I know that in tamriel there are several towers. theres the dagoth ur tower and white gold. also a few more that i can't think of at this moment. what where the other towers? and where there other towers on any of the other continents?

Orichalc at Yokuda (got destroyed due to the use of the Pankratosword, the technique of literally cutting an atom. Forgot the particulars of the incident). Snow Throat at Hrothgar in Skyrim (half of it's missing due to Alduin, who apparently bit it. That particular even it is detailed in the Fights of the Aldudagga. He is basically Satakal with an Akatosh tinge). Adamantia in High Rock (Aka's spaceship. Both contains and is the Zero Stone/Convention itself. Do not confuse this with the First Stone, the Heart of Lorkhan). Green Sap in Valenwood (THINK it's Falinesti. Been a loooong time since I read about it). Crystal-Like-Law in Summerset.

The Dwemer made a tower too: Anumidum (Numidium, whose stone was/is the Mantella).

edit: To clarify, I'm not too sure if Orichalc was destroyed BY the Pankratosword. Been too long since I read up about it.

Is that the same as Crystal Tower?

Yes.

Isn't Numidium something of an anti-tower, due to it's nature of being able to break the the order the Towers are supposed to hold?

If you mean to achieve apotheosis by "break the order," then yes.

thanks I was wondering how many towers 8 seems appropriate considering that number comes up a lot in the elder scrolls

There's Direnni Tower on the Isle of Balfiera, chalk full of fun undead things.

...Direnni is Adamantine Tower, a tower I listed...

What about the Telvanni mushroom towers...

Similar imagery, but on a much smaller scale. Rather then shape the identity of a race, it merely shapes a single ego.

Isn't there supposed to be a "Tower" of sorts in Elsweyr? If I remember correctly that one is "all the Khajiit getting high on Moon Sugar," to put it the way I read it long ago. Or am I wrong on this one?

I don't see where you listed that.

Adamantia is the name of Adamantine Tower, which is Direnni Tower.

I might have pitched that one. I'd have to look up the details but it moon light = magicka -> captured in sugar cane -> brought to the lunar lattice by khajiit climbing the sky (getting high). The lattice is shown in the words of the clanmother to keep Lorkhan in and (most of) the Daedra out.

Speculation:
According to "Where were you when the Dragon Broke", the Khajiit were recording the Dragon Break, watching the ja-Kha'jay. Looking up in an earlier path of the same text, it is said that the Amulet of Kings was also able to "speak of the Dragon Break at length". Spinning that thought further (i.e. shamelessly speculating) and drawing a connection between these two, perhaps the Khajiit as a people serve as a Tower Stone (same function as the proven stone, the Amulet, has).
I'm not sure whether there's anything else to support this, but this thought intrigues me.

While we're doing this, what is the Tower at Black Marsh? Methinks the Hist are involved...

And while we're on this topic, what exactly are the Towers for? From what I have gathered, basically anchors for the laws of physics?

Reality is subjective and fragile, so the elves built towers make their own viewpoints real. Mundus is just an artificial reality floating in the middle of Oblivion. It has been described as 'impossible.' In order to subsist it requires the sacrifice of its creator spirits and the fortifying influence of the two Towers they left behind. The gods imposed their own model of reality on their creation, and the elves seek the same sort of influence through mimicking the constructs Adamantia and Red Tower.

I was recently going over shadowkey's storyline and came across another tower. the twilight tower I believe or soemthing like that http://www.imperial-library.info/tsosk/summary.shtml heres a page with a picture. anyways is that one of the towers already mentioned? if so snow throat? or is it a different tower or not one at all?

thats just a tower, not a special one.


tower building is a merish thing...

Should have put "tower" in quotes like that. Very aware of the nonexistence of a tower in Black Marsh, but in the vein of the "Khajiit-gettin-high-as-tower" vein, what could be the Argonians version of that if they have one.

I bring it up because I thought that was discussed before.

im not sure if it was discussed, but i do think its a distinct possibility. mayhaps the Hist in general are it? the Eye oughta play a part as well... feh, im tired and likely to be sprouting nonesence, so i'll leave this for now.

From what I can see, the towers seem to be focusing devices for stones, and it doesn't seem restricted to Nirn. In the Deadlands, the Sigil Towers, powered by Sigil Stones, anchored the Deadlands to Nirn.

Likewise, in the Shivering Isles, the Obelisks seemed to have similar functions, although it is less clear on if the Knights of Order are being created by the Obelisks or summoned from somewhere else. In addition, they can be activated by Priests of Order and further powered up by Hearts of Order (which may also overload it when more than two are inserted) What I find particularly interesting is the Passwall Spire, which amplifies an Obelisk's power in creating Knights of Order and increasing the spread of Order. It may be that the obelisks themselves may function as both towers and stones.

Few people here are likely to know much about places and events in Shadowkey. At any rate, it's a tower, but it isn't necessarily a Tower.



My never-written-fanfic theory is that the Eye is the Stone in a mini-tower, a Hist experiment, an attempt to model a Meric Tower on a small scale. I'd concur with those who say building Towers is purely a Meric phemenon... but wasn't there a Tower in Yokuda at one point? And who built Snow-Throat, and why do the Nords (Children of the Sky) regard it as their origin?

Maybe the Hist themselves are Towers, and they reproduce and extend landmass like mangroves (but really, really slowly). :shrug: