I was referring to Vvardenfell as a landmass. The MoT landing would surely destroy Vivec because it was ground zero. But because the MoT was hollowed and so should of crumpled or shattered and because it hit a relatively soft coastal seabed, it should of had no effect on the distant volcano of Red Mountain as there were multiple conditions that aid in the local dissipation of the impact energy. That is where the shenanigans occurred. IMHO, Bethesda should recall all copies of The Infernal City because having as canon a scenario with such major ramifications, but is so unrealistic that even Syfy wouldn't use it in their disaster movie of the week is a festering wound on the series as a whole.
You don't remotely know what you're talking about. You can post a picture of your PHD in physics and you still won't.
The Ministry of Truth isn't a meteor, it's a divine being manifested as a stone. The moons are Lorkhan's cloven corpse, so you see how it works.
To sum up, gods can throw things faster than outer space can. How fast was it moving? Precisely fast enough to do exactly what it did; make Red Mountain erupt. Even a grain of sand moving fast enough can destroy a planet. The friction would simply set the atmosphere on fire. And grains of sand aren't magical with their true mass and velocity frozen inside another timeline, neither are their ballistic properties that of a supernatural being. Vivec is on Red Mountain, because Vvardenfell is volcanic. Red Mountain is also of divine origin.
I hope you realize how utterly silly it is to assume that because an object is apparently made out of stone, and because it fell out of the sky, it must be moving at a similar speed to the meteorites that hit our own planet in our one tiny corner of the solar system in our one galaxy in our one universe which operates by distinctly different rules than Tamriel. The festering wound in the series is the sort of thinking that this isn't actually fantasy, but a Renaissance Fair with fireballs.
And not only that! Nerevar let it happen! He stood there and let Vivec keep the MoT up without destroying it.
Well, I would caution anyone using the Sermons of Vivec as a guide to actual narrative history. Nerevar should have been king and Vivec his adviser, not the other way around. It's fairly clear that Vivec stopped an attack from unhappy spirits, and that the faith of his people sustained the spell.
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. But I digress, I want to see some clarity between the two games. I haven't read the novels, but since Bethesda confirmed them as canon, I wonder how they will mention it in the game if at all?
