I know there are threads dedicated to The Eye of Magnus but as I was playing Skyrim I formed my own origin story in what I thought might make a good DLC.

I sent this to Bethesda and got a very positive response but alas they don't accept ideas from outside the company. Here is pretty must what I sent to them with some edits.

"Specifically it would start where end of the College of Winterhold story ends. I know to new players wanting to play would have to complete that first but to be honest I don't think that would be a massive issue. The Eye of Magnus is in the hand of the Psyjic Order but those tears it has created all over Skyrim are becoming dangerous.

A courier approaches you with a letter from the Earl of Whiterun to discuss the "Tear issue". Upon reaching the outskirts of Whiterun a massive tear opens in the sky above like a massive eye. Odd voices are heard booming from the tear... it seems to be closing by its on volition. It miraculously closes but something is falling from the sky... something wreathed in flames tumbles and lands close by. Your quest log updates to go and investigate where it lands. You go to find a flame licked book... it glows as if a spell was cast upon it to protect it. When the player opens the book they automatically learn a new spell called "Through the Eye".

If the player chooses to cast it they open a tear themselves although something is wrong... its svcking them in. The pull is too great and they are engulfed. Queue new DLC story arc.

It is basically the origin story of the Eye of Magnus. They player is torn from Skyrim back in time to how it all began. The Eye of Magnus is essentially the tear in time and space Magnus made when leaving the mortal realm, it remained undetected for millennia until miners found and reported it to the Mages council of the time. With magical interference from the mages the tear itself becomes unstable causing the player to venture to find dwarven smelted magically enchanted metal to contain it. Metal-smiths from all races have to find ways to stop it from devouring the world.

The player keeps a journal that updates with each quest completed. Without the players help the manufacture of its casing (The eye of magnus you see in the game) would not have happened. The climix of the DLC would be the mages knowing that them messing with it made it worse but at the same time realizing what they were seeing were glimpses of time through the tear... the player then fights for their lives against the onslaught of the force of the tear with the help of mages to piece the casing onto the rupture... right at the last moment the player throws the journal they had been keeping, into the Eye of Magnus... that being the book that fell from the sky outside Whiterun... BOOM PLAYERS MIND BLOWN AND EVERYTHING FADES TO WHITE... roll credits...

Questions galore... what came first? The Dragonborn or the Eye... but if hadn't gone back to help make the eye how could he have sent the book forward in time to teach himself to go back in the first place? Time Paradox.

IGN "Bethesda out did themselves with this one" They will say.
"OMG who wrote this? they are a genius" they will exclaim. Before you know it Hollywood will be clambering to buy the rights to the film.

YOU ARE WELCOME.

Obviously I have left out massive gaps in the lore and questlines but I have a metric tonne of ideas for it... I know I could make this myself in the Steam Workshop but I seriously lack the technical skills to pull it off as well as I would like."

Now I know there are loads of gaps and plot holes like "Why would the player throw the book into the eye" but like I said to really flesh the idea out would take too long and be to big for here.

It is just... an idea.

In my mind that's how the Eye was made, not from one race but all races. The Tear being interfered with magic is helped bring to the world only augments the magic energy it gives off. Potentially the eye is a sentient remanent, an echo of Magnus himself. It opened the tears in time to look for the right person to help stabilize it. Potentially invading the minds of those around it feeding them information on how to close it.

Just and idea.

Sorry for spelling and grammer.