Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-173.76.160.189-20140908200216/@comment-115.64.203.223-20160813183608

Potential follow up questions after my last post above:

Q: Larkhan is a god, how could he experience The Tower?

A: He already knew he was going to 'give his life' to create Nirn, as well as imagined what a world with mortals could be like. By all accounts, he was fully able to empathize and share the mortal experience.

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Q: If a Kalpa isn't the "Godhead waking up from the dream and instantly falling back asleep" [yawn] and is instead Akatosh's Aspect (type of avatar) Alduin reseting time with magic, what did Akatosh insert The Last Dragonborn into the exact time line Alduin appears so that he/she could kill him and devour his soul?

A: The Aedra and Daedra, since the dawn of their existence, have been content with their lives but also wanted to break free. Especially after more intelligent and interesting Gods came into play, like Larkhan. Seeing as the cycles are entirely based on time and alduin, its fair to say that Akatosh is the master of the kalpa, which each new cycle theoretically beginning immediately after Akatosh's (and Sithis') birth into the universe. So what is Akatosh looking for? A way out, or perhaps a further reach than just time. The CHIM is a means to that end. This Kalpa included the first beings of all the infinite cycles that have come and gone to successfully achieve this, for what ever reason. Now he has proof behind the concept, he will preserve this Kalpa as a way of understanding CHIM.

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Q: What could " Once CHIM is achieved, people experience a state in which time is bent both inward and outward into a 'a shape that is always new' as well as an incomprehensible sense of the Godhead" actually mean, if you subtract skyrim/middle age speak and translate it into modern human talk?

A: CHIM is a concept, only able to be seen after peering at 'The Tower' [a metaphor for the entire order, past and future of the universe] and living. So after you learn that new concept you see time 'inward and outward'... Imagine or draw in Paint an arrow pointing LEFT as looking 'inward' (into the past), and then attach another arrow to the end of that one pointing RIGHT as looking into the future. Some beings can only see into the future, like us. But the CHIM allows you the ability to see back in time, as well as foward; you are able to perceive changes to the past, present and further all at once going infinite in both directions, instead of only the future being infinite. As for an 'incomprehensible sense of the Godhead'; if you replace 'Godhead' with 'Reality' and imagine that our universe (in real life) is one small bubble in a sea of bubbles and the area outside those bubbles is 'reality' itself, you see that they're trying to make a point that this one cycle you're in is but one of those bubbles... one universe... that as comes as a result of a larger reality; the universe is just the beginning of the story; an incomprehensible sense of something so grand and alien it is by definition, incomprehenisble.