How would one read an elder scroll I was looking at one of the elder scroll in oblivion http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:Elder_Scroll.jpg I was wounder is it possible for someone like me to read it and if it is how would i

People go blind reading them!

There's no way to actually read the Elder Scroll from Oblivion. I guess the player does not possess the prescient powers necessary to read them.

Thats unfair but would a god beable to read one. lets just say sheagorath

I guess probably. The Elder Scrolls themselves are Aedric in origin, so whether or not a Daedric Prince would be able to read them is up for debate.

There's surprisingly little information about the scrolls themselves.

I know i hope in TESV we get more Info on the Elder Scrolls themselves. Also, one more question how did the gray fox read it?

Only a Moth Priest can read them. And only a blind one at that.

Well not "ONLY" but you get the jist. Notable exceptions.

The elder scrolls are the game. They tell the same tale (game), but are different depending on the reader (you). [EDIT] You can also go blind by reading (playing) them for too long

He said reading, so I assume he means the books by Greg Keyes, not the games. You can't read games.

You can, you just need to go into the CS, so only a select few can.

*waves away a moth* I remember Solin posting his idea of the Thief birthsign being depicted on the Elder scroll. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of his original picture where he illustrated his findings, but here's a quick drawing: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/Nalion_/Oblivion/Elder_Scroll-Thief_Overlay.jpg Compare that to the Oblivion Thief sign http://images.uesp.net//thumb/1/1c/OBbsign_Thief.jpg/180px-OBbsign_Thief.jpg, overlay for easier comparison: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/Nalion_/Oblivion/OBbsign_Thief_sign_overlay.jpg

This would lead to the conclusion that the symbols on the scroll represent stars. The background symbols are the same. There are 26 different (!) symbols on the chart and in the background, so they might correspond to letters in the alphabet - which symbol is which letter (or if at all), I don't know, but everyone's welcome to try, too. What I'm pretty sure about is the message the scroll generally carries: the stars tell a story.

I remember in Arena, every time someone had an elder scroll that you had to use the knowledge of to find a dungeon, it required something to help decode and translate it. Even if decoded, I think a character requires a firm understanding in esoteric arcane knowledge and symbology to understand it. (As well as Tamrelic Astrology)

He says in the game he'd been studying for seven years. I doubt he truly had the ability to read or interpret an entire scroll. All he had to know was just enough to find the name Emer Dareloth as the true thief who stole the Cowl. Since the events imprinted on the Scrolls never change after they've occured, no amount of Daedric cursing could reverse Dareloth's name, and proclaiming this to the universe (and to Nocturnal) is what allows Count Umbranox to lift the curse of anonymity from the Cowl.

Does that answer your question?

On the topic of the Gray Fox reading them, is there a difference between discerning past events from the scrolls and scrying them for future events.

If I had to guess I'd bet the former is fairly easy (or at least easier), and the latter is the one that can make you go blind and requires advanced training.

The scroll in question also changes (or rather, stops changing) once the event it describes has passed. Presumably in order to read history you don't have to stare into the face of god or whatever mechanism blinds the user.

The Elder Scrolls have the sign of the Thief, who takes the Tower and plunders its secrets. You plundered the White-Gold Tower and took its secret. The Elder Scrolls steal the secrets of the future.

It's been a while since I've played that quest. Do all Elder Scrolls have the sign of the Thief, or did that particular Elder Scroll just happen to have the sign of the Thief, especially given that it was referencing a thief.

We only get to see what's on one elder scroll. All the other ones are locked up in what amounts to ornate cabinets. The scrolls themselves don't seem to be on the more common two-roller method of making scrolls, but rather the scroll is a giant spool. A giant, very ornate spool, that you could probably kill someone with.

I read somewhere (can't post sorce, sorry) that it was a starmap of the Southern Hemishpere (of Earth). :shrug:

You probably read that on the UESP, and the claim is that a portion of the elder scroll's backgbround is a star map of the southern polar region. Supposedly you can see Crux and a bunch of other constellations. Haven't checked out the claim, so can't say if it's true or not at the moment.

It is not 'reading' the scroll that blinds you, it is 'understanding' it

So,with an elder scroll,you can edit the world?

No, read the game

You're so mysterious and cryptic that I think you should change your name to either Todd or M'aiq.

Nothing cryptic about that. Elder Scrolls are (hi)story, and the events of each game are found in the scrolls. So you really would be reading the 'game' if you read a scroll.

A.) try playing on peyote. That's what reading an Elderscroll would be like.

and B.) I don't read the game, but my PS3 or my XBOX 360 does.