I think that upon my third reading of this I realized the significance of these lines, and what Lleswer is, other than brilliantly awesome.
Anyone care to share what they get out of this?
Heck, I'll bite. Warning: Length!
I'm seeing a country on Secunda, a heaven for the Khajiit that was discussed previously (or later) in the 3rd edition PGE: "
Llesw'er, a paradise promised to the Khajiit by the Riddle'Thar".
And for the sake of completeness, from the varieties of faith: "
Riddle'Thar (Two-Moons Dance): The cosmic order deity of the Khajiiti, the Riddle'Thar was revealed to Elsweyr by the prophet Rid-Thar-ri'Datta, the Mane. The Riddle'Thar is more a set of guidelines by which to live than a single entity, but some of his avatars like to appear as humble messengers of the gods. Also known as the Sugar God."
Khajiit saw reason in these words and so it climbed and climbed, cat upon cat, for a hundred days. Much sugar was brought there to support the climbers and in the end Khajiit climbed high, so very high that it was in fact closer to Jo'Segunda than to Nirni below. At that moment, little Alfiq fell upwards and from there on Khajiit helped Khajiit up, which was down, until all were gathered there. This is where Khajiit intends to stay from now on, for who could know strife when walking sugar and not sand?
As Fadomai said, according to Clan Mother Ahnissi, "
The Khajiit must be the best climbers" indeed.
On a side note, this reminded me of a (in hindsight, very racist) joke I heard as a kid about chinese space travel. And on a further side note, it got me thinking of how accepted casual racism was in children's jokes and stories and such as late as the late 80s and early 90s. I doubt I'd wanna repeat those anecdotes even in a closed room. Stuff truly svcked in the past.This section indicates that we're not talking about a mere colony here, but rather that the entire province was i) copied or ii) moved. The earlier part about "
meticulous metamundal vectors to travel by brute force, or the rare Imperial disposition to submit to a deep and prolonged sugar trance" indicates that, yeah, you either go there by spaceship or by getting stoned which would mean that it moved. Same for "
This is where Khajiit intends to stay from now on". The Khajiit pulled a Dwemer and ascended as a race. The prolix tower comes to mind, quite literally.
Instead, traffic between Lleswer and other provinces is primarily managed through the nirnstrand terminus at the very tip of the peninsula. Though sugar-fibril transport is an affordable and safe mode of transportation, non-khajiiti incoming passengers are exceptionally scarce.
A space elevator of space cocaine between earth and god is a safe mode of transportation? Yeah, I'd be scarce there as well.
Central in the Palace is the Mane's private residence, a secluded retreat where he may occasionally dock to shed into a more manageable mortal form and indulge in nourishment or companionship.
Then we have this... mortal form?
The Mane
By ancient tradition, all khajiit would shave off their own manes to tie them into the voluminous crest of their spiritual leader. By the late centuries of the Potentates, this custom had been reduced to a fraction of its original intent as increasing population raised obvious practical problems. After the khajiit had scaled heaven, however, such hindrances fell away and the practice was again extended to all of his two hundred million subjects. In his commonest guise, the Mane is a cilicious sphere of vast dimensions, a third moon among the stars of his Greater Palace. The location of the Satellite Lord changes constantly, orbiting Lleswer along a set but complex and indecipherable trajectory.
Ah-ha! Reach heaven by collaboration! The Mane is a planet, and a planet is a god. Again, parallell to the dwemer, their
souls hair became the golden skin of
Anumidium's metal the Mane's hairball body.
Two hundred million? That's one big pounce.
Final thought: Tounge-mildew?