The public account portrays the actions of the Tribunal in a heroic light, while the hidden writings reveal secrets, untruths, inconsistencies, conflicting accounts and varying interpretations which hint at darker and less heroic motives and actions of the Tribunes. The Dissident Priests say that the Temple has always maintained a public face and a hidden face. Sources in the Apographa suggest that the Tribunal relied on profanely enchanted tools to achieve godhead, and that those unholy devices were the ones originally created by the ungodly Dwemer sorceror Kagrenac to create the False Construct Numidium.
Dissident Priests ask whether Dagoth Ur's powers and the Tribunal powers might ultimately derive from the same source - Red Mountain. Temple doctrine claims their apotheosis was miraculously achieved through questing, virtue, knowledge, testing, and battling with Evil Temple doctrine claims their divine powers and immortality are ultimately conferred as a communal judgement by the Dunmer ancestors. RAW Paste Data EXCERPT: concerning the points of Temple doctrine challenged by the Dissident priests: