http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Rising_Threat


Title says it all.
Bit amazed it has not been discussed yet.
I dont know what it means.
I think it means the age of the Thalmor, as I think their timing is wholly too suspiciously precise. But I have no proof.
What do you think?

Edit: Blast. Seems italics dont work in titles. Sorry.

Ultimately? Yet another de-activated tower, Mundus is a little less stable. While that result might align with the Thalmor's goal, i can't imagine them willingly sacrificing one of the greatest monuments of Aldmeris. Still, that would have been a breath-taking thing to see in-game. I don't think we have anything that heartbreaking portrayed in the series that we can experience. (Mind, I tear up every time I execute Ulfric in Windhelm, so i'm a bit of a sap.)

Could the fall of Crystal-like-law have made the Thalmor possible?
Could Crystal-like-law falling represent a future now closed?

The Thalmor are like the sixth house, only very much more succesful, they go by mundane means to achieve divine goals.
Slowly.

Im not really sure but my gut tells me there is too much coincidence. The Thalmor have a future-vision-guide, they seem to know the plot before it is written.
My gut also tells me that the Moon's dissapearing is more important than those few lines in the book let on.

There is a lot of questions Skyrim brings up, that may only be answered, if at all, during a DLC or the next game.

I do believe this quote is from a book recounting the Oblivion Crisis in Summerset Isle, in which the Altmer hide in the Crystal Tower as a defensible location and it was surrounded
by Deadric armies who sieged it and eventually litterly brought the tower down while civilians (the guy who wrote it) looked on from their retreat as it crumbled.

This isn't a mythical metaphor for the world ending or representing something else, The tower was seiged and it crumbled, thats was siege engines do.

"The Crystal Tower is an ancient, mystical structure located on Summerset Isles, which, before the construction of the Arcane University, was the supposed pinnacle of magical learning in Tamriel.
It was razed by Daedra hordes during the Oblivion Crisis. Who had managed to cast the Tower to the ground, 'with all the dignity of a beggar.'  Crystal Tower, a monument to the spirit of the
elven people and one of their greatest engineering projects. Within the glittering walls of the Tower are housed the graves of the early Aldmeri settlers, preserved forever as a lasting symbol of the power
of the people for that brief moment in history, fully unified. "

The fall of the tower created a power vacum in the Altmer society which made it possible for the Thalmor to return to power by claiming they were responsible for when the Deadric Armies
simply vanished from Summerset, but its a lie because that was Martim Septim.
And they lied again when the moons disappeared then returned, then Thalmor were first to tell the people it was part of their amazing magic that casted out the Deadric Armies.

The Thalmor are just usurpers prying on the desperate Altmer who were looking for any kind of security after their island was ravaged brutally by the deadric armies.

Yes, you are correct in that Crystal-like-law is a physical structure.

It is however also a tower, a structure to refine and harness creatia. I think the closest a human mind can come to grasping a Tower is Walking Brass.
A big stompy robot that exists in all times and places at once.
Ascension.

Crystal-like-law is the Altmer endeavour though and aside from the PSJJJ I dont know what (mortal endeavour) has persisted longer in this world.
But it fell and I dont know what that means as I am sure that the very nature of crystal-like-law means it cannot fall.
(Why build an equator, an anchor if it is unstable?)

LoL. Looks like crystal wasn't the best material to use in building a structure. Ha.

It's still a building and buildings can be destroyed. Towers have fallen before, and I don't see why they couldn't again, even by more "natural" means then a dragon break. Also, the Aldmer that build this tower definitely understood enough to build something that would link them to creation, but I doubt they understood enough to create something that could not be destroyed (and that's assuming things like Red Mountain or Adamantine couldn't be destroyed)

I mean that I think the concept was meant to last forever, and that by the falling of the tower something that was never meant to happen did happen.

Possibly Im thinking too much about this and have tangled into nonsense.

The towers anchor the physical world in the spiritual universe. Physically destroying a tower has mythic repercussions. In this world, a lot of things we'd understand as metaphoric or hyperbolic are, in this world, literally true -- as in, the Thalmor intend to destroy the world.

One thing that crosses my mind is that the Altmer had built Crystal-like-Law and maintained it for millennia, so the Thalmor clearly are not orthodox Altmeri.

The Thalmor didn't destroy it, Dagon's army of dremora did. The Thalmor took credit for banishing the dremora and ending the war in Summerset.

I honestly don't see these towers as nothing more then gigantic solar panels ment to absorb large concentrations of magicka, and infuses it into a central battery for storage.
Like the Eye of Magnus which lets someone tap into unfathomable amounts of power kind of like having access to the console commands.

Destroying one might cause some form of leak or backlash from wherever it was drawing magicka from, but I don't see how destroying the tower would destroy the world
which it of course hasn't done, because the world was around before the tower, so the additional tower isn't really needed to anchor it because it was fine long before they built
crystal-like-law. They are just mimicking the mysterious Ur-Tower.