Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.113.168.122-20130520103810/@comment-24434525-20140226015112

The number 9 has had significance for a very very long time. It is believed in pre-biblical days that stories told of 999 hells. In some old Asain cultures they had 9999 planes of paradise and lower hells. Cats have 9 lives, as most have heard before. 9 is considered good luck in chinese culture because it sounds the same as the word "long lasting" and is strongly associated with the chinese dragon. The number 9 was meant to represent the enemies of ancient egypt and was considered only able to be used by priests. There were 9 muses in ancient greece. It takes 9 days for an anvil to fall to earth from heaven and nine more to fall to Tartarus the land of misery in the underworld, also ancient greece. There are 9 chiors of angels in the book of revelation. There were 9 circles to Dante's Hell in Inferno. As some of you pointed out in Tolken there are Nine rings, nine ring wraiths. Nine is a composte number, and a Motzkin number. There are nine Heegner numbers. 9 is an exponential factorial. Ninth Avenue is a major street in New York. Human Pregnancy lasts for nine months.

I would say Bethesda likes the number 9 much the same as many other cultures have and do.