Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3573184-20130811130939/@comment-9887604-20130813192400

I have already looked up most concerns this article mentions, I would like to address them farther however at the moment I am about to go to bed. I will put up some general notes, I will expand upon them tomorrow.

1. Heart of Lorkhan being destroyed.
 * The Heart of Lorkhan definitely was not destroyed, in fact when leaving the heart chamber after striking the heart Azura comments that it is now free to roam or something along the lines. I have a save directly before the confrontation with Dagoth Ur so I can boot it up to find out the exact wording.

2. Location of Orichalc.
 * I think it is a matter of wording were the problem comes here, however I think it would be fair speculation to say that Yokuda was the location of Orichalc. Orichalcum in real world mythology was a mythical ore used on the island of Atlantis, one could definitely draw some parallels between this and the story of Yokuda. I think including reasoning like this or something similar may do that vein of thought a bit more justice. Of course using real world comparisons is not solid research, yet it is all we have at the moment. The long and short of it is this tower could be anywhere.

3. Pankratosword destroys Yokuda.
 * The text used does not say the whole story is fake, it just says that it may not be necessarily true. This is just MK m.o., nothing he says is necessarily true therein lies the joy and the problems of any of his texts from a lore stand point.

4. Destruction of Numidium.
 * I think it would be more appropriate to say, we do not know who destroyed Numidium. It was an undead mage.
 * This could have been Zurin Arctus himself, having a large hole blown in your chest would cause you some problems. However how could Zurin Arctus defeat Numidium, even if it had a weakend stone?
 * It may have also been Wulfharth, he had died many times previous to this event so it may not be to far stretched to believe Shor had breathed him back into the world.
 * I personally lean towards a combination of the two, when Zurin Artctus was killed his soul joined with the Mantella, this of course ties into the oversoul of Talos. That is another topic completely. A combination of Zurin and Wulfharth may have allowed them the ability to fight the Numidium.

6. Is Green Sap Falinesti?
 * Once again Green Sap could be like Orichalc, it could be located anywhere. At the same time there is a discernible connection between elves and the towers, and it seems worth nothing that as the rest of the known towers suffer their problems Falinesti stop walking. This of course does not prove correlation, it could very well be that green sap is referring to the Hist of Argonia or a multitude of other places.

7. Thalmor destroying Towers goal. I agree that the Nu-Mantia Intercepts do not have a direct reference to the separating Talos from ever existing, however taking this document in tandem with other documents(in game and oog) you see an overlapping theory that may motivate the Thalmor to render the towers inert. I do not think that it needs to be removed because I am fairly certain that this is the end goal of the Thalmor, my gut feelings do not make an idea fact, thus if it is going to remain on the page then it needs to be expanded and referenced from more sources.
 * The largest debate of this entire discussion is this point. This will be a fairly quick answer I will give a much more detailed answer after getting sources and thinking it out a bit more.

As I said at the start of the response this is a fairly parsed reply, I will reply once I have time with more quotes and sources. All of that being said I will quote a piece from that article that should be a defining mark of anyone trying to understand the MK works in perspective of the greater TES universe.

"With all due respect to your eminent communicants, neither the Elder Scrolls nor the ancestor moths have ever provided us with much practical information. After the fact, yes, the prophecies always make sense then. Historians and scholars make their careers on such things."

- Nu-Mantia Intercept Letter 1