Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.23.148.161-20140619050605/@comment-13446185-20140706184904

King in the North wrote: Hmm, for what reasons do you not like the book? I think that is rather important. I don't like it because of what it does to the Marukhati-Middle Dawn lore.

In Where were you when the Dragon Broke? (Kirkbride) this is stated.

"Newly invented rituals were utilized to disprove this theory, to no avail. Finally, the secret masters of the Maruhkati Selective channeled the Aurbis itself to mythically remove those aspects of the Dragon God they disapproved of. A staff or tower appeared before them. The secret masters danced on it until it writhed and trembled and spoke its protonymic."

And this is said by Mannimarco to explain what they did.

"Marukh showed us all the glories of the Dawn so that we might learn, simply: as above, so below."

Now I'll explain what this means. The saying "As above, so below" is actually a real life Hermetic concept often associated Microcosm-Macrocosm. Microcosm-Macrocosm, in a basic sense, is the idea that the universe reflects itself over its multiple hierarchicaly scaled levels, small-big (note how similar this concept is to the subgradiency we see in the TES universe).

So now take a close look at the first excerpt, "the secret masters of the Maruhkati Selective channeled the Aurbis itself ", they connected themselves to the Aurbis, the universe (which on its side, is a Tower)."A staff or tower appeared before them", I think you should be able to understand what this means. By channeling the Aurbis the Selectives were able to bring the one (their god) to their universal heirarchical level, in which it appears as a staff. They then proceded to dance upon the Tower until it broke into eight segments and spoke its true name (yes they learned the true name of God), which according to other sources, is apparently "Tam RUGH!" This is how the Middle Dawn began... Now let's look at how ESO handled it.

"Therefore let the Staff of Towers be prepared for the ritual that will cleanse the protean substrate of the Aldmeri Taint."

-Vindication for the Dragon Break

Basically, this is saying that the Staff or Tower, is actually the Staff of Towers as made by Anumaril, not only that, but it is also implying that the Selectives had the staff in their posession the whole time. Had it not been for this mistake in the ESO lore, Aurbic Enigma may very well have been one of my favorite books in the entire TES series.