Book One—The World of The Elder Scrolls
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Cosmology · World History

Nirn

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Chapter overview

Every empire, faith, war and remembered life in the archive begins on Nirn. This chapter reconstructs the mortal planet as both a physical world and a disputed cosmological creation, distinguishing known geography from inherited tradition and metaphysical interpretation.

In this chapter

  1. 01The place of Nirn in Mundus
  2. 02Creation and the mortal plane
  3. 03Tamriel and the known continents
  4. 04The moons Masser and Secunda

Sources & further reading

01

The MonomythPrimary in-universe text · archival reference

02

CosmologyPrimary in-universe text · archival reference

03

Pocket Guide to the Empire, First EditionPrimary in-universe text · archival reference

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