Commentaries on The Elder Scrolls by Scriba Pannum (second eddition)

by Librum Ventilabrum

I just wrote this and uploaded it without knowing I was going to a few hours ago, but this is my first attempt at writing a fanfic. My grammar is not the best but this is the best I can do. This is written to be similar in a way to the books in the games, as an essay or commentary written by a member of the COAM. Writing in italics is taken from the games and is owned by Bethesda.

Retrospective Commentaries on The Elder Scrolls by Scriba Pannum Second Eddition

I am A member of the Cult of the Ancestor Moth. I will explain more of this later but for now it suffices to say that the members of the cult are the only people who can interpret the elder scrolls.

This, however, is not a blessing. Far from it the scrolls gradually cause blindness in those who read them. Choosing to devote one's life to learning to interpret these scrolls is truly, in my opinion, the most selfless choice anyone could ever make in their lives.

I think it is important first to give the reader some background on what the elder scrolls actually are, although any young scholar with this book in their hands surely already knows what can be known.

This is a hard task because truly the elder scrolls transcend definition. Yes there are the physical scrolls which we at the cult of the ancestor moth interpret, but they are not the scrolls themselves but translations in a strange language (well, strange to most at least)

The real scrolls do not physically exist in Mundus or in any realm of existence. Rather they exist in the fabric of creation itself. In fact they are the fabric of creation! They tell us of the past, present and most importantly, the future.

The latter is most important because as members of this cult who can interpret the scrolls we can actually prophesise important future events and record them preparing the beings of Nirn for any catastrophic or otherwise important events. Even our readings are not exactly precise and our predictions our usually rather cryptic and riddle like.

Some people call these scrolls "The Aedric Prophesies" although this is widely disputed by many people (Myself included) on the grounds that there is no actual proof to suggest that Aedra were responsible for the scrolls and also because they contain not only prophesies but also records of the past which it constantly changes to coincide with present events.

Indeed know one knows exactly what the elder scrolls originated from. Observe this passage written on the subject "Imagine living beneath the waves with a strong-sighted blessing of most excellent fabric. Holding the fabric over your gills, you would begin to breathe-drink its warp and weft. Though the plantmatter fibers imbue your soul, the wretched plankton would pollute the cloth until it stank to heavens of prophecy. This is one manner in which the Scrolls first came to pass, but are we the sea, or the breather, or the fabric? Or are we the breath itself? Can we flow through the Scrolls as knowledge flows through, being the water, or are we the stuck morass of sea-filth that gathers on the edge?"

Hopefully you find this easier to understand than I do. But I am not here to understand it merely interpret so I present in this book my commentaries on the elder scrolls and several passages, although there are certain guidelines I have had to follow and there is certain information that can not be permitted to be recorded in Tamrielic. Also certain passages have been censored from the original writings. This is only to protect the public from information which is not in their interest to know.