May I ask, then, about http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=809924? Even though I think Tedders might be of a greater help there.

But I'll take MK on his offer for "Empire Actual".

What does "May we forever seek the Seyda Neen" mean?

Since no one has yet asked as best I can tell in my skimmage, what is abnegaurbic anyways? (Seen in Nu-Mantia Issue 8: Like all of the polydox constructs of the earliest Aldmer-- whatever their abnegaurbic creed-- White-Gold Tower is a conduit of creatia)

Then Varliance beeds... Like prayer beads you use to find your way through the swamps, when the stars cannot be seen in haze and canopy. It fits with the staff that has an eye on it.

That's a rather easy one. Empire Actual is "current Empire", the third Empire of Men, and Emperor Actual was Uriel Septim (the current Emperor at the time of the Nu Mantia Intercept).

I don't know Latin, but it sounds like it's related to "abnegation" -- "abneg-Aurbic" in this case. Maybe it signifies "the Aldmer creed of rejecting the Aurbis".

It sounds like it means "view of the aurbis" as in how they remember The Dawn. "Like all the [towers] of the earliest Aldmer-- whatever their religio-philosophical differences-- White-Gold Tower is a conduit of creatia".

More or less (and more *more* than less) correct.

To Nalion: yep. "Empire Actual" means the Emperor.

o u mke it sew hrd.

I kinda figured "Empire Actual" meant Emperor, because I've already heard "actual" used in a manner to denote a person with executive powers: in the new Battlestar Galactica episode "Pegasus", Adama and Cain referred to themselves as "actuals" of their ships.

Maybe it also signifies "the Empire made flesh", the Empire personified instead of an abstraction.

Oh, this thread is pure loregasm~

@MK: What is a cosminach? It was mentioned early in the thread and was kind of ignored, and it's used in an odd context, too.



I think I'm asking for a definition of "polydoxes," too. Here's some speculation on my (admittedly lacking) part:

"Polydox" seems to be interchangeable with "Tower" -- perhaps meaning "a symbol of multiple paradoxes", or something along those lines. After all, symbols hold many meanings, and in a world like TES where those symbolic meanings are made real through magic, that's powerful. Therefore, the most powerful symbols are those that stand for many things -- polydoxes -- and the Towers were therefore polydoxes, since they could stand for/represent many things.

Or not. That's kind of a weak answer, but oh well.

Anyway, as for cosminach...I have no clue.

Poly means many while dox means belief or opinion.

Cosminach is a reconstruction or imitation of the cosmos, merging the words cosmos and atronach or golem, which is an imitation.

or

Now that is actually a really good answer. Wow, I forgot "dox" means belief...hehehe, silly me.

Right, so maybe "polydoxes" is referring to the fact that each of the Aldmeri Towers represents a different belief system, which is put into action by a construct (the Tower itself) that channels magick energy to fuel mythopoeia. Or something like that.

OK, so as for cosminach...that actually makes a lot of sense, even if it isn't the real definition. An "imitation" of the cosmos, with White-Gold being the most powerful Tower (as alluded to at the end of the Intercept) because it is not only an imitation, but a physical RENDITION of the Cosmos (Wheel-Within-The-Wheel).



Actually, I think Nazz was very close. The early Aldmer's particular abnegaurbic creed (which is a philosophy that apparently denied the existence/status of the Aurbis and seems to be lost to history) was their own particular polydox philosophy (one creed out of many) and, therefore, led to the creation of the first polydox constructs (constructs made from/using a particular point of view/belief system) to re-enact the Creation -- otherwise known as the Aldmeri Towers, of which pretty much each elven race seems to have one.

Poly is many. I know this. If "dox" truly does mean opinion or belief, and reality is as you perceive (or believe it to be) it. Then maybe Polydox means many realities. Let me explain...


Maybe the towers are focal points for realities, smashing them into one consistant and linear reality we know as the Aurbis. Kind of like how, in the convention, time was made linear. Perhaps it is these towers that make linear time a possibility by compressing all the could-be's into one single is. This would make the word polydox make sense.

Right, that's what I meant by "they fuel mythopoeia" -- the Towers use Aetherial energy (magic) to actually make the myths/belief systems they represent a reality. Hence why the Marukhati Dance was so effective.

I agree. That's why every major belief-system/race has one.

Maybe it means "May we always seek the chance for a new start". Where did this appear?

As for what atronach means, maybe they took the name from Atropos, one of the three Fates, ". . . the oldest of the Three Fates, and was known as the "inflexible" or "inevitable." It was Atropos who chose the mechanism of death and ended the life of each mortal by cutting their thread with her ' abhorred shears. ' "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropos

He also has a thing for earrings and Panama hats.

The Hlaalu f'lah, Paulus Hlaalu in the http://www.imperial-library.info/interviews/skelm.shtml says it, along with the expected Hlaalu gibberish.

Oh great M'Kay, God of all thing not boring, loved by our Nordic kin, what have you to say of the "Merid-nunda" of which your ramblings have gifted to us in The Census of Void Lords (and other places)?

Just an unwritten book as of yet, I think. It's described as a tract. But the meaning of the title might lie in nunda, the Cherokee word for both sun and moon, as elaborated in http://www.imperial-library.info/fsg/shardiearticle1.shtml.

That's actually the http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20071222! Mystery solved!

While I hate necromancy, intense curiousity has compelled me to do this, so here I go.

I'd like answers to this:


and this:


If this has already been answered in the thread and I missed it... just slap me.... Thanks.

Searching for Malbioge yields some interesting results. Some guy with a guest account posted the Mythic Dawn Commentaries on a bible forum. (there were no replies)

There is also a several-hundred page list of every word found in oblivion, from aedra to zurin.