They are. I'll admit as much.

Considering the abundance and variety of word salad headers that pop up whenever something dreamsleevish is involved, there also appear to be a plethora of (potentially mutually incompatible) transmission protocols.

.Dom and IMP oneirotecture go together like Advocaat and Steak Tartar.

I would say the lore forum has become more like http://i.imgur.com/5UDOc.jpgs of late.

LOL.

More poop throwing is required

MOAR POOP THROWING DAMMIT!

We are just unexposed to them. Imagine a fantasy peasant reading this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol. He'd be just as confused.

What surprises me is that no one has posted some sort of Malacath fanfic in response to this yet.

And then Boethiah [censored] out Trinimac, and he was an ugly son of a [censored]-womer.

And then Boethiah said to Trinimac followers, "Damn, that was a hard one to pass. For constipating me with your god-ancestor, I hearby curse you to be ugly-yet-strong and to no longer be able to prance around in the sunlight with butterflies! And all elves will hate you!"

And Boethiah threw Her poop at the elves, and the became covered in [censored] and smelly.

And He said then, "Take this dookie! His name is Malacath, and he is god of all [censored] stank!"

And that's how the Orsimer came to be. And also how they came to hate the Dunmer, for worshiping Boethiah, the God of Ambiguous Gender (as the orcs favor manliness above all else), and Goddess of Big-Dump-Taking.

[[Translators note: It's worthy of note that Orsimer in this ancient document is written with the characters for "People of Feces/Ones who bathe in god-[censored]" instead of the regular "Pariah People/Elves".]]

Prince of Plops.

That's pretty good, lol.

What does this have to do with the ape-heads? I'M A SNOW DISH (read in a skyrim nord voice)

Monkeys who speak half truths throw organic refuse around.

Malacath is the daedric god of crap/[censored]/poop.

Personally, I like the idea that every individual mage develops his own darn transmission protocol for his own personal understanding and convenience and figures that anyone too stupid to decrypt it is too stupid to be reading it anyways.

Will you be my Internet Dad?

Yeah, but a transmission involves both a sender and a receiver. What point is there in a transmission if the only goal is personal understanding and convenience? How is it not more convenient for senders and receivers develop a common protocol?

And it seems a little redundant, and less convenient, to encrypt a message meant to exclude the unlearned, if the message is unintelligible to the unlearned in the first place.

I can see the merit in perhaps developing a unique protocol in the transmission of sensitive data. A protocol developed with excluding everyone except a select few chosen elite kind of seems to be what unique protocols are developed for.

EDIT: Actually, there might be something to it being used as some sort of mental exercise or game of some kind. A mage might find it an amusing way to stretch their brain muscles. But than the actual message contents become rather meaningless and can be discarded as such, since the decryption/encryption of said message is the focus of the exercise.

Certain documents that we have seen, as memo-spores, would be extremely sensitive, so presumably there is some level of encryption or access requirements to read/view/recieve the transmission. Like the Enigma machine...

It could work like the Propylons, but in a more emaily sort of way.

I'd forgotten about those. How exactly do they work, anyway?

Academic mystics spend years studying to achieve a fraction of what physical mages, sorcerors, healers, battlemages, illusionists, enchanters and alchemists achieve. So they take it out on everyone else by being needlessly elitist, which also makes it look like their research is even more confusing (and requires more funding) than it really is. Just because a magical institution demands that knowlege is shared, it doesn't mean they have to make it easy for other members.


I found it odd how they weren't used in modern times. So perhaps it isn't known, although the steward of the Caldera guild of mages must have some practical understanding. They might have been installed by a Telvanni wizard who wanted to keep the monopoly or possibly House Dagoth made them, but the're gone so they can't tell anyone either.

You know what? I think we've actually seen Dreamsleeve transmission already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA8TQlkDYSE, and nobody can see him but you? I think that's him speaking to you through the Dreamsleeve.

Short answer: more magic.

Long answer: The bits about the dreamsleeve I was quoted on earlier, suggest that everybody actually is part of the same "consciousness". So I imagine it is like reading your own thoughts. Which isn't that easy, more people have trouble knowing that they think.