stoneage?

Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:45 pm

at the beginning of the elderscrolls time line,did tamriel have some kind of stoneage?

also,what was before E1,day 1?
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Donatus Uwasomba
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:13 am

at the beginning of the elderscrolls time line,did tamriel have some kind of stoneage?

Earth's or better earth-human development periods are not very comparable to Tamriel/Nirn periods. I've found that forcibly trying to do so just leads either into confusion or into false conclusions.
Here's the http://www.imperial-library.info/history/
also,what was before E1,day 1?

"Merethic Era, year 1" and before that "Merethic Era, year 2" up until ca. Merethic Era 2500 and before that the Dawn Era.
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:41 pm

it'd be nice if you read the TIL's timeline, ya know.

Yes, there was a time of prehistory...for men and beastfolk. Men were changed to survive in an early Nirn. The elves by contrast already had the establishments of civilization, but some degenerated.
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:08 pm

well there must have been something,the first living creature cant have known how to melt iron the first day of its life
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:19 am

well there must have been something,the first living creature cant have known how to melt iron the first day of its life

As I said. development cycles of earth are not very comparable to those on Nirn. There were no single-cell organisms in the oceans which developed into fish and then into dinosaurs and so on until pointy-eared and non-pointy-eared apes developed iron weapons to hit each other. [irony included]
You'd do well to look up the term "Ehlnofey".
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:57 am

well there must have been something,the first living creature cant have known how to melt iron the first day of its life


Yeah, there is something. It's called reading the TIL timeline.
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:48 pm

Yeah, there is something. It's called reading the TIL timeline.


it said that the gods walked on earth(or something like that) when where the gods "born"?
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:52 am

it said that the gods walked on earth(or something like that) when where the gods "born"?


You're asking the wrong question if you're asking for a specific date. They were born during the First Creation during the Dawn.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:18 am

still on the god topic;i know the deadric princes and the nine devines are real(ingame) what about all the other gods?(the nords have some other gods,the redguards have some,all races have some other gods,maybe not imperials)
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:31 am

still on the god topic;i know the deadric princes and the nine devines are real(ingame) what about all the other gods?(the nords have some other gods,the redguards have some,all races have some other gods,maybe not imperials)


Again, read TIL. It says the Eight Divines were developed from Nordic and Elven syncretism. But, they're in a sense the same set of gods, you know.

Auri-El/Alduin/Akatosh/Alkosh
Zenithar/Tsun/Zeht
Stendarr/S'rendarr/Stuhn
Mara
Kynareth/Kyne/Tava
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:22 pm

still on the god topic;i know the deadric princes and the nine devines are real(ingame) what about all the other gods?(the nords have some other gods,the redguards have some,all races have some other gods,maybe not imperials)


Think of it like Islam and Christianity it's the same god but with under another name, if you wish to think like that.
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:50 pm

Well no, it's not the same god anymore. Do you think the Akatosh at the Temple of the One was the real McCoy and the others were misinterpretations because he's the one that actually appeared?
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:46 am

We saw a firey dragon instead of a golden eagle or a vertically endowed paternal figure appear to banish Dagon because that's what the Avatar (IE: Martin) envisioned the Time God (whatever you wish to call him) to be.

That's my take on it...
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:05 am

That too.
But unlike in the real world, where outright contradictory beliefs on a subject boil down to a mix of both views, the Nords and Aldmer are equally correct in their views of the time god, even thought they are completely antithetical. So yes, it's the same being, but not as far as mortals are concerned.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:02 am

Nirn as we know it is only about 6000 years old, give or take. It's made of myth, not continental drift and the march of penguins.

That said, the God Time (whose very name is contradictory) before it cannot accurately be measured by mortal perception.
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:26 pm

paw-prints, just want to ask while the asking is good: You mean essentially that if there were a god that was a giant apple to the Nords, a castle-sized crab made of flowers and teeth to the Altmer and an enormous purple seven-armed man-cow to the Bosmer, it would be in (forgive my pseudo-technical speech, I just honestly can't think of anything better to describe it) a superposition of all 3 states?

Following this, could we call Nirn a quantum computer and the dwemer a bunch of script kiddies who got their butts kicked by security? >>

(Yeah, this is a semi-serious question, I'm honestly wondering if that's the case -- it seems to be something like a quantum computer due to the Warp in the West (a superposition collapsing in an extremely odd manner) and the way the gods work.)
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:37 am

Well no, it's not the same god anymore. Do you think the Akatosh at the Temple of the One was the real McCoy and the others were misinterpretations because he's the one that actually appeared?


It was just a way to very simplify it.
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Post » 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.
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:19 pm

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.


so if the gods wanted it,it could start of with everyone having nuclear missiles in their basemants?cool :nuke:
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:39 am

No.

You don't know how quantum physics works, I'm wagering, so... just stay out of this one, please? xx' You'll just end up looking silly otherwise.
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