Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-84.192.170.241-20150203231224

At this moment in post-skyrim lore, we know all 8 Towers or at least suspect their true identities. We have the Adamantium Tower & its key, the Convention. Presumably indestructible untill Mundus as a whole starts to unravel due to it ending as a balanced plane when Alduin devours the world.

The Red Tower (Red Mountain) & its key, the Heart of Lorkhan (Creation, Something from Nothing). Currently inactive/sundered due to the Heart vanishing by the Nerravarines actions & its subsequent eruption afterwards. Still, the Red Tower remains standing & might be actived again due to unknown future events. The White Tower (Throat of the World) & its yet unidentified key, the Cave (this might or might not refer to the power of the Thuum which potentially every sentient being can learn). Its current status is unknown, but presumably it's inactive due to the Civil War of Skyrim & Alduin's defeat, combined with the Time Wound & Dragon break at its summit. Still, this Tower stands & may yet also be re-activated. The Green Tower (Green Sap, Elden Tree of Elden Grove) & its key, the Perchance Acorn (it might represent Life as a passive force, the plants growing, animals producing, …). Currently, it's suspected inactive, even though its key is intact as is the Tower itself. This is due to its most famous characteristic having ceased; locomotion. It has stopped moving & is now rooted into the world fully. Yet, it too might yet walk again. The Crystal Tower & its key, the Person (presumably meaning Identity, Ego, Self-Awareness). It has been destroyed, botch Tower & key. Re-activation is no longer possible. The White-Gold Tower & its key, the Amulet-of-Kings (it might represent Blood, Heritage, the ability to continue on via offspring). Its current status is unsure, as it might be activate due to Akatosh appearing via an Avatar & sealing the link between the Tower & its broken Key at the end of the Oblivion Crisis. We can assume it to be active - though not with certainty. The Orichalcum Tower & its key, the Sword (it might represent Valour, Courage, the will to defend one's own). Both are presumed destroyed by the sinking of Yokuda after a Redguard abused the Sword & caused Yokuda to sink below the waves. However, it is not known if this would be enough to literally destroy both Tower & key - as both might somehow have survived the havoc & remain relatively intact upon the ocean floor. The Brass Tower & its keys, the Heart of Lorkhan & later on the Mantella (it might represent artificial creation, tool development, binding together natural things to create new unnatural things). Though Numidium has vanished, it is not destroyed. There are prophecies that tell it will return in the future of Nirn. As of such, this Tower & its current key are to be considered active.

If this list will be proven correct, it will tell us a great many things of Nirns eventual fate. It tells how the Aedra have been responsible for the creation of Existence (Convention), Creation (Lorkhan's heart), Life (Elden Tree) & Voice (Thuum, Cave), how the sentient races have been responsible for the creation of Identity (Crystal Tower, Unity of mind), Heritage (the Septim blood-line & Dragonborn), Valour (Courage, Defiance, Might) & Tools (Brass Tower). It will also tell that Nirn shall last until Alduins return - as the Adamantium & White Towers might remain standing unbroken until Alduin devours the Thuum of the world by destroying all sentient life. Only the Adamantium Tower can not be sundered from its key & shall be the last to remain before collapsing under the instability of Mundus' return to the Aubris as it shall no longer be stabilised by two Towers. 