#anumidium

[soundsanssprechen]

Hairball

Theory writ large The holographic principle Taken to the very limits of all the light touches Yet still we wonder What’s beyond? You don’t matter, Matter Energy never really cared for you anyway See how she quantum jumps away Every time you try to grab her still Image is just a Lord of Time’s lament Synthesise new ways to see Entropy flowing within each binary heart of me Slither and slide into each crack of thee And see a new colony of the selves What might they be? I think I need a Doctor Is it you? Or is it me?

[ansu-gurleht]

thinking about the etymologies of numidium and akulakhan. worth remembering that numidium is properly “anumidium,” giving it a connection to anu somehow. and i feel like the “-lakhan” in “akulakhan” is a bastardization of “lorkhan”

[bosmeri-spinor-society]

What do you mean, “where did the dwarves go”?

Some of my best friends are short kings

With big bones

Warm of hearth

Dig deep in earth

What do you mean, “where was Yokuda”?

Some of my best friends are Western

With the sun-tanned skin

And fair complexion

What do you mean, “how cold was Atmora”?

Some of my best friends are fur covered

Bearded unblinded whisker folk

They feel every whisper from yolk

(like tree of me)

What do you mean, “how serpentine was Akavir”?

Some of my best friends have shed skin

Taken on new rainments

New names

Anumidium

A New Middle Sea

For a new day

Un jour…

[kyriati]

There's an image that I don't have saved, except in various discord dms, and I'm not gonna post it because who cares except me, that's one of those "who would win" memes in the vein of 10k lions vs the sun, but it's the Numidium of elder scrolls fame vs Liberty Prime from pacific rim, and it's fascinating to me because the creator's assumption of Liberty Prime's victory is presented in such a "gotcha!" way, like Numidium is flatly described as "the most powerful dwemer artifact" and nothing else, whereas Liberty Prime gets stuff like "can shoot lasers from its eyes and throw nukes around like footballs", and while I will never know the context behind this image I can only infer, from this opinion stated as if it's common sense (and also that the OP called it "A Numidium" not realising that the A isn't a separate article it's supposed to be Anumidium) that OP either doesn't understand how this match-up would actually go, or doesn't care and wants to pretend the gundam with two squishy humans inside of it would win

To be clear, I'm not knocking Liberty Prime, it's a cool giant robot capable of punching kaiju in the face and saving the world, but the only way it beats the Numidium is if Liberty Prime arrives to the fight a week early and smashes Numidium to pieces before it gets switched on, there's no "fair fight" to be had here, nukes and lasers will not save you

Anyway I think abt that image a lot

[ashedyams]

just a quick coloring 

discussion thread here

[profanetools]

i definitely think kagrenac was able to leave something of herself in the heart of lorkhan in some way, even if it was simply an after-effect of using the tools on the heart so often, to the extent that it imprinted and embedded some of her ideas and plans within it.

i think that best explains why voryn later adopted kagrenac’s motivations despite said motivations being the exact opposite of the heart’s best interest. i don’t think it was her tools that was the ‘corrupting’ force in this case, like some accounts claim as vivec, who held onto wraithguard, and likely the rest of almsivi, who held onto the tools for the bulk of 3,000 years, would have likely been more greatly affected by those ideas. no, what differentiates voryn from the tribunal is his proximity to the heart. in the heart, there lies the corruption. but without kagrenac, there would be no good reason why the heart would urge that project to completion.

[melchiordahrk]

The dwemer’s golden souls within the infinite, divine skin of Anumidium, The Brass God.

Circa [NUMINIT]

Dean Ellis

[uesp]

"With a mere copy of the Anumidium, Tiber Septim was able to conquer all of Tamriel. Naturally in these troubling times, the new Emperor wants us to find any information we can on the original Anumidium."

--Darius claiming that Tiber Septim did not have the original Numidum in a cut quest.

[morihaus]

all this talk about kagrenac... we need to ask ourselves the real questions. did the anumidium itself have girlpower?

