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Pictured: ESO's main map. The Daedric text on the circle surrounding Tamriel reads:
"THE EMPIRE OF TAMRIEL ENCOMPASSES THE NINE IMPERIAL PROVINCES SK(Y)RIM HIGH ROCK HAMMERFELL SUMMERSET ISLE VALENWOOD ELSWE(Y)R BLACK MARSH MORROWIND AND THE ANCIENT IMPERIAL PROVINCE C(Y)RODIIL"
The Daedric text on the circle around Coldharbour reads:
"THE DREAD OBLIVION REALM OF MOLAG BAL COLDHARBOUR"
The Daedric text on the circle around the Clockwork City reads:
"THE CLOCKWORK CIT(Y) OF SOTHA SIL HOL(Y) TRIBUNE OF THE THREE"
The Altmeri text on the circle around Artaeum reads:
"THE HIDDEN ISLE ARTAEUM" (repeated twice)
The Daedric text on the circle for The Deadlands reads:
"THE DEADLANDS FIER(Y) DOMAIN OF THE PUISSANT LORD DAGON"
The Daedric text on the circle for Fargrave reads:
"THE CELESTIAL PALANQUIN FARGRAVE" (repeated twice)
If Balmora Blue tastes like blue raspberry then Iād drink it idk how fucked up id get but mmmmmmbbbbb blue raspberrie
Mate, we'd both be so screwed over because I would drink that, too š
Hey, I read once that the universe tastes like raspberry because they're made of the same components. In light of this, I think that the TES universe, Aurbis, tastes like Balmora Blue, which duh, tastes like blue raspberry because that is canon now.
ok fellas lets put on our metaphysics and cosmology hats. well, you can, i guess, but admittedly, mine is permanently fused to my scalp. iām always down for some good olā cosmic bullshit.
so i wanna break this up into two parts, i think. iāll break down what i think is the overall structure of the aurbis, and then iāll talk a bit about how i think it works.
ok! part one! first of all, we got the aurbis. the aurbis is basically just, everything. it includes aetherius, mundus, oblivion, nirn, etc. it might also expand beyond aetherius? but i think thatās just The Void, so we wonāt worry about that. nothing interesting really happens in The Void.
so whatās aetherius? itās god city, god central, super mystical being heaven. itās where various heavens are located, like the nordsā sovngarde, and the redguardsā far shores, and khajiitās sand behind the stars, and the imperials, uh, less imaginatively namedĀ āheaven.ā itās where dead people of all kinds hang out, and chill with some gods, like the magna-ge, led by magnus, who all left mundus b/c they didnāt like it and chilled in aetherius instead. except they left a bunch of holes in mundus, like they just forgot to close the door behind them after they left or something. on the bright side, all those holes (which we call the sun and stars) give us the magicy magic stuff from aetherius, where everything is magic, probably.
ok,Ā āmagicy magicā is not what itās called. itās called creatia! itās basically the substance of pure creation, what everything that ever existed is made of. except it needs to be given form and purpose to actually be Things. otherwise itās just Stuff, not Things. basically the whole purpose of making the mundus inside of aetherius was to turn some Stuff into Things, b/c lorkhan thought it was a good idea and most people agreed at the time.Ā
soĀ āmundusā is everything inside of aetherius, in like a bubble. (a lot of how this stuff works is bubble-based. aurbis is a bubble in the void, mundus is a bubble in aetherius, planets and planes and stuff are bubbles in mundus, etc.) but thereās actually a lot of empty space in the bubble, b/c at first they (here referring to the etāada, or primordial spirits) couldnāt quite make up their mind on what world they wanted to make, so they made a bunch, but then scrapped all that and used some of the leftover pieces to make nirn. so at this point nirnās just this little ball in space, not a lot going for it. not even an atmosphere! (fun fact: air just doesnāt exist in the elder scrolls! dunno why! just doesnāt!)
