Character from The Elder Scrolls by Bethesda Game Studios
The Sharmat, the Devil of Dagoth. Once Nerevar's trusted friend Voryn Dagoth, corrupted by the Heart of Lorkhan into an immortal dreaming god beneath Red Mountain who spread the Blight.
Dagoth Ur, born Voryn Dagoth, is the primary antagonist of Morrowind — the Sharmat, the dreaming god beneath Red Mountain. Once the trusted friend and adviser of Lord Nerevar, he was tasked with guarding the Heart of Lorkhan after the Battle of Red Mountain. But the Heart's power corrupted him, and when the Tribunal came to claim it, Dagoth Ur had already been transformed into something beyond mortal. For millennia he slumbered beneath Red Mountain, his consciousness spreading through dreams, infecting mortals with the Blight and Corprus disease — a plague that granted immortality at the cost of sanity and physical transformation. His Ash Vampires served as his lieutenants, and his Sixth House cult grew in the shadows of Morrowind's society. What makes Dagoth Ur compelling is his sincerity. He genuinely believes he is saving the Dunmer — freeing them from the false gods of the Tribunal and the foreign influence of the Empire. His plan to activate Akulakhan, a new Numidium powered by the Heart, was meant to drive the Empire from Morrowind and unite the Dunmer under his protection. The Nerevarine ultimately destroyed him by severing his connection to the Heart of Lorkhan, but his legacy of disease, madness, and twisted devotion remains one of Elder Scrolls' most compelling villain arcs.
A tall, gaunt Dunmer figure wearing a golden mask that obscures his true face, his body transformed by divine corruption. His skin is ash-grey and stretched, with tendrils of organic matter and Corprus growths emerging from his form. A third eye may glow behind the mask. He radiates an aura of terrible charisma and ancient sorrow, a being who genuinely believes he is saving his people even as he destroys them.
Also known as: Dagoth Ur, Voryn Dagoth, The Sharmat, The Devil of Dagoth