Разбираем космологию The Elder Scrolls. Возможны некоторые несостыковки в терминологии, поскольку со временем метафизика развивалась и расширялась, а написанием лора занималось несколько разных команд разработчиков со своим видением, однако всё будет упорядочено так, как подразумевается на данный момент.
Общая структура мироздания:
Колесо — это строение мироздания, и проще всего представить его таким образом: обод, спицы, втулка, а также все пространства внутри и снаружи. Я расскажу обо всём по очереди.
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The Wheel is the structure of this universe, and it is easiest to see it that way: rim, spokes, hub, and all the spaces within and without.
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~ Vehk’s Teaching:…the Tower
Нирн:
Нирн — план(ета) смертных, состоящая из материи и магии, созданная в начале времён, когда Лорхан обманом/убеждением/силой вынудил богов создать смертный план.
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Nirn (Ehnofex for «Arena») is a finite ball of matter and magic made from all of the god planets at the beginning of time, when Lorkhan tricked/convinced/forced the gods to create the mortal plane. Nirn is the mortal plane and the mortal planet, which is the same thing. Its creation upset the cosmic balance; now all souls (especially the Aedra-Daedra/Gods-Demons) have a vested interest in Nirn (especially its starry heart, Tamriel).
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~ Cosmology
Лиг — параллельная версия Тамриэля, при этом существуют и другие вариации Нирна.
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Lyg: it's one of the Adjacent Places. It's still there. I wouldn't call it a different kalpa so much as a parallel version of Tamriel.
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~ Michael Kirkbride
Океаны и моря Нирна обладают высокоразмерной природой.
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A breach near the sea! I do love the ocean. It's a shame you can only see in three dimensions. All the quasi-tones and inverse number-forms... Actually, I take it back – your meat-brain would explode if you saw this.
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~ TESO:Augur of the Obscure
Нирн – совокупность псевдо-образов, волшебный шар разумной шизофрении. Тамриэль – невозможное место, построенное по невозможным заповедям.
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The Arena is a collection of pseudo-imagos, all the way down to the core. Tamriel is an impossible place, built on impossible precepts. It’s, frankly, a magic ball of sentient schizophrenia.
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~ Michael Kirkbride
Эмираты Хахд и Нахд – место, которое существует в Тамриэле как вымысел. «Реальность» существования Нахд поддерживается фантазиями о нём в Хахд, в то же время Хахд «существует» только в фантазиях Нахд, который «существует» в фантазиях Хахд. При этом дреуги в близлежащих регионах и население Тамриэля ничего не слышали и не знают об этой стране. Однако в «реальный» мир из этого места попадают книги, которые можно прочитать. Расследование по отношению к этой стране, длившееся сотни лет так ни к чему и не привело.
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This book was studied by a joint committee of Altmeri and Cyrodilic officials and watched over by an impartial Psijiic of the recently-returned Artaeum. It described the Republic in little detail, only enough to give its supposed location far below the waters of Dellesia. The committee agreed that such a habitat as depicted in the book was impossible.
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On the separate cases of the Emirates of Nahd and the mineral called mnemolichite, the Republic's explanations for both were the same: they were figments of imagination, a kingdom and a treasure made popular in the Republic by their recurrence in its many fables, underwater campfire stories, and stageplays.
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«We are not a very creative folk», the Hahd admitted, «But we always enjoy hearing about the fantastical heroes of sandy Nahd and the wondrous powers of mnemolichite because of the delight that their impossibilities bring to our hearts.»
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A few days later, however, sailors aboard the NWN frigate Colleen, on its way back to the Iliac to put down more Haymonic insurgency, discovered a book in its dragging nets. It was entitled, «The Dervish of Dellesia and the Mnemolichite Maid.» Quite by chance, the captain of the Colleen, Davidius Eel, was a great-nephew of one of the members of the joint committee that had obsessed over the Republic of Hahd for a hundred years.
