Lore talk:Merethic Era

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I got this information from the The Imperial Library, but didn't have time to reword it. Can someone do this please. ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.18.1.246 (talk • contribs).}

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I have a problem: Here the first Era starts with King Harald who dies in 1E 221, but this is quite different to what is written here... --84.145.233.146 15:14, 1 March 2008 (EST)

That's when history is first recorded, but not when the First Era began. History was recorded, for exaple, long before Jesus was born, but AD didn't began until then. The people who made the Tamriel calender decided to count the formation of the Camoran Dynasty as the start of the First Era rather than King Harald's birth or whatever. Michaeldsuarez (talk· contribs· email) 22:15, 9 March 2008 (EDT)

History could be recorded when time became linear, when it "began." And that point is the landing/creation of the first Tower. ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.31.156.165 (talk • contribs).}

I won't deny that there was history then; however, there wasn't anybody there (other than the gods) to record it. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk)/(Contribs)} 21:27, 26 March 2008 (EDT)

The creation of the first Tower marks the end of the Dawn Era, thus the beginning of the Merethic/Mythic ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.31.156.165 (talk • contribs).}

Yes, sources seem to indicate that the Tower's creation marks the end of the Dawn Era and the beginning of the Merethic Era. Perhaps this article should be divided into the Dawn Era and the Merethic Era. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk)/(Contribs)} 21:42, 26 March 2008 (EDT)

Hold the phone: The bits about Nirni and Anu and Padomay should be in the Dawn Era, not the Merethic. In fact they shouldn't be in any era at all, they aren't literal truth, and their presence here is incredibly misleading. ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.31.156.165 (talk • contribs).}

[edit] Twelve Worlds of Creation?

I have two "issues" here...

1. What are the Twelve Worlds of Creation? I tried to look them up, I got nothing. Would there be more info at the Imperial Library? 2. Someone mentioned that the events involving Anu, Padomay, and Nir should belong in the Dawn Era. Perhaps we should create a page for this? From what I could tell, there is no Dawn Era page. Thoughts? EDIT: Perhaps adding a note about how there was no one there to record the events besides the gods themselves.

        It is allegory, rather than literal truth. The worlds of creation refer to the many et'ada who collaborated to create Nirn.

World=Plane=Planet=God

--M1SSYF1V3 22:28, 26 March 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Source

Most of this information may come from A Children's Anuad, which puts all of these events with Anu and Padomay in the Mythic, not Dawn, Era. This is just a guess but this is probably where the site got its information from. ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.192.171.162 (talk • contribs) on 30 June 2008.}

And *that* is why we don't use allegorical fables as historical references. ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.31.156.165 (talk • contribs) on 26 July 2008.}

[edit] flawed

The entire reworded Timeline should be scrapped. This is supposed to be a historical timeline but only paraphrases one allegorical bedtime story. It is even mislabeled. It describes the Dawn Era and events before Mundus existed. The TIL timeline describes the Mythic or Merethic Era. The latter term is clearer and not misleading, like the former. ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.31.156.165 (talk • contribs).}