Lore:Umaril

Umaril
	Umaril in the spirit realm
Died	3E 433; Spirit Realm
Resided in	Oblivion
Appears in	Knights of the Nine, Legends

"As balangua, Ehlnada racuvar!” (“By my power, the mortal gods shall be cast down!”)

Umaril the Unfeathered (sometimes Umar-Il) was an Ayleid sorcerer-king and champion of the Ayleid Empire in its twilight. Umaril was a "half-Elf", born of an Ayleid mother and a divine father from a previous kalpa. Using magic, Umaril bound his soul directly to the realm of his mistress Meridia, allowing his spirit to escape death and his physical body to travel between realms. Thus, Umaril would "never know death". Umaril appeared similar to Meridia's Daedric servants, the Aurorans, though much larger. He favored "ruin-from-afar," preferring to send minions to attack and weaken his foes before he would risk direct combat.

Pelinal Whitestrake went alone in the White Gold Tower, where he challenged the Ayleid sorceror-king Umaril to single combat and defeated him. Umaril was not destroyed or truly slain, but only cast beyond the bounds of Nirn. Umaril was defeated by Pelinal at the start of the First Era during the human uprising against the Ayleids, their "Slavemasters", and the fall of the White-Gold Tower. While Umaril escaped death, he was cast adrift in the "waters of Oblivion", and many thousands of years passed before he could return to Mundus. His return at the end of the Third Era was to seek vengeance upon the Divines who had brought about his fall. Aurorans under his command desecrated the chapel of Dibella in Anvil, and later the chapel of Mara in Bravil.

The Divine Crusader learned of Umaril's return from an elderly prophet in Anvil, and that he must be conquered in both the physical and spiritual plane in order to be vanquished. The Crusader gathered the eight Crusader's Relics originally used by Pelinal to destroy Umaril's physical form. With the prophet's guidance, the Crusader went on to find something which Pelinal did not, could not, have had when he battled Umaril: the Blessing of Talos. Armed with Talos' blessing, the Divine Crusader not only defeated Umaril on the mortal plane, but was able to follow him into the spirit realm, where the half-Elf finally met his end.

According to some legends Umaril the Unfeathered can work through mortals, making their eyes glow.