They take the form of scrolls.

I'm pretty sure that the fragments of creation aren't real scrolls. We give them that form by believing in mythopoeic tropes.

How's that?

They are letters written in uncertainty.

Really now, my guess is that they exist both in and out of time.

Always thought this was an interesting read: http://www.imperial-library.info/content/accounting-elder-scrolls

Stole the words right out of my mouth.

This makes me wonder if they're not some sort of side effect from white-gold's power of creatia theft from oblivion/mockery of convention/mirroring creation.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/nu-mantia-intercept-letter-8.

My bad joke about how Bethesda came up with the "Elder Scrolls" as a name for the franchise because it sounded cool.

Maybe, but is there any relationship between White-Gold and the scrolls? I was pretty sure White-Gold was just where the Imperials decided to store and protect them, given it was already the most secure place in Cyrodiil. Nothing to really suggest that the Elder Scrolls were made in White-Gold or have always been in White-Gold. Otherwise, you imply the ancient Nord heroes went to White-Gold in the 1st Era, managed to procure a Scroll from the Ayleids, same with the Dwemer of Blackreach.

Unless your point was that their location in White-Gold makes them uncountable. That might be true, and I'm sorry if I misunderstood.