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"Hero: Where am I?"

"Miraak: Home......where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why Apocrypha is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the centuries has searched for knowledge and secrets in the books and imagined reaching transcendence. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst........many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So...... as I terrorize Skyrim, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe that they can survive so that you can read about them clamoring over each other to "stay in the sun." You can observe me torture an entire continent and when you have fully understood the depth of your failure, I will fulfill the Dragonborn's destiny... I will destroy Alduin.....and then, when it is done...and Skyrim is ashes, then you have my permission to die."