What happens if you burn an Elder Scroll? : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:30 am

Just what it says on the tin. What would happen if you tried to burn an Elder Scroll? Would it be nothing special? Would the universe end? Is that how baby M'aiq is formed?

Do the words "The thread of prophecy has been severed" appear before your eyes?

I'm curious.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:08 am

Just what it says on the tin. What would happen if you tried to burn an Elder Scroll? Would it be nothing special? Would the universe end? Is that how baby M'aiq is formed?

Do the words "The thread of prophecy has been severed" appear before your eyes?

I'm curious.

Considering the whacky nature of the scrolls, its hard to say what would happen, or if its even possible to destroy a scroll in that nature. Perhaps its similar nature to the dragons, where its never really gone.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:13 am

I think destroying an elder scroll would result in all loss knowledge of the prophecy within that scroll. I dont think that if you burn it that the prophecies listed won't be erased from the future but people would lose the ability to gain knowledge of that prophecy or manipulate it if you wanted too.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:18 pm

Just what it says on the tin. What would happen if you tried to burn an Elder Scroll? Would it be nothing special? Would the universe end? Is that how baby M'aiq is formed?

Do the words "The thread of prophecy has been severed" appear before your eyes?

I'm curious.

No one's ever tried, so we can't really say. They might not even be flammable.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:49 am

Nirn might cease to exist..

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:49 am

Lepidopteran-borne dust will extinguish any flames set to an Elder Scroll.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:48 pm

I don't think you can simply burn one. And they have a very weird and special nature and are of infinite size, so I dont really think anything would happen. I believe I have read somewhere that they sometimes dissappear and reapear from one time to another. And regardsless of what I said last is tre or not I think they will just reappear somewhere else. I don't think neither the mortals or the immortal (including the et'Ada) are capable of destroying the scribblings of the very Godhead itself.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:59 am

Nothing happens, Dovahkiin and that thief from Imperial City thieves' guild has been burned by dragons, evil mages, fire traps or even the magma in Dagon's Oblivion plane and that scroll remain unscathed. Really, artifacts with huge power have a tendency to erase their 'current existence' and appear in other places in other time. You might be able to alter the nature of those artifacts which has lesser power but I can't see the ES to get destroyed. That thing's so powerful it's ridiculous, it can multiply, disappear, send other things through time, it even allows you to see time which is so messed up in nirn.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:42 am

Don't try it. It's not worth the risk.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:10 am

You burn.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:55 pm

If I had to guess, I'd say the prophecy contained within that particular scroll would never happen.

With disastrous results.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:26 am

Creatia-as-smoke is released, where it floats towards the limits of Mundus. When it nears the mundus-void border, the void-princes fight and take position to gather as much creatia as they can.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:32 am

Free-sithical creatia is released in a brilliant display of unsustainable prolixity. Born is a mutant lattice of all worlds of teetering possibility, threatening collapse under it own tumorous weight ; a carpet-bombing of explosive, cervical theogeneses screaming across the membrane of the aether like mythic kudzu; A new, heavenly kingdom so queer, so grand, the net mass of a question of whence it came should spell utter cataclysm.

Just imagine having lain a thick piece of Styrofoam over a roaring fire. The effect is much the same.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:38 pm

Burn an Elder Scroll.

Find the secrets of the universe.

Then you zero-sum.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:45 am

I'm not sure, either nothing or the apocolypse.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:29 am

Everything foretold in that Elder Scroll proceeds as usual.

Except on fire.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:00 pm

i agree with Hail Sithis

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:39 am

Personally, I'm a fan of blai5000's idea

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:10 am

To the OP: What if the prophecy on the burning scroll foretells its own burning?

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:28 am

So what if the scroll that foretells its burning isn't burned?

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:10 am

So what if the scroll that foretells its burning isn't burned?

What if there was a scroll foretelling a scroll would be burned while another said one wouldn't be burned?

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:51 am

Two would burn.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:46 pm

I think it would just reappear somewhere else as if nothing happened, because nothing happened, because it's not in time.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:57 am

"рукописи не горят" !!!!! *

* - manuscripts don't burn! - from "master and margarita", when satan presented to him his masterpiece, which he has burned years ago

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Seriously though, it'll just pop somewhere else... However, something will happen, you just won't know what. Like that last sentence in 2920:

In the smoky catacombs beneath the city where Sotha Sil forged the future with his arcane clockwork apparatus, something unforeseen happened. An oily bubble seeped from a long trusted gear and popped. Immediately, the wizard's attention was drawn to it and to the chain that tiny action triggered. A pipe shifted half an inch to the left. A tread skipped. A coil rewound itself and began spinning in a counter direction. A piston that had been thrusting left-right, left-right, for millennia suddenly began shifting right-left. Nothing broke, but everything changed.
“It cannot be fixed now,” said the sorcerer quietly.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:28 am

I just had a breakthrough regarding this discussion:

Were there Elder Scroll on Yokuda? They would have been incinerated in the blast.