Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-89.106.142.1-20130623011913

I'm just getting into the lore of TES and I find it very interesting, if a little confusing at times.

Since I'm a beiginner with the lore there's obviously a lot of details I'm not aware of so the following might read like complete bollocks to veteran TES players, or something that's been suggested before. But since this is a place for discussion I figure I might aswell put it out there.

Here it goes: Even though it is a fantasy universe, some of the stuff in the lore such as Magnus creating the sun when he broke a whole through to Aetherius and other more weakened Aedra creating the stars seems like it is entirely metaphorical. Not to mention all the stuff about Lorkhan et al creating/becoming Nirn and Mundus.

When I got to reading more about the Dwemer and their logical outlook on things I had a thought. Since they were so technologically advanced, scientifically minded and scornful of the Gods and magic, maybe they were aware of something that the other races aren't. And maybe the Gods were aware that they were aware, and that had a role in their destruction.

Imagine the Aedra and Daedra are aliens, for lack of a better word, but so advanced they appear magical to inhabitants of Nirn; and they want to keep it that way. Maybe the plains of Oblivion are other planets or maybe they're different dimensions, it doesn't matter. What matters is that the perception the inhabitants of Nirn have of the Gods would be mostly misguided. So stars are actually stars and not holes leading to Aetherius, Nirn and the other planets in the solar system are just planets and not Aedra.

I realise this would turn a fantasy IP into a fantasy/science fiction crossover, but it seems to me it would be a cool way for the story to go.

Yeah...that's it. Be gentle. 