[kagrenacs]

Explaining the Iceberg #4

I covered most things in this, but not everything. Every previous post I’ve made describing the tes iceberg I found on google image search can be found here x

Lorkhan’s purposeful failure: Lorkhan was the first spirit to go beyond the universe to see the tower, but didn’t achieve CHIM. He likely did this on purpose to show others how not to do it, and to demonstrate that it was difficult for et’ada to achieve this state because they simply don’t have the boundaries (such as death) that mortals do.

The World-Egg: The universe and the 12 previous Kalpas, everything within existence

The Khajiit Tower: this reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/3oh7wf/the_khajiit_tower/ for everyone’s sake i’ll spare you the details of Jungian psychology, TL;DR the khajiit are a ‘tower’ made to hold up the universe and aspects of this

The Grabbers: Mentioned in the 36 lessons, a race of people in Lyg who are said to ‘have never built a city of their own’ there are theories that these are in fact Magne-Ge, due to their connection to Lyg by Mehrunes Dagon

AE: ‘is’ in ehlnofex, can be interpreted as a state of being

Shezzar became Akatosh: The only solid reference i could find was this thread, that immediately discusses how this is probably incorrect http://www.gamesas.com/could-lorkhan-have-jyggalag-t74581-25.html

The Monkey-Truth: Markuth’s teachings, also a website of tes fanfiction writers and roleplayers 

Red Moment: The potential Dragon Break at Red Mountain

The Provisional House: Mentioned in the 36 Lessons, called ‘a space that is not a space’ that Vivec observes the events of Nirn from. It may possibly protect Vivec from dangers associated with this.

Alandro Sul: The Shield-Companion to Nerevar. Sometimes called ‘the immortal-son of Azura’. After being blinded by Wulfharth, he went to live with the Ashlanders of Vvardenfell and is credited with spreading the idea that the Tribunal killed Nerevar

CHIM: To put simply, the process and state where a person realizes their place within the universe and is able to manipulate the laws of the universe as they see fit. Often associated with the concept of ‘Love’

Skaal Secrets: Discussed in the Dragonborn DLC, it’s unknown what their secrets are, but the Skaal report that they’ve kept them a secret from Hermaeus Mora for generations

The World’s Teeth: Mentioned in the 36 lessons of Vivec, sermon 17. Vivec takes Nerevar to the edge of the world, where they see ‘the bottom row of the world’s teeth’ as Vivec states. This may possibly reference a glitch in Redguard. (as a side note: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, a game that’s confirmed to have taken inspiration from the Elder Scrolls, has an area on the map, near the edge of the world with a row of spikes similar to what’s described here. This might be just coincidence, but I sure enjoy it)

Dagoth Ur’s Endgame: Speculation on what Dagoth Ur’s final plans actually are. He speaks of his desire to remove the Empire from Morrowind, and unite the Dunmer under the 6th House, but beyond that there’s little to go off of.  Ultimately this is just speculation and theories, mostly on what he plans to do with the Anumidium, and how that could possibly have adverse affects on reality.

Pelinal Cyborg from the Future: Another bit of obscure MK lore that’s not implemented in-game. This derives from the description of Pelinal having a ‘left hand made of a killing light’  ‘PELIN-EL [which is] "The Star-Made Knight" [and he] was arrayed in armor [from the future time].’ and his survival of being decapitated. While the text directly states he is from the future, there’s no ingame canon text stating he is a cyborg.

Reymon Ebonarm is Reman: The thought that Ebonarm, a God of War is the same person as Reman, emperor of Cyrodiil. There’s several theories dedicated to this, with different variants on the specifics.

The Enantiomorph: Directly tied to the concept of mantling and the Fourth Walking Way. Put simply, there are three participants in this. Two combatants who are very much alike and trying to become the ‘Ruling King’ and an observer who determines who wins, this observer usually becomes maimed as a result of this. 

