Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-30652140-20161201185058/@comment-1255618-20190420202144

@Twilight Despair 5

As far as why magic still works after the sun is blocked off, it could be because Nirn has already received tons of energy from the sun and the sun doesn't stay blocked out. To analogize Nirn to a solar battery, Nirn may still have plenty of charge even if the sun is blocked by clouds for one day. If the sun stayed blocked out, most kinds of magic would cease to work over time, but it wouldn't necessarily happen immediately.

As for our favorite godly architect, I like to think that Magnus is still alive in Aetherius and designing amazing new projects mortals can hardly conceive of. For example, according to 'Magne-Ge Pantheon', back when Meridia was in Aetherius the Magne-Ge had to struggle against an unknown entity known as the "Chrome Device" that Meridia was crucial in helping to defeat. Was the Chrome Device a rogue invention of Magnus? Maybe. Who's to say that Nirn was even the last plane Magnus helped design? Maybe there's a Mundus 2.0 somewhere up in Aetherius, similar to the Mundus we know but closer to Magnus's ideals. Maybe that's where Magnus resides today.