It can also refer to when the Alessian order tried to remove the Mer aspect of Akatosh and basically drove him insane which also broke the dragon. It’s probably why Alduin is his own entity and not just Akatosh at the end of time, with there being three main aspects of the Dragon god that being Auriel, Akatosh, and Alduin the beginning, middle, and end.

Personally I don’t think Pelinal Whitestrake and Marukh went far enough, remove all mer.

Fair enough. Prolly doesn’t help I was actively melting my capacity to properly articulate the utter madness that is Michael Kirkbride mainling a philosophy book and then reading Lovecraft because I was slowly gassing myself because I put a tad bit to much bleach in my water bucket while cleaning up cat piss.

This is unironically a great overview and simplification of CHIM within the Elder Scrolls setting. One in which I am fundamentally incapable of making because I have been utterly corrupted by Morrowind shitposts around the concept, IE a photoshop of Astolfo from Fate with Dagoth Urs head asking if that is CHIM.

Which in all honesty leaves a lot open for Bethesda to bring them back in some capacity. Between Dragon Breaks, Chim, and literal time travel there’s a lot they could do not even getting into the other metaphysics and metamagics in the setting.

For those who haven’t deep delved EUSP I shall list what the three things I listed implies.

Dragon Breaks, a dragon break is what happens when time becomes non linear the fun thing is that it can be both retroactive and postactive. The ending of Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall is sometimes theorized to have caused a dragon break so massive that it basically rewrote the setting with its shockwave. This is admittedly just an in universe way of explaining retcons.

Chim, basically a character in the setting achieves awareness that they are infact fictional and becomes effectively a god. Tuber Septum achieved partial Chim caused a dragon break and removed the jungles of Cyrodil from history. Also Vivec achieved Chim and Dagoth Ur fucked up the process without removing himself entirely.

Time travel, basically what it says on the tin. Fun fact Pelinal Whitestrake was from a different timeline and was basically the Terminator.

I will fully note I’m stealing this but, he is an antivaccer who finally got shot.