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elder scrolls can give prophecies for things that will happen, sure. but sometimes they tell you things that won’t happen. or things that could happen, but it’s not super set in stone. sometimes it tells you things you already knew, like things happening right now, or things that have already happened. sometimes it tells you things that didn’t happen, or probably didn’t happen.

like i said, not super reliable, but when you DO get a good prophecy for the future, it’s extremely useful. so there’s an entire cult dedicated to collecting, reading, and studying them, the cult of the ancestor moth. (i’m not sure why they’re called that.)

so let’s take a look at this. what does a scroll look like when it’s a scroll, as in rolled up? it’s just a tube, from a distance looking just like a line, or a 1, or....a tower. 

yes, that’s exactly what i’m suggesting the elder scrolls are. they’re reflections of The Tower, similar to the architectural towers of tamriel, except the way they function is a bit different. 

they don’t solidify reality on a local level. they present a vision of reality on a global or universal level that may or may not be true. but, technically, they’re all true.

elder scrolls are trans-dimensional, trans-timeline objects that present trans-dimensional, trans-timeline prophecies. if something it says will happen here and now doesn’t happen, you can bet your ass it happens somewhere or in some other timeline or version of reality. so in actuality, all of the elder scrolls prophecies are true. just maybe not in this reality. 

the elder scroll, instead of making one reality true, represent all true realities.

and there’s a reason i just said “the elder scroll,” singular. i believe there’s only one elder scroll. 

let me explain this, again, in terms of real-life physics. there’s a theory, not quite confirmed as far as i’m aware, that all electrons are the same electron. so those little negatively-charged particles that orbit the central nuclei of atoms are actually just one particle at different points in time. electrons are actually capable of a kind of time travel! and it uses that ability to exist alongside other versions of itself from other points in time! sorta. it’s a bit more complicated (a lot more, really), but that’s the gist.

the elder scroll is the same way. it’s the same elder scroll at different points in time. not only different points in our timeline, but all points in all timelines ever, not just linear ones, either. sometimes it predicts impossible things because sometimes, in versions of itself where time is irregular, nonlinear, and/or unfixed, those things can happen.

okay, okay, i know. “how does the SAME elder scroll have all these different prophecies? is somebody rewriting it all the time? how come it doesn’t just tell you prophecies for YOUR timeline?”

the elder scroll is special because while it exists at all points in time, it also exists independently of time. it’s not constrained by time, so it can kinda do whatever it wants, be wherever and whenever it wants. 

and who said what was actually on the scroll ever changed? ;)

it’s not like something you just “read,” like a book. it’s more like a portal into this trans-time space, and when you look into it, you see a different time, different place, different timeline, different reality. they’re usually somewhat similar to your own reality, maybe in slightly different versions, maybe exactly in yours. sometime’s they’re basically incoherent because of how different their timeline and reality is. but of course, only certain people can really look into that. most people just see a bunch of letters and gibberish, which is probably a mental defense mechanism of mortals whose minds can’t handle exposure to that kind of force.

so...why’s this thing exist? well, again, looking back at my theory about reality: who is the only person we know of to have transcended time entirely, and to have looked into it?