Lore talk:Aldmeris

not a continent

What are the Towers?

They are magical and physical echoes of the Ur-Tower, Ada-mantia. Ada-mantia was the first spike of unassailable reality in the Dawn, otherwise called the Zero Stone. The powers at Ada-mantia were able to determine through this Stone the spread of creation and their parts in it.

The powers also created Red Tower and the First Stone. This allowed the Mundus to exist without the full presence of the divine. In this way, the powers of Ada-mantia granted the Mundus a special kind of divinity, which is called NIRN, the consequence of variable fate.

After these two acts, which is commonly called the Convention, the gods left the earth.

As they were the most powerful of lesser spirits in the ages after the Convention and eager to emulate what they saw, the Aldmer began construction of their own towers. That they built more than one shows you that they were not of one mind.

The Aldmer began to split along cultural lines, on how best to spread creation and their parts in it. Each Tower that was built exemplified a separate accordance.

This sundering of purpose is the myth of the "destruction of Aldmeris." Outside of the Dawn, and even then only in the dreamtime of its landscape, there was never a terrestrial homeland of the Elves. "Old Ehlnofey" is a magical ideal of mixed memories of the Dawn.

Do not believe the written histories.

All mortal life started on the starry heart of Dawn's beauty, Tamriel.

-Nu-Mantia Intercept Letter #5

— Unsigned comment by 24.31.156.165 (talk) at 04:33 on 25 July 2008 (UTC)

This place doesn't exist, it's just a myth.

Nothing and no one ever talks about it except as a metaphor of elven unity. It's not to the west and south of Alinor. That just confuses people into thinking it's real. Remove where it's 'located' or find a book that claims it to be a physical place. — Unsigned comment by 98.200.250.109 (talk) at 02:37 on 22 April 2014 (GMT)

Alright, please see Before the Ages of Man:

"In the Middle Merethic Era, the Aldmeri (mortals of Elven origin) refugees left their doomed and now-lost continent of Aldmeris (also known as 'Old Ehlnofey') and settled in southwestern Tamriel."

That seems to be an actual place they're referring to there. Additionally, while I cannot think of a solid source for the location, it does make sense as it is. Atmora is north of Tamriel (the early Nords colonized Skyrim, the northernmost region of Tamriel), Yokuda is to the west (Redguards colonized western most regions of Tamriel), Akavir is to the east (Morrowind, Skyrim, and Argonia, the three regions which border the eastern seaboard have been invaded several times by them), so the elves would most likely come from the south southwest due to the available land and what they colonized. --AKB ^{Talk Cont Mail} 02:37, 22 April 2014 (GMT)

Twelve Worlds of Creation

An alternate theory that could be fleshed out in this page would be the explanation from the Anuad - that there were originally Twelve Worlds, which were damaged by Padomay and compressed together to make Nirn. Aldmeris was one of these original worlds. Therefore, rather than being a continent, it was actually a planet, and what's left of it fused with Nirn. Therefore it existed as a place - just not on Mundus. Pilaf The Defiler (talk) 10:50, 29 June 2014 (GMT)