The Third Moon: Two different things, a metaphorical or literal secret moon important to the Khajiit that only appears when Masser and Secunda are aligned, preceding the birth of a Mane. The second option is the Necromancer’s Moon, the godly form of Mannimarco.

The Walkabout: A concept in Yokudan religion. The process of spirits surviving one Kalpa to the next, facilitated by Tall Papa

White-Gold Doomsday device: I remember reading this theory a few years back, unfortunately I cannot find the exact page for the life of me. The Tl;DR on this is the White-Gold Tower is a weapon of mass destruction, either literally or in metaphysical terms (being connected to Akatosh and it’s status as a Tower). The closest thing I can find to it is this thread which describes the motives of Umbra in the novels, and how it could potentially take over Tamriel using the White-Gold Tower http://www.gamesas.com/doomsday-scenario-t69430.html

Jiub was the Nerevarine: Self explanatory, headcanon that Jiub was the Nerevarine, similar to a headcanon on tumblr that stated Teldryn Sero was the Nerevarine

House Dwemer: Mentioned as a House within The War of the First Council (which is written by an Imperial for Western Scholars) and The Lost Prophecy (written by a Dunmer) This could be interpreted in a couple different ways. A) The first book was certainly written for western readers, while there is no evidence for this being the case for the latter, it can’t be ruled out. ‘House’ is used as a simplification B) The Dwemer were considered a house, but perhaps not in the way we would initially think (being on the Great House Council)  They were grouped into a singular entity, rather than distinct clans within a cultural group (either during the First Council or posthumously) 

When Dead Gods Dream: https://www.imperial-library.info/content/when-dead-gods-dream referencing this thread. Discusses the mechanisms of Dagoth Ur’s godhood, the thread explains it better than I can here, TL;DR Dagoth Ur is not alive, but he is within the realms of gods and therefor is able to ‘project’ himself onto Tamriel and the minds of his followers.

Khajiit ended the Metheric Era: Nothing found for this

Parabolic Kalpa: A parabola is a symmetrical U-shaped curve. This theory essentially tries to explain why Skyrim is so low magic, compared to it’s history or even ESO. The thought is that as time goes on, the world becomes less connected to Divinity. Towers are destroyed and the gods are gone, but eventually things will begin to kick off again, and there will be a rise in magic, technology and the connection to these beings. Essentially tries to explain why C0da and Loveletter from the 5th era are more high magic compared to the actual games. 

Sithis: Secret Lesson from Vivec: Connects the both Sithis with the 36 lessons by terminology (The Sharmat, false dreamer ect.) and proposes Vivec may have written the book

Bendu Olo: Colovian King, may have been related to Olaj Olo, nordic demigod of mead. Also used as a placeholder name for the player character in Oblivion and the name of the dev’s test character in Skyrim

Trinimac still lives: An ESO lorebook states the Ashpit, realm of Malacath, extends into Aetherius. Some orcs also believe Malacath is nothing more than a demon presenting himself as the remnants of Trinimac. A r/teslore theory states that Malacath wears two faces. While I assume this is the Iceberg author’s sole reference, I propose this could (should) refer to another theory. (Another theory is similar to this on teslore, proposed around the same time, but this one connects the dots)  https://boethiah.tumblr.com/post/621058598373588993/tsun-is-the-shield-brother-of-shor-and-trinimac 

The Aedra are Dead: Seemingly a common topic on teslore. A basic concept in tes, the Aedra gave most of their powers to Mundus to stabilize it.  Their bodies remain as planets, and they can only have limited interactions with Nirn. 

Divayth Fyr was the Hero of Battlespire: An old theory that looks at artifacts in Divayth Fyr’s possession and ties them back to the tes spinoff Battlespire. There are holes in this theory (Divayth Fyr was a seasoned mage at the time the hero was an apprentice)

Three Talin’s: The default name given to the Eternal Champion is Talin, a character creation scenario proposes that their father was also named Talin, and finally Uriel Septim VII’s general was named Talin Warhaft.

