Hermaeus Mora's is infinite in size.Įach prince's plane may have a more specific name, such as Apocrypha for Hermaeus Mora's, Coldharbour for Molag Bal's, Moonshadow for Azura's, and Quagmire for Vaermina's. Oblivion contains all the dimensional planes which are home to the Daedra, and can be divided into the sixteen realms of the Daedric Princes, and over 37,000 other planes, chaos realms and pocket realities. Within the Aurbis exist a multitude of different Planes of Existence, from the well-known mortal realm of Mundus and the planes of the Daedric Princes, to the mysterious Oblivion pocket realms and the magical planes of Aetherius.Ĭlosely related is the concept of the Outer Realms, a term which usually refers to Aetherius and Oblivion together, but may also include a number of 'other, less structured forms' in the Aurbis.

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