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SajuukKhar wrote:

Aldmeris doesn't exist, it never has. Aldmeris is a collection of dawn-era memories from before the Mer split along cultural lines.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/nu-mantia-intercept

As they were the most powerful of lesser spirits in the ages after the Convention and eager to emulate what they saw, the Aldmer began construction of their own towers. That they built more than one shows you that they were not of one mind.

The Aldmer began to split along cultural lines, on how best to spread creation and their parts in it. Each Tower that was built exemplified a separate accordance.

This sundering of purpose is the myth of the "destruction of Aldmeris." Outside of the Dawn, and even then only in the dreamtime of its landscape, there was never a terrestrial homeland of the Elves. "Old Ehlnofey" is a magical ideal of mixed memories of the Dawn.

Do not believe the written histories.

All mortal life started on the starry heart of Dawn's beauty, Tamriel. The only people that I can think of that may have the answers is the Psijic Order. They seem to know a lot more than any other arcane order in all of Tamriel. If anyone has any answers, it may be them. It would be fascinating to see an actual Mer homeland/continent.