Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-67.242.90.204-20130908163603/@comment-9212235-20151031230200

Platinum Luffy wrote: Sothas wrote: Platinum Luffy wrote: Dovahsebrom wrote: Platinum Luffy wrote: So if all land began on Tamriel, does that include Atmora, Akavir, etc? Also, why are the Aldmer called Aldmer if they began on Tamriel? Where on Tamriel did they begin? As stated in The Annotated Anuad, in the Dawn Era, all of Nirn was land. This land was Tamriel and it is where all life derives. Oceans rise and the lands split into the continents as seen now. "Aldmer" translates best to "old elf" or "first elf", it is possibly derived from the term "Old Ehlnofey" itself. It's probably impossible to pinpoint where exactly they came from on Tamriel as things worked fairly weird back in the Dawn Era and Nirn had no oceans in its beginning. I don't know about all this. Anyway, who's the author of these books? The Annotated Anuad first appeared in forums pre-Morrowind placed there by devs and was labeled as an Ayleid/Bosmer myth. The Annotated Anuad is a short-hand version of the original writing called The Anuad which has been theorized to derive its name as a combination of Anu and The Iliad. The Anuad does not exist anywhere, but instead only mentioned in the annotated verion. Please also note that similar myths are located all over and the Monomyth is a book that attempts to combine them all and discusses the similarities within all of the writings. So it's a myth? Yes, but don't dismiss it based on that. Within the Aurbis, myth has meaning and power. Mythic forces can be used and even manipulated.