Who made these and for what purpose
Who made these and for what purpose
Probably the elves
todd howard for makinj moniy
If you open an Elder Scroll, Todd leaps from the page and drops kick you in the face, blinding you forever.
They just are
what if dwarfdwemer was having twerking off challenge with elf? who will winning?
Supposedly they're scrolls containing ever-changing texts of various possible future events that can happen in Tamriel, and once one of those events actually happens, the text solidifies itself as a true event of the past and cannot be altered in any way shape or form. Also reading it makes you go insane.
What were they smoking when they came up with this?
Lorkhan made them to enable console commands in Mundus.
breadpill me on logan
You can't know this without already knowing exactly what they were smoking.
Auri-el made them so he could goon to Queen Nualia
Lorkhan is the missing god, the missing aedra who made Mundus the physical world. Some people think the player character in every Elder Scrolls game are his avatars making sure the physical world stays the way Lorkhan wants.
Lorkhan is Todd Howard.
You'll go insane
But people read them all the time, or do you mean if you read the "living" one?
And he was so real for that
The dunmer believe he made the world wrong on purpose so that you would want to bail. I think, I might be misremembering that.
Lorkhan lore canon ah how did I not notice this
I think it would be funny to have a mod that gives every character AI and if they ever mention being in a game or similar meta stuff, they just poof out of existence
Akatosh, and for kicks
They don't make you go insane but you do go blind after repeated exposure hence the moth priests
believing the ramblings of the DUMBner
You get more sense out of the moon worshipping crack addicts.
but you do go blind after repeated exposure
Literal metaphysical wanking.
So they let you view the Source Code, CHIM style?
the elder scroll records the past present and future and if that event occurs it will solidify that history to prevent it from being altered by any magic. Dragons like alduin was such a nigger because they can time travel so the scroll banished him into the future to prevent him from spoiling the past and present. The scroll is a failsafe device to make sure no time travel fuckery ruins the world.
and once one of those events actually happens
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*laughs in Warp in the West*
that sounds like your average redditor being a retarded lore autist
to be honest I'd go blind or insane too if I had to read Bethesda's spaghetti code.
The devs did so they can advance the plot or write themselves out of a dead end. The real life equivlent would be something like the "Word of God."
I would upvote this twice if I could.
smoking
Eating
you do go blind after repeated exposure
Hahaha just like jerking off hahaha
My headcanon is that the godhead made them.
You can read them without going insane, you’ll just go blind without proper training.
The moths can read them without going blind for many years, they just read them with lots of time between each session instead of back to back. Also the Dwarven people had machines that could crack them.
OP asked who and why, not what.
that's basically it. for literal NPCs to try to understand the content is like for us to view our universe in 16 dimensions. it would fuck you up.
I just wanna add that any layperson who reads an elder scroll would just see incomprehensible scribbles and be totally fine. It’s only people learned enough to grasp what they’re seeing who suffer any adverse effects.
Get a layman with photographic memory
Show him a bunch of elder scrolls
Teach him post-fact so he retroactively understands what he saw
No adverse effects
the elder scrolls are just this chick
world building ruined, its so over
What about the Gray Fox fuckery in Oblivion? Timeline changed.
The Elder Scrolls prophesize events yet to pass. The details of these prophesies shift and bend; as though the timeline were in a state of flux. They tell tales of great men who have not yet been born, decisions not yet made, wars fought and won, lives lost and all the while the list of possible futures narrows. Many "Elder Scrolls" have since become inert, the events prophesied within having long since passed. The once fast shifting, frantic details of these many possible futures slowing then standing still. The "Elder Scroll" in question becoming a simple record of historical fact. As though the timeline were merely a paint beginning to dry.
In my head-cannon they were sent back through time by the survivors of the "Landfall" event. From Kirkbrides CODA. A gift from those-who-come-after to choose our own path, our own futures and prevent the coming cataclysm.
they are plot devices that just show up when convinient to deliver some asspull whenever the writers feel like they don't want to give a shit anymore
wibbly wobbly timey wimey
Also this:
They can read them because they have funny soul lamps
you can't just post that without this
youtube.com
implying that wasn't just made up to have a set piece for a thieves guild quest
He’s the guy that tricked the Aedra into coming to Mundus and they killed him, well Auriel/Akatosh and a few others did, Kyne and some others were most likely just doing shit and making Nirn and other stuff. However he didn’t actually die, well he did but his power remained and others have been able to more or less take his place and become him/he becomes them. Also his heart was in Morrowind for a while until a bunch of retards started fighting over it and another guy who became someone else/that someone else became him stopped it.
Don’t they also alter reality and are the key to existence of whatever the subject is? Like if you find the word for something and erase it then it will just disappear?