Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10197675-20130806142227/@comment-206.176.81.242-20140215095430

Epzo wrote:

SajuukKhar wrote:

Nazul Rostello wrote: Or their disappearance have something to do with Aldmeris, the lost continent? maybe they were looking for something urgent to reach godhood, something the Thalmor going to do.

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. Well we know that is not 100% correct. There are many other places in Nirn beside Tamriel where life started. You are quoting creation myths after all. That's like saying the book of Genesis is scientific fact. This is a fantasy universe so creation "myths" are pretty much the truth