User blog comment:Legionwrex/Question about the Elder Scrolls./@comment-13446185-20131021024919

The Elder Scrolls are immensely powerful, probably the most powerful objects within TES; for example Felldir the Old uses one to cause a Dragon Break and banish a god. There uses are beyond mortal comprehension often causing them to go blind or insane, heck it may even be beyond the comprehension of gods. This means that the prophecies they tell are probably not even a fraction of what they hold.

"We have never concerned ourselves with the Scrolls. The gods themselves would rightly fear to tamper with such things."

-Arngeir