What story does the DM change? Is there not clear, logical reasoning behind every piece of writing or a clear narrative from the First Era until the current date? The lore is always written from the point of view of somebody in-game. To understand it you need to look at what character is doing the writing and why. It doesn't mean it's all wrong or even that it's all right.
What we do is look for consistency over multiple stories or texts. We can rarely give a 100% certain answer to the more complex stuff, only what is most likely given the evidence and maybe a few reasonable logical steps. Would you really want your lore otherwise, dictated to you in bite sized chunks form some god on high> Not even the deep real life stuff can be answered in such a way. Who are we? Where do we come from> What is reality? These subjects are still examined and, depending on who you ask, the answers you'll receive will be different.
Why is that a problem within the TES setting?
What story does the DM change? Is there not clear, logical reasoning behind every piece of writing or a clear narrative from the First Era until the current date? The lore is always written from the point of view of somebody in-game. To understand it you need to look at what character is doing the writing and why. It doesn't mean it's all wrong or even that it's all right.
What we do is look for consistency over multiple stories or texts. We can rarely give a 100% certain answer to the more complex stuff, only what is most likely given the evidence and maybe a few reasonable logical steps. Would you really want your lore otherwise, dictated to you in bite sized chunks form some god on high> Not even the deep real life stuff can be answered in such a way. Who are we? Where do we come from> What is reality? These subjects are still examined and, depending on who you ask, the answers you'll receive will be different.
Why is that a problem within the TES setting?
You mean how people logically can't exist in a dream?
"I think therefore I am" thing.
Anyone with CHIM is also powerful for another reason. Talos with being Dragonborn/"Shezzarrine" and Vivec with the Heart.
How do we know that's not an explination? Was the Heart of Lorkhan public knowledge to the people of morrowind? Wouldn't they say they got their power from somewhere else?
I'm just saying CHIM of all things is a hard pill to swallow.
Have you studied, read about or otherwise heard the many bizarre theories of what is the nature of our own reality? It's an interesting topic and it might surprise you some of the theories some very well known minds have come up with. For instance, an advanced race of AI could create computer so advanced it could replicate our own reality to the point where one would be indistinguishable from the other...
You mean how people logically can't exist in a dream?
"I think therefore I am" thing.
Anyone with CHIM is also powerful for another reason. Talos with being Dragonborn/"Shezzarrine" and Vivec with the Heart.
How do we know that's not an explination? Was the Heart of Lorkhan public knowledge to the people of morrowind? Wouldn't they say they got their power from somewhere else?
I'm just saying CHIM of all things is a hard pill to swallow.
Have you studied, read about or otherwise heard the many bizarre theories of what is the nature of our own reality? It's an interesting topic and it might surprise you some of the theories some very well known minds have come up with. For instance, an advanced race of AI could create computer so advanced it could replicate our own reality to the point where one would be indistinguishable from the other...