Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.82.250.138-20130206082748/@comment-64.151.12.177-20140705203049

If you look at the inspiration for Hema-Mora, the god seems to be based on one of H.P. Lovecraft's mosnters, Yoth Sothoth. It was a writhing mass of tentacles and eyes that existed outside of time, but was still somehow connected to all the known and unkown universe.

As far as I can tell, Apocrypha is not a place that's easily gone to. It practically requires an invitation from Herma-Mora, and if Herma-Mora is similar to Yoth Sothoth, then Apocrypha exists outside of time while still being connected to all points. That would make it possible for someone to go somewhere where time and causality had no meaning, only to have that person return and realize he wasn't present for the point in time when his entire race was deleted by the heart of the creaton god.

If that makes any sense. The idea would be that if everyone is made to vanish at time 'x' and going to Apocrypha actually removes you from time completely, only replacing you at a later time, 'x + y', then you weren't even present in existence for length of time 'y'. It's almost as though Yagrum time traveled, so a better way to put it is that he's a Dwemer time traveler from the past before the Dwemer disappeared. There's probably a way to go backwards in time from Apocrypha, too, although Hema-Mora does talk about things being hidden for "hundreds of years", so who knows. You would expect time to be meaningless to a god whose plane has no conception of time.