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</noinclude>[[File:MW-creature-Dagoth Ur.jpg|{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Morrowind|left|right}}|thumb|Dagoth Ur]]
'''Dagoth Ur''', also known as '''Voryn Dagoth'''{{ref|name=MFDU|{{Cite book|Message from Dagoth Ur}}}} and the '''Sharmat''',{{ref|name=S|{{Cite book|Sithis (book)}}}}{{ref|name=36LoV|{{Cite book|The 36 Lessons of Vivec}}}} was the immortal Lord High Councilor of {{Lore Link|House Dagoth}}, who dwelt beneath {{Lore Link|Red Mountain}} with his kin, the Ash Vampires, and legions of {{Lore Link|Corprus}} monsters.{{ref|name=TLP|{{Cite book|The Lost Prophecy}}}}<noinclude>
==History==
===The War of the First Council===
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As a mortal, Lord Voryn Dagoth was one of the few who knew about the {{Lore Link|Heart of Lorkhan}}, together with Vivec, [[Lore:Almalexia (god)|Almalexia]], {{Lore Link|Sotha Sil}} and their leader Lord {{Lore Link|Nerevar|Indoril Nerevar}}.{{ref|name=NARM|{{Cite book|Nerevar at Red Mountain}}}} Dagoth claimed that the {{Lore Link|Dwemer}} high priest {{Lore Link|Kagrenac}} was drawing power from the Heart using special tools to create a mechanical god, {{Lore Link|Numidium}}, that would be used against the [[Lore:Chimer|Chimer]].{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=TBORM|{{Cite book|The Battle of Red Mountain}}}} After {{Lore Link|Azura}} confirmed Dagoth's story, action was taken to stop the Dwemer, starting a {{Lore Link|The War of the First Council|war}} that culminated in the disappearance of the Dwemer and the transformation of the [[Lore:Chimer|Chimer]] into the {{Lore Link|Dunmer}}.{{ref|name=36LoV36|{{Cite book|36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 36}}}}{{ref|name=FSOKW|{{Cite book|Five Songs of King Wulfharth}}}}
Following the {{Lore Link|Battle of Red Mountain|defeat}} of the Dwemer, the {{Lore Link|Kagrenac's Tools|Tools of Kagrenac the Master Craftsman}} fell into the hands of the Chimer, and Lord Nerevar held the burden of deciding what to do with them.{{ref|name=NARM}} At first, Dagoth himself urged for their immediate destruction, either of the Tools or the Heart itself, which led Nerevar to believe he could be trusted to guard them while Nerevar consulted his councilors, the Tribunal of Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil (and the Dunmer's Daedric patron Azura).{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=TBORM}}
Sadly, when Nerevar and the Tribunal returned to Red Mountain with the conclusion that Kagrenac's Tools should be preserved but never used, Dagoth refused to give them up, maintaining that he had been entrusted to guard them.{{ref|name=TBORM}} Unbeknownst to them at the time, Dagoth had experimented with the Tools on the Heart during Nerevar's absence, and somehow managed to steal some of its divine essence and power.{{ref|name=PTDDU|{{Cite book|Plan to Defeat Dagoth Ur}}}} He now called himself Dagoth Ur, and was forever after known by that name (it's possible Nerevar may have actually coined the name).{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=TBORM}} Nerevar and the Tribunal's guards defeated Dagoth Ur, who was driven off and thought to have been killed.{{ref|name=TBORM}}{{ref|name=PTDDU}} His House ceased to exist; the remnants were either killed or absorbed into the other Great Houses (although it would be resurrected later).{{ref|name=MFDU}}{{ref|name=TLP}} However, Nerevar was mortally wounded and died shortly afterwards.
