Lore:Darius Shano

Darius Shano
Race	Breton	Gender	Male
Floruit		Third Era Daenia

According to myth, Darius Shano was a prolific Breton writer who lived in Daenia sometime in the Third Era. He was a subject of a wager between Sheogorath and Vaermina on who could make Darius be more hated by the populace. From the age of nineteen, for ten years his dreams were imbued by Vaermina with scenes of abject horror and he went on to write about those dreams, causing disgust and sensation for many of his contemporaries.

For the next ten years, Sheogorath severed his link to Vaermina, putting an end to his source of inspiration. As time went by, he began to think Vaermina was never there to supplement his dreams, which led him to question the existence of gods in general. Darius, in turn, started to write extensively on the foolishness of Tamriel's faithful, serfs and nobility alike. Naturally, this produced actual hatred for Darius, unrivaled by that made from his previous works.

This culminated, ten years later, with his final work – "The Noblest Fool" – in which he ridiculed Tiber Septim's status as the Ninth Divine. The king of Daenia, himself a victim of ridicule by Darius' philosophical works, used this as a pretext to have Darius executed, causing Vaermina to lose her wager with Sheogorath. Somehow Shalidor heard about his tale in the First Era.