Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5425132-20141223121751/@comment-25136035-20150508080924

Harold Burned-Mane wrote: And yet he wrote about time-travelling cyborg Pelinal...and the writing about the message sent to the past from the 5th Era....yeah...

MK's out-of-game writings are controversial because there are just some ridiculous things in them. I do disregard most of his out-of-game writings as pure fan-fiction, unless Bethesda acknowledges them like they did with his writings about the many-headed Talos, as they aren't technically canon. But you should have the information in the German Wiki, but I think you should make note that it comes from an out-of-game source that may or may not be actual canon TES lore. Let the users decide whether they think it fan-fiction or concrete lore. This indicates you really missed the point. When he writes about "time-travelling cyborg Pelinal", this has nothing to do with cyborgs as in Terminator or something. Just like gods, et'Ada ones at that, who are described as "robots" - this doesnt mean you should imagine them as metallic things resembling humanoid shapes. Rather it means that et'Ada are like robots. Why? Well, robots are per definition determined in what they do by the programming they received. That means they can totally act on their own, they can make decisions, they are able to do things better than humans in a lot of cases. But they are, whatever situation they may be in, still bound to their programming and will act accordingly. et'Ada resemble that. They are gods, they are able to do the craziest sh** mortals can not even imagine, but thats also the point - They are gods. et'Ada are ideas personified in TES, able to act, to react and to scheme as well as practically everything else. Just like ideas, like desires, that everyone of us has, that may react to situations, that adapt to the situations we're in, that may offer solutions or ways to actually get what they propose - They are always, no matter what, bound to themselves, not able change their sphere and forced to act that way. Why? Because they are not individuals, they are ideas. Robots. et'Ada. This is pretty much interchangable here, as the principle stays the same. You dont even have to take into account that the et'Ada are actually literally ideas of the godhead, one does not have to go that far. It just means that they are concepts personified, really, really powerful as they not only embody their sphere, but rather  are their sphere, everywhere, at every time. In turn, that also means that they are not free though. They may only ever act according to what they are, and they cannot change that. They cant even desire that, they are - basically - robots.

For Pelinal that means what is already known of him. He was an avatar of Aka and Lorkhan, making him totally insane. He was not fully an et'Ada though, he was merely sent down; partly mortal, partly et'Ada. And what are cyborgs? Yeah, right, they are partly human, partly robot. We may interchange human and mortal as well as robot and et'Ada - Pelinal was partly human, partly robot. Get it?