Some sources insist that Nerevar died at the hands of the Tribunal, that they murdered him when he left Red Mountain to consult with them, and it was they who fought Dagoth Ur for the Tools, and Dagoth fought to avenge Nerevar's death.{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=POT|{{Cite book|Progress of Truth}}}} These assertions were vehemently denied by the {{Lore Link|Tribunal Temple}}, as well as Vivec; even Dagoth Ur's account contradicts this, as he admits that he and Nerevar came to blows beneath the mountain.{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=MFDU}} Regardless, the Tribunal did not obey Nerevar's dying wish: years later, when Sotha Sil had learned their secrets, the Tribunal returned to Red Mountain and used Kagrenac's Tools to steal divine powers for themselves.{{ref|name=PTDDU}}{{ref|name=TBORM}} Dagoth Ur also managed to forge a connection to the Heart somehow: he remained alive and immortal, albeit temporarily bodiless and presumed dead.{{ref|name=PTDDU}}{{ref|name=PGE3M|{{Cite book|PGE|3|Morrowind}}}}<noinclude>
===The Return===
[[Image:MW-place-Ghostfence.jpg|right|thumb|The Ghostfence]]</noinclude>
The Tribunal's ambition proved to be disastrous, despite the many great and heroic deeds they accomplished in their divine states.{{ref|name=PGE3M}}{{ref|name=2920E|{{Cite book|2920, The Last Year of the First Era}}}} In {{Year|2E 882}}, as the Tribunal journeyed to Red Mountain to renew their connection to the Heart in a bathing ritual, they once again encountered Dagoth Ur, reborn to a new incarnation, and with divine power that could more than match their own.{{ref|name=PTDDU}}{{ref|name=DUP|{{Cite book|Dagoth Ur's Plans}}}} Unable to enter Red Mountain's Heart Chamber, they were forced to retreat. Dagoth Ur had sole control of the Heart from this point on, and grew stronger while the Tribunal grew weaker.{{ref|name=DUP}}
Later successes allowed Dagoth Ur to expand his sphere of influence further: at first to nearby Dwemer citadels, and then even further by means of spreading {{Lore Link|The Blight|blight}} diseases. In {{Year|3E 417}}, the worst blow came: as part of a misguided attempt to recapture the Dwemer citadels, Almalexia and Sotha Sil lost the artifacts {{Lore Link|Sunder}} and {{Lore Link|Keening}}, two of Kagrenac's Tools, and had to be rescued by Vivec. Eventually, the Tribunal were forced to retire from their previously active lives and devote most of their time to maintaining the magical {{Lore Link|Ghostfence}} they erected to prevent Dagoth Ur's sphere of influence from spreading. Even this was only a partial success; blight-infected creatures could fly over it, and there was a passage below the ground to the lost Dunmer Fortress of {{Lore Link|Kogoruhn}}, the stronghold of House Dagoth in life, through which other diseased and Corprus-infected creatures could escape Red Mountain.{{ref|name=DUP}}
Now possessing only one of Kagrenac's tools, the gauntlet {{Lore Link|Wraithguard}}, the Tribunal could not - dared not - even pass the bounds of their own Ghostfence to recapture the others. As Sotha Sil and Almalexia withdrew from the world, Vivec stood alone in maintaining the Ghostfence, an effort that took so much of his energies he could not stir out of his palace, and his Temple's Ordinators ran out of his control and became ever more fanatical and rigid as the faith of the Dunmer wavered. Meanwhile, Dagoth Ur set about constructing {{Lore Link|Akulakhan}}, the Second {{Lore Link|Numidium}}, a brass machine god he would use to conquer all of Tamriel.{{ref|name=DUP}} <includeonly>For more information, see the main [[Lore:Dagoth Ur|Lore article]].</includeonly><noinclude>
[[File:MW-place-Dagoth Ur.jpg|left|thumb|Dagoth Ur's fortress within Red Mountain]]
===The Coming of the Nerevarine===
