» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:19 am
Sounds to me like a quantum superposition, again. It collapses depending on the beliefs of the viewer (e.g. different kinds of "classical physics", or in this case "classical metaphysics") but ONLY when it interacts with the "classical" world of Nirn.
If I'm correct, for the moments in which a god interacts with Nirn and its inhabitants, it does actually become, wholly, that variation of the god. After that it returns to the superposition of all forms of itself. This seems consistent with what I've read at TIL, UESP and on this forum. It also describes well, to me, what I've read about the Dawn Age -- a superposition of all possible beginnings.