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Numerology, the significance of specific numbers, is a subject of interest of elven culture.[1]
Paleonumerology is a subject of research mentioned alongside other fields like archeology and theology. In The Dragon Break Re-Examined paleonumerology is mentioned to have aided in disproving the existence of the Dragon Break was "invented in the late 3rd era, based on a scholarly error, fueled by obsession with eschatology and Numidiumism, and perpetuated by scholarly inertia."[2] The author of Shezarr and the Divines, Faustillus Junius, includes his title of the Subcurator of Ancient Theology and Paleonumerology for the Imperial Library in the book.[3]
The Scripture of the NumbersEdit
The Scripture of the Numbers is the primary topic of the 29th Sermon of the The Thirty-Six Lessons of Vivec. In the text a significance of each number from 1 to 36 is given. The numbers, with their associated significance, are:
- The Dragon Break, or the Tower.
- The Enantiomorph.
- The Invisible Gate, ALMSIVI.
- The Corners of House of Troubles.
- The Corners of the World.
- The Walking Ways.
- The Sword at the Center.
- The Wheel, or the Eight Givers.
- The Missing.
- The Tribes of the Altmer.
- The Number of the Master.
- The Heavens.
- The Serpent.
- The King's Cough.
- The Redeeming Force.
- The Acceptable Blasphemes.
- The Hurling Disk.
- The Egg, or Six Times the Wise.
- The Provisional House.
- The Lunar Lattice.
- The Womb.
- Unknown.
- The Hollow Prophet.
- The Star Wound.
- The Emperor.
- The Rogue Plane.
- The Secret Fire.
- The Drowned Lamp.
- The Captive Sage.
- The Scarab.
- The Listening Frame.
- The False Call.
- The Anticipations.
- The Lawless Grammar.
- The Prison-Shirt.
- The Hours.
A secondary set of numbers is present after each entry on the list. Associating that number with a specific word in the corresponding numbered entry in The 36 Lessons of Vivec reveals a message: "He was not born a god. His destiny did not lead him to this crime. He chose this path of his own free will. He stole the godhood and murdered the Hortator. Vivec wrote this."[4]