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Captain Eel began to read the manuscript immediately, if only out of a blood-guilt to restore the unsatisfied honor of his ancestor. He was only a few paragraphs in when he realized, to his astonishment, the book's true nature. It was not, as its title might suggest, a fable about Nahd from the denizens of Hahd, but rather a fable about Hahd from some unknown writer of Nahd.
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~ Pocket Guide to the Empire, 2nd Edition:The Republic of Hahd
Мундус:
Мундус начал своё существование в Эру Рассвета, он был создан с помощью магии и мифов, а процесс этот был интерпретирован очень многими способами.
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Those phenomena of the spirit realm that inhabitants of Nirn interpret as a universe came into being during the Dawn Era. It was created through magic and myth, and this process is interpreted in a variety of ways too numerous to mention here. These myths can be accessed elsewhere.
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~ Cosmology
Мундус – втулка Колеса, отражение своих создателей.
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We are the hub, the Mundus that goes by many names. We are the heart of all creation. What does this mean? Why should we care? Lorkhan created it so that we could find what he did. In fact, and here is the secret: the hub is the reflection of its creators, the circle within the circle, only the border to ours is so much easier to see.
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~ Cosmology
Мундус – мультивселенная. Кристальная Башня охватывает и связывает одновременно все вселенные в Мундусе. Другие Башни Нирна выполняют аналогичные функции.
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Unbeknownst to all but a few, Nirn has come unmoored from the fabric of the multiverse, as the mortal realm is drawn ever closer to Coldharbour, the twisted Oblivion realm of the Daedric Prince of domination and enslavement, Molag Bal. The Planemeld, a process in which the two worlds slowly become one, is threatening the existence of all races on Tamriel.
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~ Introduction to the Lore of The Elder Scrolls Online
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The Crystal Tower exists on multiple planes of reality simultaneously and possesses capabilities we do not fully understand. The tower straddles every reality. Its true purpose remains lost to time, but I theorize it was created as a watchtower of sorts. A doorway to everywhere. It stands to reason, then, that the tower is the key to omnipresence. Imagine a Daedric Prince who can exert influence throughout the multiverse at the exact same moment in time. Nocturnal could become infinite.
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~ TESO:Sotha Sil
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The Crystal Tower is the pin which holds the fabric of all realities together, and is said to exist in all realms and universes.
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~ TESO Summerset: Official Collector's Edition Guide
План(еты) Мундуса в рамках системы отсчёта смертных представляют собой объекты бесконечного размера и массы.
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The planets are the gods and the planes of the gods, which is the same thing. That they appear as spherical heavenly bodies is a visual phenomena caused by mortal mental stress. Since each plane(t) is an infinite mass of infinite size, as yet surrounded by the Void of Oblivion, the mortal eye registers them as bubbles within a space. Planets are magical and impossible. The eight planets correspond to the Eight Divines. They are all present on the Dwarven Orrery, along with the mortal planet, Nirn.
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~ Cosmology
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Regarding the «Slipstream» designation: mortals, of course, can only perceive Oblivion and the astronomical regions of the Mundus in terms of their own frames of reference. They «see» only what they can comprehend, and often that isn't much.
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~ TESO:Lord Fa-Nuit-Hen
Планеты, которые воспринимаются смертными как сферические небесные тела, плавающие в космосе – манифестации/проявления Богов.
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The planets are actual manifestations of divinity, everyone understands that, but inasmuch as the nature of the divines, and of divinity itself, varies from culture to culture, the symbolic representation of the heavens clearly varies as well.
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~ An Interview with Phrastus of Elinhir
Как и внешние относительно втулки части Колеса, Мундус функционально повторяет его внутренне, воплощая собой концепт колёс внутри колёс и миров внутри миров.
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Clockwork City is the Clockwork God Sotha Sils experimental miniature recapitulation of the entire Mundus. And it's built in order to both imitate and recapitulate the world above. It has layers, and only Sotha Sil knows the full extent of those layers. Sotha Sil has taken the concept of wheels within wheels and worlds withing worlds and has made it manifest right over your head.
