As I was reading and scratching my head at all the lore (as one does) I found myself investigating about the Convention once again. It's stated that Akatosh called the other Aedra to choose a punishment for Lorkhan. Then Aurie-El is given a bow to shoot his heart and you know the rest.

What confuses me is, I thought Akatosh and Aurie-El were the same god under a different cultural name. Does this tacitly imply the Selective was successful in splitting the two?

The Middle Dawn is something that fascinates me and I hardly understand it even after hours of trying to wrap my head around it, though I suppose that's its purpose: being obscure. But if I understood correctly, it's debatable whether or not they succeeded in splitting and that the only real difference between the two is the mythopoeia and essentially willing things into "existence" after some propagation of that belief (i.e., I believe the two are different therefore they are).

What confuses me is, the Convention happened long before the Middle Dawn. Does this mean then that whoever wrote it experienced a Middle Dawn where the two gods where separate? Furthermore, what would it mean if the Selective didn't actually succeed? That is to say, if the two are one and the same, why would the Convention explicitly use Akatosh and Aurie-El as two different entities?

Help a Skooma-ridden cat.