Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-3539474-20131009194110

Legate Alexandros wrote:

SajuukKhar wrote: The only two towers that were created to hold Mundus in place were Ada-Mantia, and Red Mountain, the towers made by the gods.

All the other towers were built by the Mer, to mimic the gods, and tried to either destroy the world, or get the Mer out of it via some means, as the Mer view Mundus as Lorkhan's trap.


 * -Brass Tower sought to reverse the process of creation, creating the divine from the deaths of the mortal.
 * -Crystal Tower used dracochrysalis, trapping elder energy and preventing it from decaying into a lesser form.
 * -White-Gold, and the surrounding city, were built to mimic the shape of Mundus so the Ayleids could pluck at its strings
 * -etc. etc.

The Elven towers only brought stability to the world because they harvested Atherieral energy that flowed into Oblivion, but that was not their primary purpose, just a consequence of it. Not all of the towers were built by devines and not all of them were meant as stabilizers for creation. But don't you think those who would be after undoing the creation, would also be after those few towers that were put by devines. It may be so that Red Mountain had been deactivated, the stone for that one was the heart of Lorkhan and by cutting it off of Autherius, they basicaly turned off it's power that also gave power to Red Mountain. Perhaps that is why it had been errupting lately more often and more catastrofic. Now as far as Ada Mentia tower goes, I am not sure if there ever were records saying that someone got to do something to it, ever since the devines left it. So this one should still be good however, for the sake of humanity, there better be other towers left by devines. If Aldmeri Dominion, under Thalmor, will get to High Rock and would do something to deactivate Ada Mentia (If it is still activated), then it will definetly be the end of the world. By the way, it is probably still activated, since if there are only two towers as people been saying, and one of them definetly deactivated; wouldn't it be the end of the Mondus already, if Ada Mentia was not activated? This may or may not be canon. The official lore stated that the Thalmor actually wanted to restore their former godhood by destroying Mundus and ascending to Aetherius.

Each of these magical Towers acts as a stabilizing pillar, helping to hold up Mundus's time & reality and also keeping Oblivion from spilling over to Nirn, like the Oblivion Crisis is what you would get when some fool shuts down a Tower and thins the wall of reality enough for Daedra to stick their noses through the veil.