Purity, as we Altmer understand it, is often object to incoherent interpretation. Even some Altmer, particularly those of the lower castes, are not immune to it, as they eschew anything not manufactured or thought about on the Altmeri Isles as a symptom of inherent, contagious decay
Indoril Book of Passing Through the Doors of the Horizon
All are destined to die but the acceptable ways are few. The Great House of Indoril has always and will always uphold the standards of a good death. They are recorded here.
FIRE. The Indoril of Khalaan (which the foreign Legions called ”Ebonheart”, now ”Old Ebonheart”) bathed in holy oils and walked into great fires. The wind carried their ashes to Necrom, which tells us that they died honorably.
On the Importance of Heresy
by Golsu Farelas, Temple scholar
”To purge the Corners one must first enter the House.”
– The maxim of Saint Olms
It is usual for the common Velothi to believe that heretics are a nuisance to the Temple much like the vermin Scrib is a nuisance to a Comberry farmer. In their naivety, which no one should hold against them, they believe that like the farmer who wishes the vermin would simply leave their crops alone, the Temple would wish the heretics would simply disappear.
TITLE: A Dunce in Morrowind, v2 AUTHOR: Frolja Silver-Blood.
Lucky was I to have a guide to the Eastern land, Morrowind, in Remyn Sadrethi, who told me he is an up and coming merchant of House Hlaalu, travelling to the Old Run on business. The walk was long, but Remyn was so stingy that he wouldn’t even pay for the silt strider in Gnisis. It was also fortunate for me that he was good with his magic, which helped keep the cliff racers and kagouti away from us.
”Ald’Ruhn is the seat of House Redoran on Vvardenfell,” he said to me.