Talos the mighty! Talos the unerring! Talos the unassailable! To you we GIVE PRAISE! WE ARE BUT MAGGOTS, WRITHING IN THE FILTH OF OUR OWN CORRUPTION! [b]WHILE YOU HAVE ASCENDED[/b] [b]FROM THE DUNG OF MORTALITY[/b], [b]AND NOW WALK AMONG THE STARS!![/b] BUT YOU WERE ONCE MAN! AYE! AND AS MAN, YOU SAID "LET ME SHOW YOU THE POWER OF TALOS STORMCROWN, BORN OF THE NORTH, WHERE MY BREATH IS LONG WINTER. I BREATHE NOW, IN ROYALTY, AND RESHAPE THIS LAND WHICH IS MINE. [b]I DO THIS FOR YOU, RED LEIGONS,[/b] [b][i]FOR I LOVE YOU[/i][/b]." AYE LOVE. [b][i]LOVE![/i][/b] EVEN AS MAN GREAT TALOS CHERISHED US. FOR HE SAW IN US, IN EACH OF US, THE [b][i]FUTURE OF SKYRIM![/i][/b] [b][i][u]THE FUTURE OF TAMRIEL!!![/u][/i][/b] And there it is, friends! The ugly truth! We are the CHILDREN OF MAN! [b]TALOS IS THE TRUE GOD OF MAN![/b] [b][i]ASCENDED FROM FLESH, TO RULE THE REALM OF SPIRIT![/i][/b] THE VERY IDEA IS INCONCIEVABLE TO OUR ELVEN OVERLORDS! SHARING THE HEAVENS WITH US?? [b]WITH MAN??[/b] [b][i]HA![/i][/b] THEY CAN BARELY TOLERATE OUR PRESCENCE ON EARTH Today, they take away your faith. But what of tomorrow? What then? DO THE ELVES TAKE YOUR HOMES? [b]YOUR BUSINESSES?[/b] [b][i]YOUR CHILDREN?[/i][/b] [b][i]YOUR VERY[/i][/b] [b][i][u]LIVES!!![/u][/i][/b] And what does the Empire do? NOTHING!! NAY, WORSE THAN [b]NOTHING![/b] THE IMPERIAL MACHINE ENFORCES THE WILL OF THE THALMOR! [b]AGAINST ITS OWN[/b] [b][i][u]PEOPLE!![/u][/i][/b] SO RISE UP! [b]RISE UP, CHILDREN OF THE EMPIRE!![/b] [b][i]RISE UP, STORMCLOAKS!!![/i][/b] [b][i][u]EMBRACE THE WORD OF MIGHTY TALOS, HE WHO IS BOTH MAN AND DIVINE!![/u][/i][/b] [b][i][u]FOR WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF MAN![/u][/i][/b] [b][i][u]AND WE SHALL INHEIRIT BOTH THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH[/u][/i][/b] [b][i][u]AND WE,[/u][/i][/b] NOT THE ELVES OR THEIR TOADIES, [b][i]WILL RULE SKYRIM!![/i][/b] [b][i][u]FOREVER!![/u][/i][/b] TERRIBLE AND POWERFUL TALOS! WE, YOUR UNWORTHY SERVANTS, GIVE PRAISE! FOR ONLY THROUGH YOUR GRACE AND BENEVOLENCE MAY WE TRULY REACH ENLIGHTENMENT!! AND DESERVE OUR PRAISE YOU DO, [b]FOR WE ARE ONE![/b] ERE YOU ASCENDED AND THE EIGHT BECAME NINE, YOU WALKED AMONG US, GREAT TALOS, [b]NOT AS GOD[/b], [b][i]BUT AS MAN!![/i][/b] TRUST IN ME, WHITERUN! TRUST IN HEIMSKR! [b]FOR I AM THE CHOSEN OF TALOS!![/b] [b][i]I ALONE HAVE BEEN APPOINTED BY THE NINTH TO SPREAD HIS HOLY WORD!!!![/i][/b]