Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-15888551-20130819093722/@comment-13199219-20130820213108

Hamsterlampglade wrote: Apparently not Michael Kirkbride used to be a writer for Bethseda. He wrote much of the lore (Including the Towers), and one of the ideas he proposed was that the entire elder scrolls universe was a dream (Or godhead), and that certain individuals in the game became aware of that. The realization that they weren't real normally would result in a zero sum (Ex: I exist, but I don't exist, 1 + -1 = 0), or them being erased from existance. Some people, Tiber Septim and Vivec for example, figured this out, but instead of allowing themselves to be erased, began to manipulate the world around them (the process called CHIM). The only hazard is that the more you CHIM, the more you understand the world around you isn't real, leading you closer to erasure (Kind of like in Inception, the more you change the dream world, the more the dream figures get mad at you).