Visualised: Kindly Elder with greying black hair and beard, dark eyes, and a deep deliberate voice.Ĭolours: Blacks, dark browns, greys, though lightened by the sparkle of frost and the shining of stars in brilliant moonlight. Valeera Zuljin Ragnaros Varian Samuro Zarya Alarak Auriel Guldan Medivh Chromie. Symbol: Shield and Mirror, Book of Wisdom Altogether, Auriel is the Light of Law and Learning, without which we shall never grow up in Spirit. It is he that tries to stop us making the same mistakes over and over again. Auriel is a kind Angel, who attempts to enlighten the Children of Light, but sees no advantage in allowing them to suffer senselessly. His Shield is supposed to protect us from adversity by cushioning our consciousness against shocks and blows, or sparing us from knowing what would hurt us needlessly because we had no means of dealing with it. The Magic Mirror of Auriel reflects us to ourselves, showing up our mistakes, and picturing whatever we could learn. Correct Pillar passage in any Temple should be for one person only. Humanity will never achieve 'salvation' en masse, but only in single file through the narrow Gates leading to Light.
An unlikely event in our predictable future, but attainable in individual instances. It truly makes no sense that shields are almost useless against magic in the base game, and I think this is the main reason as to why so many players are reluctant to occupy one of their hands with a damn thing that only blocks arrows and physical damage. He rightly belongs to Earth because when we live on Earth as we should in Heaven, our object as humans will be attained, and both Heaven and Earth will 'pass away'. If there was ever a good reason to use a shield in Skyrim, this is it.
Tolerance, wisdom, development that should come with sheer experience of life and death until a soul grows enough to take such matters in its spiritual stride and seek better forms of being. Tolkien My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords. Typifies the Seed of Light that manifests in us. roaming a post-Dawnguard Skyrim with Auriels Bow (instead of having his save file. He is the Light shining in Darkness, that the Darkness did not understand and could not extinguish.Ĭonsciousness in Unconsciousness, Knowledge in Ignorance, Being in Unbeing. After 5 successful blocks, the shield will start glowing and a shockwave can be released by power bashing, which becomes stronger with each 5 blocked attacks. It can be found wielded by a Falmer Warmonger in the Forgotten Vale Forest after using the Ruby Paragon on the paragon portal. Unless properly understood, might seem rather a dark Angel indeed.Īn Angel of Light. Auriel's Shield is a powerful shield allegedly created and used by the elven god Auri-El.