Lore:Aralor

Saint Aralor
Saint Aralor banner depiction (ESO)
Race	Chimer	Gender	Male
Resided in		Vvardenfell

Saint Aralor the Penitent is the Dunmeri patron saint of Tanners and Miners. A condemned criminal, Aralor repented his sins and made a circuit of the great pilgrimages on his knees. For the Tribunal Temple, he serves as an example that it is possible for anyone to truly repent and start anew. Aralor was later canonized by the Tribunal, and shrines to him could be found in Tribunal temples. His famed hair shirt is now a prized relic of the Tribunal Temple.

All Temple shrine offerings grant cures of common diseases, of blight diseases, and of afflictions of poison. Offerings made to the shrine of Saint Aralor additionally grant Aralor's Intervention, for fortifying character.

In 3E 427 an ordinator was wearing the Hair Shirt of St. Aralor while searching for Lost Kogoruhn, the ancient capital of House Dagoth. He passed away at the fortress, leaving the shirt with him. It was subsequently recovered from there for the Temple by the Nerevarine.

During the Ordinator vestment routine, initiates recite a devotional to St. Aralor as they help don the ordinator their rerebraces and couters.

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  Shrine depiction (Morrowind)

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  Torn banner depiction (ESO)

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  Morrowind concept art

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  ESO concept art

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  Understanding House Indoril, an ancient High Velothi text names Aralor alongside Veloth as a saint. While the exact date of the text's creation remains uncertain (it was penned in the 57th Year of the Golden Peace, but the precise timing is unknown), the text exhibits hallmarks of High Velothi culture. Notably, it extols the virtues of the Good Daedra and links their veneration to House Indoril and does not reference the ALMSIVI at all. Moreover, it was stored in Library of Andule, a long lost High Velothi repository of knowledge, predating the transformation of the Chimer into the Dunmer.