Are the Daedra bound to observe in linear time?

Post » Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:57 pm

Just a matter of curiousity. Are the Daedra bound to linear time when observing? If I've phrased that question badly...

Are the Daedric relms bound relatively to Mundus in terms of time? Meaning that they can only observe events on Nirn in the linear way that entities on Mundus do. Or can they observe any point in time on Mundus from any point of time relative to them. I got the thought when I remembered Sheogorath's bet with Azura.

This will probably be a quick Yes/No from a source that I can't currently remember, just link the source if you can.
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Trevor Bostwick
 
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Post » Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:23 pm

Without knowing what time paradox or idea the devs have gone with, with the setting, it is kinda hard to get a good grip on how non linear time in the Elder Scrolls works. I would just put it as, "The Daedra effect us in a linear timeline". Whether they operate in the same manner, I would assume is pointless to tr and figure out w/o the help of the devs. However, imo, it is worth noting that when you go into the realm of Oblivion(in oblivion the game) time appears to function in the same way, and when you leave said plane you come out, not at the same time as when you entered it, but by whatever ammount of time has passed when you were in that realm.

So at the very least, it appears that mortals can not be effected by the realms of oblivion in any manner of time by the Daedra(Assuming that the way it worked there wasnt simply mechanical in game terms).
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Post » Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:46 pm

I forget if it was in the Anuad, or Monomyth, or maybe Nu-Hatta. Akatosh/Auriel/Alduin/...!Time God landed on Mundus, spearing the continent with Adamantia, the Ur Tower. His appearance, if not the resulting Convention, enforced his law on the mortal plane. I pictured a shockwave spreading out like a freezing tsunami, chronologically fixing the hybrid overlapping past-present-future tense chaos of the Dawn Era. I mean, Akatosh would know how to get it just right; the world's made of a chunk of him afterall.

I'd say once you get into Space-Oblivion, time goes all loopy, interestingly blending with IRL. The daedra need no measure of time, not bound by Convention, but I'd agree with above. They interact with us that way. In a sense, bound by the "everything else" of not-being-bound by Convention.

The Time Dragon and Space Drummer are stuck on Mundus, each underneath an unobtainium monolyth and a volcanic mountain. Spacetime dont get so quirky when the Aedra are Dead.

[rambling now]
Kind of like drawing a cube on paper. You still get a conceptual representation of a 3D object, but there's a huge loss of info. Fun exercise; then draw a tesseract (draw a cube on top of another and connect all the relevant lines).

To the daedric princes, it's probably like drawing a 16th dimensional figure in the mud. Give or take 16*n kalpic reiterations.
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