#adamantine tower

[hydropyro]

PC in The Elder Scrolls 6 will be Shezzarine.

Calling it now.

Please make sure Morihaus is in the game Bethesda Game Studios

I love Morihaus.

Why Shezzarine you ask?

Lorkhan would not allow the Thalmor to take the Adamantine Tower, the last of the 8 Pillars of Creation, and unmake his world.

Just as the Nerevarine, Hero of Kvatch/Mantle of Sheogorath, and Dovahkiin — the Shezzarine will return to mantle the heroes and gods of the past (namely Shor, possibly Pelinal Whitestrake) and put an end to the Thalmor plot once and for all.

Or, they will fail and the Thalmor will unmake the world, ending the current Kalpa — and the Elder Scrolls.

[uesp]

"I took sight-and-angle measurements of the Direnni Tower from the eight points of the compass. According to my calculations, and given the known characteristics of all available materials, building an edifice of its proportions should not be possible."

--Hrerm House-builder

[caithyra]

Widowed Goddess/Queens and Missed Opportunities...

While General Tullius is a hundred times more competent than 95% of Skyrim’s NPCs or so, there is one glaring mistake he makes as a military governor (though he would have to convince High Queen Elisif to get onboard, which shouldn’t be too difficult):

He does not restore Old Nord Faith to Skyrim (which is not outlawed, and perfectly compatible with being Imperial), and use it as propaganda against Ulfric and his Stormcloaks.

If you are familiar with the Old Nord myths about Shor/Lorkhan’s death, I am just going to summarize it as this:

Torygg=Shor Elisif=Kyne Ulfric/Stormcloaks=Trinimac/Merethic et’Ada

For those less versed in Elder Scrolls mythology: Shor was the God of Men who made sure the mortal world was created, he was later killed by the Elven gods Trinimac and Auri-El atop the Adamantine Tower in the Dawn Era, and Kyne, his widow, became the chief deity of Mankind according to Nord folklore (not Alduin/Akatosh or Ysmir/Talos!).

It’s like the perfect base for pro-Elisif propaganda (Kyne is the beloved mother goddess of the Nords who breathed them to life atop the Throat of the World and bestowed them Voices and made them hardy against the cold), that would also undercut Ulfric’s claims of restoring the TrueNordFaith(TM)... And it would make getting Whiterun on the Imperial side with the Temple of Kynareth, Gildergreen,  Skyforge and windy plains a bit of a Big Deal to prop up the Elisif-Kyne connection...

Yes, this would religiously fracture the Nords a bit away from Imperial Cult (which is an evolved hybrid of Nordic and Ayleidic faiths, though both those faiths recognized the other), but it would be less of a schism than between Hammerfell and the Empire, and not at all unbridgeable.

It also would have given the Old Nord Faith a spotlight in its homeland instead of being tucked away in a shack with an old man...

Seriously, this game had sooo many missed opportunities...

[tiafrye]

If you headcanon them as the Direnni raise a hand ✋

Some pre-vampire stuff!

[tt-vision]

▻ Koeglin Village

[uesp]

"There is nothing like the Direnni Tower anywhere in Skyrim, save for High Hrothgar itself. Unlike the great mountain, which is a thing of nature, the tower is a structure—but one not constructed by Men or Mer, if the legends speak true, but by the Aedra themselves.

"It rises, stark and sheer, from the high center of Balfiera Island in the Iliac Bay, where it has stood since the dawn of time itself. Adamantine Tower, it is called, for the unknown, ageless material from which it is built, and Tower Zero, as the edifice that predates all other buildings on Mundus."

--Excerpt from Tower of Adamant

[uesp]

Here is a truth read from the bark.

The spike of Ada-Mantia, and its Zero Stone, dictated the structure of reality in its Aurbic vicinity, defining for the Earth Bones their story or nature within the unfolding of the Dragon's (timebound) Tale. The Aldmeri or Merethic Elves were singular of purpose only so long as it took them to realize that other Towers, with their own Stones, could tell different stories, each following rules inscribed by Variorum Architects. And so the Mer self-refracted, each to their own creation, the Chimer following Red-Heart, the Bosmer burgeoning Green-Sap, the Altmer erecting Crystal-Like-Law, et alia.

But of all the Prismatic Mer, none were more presumptuous than the Ayleids of the Heartland. They built their tower in open emulation of Ada-Mantia, using as Founding-Stone the great red diamond they had uncovered: Chim-el-Adabal, said to be crystallized blood from the Heart of Lorkhan itself. (For the Heart on its arrow passed over the Heartlands, birthing one of that postnymic's quaternary meanings.)

Thus did White-Gold become Tower One. As all know.

--Excerpt from Aurbic Enigma 4: The Elden Tree

[uesp]

My Hobby: Upgrading my computer setup, just so I can enjoy Daggerfall in 4K.