Pelagius I was killed by the Underking: The Arcturian Heresy states that the Underking appeared as an advisor to Pelagius I, who was assassinated by the Dark Brotherhood. This theory is a possibility considering the amminosity between Tiber Septim and both components of the Underking. 

Tsaesci Goa’uld: Goa’uld are a species from Stargate that are parasites towards humans. This theory proposes that the Tsaesci are similar, explaining the inconsistencies of their appearance within the lore.

Lunar currency: The thought that the Aedra and Daedra use mortal souls like currency

Historic Star Inconsistencies: Possibly referring to the variations of the number of days within the year in Arena, not sure about this one

Mnemoli/Star Orphans:Mnemoli is either a specific Magne-Ge (spirits that fled the creation of Mundus after Magnus), or a group of them that only appears during a Dragon Break (often nicknamed the ‘Blue Star’) MK states that they’re the writers and distributors of the physical Elder Scrolls (however this contradicts ingame books, so take it with a grain of salt). Star Orphans may or may not refer to Magne-Ge as a whole. Vehk’s book of hours state's them as a ‘group or tribe’ regardless, Mnemoli falls under this secondary classification (along with Merid-Nuda and Xero-Lyg, I have my own thoughts on this which would be better explained in another post) 

Bosmer Hircine worship: Seemingly referring to a thread on 4pleb, I will not be summarizing this theory here because I’m smart and not going onto 4pleb of all places. But from canon content, Bosmer do not worship Hircine, and consider him a force that goes against Y’ffre and wants to return everything to it’s original state of chaos before the earthbones (Y’ffre being among them) stabilized things 

Septimus Signus Zero Sum: The theory that the aforementioned zero-summed at the end of Discerning the Transmundane in Skyrim. Essentially Septimus is in a fragile state, delving into the secrets of the universe and is being pushed by Hermaeus Mora, who may see him as a lab rat, into discovering things he isn’t meant to handle as a mortal, and consequently Zero-Sums. There’s holes in this, namely Zero-Summing supposedly removes all trace of existence. 

The Soft Doctrines of Magnus Invisible: A very obscure text by Douglas Goodall, discusses the binding of various gods

Abnegaurbic creed: An overly fancy word basically meaning religious beliefs, seen in Nu-Hattia Exerpt 

Dunmereth: A Nordic term for the area of Morrowind, during their occupation of it

Fifteen-and-One Golden Tones: A Dwemer term, possibly referring to the spheres of the Daedra, counting Sheo/Jyggalag as a singular entity. Also, the Dwemer swear by these 

Ideal Masters are God of Worms remnants: As Mannimarco is often said to be the first Lich, the existence of the ideal masters seems to contradict this (similar story with Azidal) this tries to rectify this by proposing that the Soul Carin is the Necromancer’s Moon, and the ideal masters are remnants of Mannimarco. This theory doesn’t hold up when examined, but is cool nonetheless. 

Sermon 37: Found in ESO, an extra sermon to the 36 lessons, ties in concepts present in c0da like amaranth. (interestingly on this list Sermon Zero is never mentioned, despite it being older and more interesting imo, but to discuss that would require lots of work)

Flying Whales: Mentioned in Aldudagga. A now extinct species. The bone bridge of Sovngarde could potentially be a reference to this.

Joy-Snow: It’s cocaine 

Mankar=Tharn: A theory that Mankar Cameron is Jagar Tharn, doesn’t hold much weight and relies mostly on the connection of Mehrunes Dagon

Sharmat: A term used to describe Dagoth Ur, an opposite to the Hortator, a force uniting people for evil. Implied to mean or be associated with ‘the False Dreamer’ a person whose view of the universe is similar to someone whose achieved CHIM, but sees themself as the center of it all, rather than a droplet in the ocean of the universe.

Pankratosword: A forbidden Yokudan sword technique that could ‘cut atoms’ similar to our modern day Nuclear Fission. A bit of etymology here, ‘Pankrato’ seems to refer to the word ‘Pankrator’ meaning all-powerful or almighty. 

