Aurbic Enigma 4 : The Elden Tree Content . Here is a truth read from the bark . The spike of Ada - Mantia , and its Zero Stone , dictated the structure of reality in its Aurbic vicinity , defining for the Earth Bones their story or nature within the unfolding of the Dragon ' s ( timebound ) Tale . The Aldmer i or Merethic Elves were singular of purpose only so long as it took them to realize that other Towers , with their own Stones , could tell different stories , each following rules inscribed by Variorum Architects . And so the Mer self - refracted , each to their own creation , the Chimer following Red - Heart , the Bosmer burgeoning Green - Sap , the Altmer erecting Crystal - Like - Law , et alia . But of all the Prismatic Mer , none were more presumptuous than the Ayleid s of the Heartland . They built their tower in open emulation of Ada - Mantia , using as Founding - Stone the great red diamond they had uncovered : Chim - el - Adabal , said to be crystallized blood from the Heart of Lorkhan itself . ( For the Heart on its arrow passed over the Heartlands , birthing one of that postnymic ' s quaternary meanings . ) Thus did White - Gold become Tower One . As all know . As foretold by the moth - eyed , Ayleid hubris was to bear bitter fruit . With their vision on high to behold the overworlds , they failed to note the seething Nedelings at their feet , until the thralls rose up and took their Tower away from them . Chim - el - Adabal they took as well , but not before the arch - mage Anumaril fangled an eightfold Staff of Towers , each segment a semblance of a tower in its Dance . And then seven of these segments were borne by White - Gold Knights to distant Fold - Places , where they were hidden . Thus White - Gold . On to Green - Sap . The Boiche Elves were of the Earth Bones who most hearkened to Jephre and his greensongs . They did not build a Tower , they grew it , a great graht - oak whose roots sprang from a Perchance Acorn . And this was their Stone . And because the Acorn might perchance have been elsewhere , thus was Green - Sap manifold and several . And each could walk . Therefore each Green - Sap was also every Green - Sap . Within each were told all the stories of the Green , with every ending true , so doors therein were not always Doors Certain . But to this the Boiche - become - Bosmer became inured , and indeed grew to relish these Doors Equivocal , for such was their nature in the schism of the prism . In this way the Bosmer learned which songs made the trees dance , and which dances they might do . Now return we must to the eighth segment — or rather Segment One , for Anumaril had fangled it in similitude to Tower One , which itself reflected Tower Zero . When the Ayleids fled the Heartlands they went to all eight corners of the compass , and this was a chosen thing , though many corners spelled doom . But more Ayleids fled to Valenwood than to all other directions combined , and this , too , was chosen . Among these clans went Anumaril wearing Segment One as a femur — for how but by walking can a spoke advance its hub ? Green - Sap ' s Elves welcomed the Ayleids so long as the Heartlanders agreed not to dissonate the greensong . All agreed to this save Anumaril , who coughed into his hand unnoticed . He asked the Great Camoran to show him Green - Sap , and was brought to one that by happenstance stood then in Elden Root . Once within the great graht he passed through a Door Equivocal and found his desire , the Perchance Acorn . It was one of many , but for Anumaril one was enough . Next the fanglement : Anumaril brought forth Segment One among the roots and showed it to the golden nut , and this told an ending , so that the stone became a Definite Acorn . That Elden Tree would not walk again , but Anumaril yet had further intentions for it . Using his dentition as tonal instruments , he dismantled his bones and built of them a Mundus - machine that mirrored Nirn and its planets . And when he had used all his substance in fangling this orrery , he placed the segment - sceptre within , hiding it between the Moons . Then he waited — but what he waited for did not eventuate , and perchance he ' s waiting yet . For Anumaril had hoped to convert Green - Sap into White - Gold , and thereby make the Heartlanders ' realm anew . However , Anumaril did not know , and was not able to know , why his plan went awry . You see , Ayleid magic is about Will , and Shall , and Must — but under Green - Sap , all is Perchance . The Ayleid fangler ' s plan could not succeed — and yet neither could it fail . For this is a story that has not yet found its ending .