but then the etāada get together and try to liven up the place. except theyāre like,Ā āwoah, all this creating makes me feel like iām dying,ā b/c they kinda were. hereās the thing: everythingās made of creatia, even the gods. and yāknow, equivalent exchange and all, so to make a World with Things in it, they had to use up some of their power.Ā
this was generally considered to be a bad thing, and lots of people got mad at lorkhan, who really just expected them to be more dedicated to this project. i really donāt think he intentionally tricked anybody. he just had an idea for a fun thing to do with/for his friends, getting enlightened and stuff, and maybeĀ omitted some of those finer details at the beginning b/c he knew nobody would go along with it if they knew. but he wasnāt being malicious about it, no matter what those darned elves say.
so everybody got together on top of a big olā tower to talk this through, b/c it was time to buckle down and decide what to do now. that lil chat was called convention, and was basically the first important thing to ever happen. it was actually kind of the first thing to happen, too, b/c one of the members was likeĀ āhey, letās make linear time a thingā and so it was.Ā
anyways, all those etāada were sorta split five ways about this. some, like magnus and the magna-ge, just flat out refused to stick around and give up any of their power, and ran off and became stars. some, who would be later called daedra, didnāt wanna give up any power either, but they kinda had a vested interest in the thing at this point, so they went out into oblivion, where there was a bunch of leftover, unused creatia, and they made their own little planes and proceeded to screw with the world for funsies.
on the other hand, some folks were still gungho about making this world, and were willing to sacrifice themselves completely to let it survive and prosper. those would be the earthbones, who literally just gave up themselves and established a lot of nirnās physical laws. some folks also thought this was worth saving, but also didnāt wanna die. so they gave up a little bitĀ of their power, but kept the rest of it. those are the aedra!
(fun side note: the aedra are the other planets in mundus! we know at least akatosh, julianos, and arkay are stationary, b/c they make up part of some constellations. arkay has a little buddy orbiting him called arkay. thereās also the planets zenithar and kynareth, who might actually move, but we donāt know for sure, i guess. also, zenithar has a buddy orbiting him called mara, and MARA has a buddy orbiting her called dibella.
(what i really want to get at here is that while the planets are absolutely the divines, i believe itās only part of them! hence why theyāre kind of in the middle of the road between the earthbones and the magna-ge. i think they left those planets behind to sort of be their eyes-and-ears on nirn, and also probably to help stabilize it, but after that, they took what they had left back to aetherius. maybe through the sun, but also maybe the planets are sort of like, if they were peaking in on us from aetherius. so what we see as the planets is just what little of them is in the way of the hole. but anyways!)
the rest of the etāada went a similar route to the earthbones, except they didnāt sacrifice anything really. they just kinda decided to live on nirn! theyāre the ehlnofey, who eventually become the mer and men of nirn. (presumably all the beast races and stuff were just already there, or somehow imported from somewhere else [the argonians might literally be transplants from one of those leftover worldbits nirn was made from]).
ok, one last thing. i think nirn orbits the sun, so isnāt really the center of mundus. itās the metaphysical center, b/c itās what mundus exists for. but i just canāt wrap my head around how the sun would be said to rise through constellations during their seasons if nirn wasnāt moving around it and changing its perspective on the sun. maybe itās possible somehow in a nirn-centric model, but i just donāt know how.
ok! thatās wraps up what i think about the cosmology of the series, i think. iām actually going to make a separate post for the metaphysics, for two reasons. 1, this post has gotten long enough already, and 2, ho boy do i have a lot to talk about there. you might notice that itāll probably be pretty different in tone - sure, i couldĀ describe all that stuff in my usual plucky sort of way, but this kinda stuff always just works out better when you take a bit more of a serious tone. iāll undoubtedly get a bit poetic about it too, b/c itās damn good stuff.
anyways! keep your eyes peeled for that! all sorts of stuff about towers, reality, chims, time, etc!
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Did You Know: Pelinal Whitestrake supposedly authored a book called "Conversations with the Heart of Lorkhan"? The book covers ruminations on the nature of the Aurbis. However, the Library of Dusk believes this book is most likely apocryphal in nature.
"The Lords of the Chaos-Realms chided Merid-Nunda for her trespass and bade her return to Aurbis, claiming all existing spheres as their own. But Merid-Nunda formed of her substance a great drag-lens, and the light of Magnus was bent thereby. The rays [carved? focused?] a new sphere from the chaos, which Merid-Nunda, [laughing? sparkling?], did claim for her own."