Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-73.21.174.250-20150718065553/@comment-9212235-20150825033744

108.17.57.155 wrote: your post was very insightful, and i enjoyed reading it, the only thing i cant wrap my head around, however, is that if akatosh represents time and lorkhan is space, wouldnt that make lorkhan the stasis while akatosh is the change, making akatosh align with Padomay, and lorkhan with anu Sorry for the delayed response.

Not at all. You're thinking of time in a 2D sense. Time goes from A to B and changes everything. Time always changes. This isn't the case. Think of time as static moments. These moments contain everything within them. This moment never changes. It never moves. It is always that precise moment. This is what time is. It is an uncountably infinite amount of moments. Instead of moving through time, imagine yourself moving from one moment to the next as you move through 3D space. It is the movement through 3D space that changes what moment you are in. You are limited to which new moment you can access by the 3rd dimension and your movement within it. Space is limit and change. Lorkhan is limit and change. Nirn, the creation of Lorkhan and possibly his Daedric Plane(t) is limit and change.

Now imagine the Dawn Era. All of these moments overlap. They don't exist at the time time, more preceisely, you exist in all of them at once. There is no direction. There is no movement through 3D space. There is no limit. You are in all moments are simultaneously and omnipresent. This is non-linear time. This is the Dawn Era and Convention. No event, no moment occurs before the other.

Now imagine Akatosh. He is time, yes? Omnipresent and static. He exists in each static moment, everywhere and everywhen. However, Akatosh is present time. Always linear. He moves "forward" through time in a straight a limited fashion. He is bound by Lorkhan. He is caged. He is limit. This is why Akatosh is both stasis and change.