Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-50.13.147.154-20140713075901/@comment-13446185-20140715214349

Dark Jeto wrote: But the treaty in which the Tribunal gave the Numidium to Tiber Septim occured AFTER the sacking of Morrowind and the killing of the royal family. The shadow Barenziah "supposedly" saw (assuming that The Real Barenziah is accurate and not just largely ficticious), could not have been the Numidium, because the Tribunal hadn't even handed it over yet.

Hmm... Barenziah was born in the year 2E 893, and, according to the Biography of Barenziah, was five when the Empire took her (3E 2), 2 years after the Tiber Wars ended. This means that the sacking definitely didn't occur during Tiber's war on Morrowind (which, by the way, didn't have a single battle according to On Morrowind), but it also means that the shadow with red eyes may not have been Numidium (unless, of course, some time-wrecking was happening). Let's just set that bit of lore aside.

Don't let this make you think the purges never happened, there are direct quotes that assure that.

"After the complete and total defeat of all his opponents, Septim began using Numidium to crush the neutral royal families of Tamriel so that he could enthrone only persons he knew to be loyal."

-Anonymous Letters (Daggerfall)

Dark Jeto wrote: And how exactly did the Warp in the West reveal anything? It confirmed the Dragon Break's existence to the world, and how Numidium creates it. Numidium was a "fairy tale" before the warp.