Few questions about elder scrolls

Post » Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:25 pm

1. What are the Elder Scrolls?

These powerful tools of prophecy and divination, the prize of the Empire, tell of every event that ever has happened or will happen. The Cyrodilic Moth priests, who are their keepers, invoke the Elder Scrolls by ritually attuning them to a specific time or space and attempt to interpret the glyphs that form upon their surface.

The Scrolls are believed to be kept in the Imperial City and may be stored in the Hall Of Records, which is itself likely to form part of the Imperial Palace.

The Moth priests belong to a monastic order founded by Tiber Septim and dedicated to the god Julianos, the Cyrodilic Divine whose sphere is 'literature, law, history, and contradiction'. It is likely that they form part of the Nibenese Cult of the Ancestor Moth.


just a few questions.
1. in oblivion the grey fox breaks the curse of the cowl with an elder scroll. How? and what else can they do?
2. what are the chances of there being an elder scroll in skyrim?
thx.
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Post » Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:04 pm

just a few questions.
1. in oblivion the grey fox breaks the curse of the cowl with an elder scroll. How? and what else can they do?

He breaks the curse through the invariable past that they describe. Nocturnal's curse on the cowl made it so whoever wore it would be stricken from history. No one would remember them, and it would be like they never existed. The Elder Scrolls, however, can't be changed, so the Grey Fox figured out how to read one and was able to learn the name of who the original Grey Fox was. Since the curse was that they'd be stricken from history, and the scroll still told of him, the curse broke due to the paradox created.
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Post » Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:51 pm

that makes perfect sense, thanks.
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