I have some questions about Elder Scrolls (The in game thing rather than the series of games).
1) What exactly are they, or are we not meant to know?
2) Where do they come from/Who made them?
3)How many are there?
4)What can they be used for (other than prophecies and seeing the past)?
These questions might be really dumb, but I was just wondering.
"I had thought you meant there were too many to be counted."
"There are, but that is not the least of their complexities. Turn to the repository behind you, and tell me how many Scrolls are locked therein."
I ran my fingers over the metal casings, tallying each rounded edge that they encountered. I turned back -- "Fourteen," I said.
"Hand me the eighth one," he said, reaching out his hand.
I guided the cylinder into his palm, and he gave a slight nod to acknowledge it. "Now, count again."
Humoring him, I again passed my hands over the Scrolls, but could not believe what I was feeling.
"Now... now there are eighteen!" I gasped.
The old monk chuckled, his cheeks pushing up his blindfold until it folded over itself. "And in fact," he said, "there always were."
By the way, these aren't dumb questions. The nature of Elder Scrolls is one of the large mysteries of Tamriel that goes right alongside the disappearance of the Dwemer.