All this was to change with the advent of the {{Lore Link|Nerevarine}}.{{ref|name=PGE3M}} This outlander to Morrowind was the reincarnation of Nerevar prophesied by Azura who would return to rectify the dishonorable acts of his councilors.{{ref|name=NARM}} Knowing better than to dismiss the Goddess of Dusk and Dawn, both Vivec and Dagoth Ur prepared for the Nerevarine's arrival as best they could, though they did not know when, where, or in whom the prophecy would be fulfilled. The Nerevarine met with Vivec, who offered him advice concerning how to defeat Dagoth Ur, even though he knew that the Nerevarine's success, and the destruction of the Heart of Lorkhan, would mean the loss of his power as a demigod. {{ref|name=36LoV}}{{ref|name=PTDDU}} Dagoth Ur offered him power, and the chance to use Akulakhan to drive the Empire out of Morrowind.{{ref|name=MFDU}}
The deception, treachery and confrontation that Dagoth Ur encouraged among his followers left him unable to understand the Nerevarine: he could not deduce beforehand whether the Nerevarine sought to fight him or join him, even when the Nerevarine finally confronted him in the bowels of Red Mountain.{{ref|name=MFDU}}{{ref|name=DUdialogue|Dagoth Ur's dialogue with the Nerevarine in [[Morrowind:Morrowind|Morrowind]].}} Nerevar reborn ultimately severed Dagoth Ur's connection to the Heart of Lorkhan, at the same time destroying Akulakhan. Dagoth Ur became mortal once more, losing his divinity. Although he was nonetheless a mighty sorcerer, the Nerevarine bested him in combat and brought a final end to the ancient evil. Rather than repeat the mistakes of the past and seek personal power, the Nerevarine departed on an expedition to {{Lore Link|Akavir}}.{{ref|name=Rumor|Rumors heard during the {{Lore Link|Oblivion Crisis}}.}}
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==Notes==
* "Dagoth-Ur" is another name for Red Mountain, and is usually distinguishable from the deity "Dagoth Ur" due to the hyphen, but the use of the distinction is rather inconsistent. As with the cities of Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil, distinguishing between the place and the person depends on the context.
==See Also==
*For game-specific information, see the [[Morrowind:Morrowind|Morrowind]] article on [[Morrowind:Dagoth Ur (god)|Dagoth Ur]].
==References==
<references/>
{{Aedra and Daedra}}</noinclude>
</noinclude>[[File:MW-creature-Dagoth Ur.jpg|{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Morrowind|left|right}}|thumb|Dagoth Ur]]
'''Dagoth Ur''', also known as '''Voryn Dagoth'''{{ref|name=MFDU|{{Cite book|Message from Dagoth Ur}}}} and the '''Sharmat''',{{ref|name=S|{{Cite book|Sithis (book)}}}}{{ref|name=36LoV|{{Cite book|The 36 Lessons of Vivec}}}} was the immortal Lord High Councilor of {{Lore Link|House Dagoth}}, who dwelt beneath {{Lore Link|Red Mountain}} with his kin, the Ash Vampires, and legions of {{Lore Link|Corprus}} monsters.{{ref|name=TLP|{{Cite book|The Lost Prophecy}}}}<noinclude>
==History==
===The War of the First Council===
</noinclude>
As a mortal, Lord Voryn Dagoth was one of the few who knew about the {{Lore Link|Heart of Lorkhan}}, together with Vivec, [[Lore:Almalexia (god)|Almalexia]], {{Lore Link|Sotha Sil}} and their leader Lord {{Lore Link|Nerevar|Indoril Nerevar}}.{{ref|name=NARM|{{Cite book|Nerevar at Red Mountain}}}} Dagoth claimed that the {{Lore Link|Dwemer}} high priest {{Lore Link|Kagrenac}} was drawing power from the Heart using special tools to create a mechanical god, {{Lore Link|Numidium}}, that would be used against the [[Lore:Chimer|Chimer]].{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=TBORM|{{Cite book|The Battle of Red Mountain}}}} After {{Lore Link|Azura}} confirmed Dagoth's story, action was taken to stop the Dwemer, starting a {{Lore Link|The War of the First Council|war}} that culminated in the disappearance of the Dwemer and the transformation of the [[Lore:Chimer|Chimer]] into the {{Lore Link|Dunmer}}.{{ref|name=36LoV36|{{Cite book|36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 36}}}}{{ref|name=FSOKW|{{Cite book|Five Songs of King Wulfharth}}}}
Following the {{Lore Link|Battle of Red Mountain|defeat}} of the Dwemer, the {{Lore Link|Kagrenac's Tools|Tools of Kagrenac the Master Craftsman}} fell into the hands of the Chimer, and Lord Nerevar held the burden of deciding what to do with them.{{ref|name=NARM}} At first, Dagoth himself urged for their immediate destruction, either of the Tools or the Heart itself, which led Nerevar to believe he could be trusted to guard them while Nerevar consulted his councilors, the Tribunal of Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil (and the Dunmer's Daedric patron Azura).{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=TBORM}}
Sadly, when Nerevar and the Tribunal returned to Red Mountain with the conclusion that Kagrenac's Tools should be preserved but never used, Dagoth refused to give them up, maintaining that he had been entrusted to guard them.{{ref|name=TBORM}} Unbeknownst to them at the time, Dagoth had experimented with the Tools on the Heart during Nerevar's absence, and somehow managed to steal some of its divine essence and power.{{ref|name=PTDDU|{{Cite book|Plan to Defeat Dagoth Ur}}}} He now called himself Dagoth Ur, and was forever after known by that name (it's possible Nerevar may have actually coined the name).{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=TBORM}} Nerevar and the Tribunal's guards defeated Dagoth Ur, who was driven off and thought to have been killed.{{ref|name=TBORM}}{{ref|name=PTDDU}} His House ceased to exist; the remnants were either killed or absorbed into the other Great Houses (although it would be resurrected later).{{ref|name=MFDU}}{{ref|name=TLP}} However, Nerevar was mortally wounded and died shortly afterwards.
Some sources insist that Nerevar died at the hands of the Tribunal, that they murdered him when he left Red Mountain to consult with them, and it was they who fought Dagoth Ur for the Tools, and Dagoth fought to avenge Nerevar's death.{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=POT|{{Cite book|Progress of Truth}}}} These assertions were vehemently denied by the {{Lore Link|Tribunal Temple}}, as well as Vivec; even Dagoth Ur's account contradicts this, as he admits that he and Nerevar came to blows beneath the mountain.{{ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=MFDU}} Regardless, the Tribunal did not obey Nerevar's dying wish: years later, when Sotha Sil had learned their secrets, the Tribunal returned to Red Mountain and used Kagrenac's Tools to steal divine powers for themselves.{{ref|name=PTDDU}}{{ref|name=TBORM}} Dagoth Ur also managed to forge a connection to the Heart somehow: he remained alive and immortal, albeit temporarily bodiless and presumed dead.{{ref|name=PTDDU}}{{ref|name=PGE3M|{{Cite book|PGE|3|Morrowind}}}}<noinclude>
===The Return===
[[Image:MW-place-Ghostfence.jpg|right|thumb|The Ghostfence]]</noinclude>
The Tribunal's ambition proved to be disastrous, despite the many great and heroic deeds they accomplished in their divine states.{{ref|name=PGE3M}}{{ref|name=2920E|{{Cite book|2920, The Last Year of the First Era}}}} In {{Year|2E 882}}, as the Tribunal journeyed to Red Mountain to renew their connection to the Heart in a bathing ritual, they once again encountered Dagoth Ur, reborn to a new incarnation, and with divine power that could more than match their own.{{ref|name=PTDDU}}{{ref|name=DUP|{{Cite book|Dagoth Ur's Plans}}}} Unable to enter Red Mountain's Heart Chamber, they were forced to retreat. Dagoth Ur had sole control of the Heart from this point on, and grew stronger while the Tribunal grew weaker.{{ref|name=DUP}}
