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CHIM

CHIM  is a letter from the Ehlnofex, meaning, roughly, “Royalty”, and described in shape as a Tower which threatens to break at the slightest lapse in concentration. To understand CHIM, one must first have a basic understanding of the nature of the Elder Scrolls universe.

The Aurbis is the Wheel, which symbolizes everything that exists; the eight spokes being the Aedra, the sixteen spaces between the spokes the Daedra, and the hub at the center being Nirn. Mundus is the hub and the spokes - Nirn and the Aedra - while Oblivion is the spaces between the spokes, the various realms of the Daedric Princes. Take a wheel, turn it sideways, and you have an I. The I is the Tower, inscribed within the Wheel that is the Aurbis.

Now, if the Wheel that is the Tower is all creation, the Secret of the Tower is the secret of the Aurbis itself. The Secret of the Tower is CHIM. When a person achieves CHIM, he leaves the Wheel and sees it on its side for the Tower it is - and he sees the secret Tower within the Tower, in the shape of the only name of God, I.

The Godhead is the supreme power in the Elder Scrolls universe, though no one knows of His existence. All of Aurbis, Anu, and Padomay are merely His dream. His dream is the entire universe, and everything is a part of Him.

To achieve CHIM is to realize this, to recognize the Godhead, to see that everything is His dream, and to know the absolute non-reality of the Aurbis.

CHIM is both an event and a state; in the event, one realizes this falsehood of reality, and in the state, they must balance and maintain this realization with a perseverance of the Self, the ability to say "I Exist” when all signs and powers practically force the opposite.

At the point of enlightenment, or at any point afterwards, one may fail; the “1” of Existence and “-1” of non-Existence collide and “Zero-Sum”, and the individual is unmade, undone, ceases to be. This is where the analogy of the Tower threatening to break comes in; a lapse in willpower, or awareness, the loss of the “I” of the Self, and the Tower-that-is-CHIM is broken. Zero-Sum.

In knowing that everything is merely an extension of the same dream, one gains the omnipotence and omniscience of the dreamer, since they are a part of all things and people and events that have ever been. Thus, one has power over this ‘reality’ in the same way one can move his arm. It's like a little part of the Godhead having a lucid dream, where He is still dreaming, though He knows He is dreaming, and thus has control over His dream. Control over everything. This is CHIM.