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What do we know about the Elder Scrolls?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:17 pm
by Unionhack
So I've been looking around for information about the Elder Scrolls themselves (As in, the magical pieces of paper), but I really have not found very much about them, other than they basically tell the future, and that reading them too much will make you blind. I'm not really understanding how
, and I kind of just don't get the function of the scrolls themselves at all.
So, does anyone have any additional info on them? It'd be greatly appreciated, I'm quite curious! XD
Re: What do we know about the Elder Scrolls?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:27 pm
by Farlace
Well, they are supposed to be a mystery, hence the "feeling" of TES. I think Skyrim's Alduin Prophecy is part of the scrolls. Here is what I found on the UESP page:
And here is the picture, though I am sure you have seen it:
As for the
part, that is still confusing to me as well
Re: What do we know about the Elder Scrolls?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:37 pm
by Trelares
As they are of aedric origin an somehow woven into the fabric of time itself I would say they can be used with some kind of ritual to break the curse of (a daedric prince) which lies on the gray fox.
Re: What do we know about the Elder Scrolls?
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:11 am
by Dark Spark
The zany idea that I use to explain the Elder Scrolls is the notion that the player's journal happens to be one.
Whatever happens to you in the world, it gets written into the Elder Scroll.
Conversely, whatever you do to the Elder Scroll— it happens in the world.
You get a quest from someone, and words of that mission get inscribed onto the Elder Scroll— it records history as it happens.
However, you can't actually carry 10 suits of armor and 25 various weapons in your backpack. You're only wearing one outfit at the moment, and carrying one weapon at any time. But what the Elder Scroll has recorded is that you've collected all those other items in the past and have not sold them yet. When the need arises, you "rewrite" the Elder Scroll in order to change what you're wearing and what weapon you're holding at any given moment. Need to change out of that Blue Velvet Outfit and into your Blades armor? Changing what is written in your personal scroll changes reality at that moment— the Elder Scroll "predicts" future events by your will.
Re: What do we know about the Elder Scrolls?
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:23 am
by OblivionDuruza
My interpretation of the Scrolls, is that they are the prophecies that define the games. "Each event is preceded by Prophecy. But without the hero, there is no Event." The actions of the Hero (the PC) set the Scrolls in stone, but before then, they are loose and fluid, an insight into the future, but not a clear one (because the Elder Scrolls games are built upon the notions of freedom and choice).
