A moon is not a vague concept. At least not what I'm thinking of for the definition of "vague concepts".

Fantasy fiction is all about abstract concepts taking material form.

Huh? Moons make no sense at all, man. That's why we call them "moons".

Just a few things...
1. How could Cyrodiil become an egg? :blink:

2. What does it mean to speak a language sideways?

3. Giving birth to your own fathers might be caused by a non-linear timeline, but wouldn't that create a infinite loop sort of? Will the father and son continue to create each other for all... eternity. or what ever it may be called in a non-linear timeline. Or would the born father then breathe life to his granduncle, who in turn brings up his wifes fifth cousin's ex-husband's brother-in-law's, uncle's daughter?

You know, you don't have to answer that... I just reacted to something that seemed as random as the South-African fur cod.

Seen that movie too huh?


anyhow... Speak sidewise? I have wondered about that myself... MK probably just poo'ed out a nonsensical statement just to make it sound cool, and to give a general conception of a crazy insane thing.

As for cyrrodiil becoming an egg? Isn't it already?

'Giving birth to your own fathers' is either a jibe at a bunch of monkeys stuck in a break, or just a saying that means 'several generations earlier, when your ancestors were young.'

http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?s=&showtopic=574456&view=findpost&p=8320428

i KNEW it! I KNEW it!


:P

You make no sense at all. Although thats not the reason we call you "MK".


The whole "Cyrodiil becoming an egg" at Dragon Break thing reminds me of "The Egg of Time". There's probably some correlation there. Just not that I can see.

Because when the shell breaks, the egg is ruined, but a little chick comes out to ultimately make another.

(:shrug:)

Or maybe it's a testicle? :hehe:

See, that's the thing about ultra-ambiguous mythic symbolism that's only been half thought out -- it's only meant to sound cool, and with no other sources of information to compare it against, you just end up with a weird looking word, phrase, etc. Like Exact Egg-Cracking; apparently it hasn't been decided whether it's an Argonian tradition, a Tsaesci tradition, some weird thing only lizard-men get, an anology for the Creation, or none of the above.

Cultures express themselves through anologies and images, so it can be cool sometimes.

See, that's the thing about nuts like us -- we put meanings upon these symbolisms to get +1 nerdgenius points.

And somehow the girls stop coming.

Ae 'meh' ce altadoon.

Right...

It's a bigger "meh" for :poof:.

Does Bethesda make TES universe this complicated on purpose? I mean, I don't even think the Lord of the Rings universe/world is as complex and unclear as TES is!

No, it was a freak accident involving a walrus and Albert Hoffmann's bicycle - no, of course it was intentional!

In case you didn't know they HIRE people to do this. PEOPLE are paid to make the mroe more complicated, it is their JOB to do this. It is with this very persuasive incentive that we see all this convoluted mess going into TES lore.

I'm glad it is. And it has actual answers to the stuff, too, and isn't ambiguous and unsolvable like in some games.

This is the first universe I've seen where the lore has been as deep as it is AND actually have coherent answers to the stuff, even if you can't always find them.

It has answers... but sometimes said answers aren't clear and theres alternative answers. Unlike other worlds.

Well if TES lore is so clear cut and has actual answers, how come you made a thread about Aetherius that now has a bunch of people saying a zillion different things. Shouldn't we all be saying the exact same thing about Aetherius? I mean, if you make a thread about George Washington, we'll all say "1st president". I'm not being trying to be sarcastic, but I really don't see how TES mythology and lore is straight-forward. I presume that if it was, there would be way less threads about it since we'd all be able to grasp it fairly easily. ya know?

In response to you "Aetherius" comment, I did that thread because you actually GO to Aetherius (though now, I don't really think that was truly Aetherius) in Daggerfall to receive an important item and, because I haven't played Daggerfall, I didn't know what it looked like.

I'll admit I should have been clearer with my comment about "answers" and whatnot; I just meant that sometimes developers will just chunk stuff into a game and never fully explain some things (if at all), such as how the world you play in was even created. I never said the answers were straightfoward, however, and I even noted how I liked the complexity because if it wasn't, then this forum wouldn't even need to exist.

All you gotta do is, really and truly, just read; don't be afraid to think of theories comprised of stuff you've learned from the books AND stuff that you already know, both from the game AND real life. Don't get discouraged if you find out your theory doesn't make sense or even if it's wrong. Most of the people here do that and STILL do that even now. I'm confident we ALL were at your point once upon a time.

You know, I never did finish Daggerfall. I remember from agd discussions and stuff that the final dungeon was something called "The Mantella Crux" and was basically a regular dungeon with the walls having a... starry skin? I don't know. Was that supposed to be in Aetherius?

Yes, it was.