Menmoli:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemosyne

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I have no clue what I am supposed to gather from that article, other then "Mnemoli is the personification of memory" which doesn't actually fit into the context of my question about wierd prefixes for Nord names and a strange blue star that only appears when the crux of time is being tampered with in this here fictional world. Which is exactly what seems to be happening in the 'Five Hundred Companions".

Enlightenment?

Enlightenment?

Think about it this way: what is memory without time? Also, what is time without memory?

In the context of a creation shaped by myth, I think you'll get some interesting answers. Do I fully understand the implications? No. But it's fun to think about.

Sure. Given MK's penchant for using strange and tricky words, wouldn't a play on words work with a strange star that only appears when time is out of flux? Like if time is disturbed an anomaly occurs, thus the name for an occurance where a foreign star appears could be reasoned to be an "(-M)"nem-oli, or anomaly in the otherwise normal sky?

I should probably mention that it's a long stretch, but it has always been my reasoning that Mnemoli is a visible anomaly to time being distorted. Thus I wanted to know if thats actually the case, after all these years. And this seemed like the appropriate topic for my question.

I do not think the word Mnemoli has any intended relation to the word "Anomaly." I do not think that beginning with the same grapheme is a strong connection between "Mnemoli" and those three names, either.

How many paragraphs did you count? Nice to see you by the way.

Crazy text. Good stuff. Like the ancient sagas from my regions.

Where are you from, if I might ask?

Sweden. I was thinking about the old nordic sagas, snorre sturlasson- style

Perhaps your old Nordic legends are based on those of Skyrim rather than the other way around. The Godhead dreams in many ways, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teO8xFW1-CI

In a reality where time is an illusion, and everything is one, I, that could be true.

Thank you the most interesting link!

Take from that what you will. I see a lot of parallels between that fiction and what the writers of the Elder Scrolls are getting at on a metaphysical level. Others may disagree.

Opinion noted. Though once again we are talking about a "Dawn" story where anything is possible. My question remains, and is not outside the realm of possibility.



All but the last two, which would put it somewhere around 650+ names, maybe even more. Although I didn't count stuff like "Vrage and his 18 consorts-of-deep-snow-throating", since the 18 were never actually named (just an example). Needless to say an onslaught was coming for Aldmer skin, by way of Atmora. Nice to be seen...though if Clavicus pops up and asks "Wanna see a magic trick?" I might get unnerved.

Bumping this thread back from the depths of Oblivion because now we get to join The Companions (!)

I wonder, how well does this stuff link up with what we learn of the Companions in Skyrim?

can i put this on the wiki if it isn't already?

Which wiki? Dono about wikia's standards, but UESP doesn't allow out of game texts as far as I know. It's already on TIL.

By tradition, the Boat-Thanes were allowed to race for the vanguard of their High King, and Morgan the Red and his longboat Drumbeater took the foremost before crashing into the hazards of the Broken Cape in 1E68, no souls aboard surviving except for Olaf the Dog, a berserker who had been to Hsaarik’s Head a thousand times or more and knew leaping magic. He jumped from the wreckage all the way to Skyrim, landing on Olaf’s bridge. He was burnt there for his cheating by the students of Haafingar, which now happens every year.

Holy [censored], it's not King Olaf One-Eye they burn.

Olaf the Dog jumps Kalpas. Olaf One-Eye defeats a god and holds him captive. The conquest of god by man is the story of each kalpa. Is Olaf One-Eye Magnus (that is Mehrunes), and is it his eye we find in the ruins of Sarthaal.

I gotta get around to charting the similarities between these 500 and the Song's. It's a fascinating combination of the mythic and legendary.

It sounds like he only jumped eras a bit, but yeah.

Damnit... now I have to read the original post. Oh well... good bye world. I'll see you in a day or so if I haven't hung myself halfway through.

Most of it is just a string of names. Once you filter those out its a really coherent narrative. You can do that by copy-pasting it into a word browser. The full thing is worth reading of course, but when you want to get at the meaning removing the names helps.

I think you're going about reading MK's texts the wrong way. If you don't enjoy it, don't bother. Enjoyment is sort of the whole point.

I think they let you cite texts on TIL. They cite the Nu-Mantia Intercept on some pages. Maybe we can cite the revelations from the....new stuff from PGE 2....or not.

I'm reminded of the Welsh tale "Dream of Rhonabwy":

And this story is called the Dream of Rhonabwy. And here is the reason why no one, neither bard nor storyteller, knows the Dream without a book-by reason of the number of colours that were on the horses, and all that variety of rare colours both on the arms and their trappings, and on the precious mantles, and the magic stones.

This out-Rhonabwy's Rhonabwy.

Apologies for not reading this sooner, my only excuse is that I was a welwa at the time. It's pretty much love in liquid form, isn't it? I'm bumping it because I intend to refer to it soon and want it where I can find it. Also, now that everyone's playing Skyrim, it's worth going over again. Most obviously for the King Olaf reference but there are also other stories that it sheds a new light on.