Of Towers and Stones

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They self-refracted, with different bands following different Towers and Stones, resulting in the proliferation of the Towers which are known today, [9] each of them built on other joint-points. And so, the Towers did their Dance, [9] each harnessing their own reality and making it conform to their desires. It is speculated that the Towers will conform their spheres of reality according to the desires of whomever claims them this is offered as a possible explanation for an apparent climate change in Cyrodiil.

Each Tower took a "myth-form".

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Some Towers are meticulously crafted reflections of Ada-Mantia, while others have followed a more unique path. Some, though echoes of Ada-Mantia, are considered refutations of that Tower, at least one Walk-Brass to such a great degree that it apparently refuted itself into nonexistence.

Every Tower has its Stone. The Stones then graft this creatia to the terrestrial domain of their respective Towers. In various times and ways throughout history, the connection between a Stone and its Tower has become compromised, apparently resulting in the deactivation of whatever protection that Tower had afforded Mundus. The deactivation of a Tower is believed to pose the greatest possible threat to the very existence of the mortal realm. As such, mystics can become alarmed at mere interest in the subject among the common folk. It should be kept in mind that the designations below "Ayleid", "Dwemer", etc.

The Towers are first and foremost metaphysical concepts, and the constructs representing them are mere physical echoes. In some instances, a Tower's physical avatar within Mundus has been inferred. The tower on the Isle of Balfiera is known by many names. It was the first unassailable spike of reality in the Dawn , [UOL 2] the site of Convention, the single oldest building in all the known world.

Convention consisted of two known decisions: As God of the Mundus, alike shall be his progeny, split from their divine sparks. We are Eight time eight Exarchs. Let the home of Padomay see us as sole exit". The facade has changed over the years, but the core of the tower has remained entirely the same: Adjacent to the Zero Stone, this door has a lock of thirteen slowly counter-rotating rings.

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It has never been opened. When the Merethic elves self-refracted, the Chimer followed Red-Heart. Auri-El launched the Heart of Lorkhan across the world because he could not destroy it. It is the Heart of the World, and merely laughed at his efforts. Thus, the Heart became the First Stone to the second Tower. It imbued Mundus with a special kind of divinity: Using Kagrenac's achievements, four Chimer eventually tapped into the power of the Heart: And eventually, they lost the capability of winning, and instead began losing, slowly.

However, with the fulfillment of the Nerevarine Prophecies in 3E , Kagrenac's bindings upon the Heart were destroyed: All who had stolen power from it lost their divine spark, and the threat Dagoth Ur posed to Tamriel was quickly eliminated.

The Red Tower had fallen, and some worried that this cost would be too great to bear, for the barrier between Mundus and Oblivion was rendered weaker than ever before, [UOL 2] and great enemies who had long coveted the mortal plane decided to act upon their avarice. To this end, they entered into a pact with the Daedric Princes to harvest castaway creatia from the Void. It is noteworthy that the Ayleids built more than a just the central tower: This special power also made White-Gold especially dangerous, for if the Ayleids succeeded in making their own Wheel, their own microcosm within a microcosm, then if and when it was meddled with, the consequences could prove absolutely disastrous.

Rather, the legend of Saint Alessia and her new Covenant with Akatosh began. It is said that her rebellion was blessed by Akatosh, who looked with pity upon the plight of her people. He drew his own blood and blessed Alessia with it, forging their pact: So long as the Empire maintained its worship of Akatosh and his kin, and so long as Alessia's heirs bore the Amulet of Kings, Akatosh and his divine kin would maintain a strong barrier protecting the mortal plane. Mortals did not always prove capable of holding to this Covenant.

During the Interregnum of the Second Era , the Amulet of Kings had no master, with devastating results for all of Tamriel. As Dagon and his armies rained devastation down upon the Imperial City to thwart his coronation, Martin ended the Crisis by forging a new agreement between mortals and the gods, again written in blood — this time, his own. He shattered the Amulet of Kings, transforming himself into an avatar of Akatosh and vanquishing Dagon, jettisoning the Prince of Destruction back into Oblivion. It was a miraculous victory for all mortalkind, and perhaps the true significance of this victory is still not fully understood.

The Towers and their Stones self. While reading through some of the topics on the Lore forums I noticed that some of the Towers had a common theme of using the souls of once power living beings. Alessia inside a Soul gem of some sort. So if they are all based on Soul Gems then they'd have to somehow relate to the Mer who created them though the Dwemer failed really since their tower got out of control.

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That would explain why the Falmer invaded Saarthal during the Night of Tears: Maybe the Psijics are trying to use the Eye to empower their own tower? The Staff of Chaos was created my an apprentice enchanter by the name of Loreth and since we don't know what race Loreth was we don't know which Mer race it belongs to.

Even if Loreth was a Chimer, towers usually have a connection to the whole race not just to one member of that race. The rest of my original post still stands as well: And if it is, should it really be in the hands of the Psijic Order? The eye of Magnus is divine in the same vain that the Heart of Lorkhan is so the Falmer, when they heard about it, probably wanted to use it as a Tower and taking out Ysgramor and his lot was a probably an extra bonus to them.

The Psijic Order taking it is probably a good thing since they vehemently oppose the Thalmor and don't want to undo the world so I'm guessing they would use it to strengthen Mundus. Whether or not they'd use the Eye to make their own Tower is questionable but it's a not a bad idea if they were to. It also explains why the Psijics decide to get involved in the first place; they know about the Towers, and they know that by taking the Eye into public space they endanger it.

Removing the Eye from Skyrim most likely leads to Snow-Throat being disabled, but if they can make Ceporah a proper Tower, we're still equal. Something tells me that the old Nords were dangerously close to the eye, and the Falmer tried to get them away from it. Throat of the World: Some say it's Paarthurnax. Maybe it's the Dovakhiin, or even Alduin. I heard somewhere that the Khajiit themselves are a stone. Any merit to this? Also, these are the stones that bind Mundus or something, right?

The Khajiit are often theorized as being a tower in themselves, but I don't know that theory intimately enough to tell you how much merit there is to it. And yes, these stones power the towers that hold up Mundus. Think of the towers like pillars holding up a ceiling. Stone tower water background with sky. Castle tower, turret, kingdom fortress and castle gate vector line art icon set. The round stone tower of the castle on the promenade in the town of Estoril.

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While reading through some of the topics on the Lore forums I noticed that some of the Towers had a common theme of using the souls of once. The Towers are structures created by either the Aedra (The case of the Adamantine Tower and Red Tower), or the various races of Mer in.

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