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~ Lawrence Schick
Хист видят реальность Мундуса как сон во сне во сне, при это не различая их как смертные. Учитывая вышесказанное, это указывает на наличие качественных слоёв.
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Branch and seed. Sap and stone. Root and soul. Dream, in dream, in dream. I widen my eyes. Do you see?
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~ TESO:Jaxsik-Orrn
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Tell me, Rootmender, which do you believe is true? Is this a dream-wallow vision? Is it real?
The narrow reed you call real cannot hold the Hist's truth, Rootmender. Real. Illusion. Dream. Waking. These are the words that keep our bellies to the mud. We are safe there, yes.
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~ TESO:Sap-Speaker Kuzei
Вся креация субградиента, в рамках Колеса эта качественная иерархия бесконечная. Исходя из вышеописанного, внутри втулки, на каждом отдельном уровне, присутствует иерархия, где каждая следующая втулка представляет собой следующее колесо и так далее до бесконечности.
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All creation is subgradient.
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~ Loveletter From the Fifth Era
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A single Wheel? More like a Telescope that stretches all the way back to the Eye of the Anui-El, with Padomaics innumerable along its infinite walls.
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~ Michael Kirkbride
Обливион:
Космос – одна из интерпретаций Обливиона, который окружает смертный план. Сам же Обливион «окружён» Этериусом, но о нём чуть позже.
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Space is the interpretation of Oblivion, which is black and empty and surrounds the mortal plane. Space is infinite, but it acts just like a planet, in that Oblivion is 'surrounded' by Aetherius. You can see Aetherius by the stars.
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~ Cosmology
Принцы Даэдра воссоздали эхо изначальной пустоты, которую видели вне Аурбиса внутри Колеса, таким образом появился Обливион. Другая часть Аурбиса, которая была чистой магией, стала Этериусом.
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For ages the etada grew and shaped and destroyed each other and destroyed each other’s creations. Some were like Lorkhan and discovered the void outside of the Aurbis, though if some saw the Tower I do not know, but I know that, if they did, none held it in such high esteem. In any case, some of those that did see the void created its like inside the Aurbis, but each of these smaller voids sought each other out. Void shall follow void; the etada called it Oblivion. What was left of the Aurbis was solid change, otherwise known as magic. The etada called this Aetherius.
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~ Vehk's Teaching
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Another subcreation happened to the wheels of the etada, a shore that all of creation crashed against, the terminus of limits known as Oblivion. An echo of the Void before but unalike, many spirits fled here and came to power by merely harnessing the impossibility of Limit+All.
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~ Loveletter From the Fifth Era
Обливион и Этериус – спицы Колеса.
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The spokes of the Wheel are the eight gifts of the Aedra, sons and daughters of Aetherius. The voids between each spoke number sixteen, and their masters are the sons and daughters of Oblivion.
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~ Vehk's Teaching
Обливион содержит в себе бесконечное количество миров.
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Ah, the Xivilai. Are there any Daedra, in all the infinite worlds of Oblivion, more pompous and filled with unwarranted conceit than those impertinent and unruly louts?
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~ TESO:Lyranth the Foolkiller
Планы Обливиона обладают бесконечными размерами.
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As in the other Elder Scrolls games, the Daedric Princes have a high profile in ESO. They seem to love to meddle in the affairs of mortals. As for whether we will reveal any previously unseen Princes, well – the Planes of Oblivion are infinite.
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~ Development TESO:Ask Us Anything
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I turned, aghast, to see who had dared summon me across the infinities to Nirn, and found myself faced with a tall Elf of Summerset.
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~ I was Summoned by a Mortal
В рамках одного такого плана Принца Даэдра содержится бесконечное количество подпланов бесконечного размера. Например, Апокриф Хермеуса Моры и его библиотеки.
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Of all the infinite libraries of Hermaeus Mora’s realm, the archive is one of Apocrypha’s most mysterious secrets.
