» Tue May 08, 2012 4:15 am Mnemolic magic is related to the "Star Orphans", gods and heroes and demons that live between creations, which can include those reality-bending burps known as Dragon Breaks. Think of them as the all-stars between kalpas, if that helps. (That probably doesn't help at all, really.)
The middle dawn is an axis for the spirits of the Foretime. As such, many of the beliefs of the primitive psijiics cannot be discounted; here, in this place, are proofs within proofs...
"...Of special note is the Blue Star, which the Alesstics call ‘Mnemoli', that runs through this part of the Aurbis every untime. The psijiics hold it in much reverence, and many of their folk make pilgrimages to Veloth when it appears because a mountain there catches fire at its passing. This mountain is reputed to be one of the last refuges of the Dwemer before they departed from this world...
"...and so to most , the middle dawn is little more than a undisputable and grandiose display of mystic power, which is to say nonsense, and few regard it as the numinous gateway that it really signifies. Like many things they cannot explain, the middle dawn is merely another excuse to declare good omens and portents, but unto you it should be known as the Hurling Disk, numbered seventeen...
"...according to the texts, Mnemoli is a wayward child of ANU, one of a pantheon of forgotten deities known as the ‘Star Orphans'... a tribe of gods and goddesses that apparently felt abandoned when the Sun Withdrew from the World-Making. Like many of her siblings, Mnemoli is both confused and delighted with the Aurbis, and explores its five quarters as best she can without the help and regulation of worship, which are not needed (by which I mean, always there) during breakings of the sideways wheel...
"...Of special note is the Blue Star, which the Alesstics call ‘Mnemoli', that runs through this part of the Aurbis every untime. The psijiics hold it in much reverence, and many of their folk make pilgrimages to Veloth when it appears because a mountain there catches fire at its passing. This mountain is reputed to be one of the last refuges of the Dwemer before they departed from this world...
"...and so to most , the middle dawn is little more than a undisputable and grandiose display of mystic power, which is to say nonsense, and few regard it as the numinous gateway that it really signifies. Like many things they cannot explain, the middle dawn is merely another excuse to declare good omens and portents, but unto you it should be known as the Hurling Disk, numbered seventeen...
"...according to the texts, Mnemoli is a wayward child of ANU, one of a pantheon of forgotten deities known as the ‘Star Orphans'... a tribe of gods and goddesses that apparently felt abandoned when the Sun Withdrew from the World-Making. Like many of her siblings, Mnemoli is both confused and delighted with the Aurbis, and explores its five quarters as best she can without the help and regulation of worship, which are not needed (by which I mean, always there) during breakings of the sideways wheel...
The Hurling Disk is the Wheel without the Spokes, that is, the Aedra, created during a Dawn or Dragon Break. The Star Orphans reside in Aetherius. Mnemoli, a Star Orphan, can only enter the Aurbis during a Dragon Break.
I hypothesize that this is all due to the nature of time on Aetherius. Time is meaningless there, as it is a realm of stasis. Stasis is the lack of progression, and going forwards in time requires progression. As such, only when time doesn't exist can the Star Orphans enter. The majority of the time, it is at the birth of the world, when Magnus and his children enter to help build Nirn. Magnus and the Star Orphans retreat from existance because they know that if they stay until the end of the Dawn, he'd be trapped in linear time and thus unable to return home ever again. You enter Aetherius during Daggerfall, and I hypothesize that it is due to how time is becoming irregular, as it is just before the Warp in the West.
Now in the Magne-Ge Pantheon thing MK posted (You can find it here at http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1339845-magne-ge-pantheon/), he mentions several times a Breaking that resulted in many Star Orphans changing roles, particularly those who formerly served Merid(ia). My hypothesis that it was the Dragon Break, where all the Star Orphans were free to wander around Mundus and Oblivion. Because of this, their natures changed, as they entered realms where change existed. This resulted in much chaos, like the War of C and M. Magnus/The Chrome Device, the only one who stayed in Aetherius and the only one who was still the same as always (It is mentioned that the Breaking changed everything but the suns), grew furious. I theorize that the Falling Stars of the Dragon Break were the Star Orphans who were booted out of Aetherius by Magnus,. I note that there is 8 falling stars described in Where Were You When The Dragon Broke?, and the anti-constellation known as the Serpent has four stars. I hypothesize that the Serpent was the constellation that the evicted Star Orphans used to be in, and the division into two was a mirror of Lorkhan being split into Masser and Secunda, as well as that of the Eight Divines. It is mentioned that Mnemoli used to be amongst the Y Signs and Wode-Rub was "condemned to the black". Merid obviously became Meridia. I hypothesise that the Falling Stars were Meridia, Wode-Rub, Mnemoli, and one other.
I do not know where am I going with this, and I think I've gotten everything wrong, but oh well. At least this gibberish I'm spouting can be considered interesting.
