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Pelinal or PELIN-EL (Meaning "Glorious Knight" or "Star-Made Knight") was a legendary hero of Early First Era Tamriel who, alongside the Demigod Morihaus, fought as the Champion of Queen Alessia on the Alessian Slave Rebellion which freed the Cyrodilic humans from the oppression of their Ayleid overlords and established the First Empire of Cyrodiil. A hero and saint to the humans he liberated and a scourge to the elves he slaughtered, Pelinal was revered and reviled throughout Tamriel in equal measure, and was known by a variety of titles and epithets, such as Pelinal Whitestrake, Pelinal the Bloody, Pelinal the Blamer, Pelinal in Triumph, Pelinal Insurgent, Pelinal the Third, and others.
In truth, Pelinal was a a Padomaic Divine Spirit, more specifically a Shezarrine, a shattered aspect of the Missing God Lorkhan incarnate. Delivered from the heavens by the goddess Kyne in answer to the prayers of the slave Periff (Later Alessia), Pelinal's mortal form was an artificial construct powered by the Amulet of Kings imbued in its core, and arrayed in armor from the future blessed by the Eight Aedra. Despite his origins, Pelinal loathed such designations and brutally murdered those who called him divine - be them ally or not. Pelinal was famously mad and often psychotic, possibly as a result of his shattered soul and non-linear perception of time. For instance, it is recorded that Pelinal in battle once ate the neck-veins of his enemies and drank their blood while screaming incoherent praises to Reman, founder of the Second Empire in the Late First Era.
Pelinal was ultimately slain during the final battle of the Alessian Rebellion at the White-Gold Tower, where after defeating the Ayleid Demigod Sorcerer-King, Umaril the Unfeathered, he fell from his wounds and had his body split into eight by the remaining Ayleid Kings. However, Pelinal's spirit lived on, and has been known to incarnate throughout the eras whenever worthy heroes gathered his relics and donned his holy armor. Pelinal's most recent incarnation occurred in the early Fourth Era, when the Champion of Cyrodill was able to find the Divine Crusader's lost and scattered relics, and become his living Embodiment in order to stop Umaril's rebirth.