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~ Discover Endless Adventure In The Infinite Archive
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The Infinite Archive is an adjunct realm that lies within the greater fabric of Apocrypha.
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~ Loremaster's Archive–Infinite Archive
Обливион имеет под собой бесконечную качественную лестницу, поэтому есть достаточно оснований полагать, что его планы являются бесконечноразмерным пространством.
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I speak of the planes of Oblivion. The sea of limitless dimensions contains an endless series of islands.
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~ Rulantaril's Notes
Все планы Обливиона находятся внутри Принцев Даэдра и являются их манифестацией/проявлением/выражением разума, природы и воли.
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Cut parts of ourselves off? And lose them? Forever? That's stupid! You'll be sorry! We are far smarter than you, for we will create a new world out of ourselves, but we will not cut it off, or let it mock us, but we will make this world within ourselves, forever ours, and under our complete control.
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~ Monomyth:«Shezarrs Song»
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You don't know very much about Oblivion realms, «Legate», if you don't know that they reflect, and are indeed physical manifestations of, the Princes who rule over them.
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~ TESO:Chamberlain Haskill
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In common with the greater Princes, my realm of Maelstrom and myself are indistinguishable—my pocket reality is a projection of my mind, nature, and will. Indeed, reality as personal manifestation is the norm in all the highly-organized realms I have visited.
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~ Loremaster's Archive:The Maelstrom Arena
Этериус:
Этериус – пристанище для Богов (Аэдра), которые создали план, состоящий из чистой магии.
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Aetherius, ancestral seat of the Nine Divines and the other original spirits, is the plane of pure magicka.
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~ Pocket Guide to the Empire, 3rd Edition
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Aetherius is a deep, dark, and endless sea. Endless, too are the secrets of magic and its myriad forms and expressions.
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~ TESO:Connalenwe
Звёзды – мосты в Этериус, они воспринимаются смертными как дыры на изнанке космоса. Поскольку все они расположены на внутренней стороне сферы, все звёзды равноудалены от Нирна. Некоторые звёзды имеют большую величину не потому, что они ближе к плану смертных, а потому, что они просто большего размера бреши в Обливионе.
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The stars are the bridges to Aetherius, the magic plane. They are perceived as holes on the inside surface of space. Because they are on the inside of a sphere, all stars are equidistant from Nirn. Larger stars, therefore, are not closer to the mortal plane, they are just larger tears in Oblivion. The largest tear in Oblivion is Magnus, the sun.
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~ Cosmology
Этериус, подобно Обливиону, содержит в себе магические реальности. Каждая звезда – окно для перехода отдельное измерение.
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Well, consider this. As Oblivion is a realm composed of realms, so, too, is Aetherius a bright sea with many realms within. Each of these stars is a window into these realms, and as these realms move, so too do they move. Or close, like doors.
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~ TESO:Girnalin
Реальности за пределами Этериуса:
Этериус – лишь первый слой, вне его существуют и другие реальности.
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The Aetherius is simply the first layer. I have seen outside the Aetherius.
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~ TESO:Alinor and Ayarene
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The Psijic Order's isle of Artaeum is no longer here. It may return in time, but for now you'd probably have an easier time reaching Aetherius or realms beyond.
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~ TESO:Lilatha
Аурбис:
Аурбис (Колесо) – творение, которое было создано Ану и Падомаем. Они являются Амарантами. Всё вышеописанное находится внутри этой космологической конструкции.
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Anu and Padhome, stasis and change, both vast realms sitting in the void, they created it. Not vast, infinite, as the void was infinite. Imagine an infinity enclosed by another; you come away with a bubble. Now watch as the two bubbles touch. Their intersection is a perfect circle of pattern and possibility that we shall call the Aurbis. The Aurbis is the foundation of the Wheel.
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~ Vehk's Teaching
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«Aurbis» is used to connote the imperceptible Penumbra, the Gray Center between the IS/IS NOT of Anu and Padomay. It contains the multitude realms of Aetherius and Oblivion, as well as other, less structured forms.
