Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-3573184-20131009103829

Legate Alexandros wrote: The way I understood it, the towers supposed to be like anchors that hold Mondus in place. Once all of them deactivated, the Mondus will sieze to exist. At least that how I understood the whole meaning of towers. I believe when Mondus was first created, it was way too unstable and after they took down Lorkhan, who stood in their way of scraping Mondus; they have realized that perhaps they could fix it. So, they created The Towers, to hold the creation in place. As well as used what remained of Lorkhans body in making Nirn and Mondus more stable. In the way, Lorkhan/Shor was reconsiled in that way by his brethren, despised what Altmer generaly believe. Or at least that how it seems to me. The only two towers that existed to hold Mundus in place were Ada-Mantia, and Red Mountain, the towers made by the gods.

All the other towers were built by the elves, to mimic the god, and tried to either destroy the world, or get the Elves out of it via some means.

The Elven towers only brought stability to the world because they harvested Atherieral energy that flowed into Oblivion, but that was not their primary purpose, just a consequence of it.