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Post » Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:02 pm

Ehlnofey aren't animals. Animals were created by Kynareth, while Ehlnofey predate Mundus.

No.

When mundus was created, mortals had no regular form yet. Depending on which description of Y'ffre you read, they shifted between mortals and plans or between man, animals and plants. Y'ffre put an end to that. Words of the Clan Mother and Faith in the Empire describe this.

I reckon this aspect of Y'ffre has been merged with Kyne to create Kynareth. You have a god of animals + plants + humans and a goddes of the sky, the rain, the wind, combining these you get a complete Goddess of nature. I think this vision of Kynareth is best presented in Knights of the Nine, though it is arguably a bit of a change on what Faith in the Empire describes but it puts everything together so I'm running with it.

Thank you, but that creates more questions for me than answers. How can one simply create (I do by no means doubt that she did it, though) animals? Unlike in real life, they aren't just animated star dust, but actual vessels for something to put into a Soul Gem.

People used to believe that people were just that. Vessels for a soul.

I don't think there is an exact answer to how people / animals / trees were created. The monomyth mentions it is only described in allegorical ways.
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Post » Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:31 am

But how does this make the PC a Shezzarine? Sure, he stopped Alduin from eating the kalpa, but that might actually destroy Mundas rather than saving it to be recycled. There is a definite possibility that the PC is a Shezzarine, but no definite proof that he is, until we see what happens in future DLC.
Aka killed Lork
Shezzarine kills Alduin
etc, with the musical death chairs.
So with the Kalpas... Are our existing gods then ancestors that were alive in a presumably linear existence, in the previous kalpas? Am I even allowed to think like that? How do we remember them? Is that part of the pieces that Dagon and Sheor Greedy-man were hiding?

Is the Celestial bodies an everlasting constant? With our wicked-a$$ time presentation, does that even matter? Are they still subject to potential change, even if once they change, they have always been what they are? Is there really just Eight of them? Why is there Eight? Why not Four? Or Eleven? Is this not dependent on the culture viewing them?

Is there even a shred of potential correctness in the assumption that what is described as "Dawn Era" holds a ton of Kalpas in which there could easily have been a Tamriel plausibly like the one we have today, with maybe another Ehlnofey mocking about, not too unlike our own but definitely a different thing? Are the Psijic Order and there old-school style one of the leftovers of these previous times?

How about the Nords? Is Atmora even on Nirn? Or are they moonmen? It doesn't subtract from their awesome. I do marvel looking at Jorrvaskr in Skyrim, thinking "This was made from wood... of Atmora. That's like having a boat of Antarctic wood. Or Marswood."

Isn't Lorkhan quite the badass? I mean agitating creation to come along, allowing me a Sovngarde upon death, after leading a life in Skyrim among beautiful Giants, Trolls, Mammoths, Bears eccentially allowing my dream of Theodor Kittelsen mixed with a bit of Robert E. Howard.

What was the "oldest" version of Borhamu? Does that question contradict itself? Then what is the oldest perception of Borhamu, and how long am I allowed to go back, before Time ceases to allow me?

Are there even answers for all this yet, or will there ever be? Do we all question most of what I ask about?
The answers to all your questions is "maybe".

More or less.
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