So a dragon hist break then? Sweet!

I made the connection to KINMUNE, but I sort of assumed that it was from the Ninth Era of our previous Kalpa.

It's a Jillian puzzle box.

A connection to Kinmune is a connection to Magnus, as Kinmune is Ayliedoon.

Ahem. This is a warning from your friendly neighborhood lunar (looney?) spinnerette: crazy talk ahead.

The simplest answer to the question, "What is the Eye of Magnus?" is "The Eye of Magnus is the Eye of Magnus." Literally. Eyesore (ha, ha) has said that's the best way to understand these things, in a place like Tamriel; not that that particularly matters.

So it's his eye. His Eye. The Eye that beheld the plans of creation. And what is an eye, anyway? An Aperture (hardy har har), yes? A hole that admits light, when it comes down to it. But that's not what the Eye we saw in Skyrim does. No, the Eye we saw in Skyrim does the opposite: it emits light.

Now a tangent: the Staff of Magnus. Well, to draw some very overt and old-school connections: it's a [censored]. THE [censored]. Of Magnus. Don't ask me why he only has one testicle (edit: actually, I think SithisLorkhan explained this not too long ago). I won't go too much into the, 'Is the Staff of Chaos a Tower?' question, 'cause that's a whole additional can of worms, but I will say this: a Staff == a [censored] and a [censored] == the letter 'I' and the letter 'I' == a Tower; therefore, a Staff == a Tower. But here again, we have a slight malfunction - on the surface, at least. Cocks don't imbibe. They vomit. But the [censored] of Magnus only imbibes. Bit of a quandary.

So we have an Eye that shoots laser beams and a [censored] that drinks them; two inversions of 'normal' function. Now let's consider: the [censored] of Magnus is a Tower, Towers create a certain character of individual reality (in most cases, thereby reinforcing the Mundus' very existence), and Magnus jumped ship at the last moment deciding the project was a bad idea - so, integrating these three things, we can see that the [censored] acts as a Tower by imposing the desired reality of Magnus upon the Mundus, which is to say, unreality. It absorbs magicka because it is enforcing Magnus' attitude. You can call it Destruction of the Mundus, if you want to tie Magnus to Dagon.

And now the Eye, which does exactly the opposite thing from the Staff. And why? Well, I'm going for a combo: 1) inversion of function brought about by mythical trauma; the Singlefold Blinding. And 2) because of what Aranarkus said; it's a hole into Aetherius. There're some cultural references lying around (Mages Guild, I think?) that call the sun Magnus' Eye, right? So the Eye we saw in Skyrim is the sun, trapped in a Shell by who knows who - perhaps someone in a future Era, even - from whence Light, Magic pours forth.

So you've got a Staff that drinks magic and an Eye that vomits it (and the plans for existence branded on Its retina without any of the wisdom and temperance of Its Owner: thus the weirdo things), and bringing them together turns into a really twisted sixual deviancy (what the Archmage should have done to fix the problem was to throw the [censored] into the Eye and stop it up. And we could have had an Eclipse, which would have been fun).

Heh. I warned you. Craziness.

Edit: Nevermind, I didn't actually contribute anything there. Still, Dang.

Whoa whoa whoa. You're telling me that a [censored] == a Tower? Trinimac shot Lorkhan's heart into Mundus and it created a big red volcano [censored]? And when that volcano errupted...oh my!

I refuse.

But I like the rest of your theory. I'll just see the Staff of Magnus as...you know...an actual staff. When going for dike metaphors in TES, I'll stick with spears.

And Akatosh jammed his adamantine wang right into High Rock, literally having six with Nirn?

YES! and Snow-Throat is Skyrim's erection, which Kynareth did blow on.

Green-Sap is a literal interpretation of getting wood.

White-Gold is a giant metaphysical condem.

We need Numidium and Orichalc.

Numidium is the Trojan Man.

Towers are dikes.

Stones are clets.

It's from the future-past.

Or gained the One-Eye moniker from using this device. Not so much for losing an eye, but for gaining new sight.

But I agree with you, it can be known as his lost eye, even though it is Magnus'. Proof that time isn't so much a cyclical dragon, but a series of segments, like a great tower of coeval strata, or an egg-layered hypothesis, which is increasingly full of holes toward its center.

From Artaeum leave all things, and to Artaeum all things return.

From the past that was changed and can only be seen from the future? Or from two separate points in time that fall on either side of the sliding scale of now? Or by referring to both the past and the future do you mean to indicate the present?

Or is this just another ultimately meaningless paradoxical contradiction that we here in the Elder Scrolls like to use whenever we get the chance?

And the Dwemer are the Divine Foreskin.

Also: at this thread.

I think that if kalpa's explain that when time ends the next universe begins, then when the last kalpa ends the first one begins again. Damn cyclical non-linear time!

This is why we need more axes.

More axes will solve everything.




...As I reread my post, I notice that 'axes,' the plural of 'axis,' is spelled identically to 'axes,' the plural of 'ax.'

I considered changing my terminology, but have instead decided to leave it to the reader to decide what I meant.

Could Muatra be a tower? Then that means the stone is... 0_o

........Molag Bal's love of course!

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There's jokes? Considering this is The Elder Scrolls, I would do well to assume any interpretation that ends in genitalia is probably at least partly true.