even if some of the details are off, with what is being speculated, this sounds like it can be the basis for the most epic DLC to ever grace a game!

Hmmm. I *thought* I remembered somewhere that the dwemer degenerated into the falmer....

No.

Well, not exactly though http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dwemer

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Falmer

No mention yet of a grassy knoll, so . . .

Ah.... that would be it - I didn't remember the specifics....

ok, this is pretty complex. I have to think that they put this stuff in, and that a DLC will deal with it.

I think I already have 3 bug jars.

gotta get em all!

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1321279-epic-mystery-runes/page__p__19862403#entry19862403

The snow-elves were the ones that degenerated into the falmer. The dwemer supposedly disappeared when the dwemer used Kagrenac's tools on the heart of Lorkhan.

This is pretty damn awesome. I hope it somehow links back the dwemer's mysterious dissapearance, the reveal of snow elves, and what happened to arniel.

Bugs...bugs in jars.....jars hold jelly......jelly is sticky.....sticky rhymes with mickey....mickey was a mouse....mice love cheese.....cheese comes from milk.....cows make milk...milk can turn sour.....sour patch kids.....candy.....candy is sweet.....sweets rot your teeth.....teeth are in your mouth.....replace the u in mouth with n and it spells month....month has 5 letters.....dragon has 5 letters....wait a minute. Guyz I figured out the mystery.

The thalmor are actually the dwemers in hiding.

Mystery solved. Your all welcome.

dammit i know if Bethesda didnt do anythign for this and its just random............i know thye gonna get a team working on how to pull something outta this.

[[In case y'all didn't notice, itsgrady is a party pooper....]]

Really, guy. No one's hurting anything even a teensy bit important by posting about the mystery here.

Aren't you the least bit concerned thay people are focusing on the mystery being entirely based on these markings being runes? You know, givrn the fact that they aren't runes?

Lol whatever your right. Have fun guys. I'm sure the conspiracy theories will onlu get more nonsensicle from here. But if yoi guys wanna Chase the wrong mystery or the mystery some crazy person made up, its wrong for me tp try and.stop you.

You're right: it is wrong of you. We're all admitting it may not end up being real so why not let us have our fun? Oh and before you act all high and mighty, you may want to check your spelling.

Good story bro

This reminds of the wild goose chase people went on after the first Fable got released. I can't remember exactly what it was that we were all trying to find, but the guy who started it all was a freakin' pro at creating intrigue. Eventually it turned out to be utter crap. So, while part of me thinks this could be way cool, the other part of me is thinking, "Here we go again..."

Peter

The singing sword....

Not quite but close. Talos is the force that's holding back the end of the world. The thalmor dealt a pretty huge blow against him with the concordat. Enough that alduin was able to stabalize in time again.


Spoilers here so read on at own peril

So, using all the first letters in those words... GTHN JIS NHL DN YTHHN. Ran them through a substitution cypher solver and comes up with some interesting solutions...

1
-1.606
UPON THE NOW IN SPOON
2
-1.623
FROM THE MON AM GROOM
3
-1.632
PRES AND SET IS FREES
4
-1.664
UPON THE NOW AN SPOON
5
-1.668
FROM THE MON AM BROOM
6
-1.671
UPON HAD NOT IN SPOON
7
-1.682
PRES YOU SET IS FREES
8
-1.686
UPON THE NOR IN SPOON
9
-1.693
UPON HAD NOW IN SPOON
10
-1.705
PRES AND SET US FREES

That was....confusing. What do you think that means, if anything? That was translated from the runes? What about the other translation?

I'm surprised you all are just now talking about this. UESP jumped on first chance they got. From the jist of it, on top of yelling at me for ruining their fun because I simply told them they can't figure out the language and the guy at reddit could be making it all up for all I care because no one has placed an official language translation for it, the topic winded down to:

1) A way to obliterate the Thalmor once and for all
2) A way to ride a dragon
3) A way to turn into a dragon
4) A way to bring back the Dwemer
5) A way to turn the Falmer back to their snow elven selves
6) Doomsday, the end times because Alduin wasn't enough

And there are more ridiculous theories out there as well. http://forums.uesp.net/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=27790 If your intersted.

This is all going over my head. Can somebody tell me in layman's terms what the heck people are talking about?

In the game you find 5 different species of bugs in glass jars. If you take them and then come back later those bugs will respawn.
They are part of an unmarked sidequest to collect all of them and store in your house.
However each jar has a symbol on the opposite side of the lid to which you can't clearly see unless you place the jar upside down.

It has begun a disturbingly crazy conspiracy theory with alot of people who want to prove themselves right and the only thing I see it leading to is the the Dive Rock conspiracy started on this very forum back in 2006.

That conspiracy consited of someone making a forum post and convincing every stupid weak-willed person that if you stood on top of Dive Rock in Oblivion and delete all of your saves them Jump/fall/walk off dive rock then Akatosh himself would come save you. Apparently 90% of the forum decided to try this because they were eager to ride a dragon ((honestly since Drakkan the Ancient's Gate I don't recall a game where you can actually ride a dragon outside of a cutscene like in SKyrim))

Then when they realized they perma killed their character after taking that stupid leap of faith, they came here and started yelling at the moderators and the people that designed the game. It got so bad that moderators began to ban anyone for even mentioning such a thing.

THIS conspiracy though people have suggested that blood is needed and that the cities are strategically placed in a devilish pentagon. And then some people are convincing others that you need to go from town to town and city to city and start killing a massive wave of people.

It's stupid.

Oh don't be silly, uno. It's harmless. People like to have stuff to talk about that's NOT spoilers etc. And many of those who did the Dive Rock thing but failed to copy their save games somewhere deserved exactly what they got....