Later successes allowed Dagoth Ur to expand his sphere of influence further: at first to nearby Dwemer citadels, and then even further by means of spreading {{Lore Link|The Blight|blight}} diseases. In {{Year|3E 417}}, the worst blow came: as part of a misguided attempt to recapture the Dwemer citadels, Almalexia and Sotha Sil lost the artifacts {{Lore Link|Sunder}} and {{Lore Link|Keening}}, two of Kagrenac's Tools, and had to be rescued by Vivec. Eventually, the Tribunal were forced to retire from their previously active lives and devote most of their time to maintaining the magical {{Lore Link|Ghostfence}} they erected to prevent Dagoth Ur's sphere of influence from spreading. Even this was only a partial success; blight-infected creatures could fly over it, and there was a passage below the ground to the lost Dunmer Fortress of {{Lore Link|Kogoruhn}}, the stronghold of House Dagoth in life, through which other diseased and Corprus-infected creatures could escape Red Mountain.{{ref|name=DUP}}
Now possessing only one of Kagrenac's tools, the gauntlet {{Lore Link|Wraithguard}}, the Tribunal could not - dared not - even pass the bounds of their own Ghostfence to recapture the others. As Sotha Sil and Almalexia withdrew from the world, Vivec stood alone in maintaining the Ghostfence, an effort that took so much of his energies he could not stir out of his palace, and his Temple's Ordinators ran out of his control and became ever more fanatical and rigid as the faith of the Dunmer wavered. Meanwhile, Dagoth Ur set about constructing {{Lore Link|Akulakhan}}, the Second {{Lore Link|Numidium}}, a brass machine god he would use to conquer all of Tamriel.{{ref|name=DUP}} <includeonly>For more information, see the main [[Lore:Dagoth Ur|Lore article]].</includeonly><noinclude>
[[File:MW-place-Dagoth Ur.jpg|left|thumb|Dagoth Ur's fortress within Red Mountain]]
===The Coming of the Nerevarine===
All this was to change with the advent of the {{Lore Link|Nerevarine}}.{{ref|name=PGE3M}} This outlander to Morrowind was the reincarnation of Nerevar prophesied by Azura who would return to rectify the dishonorable acts of his councilors.{{ref|name=NARM}} Knowing better than to dismiss the Goddess of Dusk and Dawn, both Vivec and Dagoth Ur prepared for the Nerevarine's arrival as best they could, though they did not know when, where, or in whom the prophecy would be fulfilled. The Nerevarine met with Vivec, who offered him advice concerning how to defeat Dagoth Ur, even though he knew that the Nerevarine's success, and the destruction of the Heart of Lorkhan, would mean the loss of his power as a demigod. {{ref|name=36LoV}}{{ref|name=PTDDU}} Dagoth Ur offered him power, and the chance to use Akulakhan to drive the Empire out of Morrowind.{{ref|name=MFDU}}
The deception, treachery and confrontation that Dagoth Ur encouraged among his followers left him unable to understand the Nerevarine: he could not deduce beforehand whether the Nerevarine sought to fight him or join him, even when the Nerevarine finally confronted him in the bowels of Red Mountain.{{ref|name=MFDU}}{{ref|name=DUdialogue|Dagoth Ur's dialogue with the Nerevarine in [[Morrowind:Morrowind|Morrowind]].}} Nerevar reborn ultimately severed Dagoth Ur's connection to the Heart of Lorkhan, at the same time destroying Akulakhan. Dagoth Ur became mortal once more, losing his divinity. Although he was nonetheless a mighty sorcerer, the Nerevarine bested him in combat and brought a final end to the ancient evil. Rather than repeat the mistakes of the past and seek personal power, the Nerevarine departed on an expedition to {{Lore Link|Akavir}}.{{ref|name=Rumor|Rumors heard during the {{Lore Link|Oblivion Crisis}}.}}
{{NewLeft}}
==Notes==
* "Dagoth-Ur" is another name for Red Mountain, and is usually distinguishable from the deity "Dagoth Ur" due to the hyphen, but the use of the distinction is rather inconsistent. As with the cities of Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil, distinguishing between the place and the person depends on the context.
==See Also==
*For game-specific information, see the [[Morrowind:Morrowind|Morrowind]] article on [[Morrowind:Dagoth Ur (god)|Dagoth Ur]].
==References==
<references/>
{{Aedra and Daedra}}</noinclude>