Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24098614-20150903224420/@comment-25551198-20150904155954

Sothas wrote:

4. The Prisoners (i.e. the player): If the Tower maintain Mundus and deactivating them would destroy Mundus, then the Prisoners are doing their best to destroy Mundus. Every core game saw the destruction of a Tower. In Arena we destroy a potential Tower, the Staff of Chaos, basically a personal Tower-that-never-was. In Daggerfall we remove Walk-Brass from reality during the Warp in the West. In Morrowind we banish the Heart of Lorkhan and deactivate Red-Heart. In Oblivion we destroy Chim-el Adabal to summon an Avatar of Akatosh and by doing so deactivate White-Gold. Finally, in Skyrim we defeat Alduin which destroys the Cave and deactivates Snow-Throat. Oops. The White-Gold tower is active because it was its reactivation that ended te crisis and shut down the gates. There is no mention that we deactiveted the snow throat.