I dont get it. What is the point of this letter?

It's a birthday letter, among other things.

As for it's purpose: Know Love to avoid the Landfall, my brothers and sisters of the past.

I remember that letter.. a bit.. didn't say something about CHIM or is that just the normally ranting that goes on in the forum.. I really can't remember

once you ignore the futuristic spice it comes down to being an elaboration on the Sermons and an explanation of the nature of the world. and yea, as proweler said, a manual on avoiding the apocalypse :goodjob:

The Loveletter describes a thing in TES lore known as "subcreation", a process whereby one thing is divided into smaller things.

To begin, let me describe a real world example of something similar: the United States of America. The U.S. is divided into states. Those states are divided into counties (or parishes, depending on the state). Those counties are divided into districts and so on and so forth.

The Loveletter describes that downward progression, beginning with AE.

AE was subcreated into Anu and Padomay, then [blah blah blah].

Echoes of echoes of echoes.

Mortal death is an echo of Oblivion, which is an echo of the original Void.

The Loveletter describes how to not get recycled back into the process (i.e., via "the Dreamsleeve"), instead making the "leap" past mortal death into a new universe created, contained and containing only YOU. A new Tower of [I]. The "leap" requires "love".

The first time this concept was touched upon was in Sermon 35, the Sermon of Love, although few understood it at the time and necessitated MK writing the Loveletter to make it a little more understandable. (Whether it is any more understandable or not is open to debate, I suppose.)

I will not claim to be an expert on subcreation, CHIM or the mythos/cosmos as a whole, but I do know that the OP is a valid question, and I hope that I have at least helped a little.


Yours in the Scrolls,


___TWM

That Lorkhan is PsuedoJesus?

I don't know if I'd go that far. I don't know if Lorkhan is going to bring salvation or destruction. Maybe both?

Silly Merchant--

All beginnings are logical endings, and all endings are logical beginnings.

In a world where cycle, metaphor, and reinacted story myth hold such great power, why do you deign to segregate the two? they are really one and the same-- the extremum of the circle; the point of closure at the extreme.

Well, if Lorkhan's end was a sacrifice in it's truest sense, then a tenuous link could be made.

I think we should at least take for granted that LK's plan (if it is one) is going to go OK, and his own endeavour made it so.

Why wouldn't it?

Depends on who you asked. In some stories he gave willingly and in some he was tricked into doing it. If I'm not mistaken I believe in all accounts he wasn't too happy to be "broken apart or somesuch" and wanted to be whole again. If he was whole, there wouldn't be existence, so... umm yeah he could at least take it back.

Also considering he is the trickster in all the myths, it would be most suiting for him to create armageddon, as that is a trickster's job.

Perhaps, Wierd, perhaps. If it's even Lorkhan who is to be said harbinger.

Well it helps a bit, Lord Word Merchant, thank you. Like all MK's works, though, it confuses me. Oh well, thats why I love TES Lore! Praise Julianos.