Meesei chuckled. "You ask a harder question than I believe you realize. To explain what exactly the Hist are in words is difficult, if not impossible, at least in this tongue. To truly understand them, you would need to commune with them directly, to join your mind with theirs. As shaman of a tribe, I have performed that ritual before. I will give the best explanation I can, however. They are neither Aedra nor Daedra, just as Sithis is neither of those things.They were the first living things on Nirn after if was formed by the Aedra, but they are so much more than simply old trees. I may not worship the Hist anymore, but I can still respect them. The grain of truth in your father's story is that the Hist are akin to a hive mind, in a sense. They are all separate, but all connected as well, both metaphorically, and physically by their roots. Before hatching, Argonian eggs in Black Marsh are lain near the Hist in what are called hatching pools. They are allowed to take in the Hist's sap, which binds the Argonian to the Hist's mind. Argonians can be hatched away from the Hist's influence, but they will not be bound in the same way. In most cases, upon an Argonian's death, their soul is returned to the Hist to be reborn. The Hist retain the collective memories of all Argonian souls to ever flow in the rivers of their mind. Their wisdom is nothing short of godlike...though like most gods, they hardly ever give direct answers. Even when they recalled Argonians to Black Marsh before the Oblivion Crisis, they did not give a reason, they simply acted. One cannot argue the results, however."