SMFNDKDNS OF COURSE 🤚 morise isn’t a biological daughter but a clone that ixora created through a self-genesis method that she learned from sotha sil. ixora wanted to clone herself as a means to carry on protection of her sanctuary and divine relics, so she sought to make a sort of “Ixorada II”— herself, in some aspects, but improved in other aspects (for example, free of the padomay’s serpentine corruption.) of course, there were risks, and the birth of a conduit equal in power to ixora caused a timeline split where morise dies, and another timeline where she survives. morisephona is raised by ixora’s handmaidens and grows resentful of her “mother,” believing that she is not seen as her own person and simply an extension of her mother. when she becomes an adult, she initially rejects ixora’s bidding to become keeper of the loop, which causes ixora to do a heel-faced turn and realize that morise is, indeed, her own person, and that she deserves to be treated as such.

YES good question! so their animosity goes back to the first era, when ixora first arrived in tamriel. noticing ixora’s time-altering power, she granted ixora the ability to create powerful relics with time-cleaving abilities for her servitude. in time, ixora defied meridia by using her advanced magic to create a relic whose power rivaled that of meridia’s own, which angered the daedric prince. meridia cursed the relic and drove ixora to insanity, and she only recovered through an aspect of padomay. since then, meridia has sought to make ixora pay for her betrayal, a mission that has gone on for thousands of years. in the second era, meridia almost succeeded by ambushing ixora in her weakened state, but she was put in stasis at the brink of death inside the clockwork city. hundreds of years apart from the aspect of padomay to which she was bound ended up minimizing her power even more so, so it could be said that meridia /did/ succeed in ixora’s descent, albeit indirectly.