Monica21 said:
This is the part that I'm unsure of. I don't know if destroying the Towers causes the same effect as eating the world. My understanding is that destroying Mundus begins the cycle of a new kalpa. Did the elves not exist prior to the current kalpa? Even in their non-mortal form? And it's more than possible I'm confusing my terminology here.
Well, like most ES lore it's vague and subject to retelling and interpretation...but the way I understand it, they'd be very different. Consuming the world and beginning a new Kalpa would simply reset mortal reality, while destroying the towers would end it. It's basically the lore equivalent to deleting a save and starting a new character verses destroying your console and going outside. Lol.
The story is that all mortals are fallen Aedra and while the nomadic tribes lost touch with their divine roots and became man, those who settled and nurtured their mystical heritage became elves. Said elves built the towers as a reflection of Ada-Mantia therefore anchoring and shaping their respective sections of Nirn. Some believe that the heavily bodies of Mundus aren't simply floating in oblivion, but being held above it by the support of these towers...so destroying them would allow Nirn sink back into oblivion and I guess the Thalmor believe that elves have maintained enough if their divinity that they'd become Aedra again if that happened? Who knows if that's how it would go down...but the Thalmor seem to believe it would.
Of coarse Alduin seems a little more simple at first...he'd just end this version of life on Mundus and start a new one. Pretty straight forward until you get into Umaril's backstory and realize that his father was a divine from a previous Kalpa. If that's to be believed then either Kalpas affect Aedra and Daedra the same as mortals but somehow Divines can interact across Kalpas...or it doesn't affect them at all and it's just mortal understanding of them changes in the new timeline. Supposedly, there are hundreds of Aedra and Daedric princess that we just don't know about, so maybe Umaril's father isn't a divine that no longer exists in this Kalpa, but rather one that isn't known by humanity this time around. An unknown Aedra who was worshipped as one of the eight Divines in the last Kalpa so is therefore "from" it in the mortal perspective.
So depending on what you choose to believe, restarting reality may or may not affect Aedra, so it may or may not return elven kind to Aetherius...but even if it did, they would have no recollection of this reality and would most likely be doomed to repeat the same, or at least very similar mistakes and become mortal soon after the recreation of the world. Unless they figured out how Umaril's father managed to interact across Kalpas and left themselves a warning of some sort, that wouldn't be the best way to become immortal again.
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This is the part that I'm unsure of. I don't know if destroying the Towers causes the same effect as eating the world. My understanding is that destroying Mundus begins the cycle of a new kalpa. Did the elves not exist prior to the current kalpa? Even in their non-mortal form? And it's more than possible I'm confusing my terminology here.
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Well, like most ES lore it's vague and subject to retelling and interpretation...but the way I understand it, they'd be very different. Consuming the world and beginning a new Kalpa would simply reset mortal reality, while destroying the towers would end it. It's basically the lore equivalent to deleting a save and starting a new character verses destroying your console and going outside. Lol.
The story is that all mortals are fallen Aedra and while the nomadic tribes lost touch with their divine roots and became man, those who settled and nurtured their mystical heritage became elves. Said elves built the towers as a reflection of Ada-Mantia therefore anchoring and shaping their respective sections of Nirn. Some believe that the heavily bodies of Mundus aren't simply floating in oblivion, but being held above it by the support of these towers...so destroying them would allow Nirn sink back into oblivion and I guess the Thalmor believe that elves have maintained enough if their divinity that they'd become Aedra again if that happened? Who knows if that's how it would go down...but the Thalmor seem to believe it would.
Of coarse Alduin seems a little more simple at first...he'd just end this version of life on Mundus and start a new one. Pretty straight forward until you get into Umaril's backstory and realize that his father was a divine from a previous Kalpa. If that's to be believed then either Kalpas affect Aedra and Daedra the same as mortals but somehow Divines can interact across Kalpas...or it doesn't affect them at all and it's just mortal understanding of them changes in the new timeline. Supposedly, there are hundreds of Aedra and Daedric princess that we just don't know about, so maybe Umaril's father isn't a divine that no longer exists in this Kalpa, but rather one that isn't known by humanity this time around. An unknown Aedra who was worshipped as one of the eight Divines in the last Kalpa so is therefore "from" it in the mortal perspective.
So depending on what you choose to believe, restarting reality may or may not affect Aedra, so it may or may not return elven kind to Aetherius...but even if it did, they would have no recollection of this reality and would most likely be doomed to repeat the same, or at least very similar mistakes and become mortal soon after the recreation of the world. Unless they figured out how Umaril's father managed to interact across Kalpas and left themselves a warning of some sort, that wouldn't be the best way to become immortal again.