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~ The Monomyth
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Anu encompassed, and encompasses, all things. So that he might know himself he created Anuiel, his soul and the soul of all things. Anuiel, as all souls, was given to self-reflection, and for this he needed to differentiate between his forms, attributes, and intellects. Thus was born Sithis, who was the sum of all the limitations Anuiel would utilize to ponder himself. Anuiel, who was the soul of all things, therefore became many things, and this interplay was and is the Aurbis.
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~ The Monomyth
Творения Амарантов включают в себя миры, которые являются историями в историях в историях.
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If you were the story of a story of a story while also being the Last Living Dwarf in a living television show, you actually wouldn't want to watch everything on every channel all the time?
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~ Michael Kirkbride
Они могут располагаться как на одном уровне, так и друг в друге, подобно матрёшкам, что учитывая вышесказанное, указывает на наличие качественных слоёв.
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This and the mention of Russian stacking dolls makes me feel like «nested-class pressurized dream suits» are required to move directly between nested Amaranths.
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~ Michael Kirkbride
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Like, you can sail from B Prime to C Prime, but you probably need something insanely advanced to move from B Prime to A Sub-sub-sub-sub.
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~ Michael Kirkbride
Как известно, в рамках Колеса, на каждом его уровне качественная иерархия бесконечная.
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A single Wheel? More like a Telescope that stretches all the way back to the Eye of the Anui-El, with Padomaics innumerable along its infinite walls.
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~ Michael Kirkbride
Внешние дихотомии и абстракции:
Вторичная Пустота обладает внешней по отношению к Аурбису природой, её составляющие стазис и изменение.
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Outside the wheel is the void, bereft of anything. It cannot be named. If it has more aspects than stasis and change, they are outside of true language. Inside of the Wheel is the Aurbis, as I have explained.
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~ Vehk's Teaching
Этой пустотой является Ситис, рядом с ним существует противоположность – Ануиэль.
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In most cultures, Anuiel is honored for his part of the interplay that creates the world, but Sithis is held in highest esteem because he's the one that causes the reaction. Sithis is thus the Original Creator, an entity who intrinsically causes change without design.
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~ The Monomyth
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Anuiel, as all souls, was given to self-reflection, and for this, he needed to differentiate between his forms, attributes, and intellects. Thus was born Sithis, who was the sum of all the limitations Anuiel would use to ponder himself. Anuiel, who was the soul of all things, therefore became many things, and this interplay was and is the Aurbis.
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~ The Monomyth
Всё началось с дуализма Ану и Падомая, что вызвало дальнейшие дихотомии, их эманации – Ситис и Ануиэль.
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As the process of subcreation continued, both Anu and Padhome awakened. For to see your antithesis is to finally awaken. Each gave birth to their souls, Auriel and Sithis, and these souls regarded the Aurbis each in their own part, and from this came the etada, the original patterns. These etada eventually congealed.
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~ Vehk's Teaching
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Things begin with the dualism of Anu and His Other. These twin forces go by many names: Anu-Padomay, Anuiel-Sithis, Ak-El, Satak-Akel, Is-Is Not. Anuiel is the Everlasting Ineffable Light, Sithis is the Corrupting Inexpressible Action.
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~ The Monomyth
Ану и Падомай – две сущности, предшествующие всему, они появились в первичной Пустоте.
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The first ones were brothers: Anu and Padomay. They came into the Void, and Time began.
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~ The Annotated Anuad
Сатакал – слияние концепций Ану и Падомая.
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Satak was First Serpent, the Snake who came Before, and all the worlds to come rested in the glimmer of its scales. But it was so big there was nothing but, and thus it was coiled around and around itself, and the worlds to come slid across each other but none had room to breathe or even be. And so the worlds called to something to save them, to let them out, but of course there was nothing outside the First Serpent, so aid had to come from inside it.
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~ The Monomyth
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Satakal (The Worldskin): Yokudan god of everything. A fusion of the concepts of Anu and Padomay.
