Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-6685058-20130727045056/@comment-8248675-20130911204133

Indeed, that text that you brough up, could have been written as a biased source of information. Have you ever read the in game book called "Talos Mistake" where the author presents all of the reasons why Talos is not a god? That book clearly written as a biased text, where the author takes Thalmor's side of the Argument. He agrees that Talos was the great hero of emensed ability, but that alone doesn't make him a god, as no man can rise to godhood.

According to the Thalmor, only mer have the ability to follow Auriel's example of returning back to Autherius, not the men or beasts. However, if I understand it right, Auriel's example was that anyone can return to Autherius, if they achieve a high degree of enlighenment. I don't think it means that only mer have that ability. Besides Thalmor needing to get rid of Talos to commense their plan of destrying Mondus, they also cannot stand that anyone worships a god that used to be a man. They probably believe that men and beasts are too inferior to them to achive godhood, that is why they exclude a possibiltiy of anyone but mer to become gods or any other divine beingns.

My point is here, even if that text was writtent by lore writers, and is in Imperial Library, so was the "Talos Mistake". However, the goal of those texts was to show the view of one particular person, which may or may not mean that it's how it really happened. We already established that Talos really is a god, regardless of how he achived that and as long as people want to worship him, he deserves to be a god. So, in that case "Talos Mistake" is a false statement, influenced by Thalmor Propaganda in the game, which was written by no doubt, lore writers of Elder Scrolls. Just like that the information in that text from Imperial Library could be influenced by someone's belief within the game and it could be the actual truth.

Final point is that we may never know, until we find more proof to that. Like mention of any Nedic ruins that predates Sarthal, which is as of now the oldest city of men in Tamriel. Ofcourse that one is all but ruins, but Windhelm on the other hand, is the oldest inhabited city in Tamriel, or at least can quite possibly be. We need more lore information on Nedes and facts of weather they left any archeological evidences that that person claims to be the common knowledge in that text.