I think that is untrue. The Dawn Era is well before the Merethic Era, which starts with Direnni being constructed... If we believe Orgnum and the Redguards, then Orgnum was around during The Beginning and/or Creation. This doesn't make sense, because why would he then become a wealthy Aldmeris Nobleman? No, Orgnum was created with other Elf ancestors, and this dates him and Auri-El to have been manifested someway in Ruin- Worlds End, where many realms came into and out of existence. They lived as Ehlnofey after creation, but were fellow et'Adans like Magnus or The Divines.
During Lorkhan's Plan and the Great Construction, Auri-El is offered to become King of the new "realm", so he decides to join the project. After this a lot of shit happens, and the project is disastrous, and as we know, the Aedra regret their decision and Auri-El even tries to get Anu to accept him and his people back, because they hated existence, but chose to accept to live in Nirn unlike Mundus who like the majority of Et'ada chose to leave to escape and shatter the very universe.
Now this is all very mystical and whatnot, but Anuiel gave Auri-El a "bow and shield" to protect his people and then Auri-El went on to create Aldmeris, Altmor, and Old Ehlnofey. All the "highborn" Ehlhofey hated Lorkhan for making such a stupid plan and tricking them into living, but he found solace among "the Wanderers" , the ancestors of men, and wound up becoming a symbol for them. A leader of sorts. Sometime after this obvious war starts over the singular continent, and ends up shattering the whole world. This is all good myth, but before the shattering and before Trinnimac waged war with Lorkhan Orgnum somehow had enough followers and had enough "money"(translated:unknown power) to pose a threat.
They then exile him to Pyandonea after a rebellion, behind a "veil of mist" separated from the main continent. I first thought this just meant it was its own island, but is it possible they actually just made a gigantic wall similar to the ghost-fence, but was metaphysical in nature, but the shattering obstructed this? The Maormer did not exist at this point I think, or were just now being created. He never messed with Almderis again when he was banished, so this is why he has an absence in the wars of Auri-El and Lorkhan. He probably did not care, and went on too create his own stuff or scheme.
My previous thoughts were negligent because I hadn't considered Orgnum being this old. Orgnum may nor may not have been at the convention that Auri-El obviously led, that condemned Lorkhan and also created the Direnni tower. I would wager he was, though, because the task of setting the physical, temporal, spiritual, and magical elements of Nirn would be a huge task and would need all et'Ada that still existed to be there. Before this, though, all of that was happening across varying planes. Tamriel didn't really exist. It was all Mundus. Time wasn't recorded and these events were all metaphysical while the same time being literal.
This seems so strange. He is a literal god, perhaps the Orgnum we know of today is a manifestation of him, and he ascended in an unknown time? Or perhaps his hatred for Auri-El burns so much that he would exist far past any of the others in the mortal plane just to destroy all of his creations and everything he loves as an aetheral being, but his attempts are just like, really shallow. He is immortal, so he must be used to time and space not really existing, and maybe that is why he does random things and is shrouded in mystery? I have no idea, the more I read, the more its obviously written to be confusing and there's alot of underground work, but its just so intriguing. What is this guy's deal?
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