» Fri May 04, 2012 3:35 am
Looking at the Eye of Magnus, the runes of it remind me of the runes on the background of the Elder Scroll you get in Oblivion.
EDIT: In the game files I have found Phinis Gestor mentioning a very interesting theory in one of his lectures. Don't know if you can actually see it in the game, but it is very interesting indeed:
"It has been proposed that the object is in fact the entirety of Aurbis in one physical space. This would of course mean Tamriel, indeed all of Mundus, is actually contained within the sphere. It further suggests that we are somehow then outside our own existence while looking at it. While the idea seems dubious at best, it has not, at present, been entirely ruled out."
He also mentions theories that is an actual part of Magnus or a conduit to Aetherius, but the Aurbis theory is the most interesting I find. It also puts Ancano's boasting about how he had the power to destroy the world at his fingertips in a new light. Magnus was the architect of Mundus, and the Staff of Magnus has a special interaction with the Eye, so perhaps he was using it to harvest raw creatia from the rest of the Aurbis to make Mundus?