» Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:28 pm For centuries, strange crystalline balls were unearthed at the sites of ancient Aldmer shipwrecks and docks, peculiar artifacts of the Merethic and Dawn Eras that puzzled archeologists until it was demonstrated that each had a tendency to rotate on its axis in a specific direction. There were three varieties, one that pointed southward, one that pointed northeast, and one that point northwest.
It is not understood how they work, but they seemed attuned to particular lines of power. These are the "waystones" of the fragment, which each of the pilots used to point their craft in the direction they were assigned to go. A ship with a name not mentioned in the fragment took his vessel north-west, towards Thras and Yokuda. The Pasquiniel took the southern waystone, and must have sailed down toward Pyandonea. Topal and his north-east waystone found the mainland of Tamriel.
It is clear from this fragment what the three ships were assigned to do - find a passage back to Old Ehlnofey so that the Aldmer now living in Summerset could learn what became of their old homeland. As this book is intended to be a study of Topal the Pilot, there is scarcely room to dedicate to different theories of the Aldmeri exodus from Old Ehlnofey.
It is not understood how they work, but they seemed attuned to particular lines of power. These are the "waystones" of the fragment, which each of the pilots used to point their craft in the direction they were assigned to go. A ship with a name not mentioned in the fragment took his vessel north-west, towards Thras and Yokuda. The Pasquiniel took the southern waystone, and must have sailed down toward Pyandonea. Topal and his north-east waystone found the mainland of Tamriel.
It is clear from this fragment what the three ships were assigned to do - find a passage back to Old Ehlnofey so that the Aldmer now living in Summerset could learn what became of their old homeland. As this book is intended to be a study of Topal the Pilot, there is scarcely room to dedicate to different theories of the Aldmeri exodus from Old Ehlnofey.
Indeed, the Northwest ball, from Firsthold, does indeed point directly through Thras and towards Yokuda. While we do not know the origins or location of Tower Orichalc, something in my gut tells me that it was pointing towards either it or some version of it. Which then leaves Pyandonea. Knowing that there are elves there (probably originally seeded from the Pasquiniel), chances are likely that they constructed a tower or used an already existing one that lies virtually directly south of Firsthold.
What all of this supposition means is that I'm wondering if the locations that the elves built their towers weren't very much deliberate and careful after anolyzing potential Creatia wellsprings.
Additionally, if this means anything, all of the extracts place Topal either at or dangerously close to a tower or future site of one. However, one could argue that that's just the nature of how he explored.
