According to legend, that happened as a result of his battle with the jailor, not because he chose to. Still BA though.

Ironic how the current nords despise the College of winterhold no and yet it was the only thing to survive the great collapse almost entirely unscathed?

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/images/2625844-1330977916.jpg

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/Images/905814-1344974659.jpg?width=400

Hmm It sure looks a lot like a certain building constructed near the beginning of the first era.

http://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/759307-1346600651.jpg

http://images.uesp.net/b/b1/SR-place-Auriel%27s_Chapel.jpg

There is actually a possibly that the Yokudans mastered Orichalcum smiting way before the Orcs. Also gameplay stats shouldn't matter judging by how crappy Skyforge steel is ingame.

Could be both. Dragon cult didn't want to acknowledge his blasphemous display of power, so they said Miraak's battle with heroic Vahlok caused it. Rather than Miraak himself, intentionally. They wanted it to be a side-effect, rather than Miraak's strength.

I see the similarity. CoW could have been made by Falmer considering the location, and their aptitude for magic.

Nope all he did was lay back and do absolutely nothing until Ulfric told him to take a stand.

I don't think ebony is a Nord armor; I may be wrong but I highly doubt that ebony armor is theirs as orcish armor is to the orsinium or daedric armor is to the daedra.

Oh I don't think the Nords built the college, the only thing we know they had falmer slaves build was windhelm.

Also it adds to the whole night of tears and Falmer supposedly flipping out when the Nords discovered the eye of magnus under saarthal.

The Psijics alarm during the college questline

Ancano's presscence

See what I'm getting at?

Ebony is from Morrowind.

Ebony is found primarily in and around Skyrim and Vvardenfell. The biggest concentration of it is in Red Mountain.

Ebony is the blood of Lorkhan.

It survived the collapse almost entirely unscathed, while everything else around it falls like cookie dipped in milk. I must say that the situation really brings a lot of question on to the table.

It's like the college is prepared or something. Whole city don't fall like that, ESPECIALLY because the college stands on perfectly good stone, it's safe to assume Winterhold didn't rest on gaping cave

and they said Korir was too paranoid

Thanks, to the both of you.


And what he do then, when being faced with the possibility of dueling Ulfric or battling his army? Told Ulfric to take that axe and shove it up his Thu'um

Not so much paranoid as stating the obvious. The Great Collapse is one of Beth's QuickCopOut™, it explains why Winterhold is very crappy while at the same time doesn't explain anything else other than that. If the College is hovering, that's a different story

Or it's skyrims tower and the throat of the world is something else.

All known towers other than Adamantine and Red mountain where constructed by elves.

Which results in him either being Tullius' puppet or exiled to a basemant in Solitude

lol at the thought; true though. I'm an amateur boxer so I respect heart. It's not about the end result, it's about how hard you fought to get there.

So I guess that means that not all towers have to be constructed by Elves.

There's still the throat of the world where the Nord's where supposedly created by Kyne so it could still be the Snow-throat tower which would make skyrim the only province with two towers. They certainly didn't build the college it looks nothing like any of their ancient ruins.

If their tower is the snow throat, and Mks thing is true, then the thalmor failed before they even started.

It also looks nothing like the Falmer ruins.

Well if Snow throat is a Tower for the Nords and Mankind as a whole, then yep the Thalmor are kind of screwed

If the college of winterhold is the Falmer tower and Ancano was attempting to deactivate it, then it seems he failed and now the Psijic's have it's stone. So doubly screwed. Hell the great collapse might have even been the Thalmors first attempt to deactivate it so triply screwed.

Meh, the towers theory was mentioned by Vivec but nothing specific was mentioned. I'd say it's less of The College being a tower and more like:

Project Manager: "Guys, this is 11-9-11, STEPONIT! You there, how's Windhelm going? "

Landscape Artist: "Almost finished sir, just need to out this here and..."

PM: "Alright, good, you do whatever you're paid for. You there, what about the rest?"

Modeler: "Most things are finished sir! I just need to deal with this College here"

PM: "what about the college?"

Modeler: "Well, uh, it's kinda big sir. I mean, it's BIG. It's going to cover most of Winterhold"

PM: "No need, make it smaller. Cut corners! That corner there, and there, and that one over there"

World Designer: "but, sir! The College is supposed to fill one third of Winterhold!"

PM: "Well, what about the other two third?"

World Design: "Well, uh, not entirely done sir. We got the Jarl's longhouse, but..."

PM: "What about the rest? The houses? Stores? Et cetera?"

World Design: "uh... hey, how much have you guys done for Winterhold?"

Landscape artist: "Uh... only what you just mentioned"

PM: "What? Release is in two months! We need to finish this thing this week!"

Modeler: "But... Winterhold is pretty empty right now sir!"

PM: "Empty? EMPTY? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOI... no, wait..."

Modeler: "Uh oh... I just gave him an idea..."

Landscape Artist: "What have you done, man?"

PM: "No, no, that's it! Just leave Winterhold empty! Make it, like, natural disaster or something!"

Modeler: "you mean, like, it got hit by one of those... "sue-nah-mee" sir? I... uh... will make the house models"

PM: "No, no! Just... leave it empty. It's on a cliff, isn't it? Make it look like there's a massive landslide or something, the whole town fell and whichever part we haven't done is the one affected!"

World Design: "What? But... it's two thirds the town! And the college, it's near the edge of the cliff!"

Modeler: "Oh My God! My College! It's all for nothing! Mother save my soul!"

PM: "No, no! The College stays, it must stay!"

World Design: "But how? A massive landslide, and a whole building neat the edge stays? What is this I don't even..."

PM: "Leave the explanation to the Lore guys..."

Lore: "Oh [censored], not again"

PM: "... that's what they're paid for. Alright people, get to work!"

Lore: "what the heck am I supposed to say? The whole town fell and a whole building survives?"

Modeler: "man, you just repeated what he said, word by word"

Lore: "to hell with it, I have a date this weekend, I'll just write this here"

If the "tower" is anything related to the Mage's questline, it's the Eye of Magnus, not the CoW.

Thats what I was thinking myself.