Landfall: A concept from MK, a future event where Nirn is destroyed by the Numidium, and the people remaining relocate to the moons. 

Cylarne: The oldest ruin in the Shivering Isles, rumored to be the original capital. Home to the Cold Flame of Agnon

[soundsanssprechen]

How to sing about A Beautiful Hourglass

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[kagrena]

From a lost missive, dated ~1E650

Since The Anumidium Project's inception, reports of haunting visions and vivid dreams have spread from an acolyte's rumour to one of the gravest concerns amongst leading Tonal Architects loyal to you. Colloquially known as "heart sickness", these visions have been described, paradoxically, as beautiful as they are sickening, as grisly as they are resplendent. Sufferers are left restless, exhausted, delirious, on the verge of slipping into a waking-dream, a walking-sleep, being without being, there but not there.

As expounded upon in this report, I believe these recurrent nightmares originate from the Core itself. With each beat, the Core resonates an arrangement of Twelve-and-One tones - what has occurred to the other Three has yet to be determined - that, with its particular cadence and dischords, speak to something primordial, deep in our lineage, that awakens at its call. My hypothesis is as follows: any attempts to neutralise the effects of "heart sickness" must silence these tones at the Core itself.

I am aware, Kagrenac, that these visions are a personal as well as political matter for you; I too, must confess, have received dire premonitions, strange awakenings, as of late. I have taken great care to collect information with both haste and discretion: I hope you use the information contained here within to devise an effective solution, for all of our sakes.

May false gods tremble in your wake, Nchunac

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This is the long version of my new AO3 summary for Twelve Tones, but I thought I’d post it here because. Well. :^)

[reliquarian]

hmmm could fuck around and make a daggerfall protag who also winds up being the protag of a later game in the series...they fuck up all of tamriel forever bc of whatever political decisions they made/were pressured into and get to wander around for ages longer than their natural lifespan

could make them related to aylmer. who goes and fucks around with aspects of numidium / anumidium’s reality-bending magic

[ansu-gurleht]

what ws Ogash trying to achieve?

uhhhh not sure. i don’t remember if i ever really decided for sure. like it’s entirely possible it was a sort of “only asked if i could, not if i should” type scenario.

maybe he wanted to bring back the dwemer? failing that, to make the orcs the new dwemer, and orsinium the new dwemereth. he was the chief tonal architect of orsinium, after all, and i recall considering making him something like kagrenac incarnate - a “kagrenarine” if you will, with all the fun “kagrenac is watching and she is disappointed” shenanigans you’d expect

but yeah, i think he was mostly just fascinated by it all, and devoted himself completely to learning more about the dwemer and tonal architecture and anumidium theory. but at some point it becamd less “oh cool the king of my home nation wants to support my research and ideas” and more “oh so the king is using me to develop an orcish numidium to take over the iliac bay” and eventually “diagna is using both of us to give himself limitless power to take vengeance on the world that abandoned him”

by the time he realized any of this it was way too late to do anything, so he just kinda went along with it. not to downplay his agency or responsibility in any of it, but it’s a very complex situation not limited just to his lofty ideals

[ashedyams]

ancient unfinished doodle of some concepts from c0da that was posted in an ancient thread

[profanetools]

the real ending of elder scrolls is when bthemetz mantles lorkhan and fixes all the world's problems but it's like too much even for a mortal mantling a dead god... so she reaches inside of her/lorkhan's heart and finds kagrenac, who was just sleeping there all along (not dead! just chilling), but is also mortally wounded. and then she and kagrenac have this extremely tearful reunion in each others arms as they pass from this world to the next and the whole world cries for a week.

I mean yeah yeah yeah i know this is unrealistically straightforward and lacks conflict and struggle and in reality i would hate it to actually be that easy, oh just 1 determined lady can save the world, but what if :) what if :)