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Indigo Tomes of Necrom

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Aquilus's picture
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Does anyone know anything about these Tomes? A friend is writing a fic about Queen Ayrenn and it's mentioned she "disguised herself as a Dunmer in order to read the Indigo Tomes in the vaults of Necrom." Apart from the piece that line is from is there any other mention as to what the Indigo Tomes actually are?

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That is the only mention of them as far as I'm aware. Probably just another legend.

Nercrom is a large necropolis and religious center, so one might expect they are ancestral records. These records would be sacred and of prime importance to the Dunmer. They might contain magic too, like the methods for creating a bonewalker or communing with ancestors. That's my guess.

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Were you the one that sent me an ask about it on tumblr? I went ahead and posted an answer just now. 

The sole reference to them is in Unforeseen Queen, so we don’t have much to work from. I’d assume that they record ancestral (likely saintly) lineage, since they are housed in Necrom. Since Ayrenn had to disguise herself, access to them is likely restricted (primarily) to the Dunmer.

As a likely unrelated curiosity, one of the book backgrounds in ESO is a deep indigo color. It’s called “rubbingbook” in the files, indicating that it’s a copy made on some sort of carbon-like paper. As a crackpot theory, the Indigo Scrolls might therefore be copies of Elder Scrolls that are already static. 

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That was not me actually. That was my friend who was writing the fanfic. She asked me via Twitter if I knew. Unfortunately I did not . That was after she sent you the ask on tumblr but just before you answered it (by about a day or so). Since my knowledge was lacking and there was only the single source citing them I went ahead and decided to open the question to the rest of the Library in hopes of inciting a brainstorm event for their possible importance to the Dunmer and to why they're secured in a necropolis. And thanks for the answers, I'm quite certain she's past her writer's block concerning that little topic.

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Yeah, it usually takes me a couple days to get to an ask. Hopefully she's gotten some inspiration!