Lore:Daedric Triad

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The Daedric Triad (or simply the Triad) was an alliance between three Daedric Princes who were not bound by Sotha Sil's Coldharbour Compact, Nocturnal, Mephala, and Clavicus Vile, that formed in the Second Era. In 2E 582 the three Princes enacted a plot gain control of the means via which to remake reality.[1]

  • Nocturnal
  • Mephala
  • Clavicus Vile

History[edit]

Initial Attempt on the Crystal Tower[edit]

A memory of Clavicus Vile bargaining with the Sea Sload K'Tora

At some point in the Early Second Era, the three Princes formed a secretive alliance known only as 'The Triad'. Their goal was to acquire the means to remake reality by any means possible.[1] Their first known target was the mythical Crystal Tower on Summerset. As part of their scheme, Clavicus Vile made a deal with the Sea Sloads of Ul'vor Kus—he would give them the island of Summerset in exchange for a piece of Transparent Law, the 'Stone' of the Crystal Tower. The Cabal of Sea Sloads brainwashed the Ritemaster of the Psijic Order, Iachesis, into stealing Transparent Law, but Nocturnal secretly betrayed Clavicus Vile and Mephala and helped Iachesis hide the Stone from the rest of the Triad, providing him with a spell that would hide the Heart from everyone, until such time as she could move forward with her own plans. Iachesis then moved the island of Artaeum off of Nirn entirely to avoid falling under the influence of the Princes yet again. With the Triad's plan seemingly foiled, they moved on and began to plot their next move.[2][3] As part of the Triad's deal with the Sea Sload, they promised them the island of Summerset itself in exchange for the Heart, something which would've been achieved through the Abyssal Geysers activated by the followers of the Princes, the Court of Bedlam, that were intended to sink the island into the sea.[4][5][6][7][8]

Vvardenfell[edit]

Barbas within the Clockwork City

Following this, the Triad found that their next target would be the fabled Clockwork City. While the Triad began their attempts to locate it, with Barbas enacting his own plan in an attempt to please his master. Barbas began tampering with the construction of Vivec City. He was noticed by Archcanon Tarvus of the Tribunal Temple, who saw evidence of sabotage and had planned to tell Vivec of the potential canine culprit he spotted.[9] According to Barbas himself, he found that Tarvus had passed in his sleep, and at that point decided to impersonate him.[10]

Concurrently, the Nycotic Cult was somehow able to acquire the artifact known as Sunna'rah, a staff that was created by the Tribunal God Sotha Sil as a tool for him to experiment with his own powers.[11] Conoon Chodala, the Ashkhan of the Urshilaku Tribe, discovered through a benefactor about the staff and wished for it to be acquired, with the Ashlander later offering a proposal to the Red Exiles who were sent by him in order to retrieve the staff from the cult, but not before the cultists first prepared a ritual that was able to allow the object to channel unfathomable power, with the plan calling for the exiles to let the cultists start the ritual but not allow it to be finished.[12][10]

After Chodala was killed by the Vestige and the staff was returned, Barbas still posing as Archcanon Tarvus, used it to steal Vivec's divine energy and discover the Clockwork City's location. He succeeded, and Barbas entered the City to arrange Clavicus Vile's arrival, but was stopped by the Vestige and the mage Barilzar, who pursued him into the City.[13][14] The Vestige found themselves transported to the shrine of Clavicus Vile, where the Prince threatened to imprison them. However they channeled the power of Vivec contained within Sunna'rah against the Prince through his statue, allowing them to escape. Thus Vivec's stolen energy returned seconds before Baar Dau crashed into Vivec City. Had this plot not been foiled this would have caused great devastation to Vvardenfell. Barbas nevertheless succeeded in locating the Clockwork City for his master Clavicus Vile.[10][15][16]

The Clockwork City[edit]

Nocturnal's shadows rushing forth to consume the Throne Aligned as Luciana struggles to hold them back
The freed Sotha Sil banishes Nocturnal's shadow from the Clockwork City