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~ Varieties of Faith, Crown Redguards
До Ану и Падомая существовала первичная Пустота, которую разделило AE, после чего появились сами Амаранты.
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All creation is subgradient. First was Void, which became split by AE. Anu and Padomay came next and with their first brush came the Aurbis.
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~ Loveletter From the Fifth Era
AE представляет собой предшествующее всему, некое «состояние бытия», которое зародилось в первичной Пустоте и при этом может её разделять.
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You in the Fourth Era have already witnessed many of the attempts at reaching the final subgradient of all AE, that state that exists beyond mortal death. The Numidium. The Endeavor. The Prolix Tower. CHIM. The Enantiomorph. The Scarab that Transforms into the New Man.
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~ Loveletter From the Fifth Era
Амаранты существуют в первичной Пустоте, вне всего остального, кроме собственного свободного сознания, гипногируя нижележащие конструкции.
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Those who do not fail become the New Men: an individual beyond all AE, unerased and all-being. Jumping beyond the last bridge of all existence is the Last Existence, The Eternal I.
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~ Loveletter From the Fifth Era
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The New Man becomes God becomes Amaranth, everlasting hypnogogic. Hallucinations become lucid under His eye and therefore, like all parents of their children, the Amaranth cherishes and adores all that is come from Him.
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~ Loveletter From the Fifth Era
Амаранты создают cобой космологию, в рамках которой пристуствует бесконечная рекурсия мироздания, где каждый отдельный субградиент независим от предыдущего Амаранта, но сам Амарант при этом по-прежнему остается встроенным в космологию последнего.
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It’s the flowering of a statehood where the images you give birth to in your dream–stolen(?) from first dreamer–wakes up. Wails knowing free will. And begins to dream in the same way. Children of liberty without end, and then the music lives forever as a pirate radio tuned against the rules of Heaven and the vulgarities of Hell.
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~ Michael Kirkbride
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Anu the Godhead can dream about himself. Have you never been in one of your own? More: have you never been a character in one? Now take that and make it a lucid dream, and you simply can't just get rid of any characters you made, even the I that isn't your I that is.
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~ Michael Kirkbride
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That all the Interplay is one flea of assertion on a wolf of naught, and that every experience (that is, everything) born from that primal wail would cascade unto the echo-need of hologram, each slice the same except for scale, and all the magic that would need to spring forth just to hold it together at living, divine cross-purpose, support struts made from the need to exist (axial, along its two-headed fighting rays, each refusing their origin point, that is, Tower), terrestons versus chronocules, and in the end (an end that ever refuses to hold) it all becomes a lobotomized (for what is not lobal if not the dracochoreography made flesh?), reptilian (coiled), and massive map-god (holding a compass, holding a timepiece), drooling (the water from which we dragged ourselves out of to say, mirror-like, autochthonic, automatic, “WE ARE, TOO”) on his countless knees, dementia given dimension, dimension dementia…
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~ Et’Ada, Eight Aedra, Eat the Dreamer
До начала всего существовала первичная Пустота, которую создал Сновидец.
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All creation is subgradient. First was Void, which became split by AE
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~ Loveletter From the Fifth Era
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The eyes, once bleached by falling stars of utmost revelation, will forever see the faint insight drawn by the overwhelming question, as only the True Enquiry shapes the edge of thought. The rest is vulgar fiction, attempts to impose order on the consensus mantlings of an uncaring godhead.
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~ Black Book:Waking Dreams
Подводим итог:
Нирн – 5-A на физическом уровне и выше на других плоскостях, обладает многомерной структурой
Мундус – 1-B (содержит в себе бесконечную качественную иерархию мироздания)
Аурбис (Обливион и Этериус) – 1-B (присутствуют бесконечноразмерные космологические конструкции)
Дихотомии и внешние абстракции – Низкий 1-А (сверхразмерность и еще несколько качественных шагов)
Сновидец и Амаранты – Высокий 1-A (бесконечная рекурсия Амарантов и качественное превосходство Сновидца над ними)
