Can someone explain to me why we have big towers and portals over it ?

Sotha_Sil · May 2018

I was wondering why in ESO, the main quests are all about big and tall towers with portals at the top (White gold tower, crystal tower...). Anyone knows the answer?

ViscousSummer88 · May 2018

Towers with portals on them are cool looking innit.

MercTheMage · May 2018

Would you rather have the portals under them?

Tryxus · May 2018

It's a Freudian Slip

Integral1900 · May 2018

Search for Elder Scrolls Tower Lore, then see how long it takes for the implications to melt your sanity

Armatesz · May 2018

Anyone remember dawnguard dlc for skyrim? : P

gnarlyvandal · May 2018

Integral1900 wrote: »

Search for Elder Scrolls Tower Lore, then see how long it takes for the implications to melt your sanity

Just looked it up... whaaaaaaaaat..

Just gonna leave this here: http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Towers

Rosveen · May 2018

Basically, the Towers (not just any tower, though) hold reality together. That's why so many important people and events are associated with them, and why it's interesting that every single player TES game except Arena ends with the deactivation of a Tower (and even Arena set up the pattern in a way with the Staff of Chaos).

WhiteCoatSyndrome · May 2018

Rosveen wrote: »

Basically, the Towers (not just any tower, though) hold reality together. That's why so many important people and events are associated with them, and why it's interesting that every single player TES game except Arena ends with the deactivation of a Tower (and even Arena set up the pattern in a way with the Staff of Chaos).

Oblivion and Morrowind yes, but where are you getting that Snow-Throat was deactivated in Skyrim?

Elsonso · May 2018

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Basically, the Towers (not just any tower, though) hold reality together. That's why so many important people and events are associated with them, and why it's interesting that every single player TES game except Arena ends with the deactivation of a Tower (and even Arena set up the pattern in a way with the Staff of Chaos).

Oblivion and Morrowind yes, but where are you getting that Snow-Throat was deactivated in Skyrim?

I wondered that myself, and I think it comes from the Prophesy.

"When the Snow Tower lies sundered, kingless, bleeding"

In this case, I think the Tower was deactivated prior to the start of the story, not the end.

Thalmor-Nordmaster · May 2018

Was this not the prophecy that you stopped as Dragonborn. Sure the king was blown to smithereens by the thuum but you did get a chance to defeat Alduin. It would explain why Paarthypoo is still up there. Dragons like power/high places/ Ketchup and crunchy people.

Or did we start the prophecy? What if the King the scroll was referring to was Alduin. The firstborn of Akatosh?

Elsonso · May 2018

Thalmor-Nordmaster wrote: »

Was this not the prophecy that you stopped as Dragonborn. Sure the king was blown to smithereens by the thuum but you did get a chance to defeat Alduin. It would explain why Paarthypoo is still up there. Dragons like power/high places/ Ketchup and crunchy people.

Or did we start the prophecy? What if the King the scroll was referring to was Alduin. The firstborn of Akatosh?

That is a rather good point. I never considered Alduin to be a "king" but the order of things that runs the universe might. Still, he was banished until prior to the story line, and that would make the Tower kingless, if he was the king. The Dragonborn did not destroy Alduin, so he is merely banished again. He was certainly sundered, though.

red_emu · May 2018

Just to put things into one image I have done a quick sketch of my interpretation on the Lore on Towers and how they relate to reality. It's just a quick sketch. Might post a finished version later.

Mureel · May 2018

ViscousSummer88 wrote: »

Towers with portals on them are cool looking innit.

lol

ezio45 · May 2018

well, you see the deadra are unable to build towers themselves, they have been jealous and wanted our towers since the beginning of time. so they wish to steal our op tower technology and to dissect it and discover our magical ways of tall buildings

Waffennacht · May 2018

Btw White Gold is pretty much invincible

ezio45 · May 2018

is it possible the dwemer used the heart of lorkan to unsync themselves with the reality of everyone else?

ezio45 · May 2018

During the Merethic Era, the Aldmeri devised a way for "Variorum Architects" to inscribe rules for new Towers. They self-refracted, with different bands following different Towers and Stones, resulting in the proliferation of the Towers which are known today,[9] each of them built on other joint-points.[8] These legends suggest that while time was linear in the Merethic Era, it was not singular: by building their own Tower, each group could create their own narrative, distinct but equal to those around it. And so, the Towers did their Dance,[9] each harnessing their own reality and making it conform to their desires. It is speculated that the Towers will conform their spheres of reality according to the desires of whomever claims them (this is offered as a possible explanation for an apparent climate change in Cyrodiil).[8]

In various times and ways throughout history, the connection between a Stone and its Tower has become compromised, apparently resulting in the deactivation of whatever protection that Tower had afforded Mundus. The deactivation of a Tower is believed to pose the greatest possible threat to the very existence of the mortal realm. As such, mystics can become alarmed at mere interest in the subject among the common folk. It should be kept in mind that the designations below ("Ayleid", "Dwemer", etc.) are metaphysical and conceptual in nature, as no race is of a single shared mind. The Towers are first and foremost metaphysical concepts, and the constructs representing them are mere physical echoes.[OOG 2]

^ these 2 seem like it would be a possibility that the dwemer manipulated lorkhans heart to cause that tower to change there reality

Rosveen · May 2018

lordrichter wrote: »

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Basically, the Towers (not just any tower, though) hold reality together. That's why so many important people and events are associated with them, and why it's interesting that every single player TES game except Arena ends with the deactivation of a Tower (and even Arena set up the pattern in a way with the Staff of Chaos).

Oblivion and Morrowind yes, but where are you getting that Snow-Throat was deactivated in Skyrim?

I wondered that myself, and I think it comes from the Prophesy.

"When the Snow Tower lies sundered, kingless, bleeding"

In this case, I think the Tower was deactivated prior to the start of the story, not the end.

Fair enough. But still, every game's main quest is connected to the deactivation of a Tower (the Oblivion Crisis even toppled two). Althought depending on what Snow Throat's stone is, one could argue that the process of its deactivation continued during the game.

The prophecy was not stopped. All it said was "when these things happen, Alduin will wake and the Last Dragonborn will come". Which all came true.