Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3573184-20130811130939/@comment-3186827-20130813111631

MHInfinite wrote: I think "The Towers" page has done more harm than good to the TES lore community. All too often I've seen people in the TES community under the impression that the Thalmor/Aldmer Dominion/Altmer want to destroy the world, or merge it with Oblivion, or that Talos worship will prevent Nirn from being destroyed.

What's worse is the moderators are preventing people from editing this page, thus making it impossible to correct this misinformation that the author(s) of this page are spreading.

I don't know how anyone can think that merging Nirn with Oblivion by destroying the White-Gold Tower would achieve the Thalmor's supposed goal of reaching divinity. More harm? That's a little harsh, no?

This page is less than a year old, but the concept of The Towers has been around much longer. When I wrote this page, I tried my best to fully research the topic so I read countless texts and writings about it - the last thing I wanted to do was get anything wrong. I even had it checked over by a few people on various lores forum, people who I consider very knowledagable in TES lore and MK texts.

The Towers page is simply a culmination of what most TES lore communities have concluded from Kirkbride's texts. Nobody is trying to misinform anyone. The thing about Kirkbrides texts are they are so open that its impossible to say what is right or wrong.

The scope of the page was to hopefully leave it up to the reader to make their own decisions. I tried my best just to present the texts and facts surrounding them - and not to say something speculative was 100% fact - especially when regarding an MK text.

It all comes down to if you believe MK texts as "canon" or not. Personally, I think they hold weight sometimes - as proven by his work making it into Skyrim. If you don't agree with his work, then there is nothing that will convince you that concepts like this are legitimate.

P.S. I'll address the article points later.