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Pseudo-Lore: The Towers and Tower Stones

  • July 17, 2014

    Thanks. But seriously. Hocus-pocus bull hockey. 

  • Member
    July 17, 2014

    That's why I love TES lore! We can argue about canon until we're blue in the face but truth be told everyone already picks and chooses what to include in their own personal C0DA anyway.

    So what's the point? All these debates open people up to new ideas or inspirations to agree with or disagree with as they see fit. But at least they get discussed and the lore group keeps grinding. This poor topic languished here for years, the original article had barely any replies iirc.

  • July 17, 2014
    I disagree. This aspect of TES is horribly irritating.
  • Member
    July 17, 2014

    Really? I'm surprised. I thought you enjoyed the search for truth within lore, figuring things out and piecing together the puzzle rather than have it told to you like it's gospel truth.

  • Member
    July 17, 2014
    Plus, it's like history, written by the winners. One side tells their side, the losers tell theirs, with obvious bias
  • Member
    July 17, 2014

    So what, according to this book, Ayleids created 8 Divines? If MK writing style wasn't that hard to decipher his followers wouldn't have that much trouble! 

    Even more so, first the book claims

    Chim-el-Adabal they took as well, but not before the arch-mage Anumaril fangled an eightfold Staff of Towers, each segment a semblance of a tower in its Dance. And then seven of these segments were borne by White-Gold Knights to distant Fold-Places, where they were hidden.

    After that it tells the story of the eighth segment - Segment One and how it stabilized Elden Root.How Anumaril attempted to recreate White-Gold Tower but failed. So what, there are 7 towers now? And what happens to other graht-oak trees? They continue to normally function, or they stop moving as well? There is at least one tree that continued to move, Falinesti, and according to that very book, all those trees were connected in one "dance". I don't believe such drastic change would not have had big consequences for all graht-oak trees. 

    Once again, his writings need a clear mind, a ton of references, and a cipher to understand. And when you dig deep enough you find that he either a) operates with very unclear subjects like what Divines do and don't do and therefore there is no way to prove whether he's right or wrong b) contradicts existing lore like in the above-mentioned case

  • July 17, 2014
    It pisses me off that the only way to know anything for certain is dismiss all of it, and start over. I want to know who my heroes are. I want to know what actually happened in history, and by golly, if I have to erase it all to have it make sense, then I will. It didn't have to be this way, Elder Scrolls maker people. It didn't have to be this way. *Nukes everything*
  • Member
    July 17, 2014

    You know, Dragon Age and Mass Effect lore also leaves a lot to the interpretation. You just have to dig deeper 

  • Member
    July 17, 2014

    Dude, you rustled some of your jimmies into my soup, brah.

  • Member
    July 17, 2014

    Thought the Orichalc Tower was of Yokuda.