Now knowing how to enter the Clockwork City, the Triad quickly launched a full-scale coup within it. Nocturnal replaced Sotha Sil with a shadowy replica and imprisoned the Clockwork God within his own throne. Meanwhile, one of the Clockwork Apostles, Chancellor Gascone Dusant, sought to deliver the Skeleton Key, which had been accidentally found by a Factotum beneath the Brass Fortress, to Clavicus Vile, only for the Key to be stolen by the Blackfeather Court. The Vestige, assisted by Divayth Fyr and the Clockwork Apostles, unveiled the plot, but were unable to reclaim the Skeleton Key before it was taken by Sotha Sil's Shadow. Using the key, Nocturnal and the Shadow attempted to seize control of the Clockwork City by unlocking the Throne itself, but were stopped by the Vestige, Divayth Fyr, and Proctor Luciana Pullo, who rescued Sotha Sil by defeating his Shadow and repelling Nocturnal's darkness through a special light spell Sotha Sil had once taught Luciana. Once freed Sotha Sil banished Nocturnal's shadow from the Clockwork City. Sotha Sil then gave the Skeleton Key to Divayth Fyr for safekeeping. In reality, however, Nocturnal had tricked Clavicus Vile and Mephala once more and succeeded in stealing crucial information for the final part of her plan.[17][18][19]

Final Attempt on the Crystal Tower[edit]

Mephala and Clavicus Vile attempt to remove the Transparent Law from Ritemaster Iachesis
The Crystal Tower under Nocturnal's control, within the Fields of Regret

The Triad turned their attention once more to the Crystal Tower following this failure, seeking some way to find the missing Heart of Transparent Law or otherwise gain entrance to the Tower. Clavicus Vile would send the Abyssal Cabal to Summerset once more, to work with his agents in the Court of Bedlam in an attempt to hunt down Iachesis and pull the location from his mind. In preparation for the completion of their plan, the Triad invaded Meridia's realm, the Colored Rooms, and she was imprisoned within Nocturnal's darkness to prevent her from interfering further.[20][21] This chase would eventually lead into Nocturnal's realm, Evergloam, where her treachery was revealed and it was discovered that the Heart was hidden within Iachesis himself. Clavicus Vile and Mephala both immediately manifested within the realm to claim it, only for Nocturnal to banish them both and rip it out of the Ritemaster herself. With the Heart, Nocturnal briefly took control of the Crystal Tower, hoping to use its properties of existing in every reality simultaneously, enhanced by the life force of Nirn which she'd drain through the use of a secret life draining technique she'd stolen from Sotha Sil's Clockwork City, to achieve omnipresence in the entire Aurbis. In this manner she'd absorb the power of the other Daedric Princes as she invaded their realms, thus gaining infinite power through the infinite connections made, and ultimately unravel reality itself to wait for the next one to arise. Nocturnal's shadow enveloped the Tower and transformed the Sapiarchs inside into shadows, while she attempted to repair Transparent Law by reconnecting it with its Heart, making the Tower whole to complete her plan.[3][18][1] At the same time, her forces started invading the realms of the other Princes.[15]

Clavicus Vile begrudgingly allied himself with the Psijic Order and the Vestige in order to stop her, granting them access to the Crystal Tower's counterpart in his own realm and having Barbas lead the charge against Nocturnal's invading forces, though not before extracting the promise of a favor at some unspecified point in the future from the Vestige. After the Vestige succeeded in finally putting a stop to Nocturnal's plot, Clavicus Vile joined the Coldharbour Compact alongside Mephala and disbanded the Triad for good.[2][15][22][16]

Other events the Triad was involved in during this time included Nocturnal taking control of the Abyssal Cabal's Abyssal Geysers for some time, following the death of the Sea Sload K'Tora,[23] and Nocturnal's possible backing of the Sea Sload Z'Maja's conquest of Cloudrest, through an enchanted amulet that gave the sorceress the powerful Shadow Magic, which she used to kill countless of Cloudrest's inhabitants via a fatal mist that enveloped the city, and to make shadowy clones of its protectors, the gryphon-riding Welkynars.[24][25]

The Court of Bedlam[edit]

During the course of their plans to remake reality, the Princes of the Triad employed a cult consisting of worshippers of all three, called the Court of Bedlam. The court was lead by three of the most favored servants of Nocturnal, Mephala, and Clavicus Vile, each titled as the "Earl" of their respective Prince.[26][1]

Some of the members of the Court of Bedlam consisted of Altmer who rejected Queen Ayrenn's decree to open the borders of Summerset to visitors, traders, and immigrants of all races, and believed they were going to become gods in the Triad's new world.[27][28][29] Leythen, Earl of Mephala, and Veya Releth, Earl of Nocturnal, believed that the Triad was going to remake the world into a place without suffering. Though, unlike Leythen, Veya planned for the current world to be unmade for that transition to occur.[1][30]

The Court worked with the Sea Sload of the Abyssal Cabal, allies of the Triad, in order to unleash the Abyssal Geysers throughout the Summerset Isle, through the use of the Abyssal Pearls. These mystical phenomena summoned forth Yaghra and other creatures associated with the Sea Sload, and would have eventually caused the Summerset Isle to sink into the sea, thus fulfilling the Triad's pact with the Sload.[4][5][6][7][8][16] Other schemes of the Court during this time included attempting to create an unnatural sinkhole that'd swallow up all of Rellenthil,[29] calling forth a powerful Hunger called the Insatiable from the realm of The Gorge within the Cey-Tarn Keep,[31][32] and carrying out an attack against the College of the Sapiarchs in an attempt to claim the Resolute Diamonds that served as the keys to the Crystal Tower.[1]

In preparation for their patron's attempt on the Crystal Tower, the Court of Bedlam started eliminating the cults of other Daedric Princes on the Summerset Isle, hoping to eliminate their mortal followers before the Triad made its move to attack the other Princes themselves. Among the cults that were attacked was that of Meridia,[1] whose realm would also be attacked directly some time later.[20][21]

At least one of the Earls, former Psijic Order member Leythen, the Earl of Mephala, exhibited knowledge of the rites required to conjure an aspect of his Prince in order to communicate with her.[1]

Gallery[edit]

  • Veya Releth, Earl of Nocturnal

  • Leythen, Earl of Mephala

  • Aldarch Tilcalar, Earl of Clavicus Vile

  • An Acolyte of Bedlam opening an Abyssal Geyser

  • An Abyssal Geyser

Notes[edit]

  • The cinematic Summerset announcement trailer shows the Daedric Triad's machinations on Summerset.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Leythen's dialogue in ESO
  2. ^ a b Events of ESO: Summerset
  3. ^ a b Ritemaster Iachesis' dialogue in ESO: Summerset
  4. ^ a b Battlereeve Tanerline's dialogue in ESO: Summerset
  5. ^ a b K'Tora's dialogue in ESO: Summerset
  6. ^ a b Indirim's Journal, Assembled — Indirim
  7. ^ a b Grog's dialogue in ESO: Summerset
  8. ^ a b Sinking Summerset quest in ESO: Summerset
  9. ^ Archcanon's Journal — Tarvus, Archcanon to the Lord Vivec
  10. ^ a b c Events of ESO: Morrowind
  11. ^ Barilzar's dialogue in ESO: Morrowind
  12. ^ Red Exile Instructions — Chodala
  13. ^ Events of Divine Intervention in ESO: Morrowind
  14. ^ Events of Divine Restoration in ESO: Morrowind
  15. ^ a b c Barbas's dialogue in ESO
  16. ^ a b c Clavicus Vile's dialogue in ESO
  17. ^ Events of ESO: Clockwork City
  18. ^ a b Sotha Sil's dialogue in ESO
  19. ^ Shadow of Sotha Sil's dialogue in ESO
  20. ^ a b Meridia's dialogue in ESO
  21. ^ a b Nocturnal's dialogue in ESO
  22. ^ Mephala's dialogue in ESO
  23. ^ Abyssal Geysers in Online
  24. ^ Wailimo's Personal Account — Wailimo the Mystic
  25. ^ Events of Woe of the Welkynars in ESO: Summerset
  26. ^ Aldarch Tilcalar's dialogue in ESO
  27. ^ Nedoril's dialogue in ESO
  28. ^ Razum-dar's dialogue in ESO
  29. ^ a b Valsirenn's dialogue in ESO
  30. ^ Veya's Private Thoughts, Part 4 — Veya Releth
  31. ^ The Gorge
  32. ^ The Taste of Fear quest in ESO
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