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:''Do you mean, where were the {{Lore Link|Khajiit}} when the Dragon Broke? R'leyt tells you where: recording it ... While you were fighting wars with phantoms and giving birth to your own fathers, it was the {{Lore Link|Mane}} that watched the ja-Kha'jay, because the moons were the only constant, and you didn't have the sugar to see it. We'll give you credit: you broke [[Lore:Alkosh|Alkosh]] something fierce, and that's not easy ... You did it again with [[Lore:Numidium|Big Walker]], not once, but twice! Once at [[Lore:Rimmen|Rimmen]], which we'll never learn to live with. The {{Lore Link|Warp in the West|second time}} it was in [[Lore:Daggerfall|Daggerfall]], or was it [[Lore:Sentinel|Sentinel]], or was it [[Lore:Wayrest|Wayrest]], or was it in all three places at once? Get me, Cyrodiil? When will you wake up and realize what really happened to the [[Lore:Dwemer|Dwarves]]? — [[Lore:Where Were You ... Dragon Broke|Where Were You When the Dragon Broke?]]''
A [[Lore:Dragon Break|Dragon Break]] is a phenomenon where linear time is broken, and becomes non-linear. The "Dragon" refers to [[Lore:Akatosh|Akatosh]], the Dragon God of Time. A Dragon Break not only precedes significant changes in [[Lore:Tamriel|Tamriel]], but challenges mortal comprehension. It is a re-alignment of time and space in response to an event which makes the normal continuity of reality impossible. The chaos which ensues is a refrain of the chaos of the {{Lore Link|Dawn Era}}. The area that is noticeably affected, and length of the interval measured in the areas not apparently affected, varies with each Dragon Break. Historically, the cause is often attributed to mortals manipulating divine matters.
[[File:SR-quest-Alduin's Bane 13.jpg|thumb|right|The banishment of Alduin (Skyrim)]]
===The Time-Wound===
Possibly the first Dragon Break in known history was in {{Lore Link|Skyrim}} during the {{Lore Link|Merethic Era}}, and it served to bring about the end of the [[Lore:The Dragon War|Dragon War]].{{ref|name=Skyrim|Events of [[Skyrim:Skyrim|Skyrim]]}} The ancient {{Lore Link|Nord}}s confronted {{Lore Link|Alduin}} himself, the First-Born of Akatosh and leader of the dragons.{{ref|name=SRPaarthurnax|[[Lore:Paarthurnax|Paarthurnax]]'s dialogue in [[Skyrim:Skyrim|Skyrim]].}}{{ref|name=AOD|{{Cite book|Atlas of Dragons}}}} With no conventional means to defeat the wyrm, their ancient champions instead used an {{Lore Link|Elder Scrolls|Elder Scroll}} and the power of the [[Lore:Thu'um|thu'um]] to create a "Tid-Ahraan", or Time-Wound, and thereby eject Alduin from their time, propelling him into the future.{{ref|name=Skyrim}} His temporary defeat cleared the way for Nordic civilization to emerge as it is known today. This distortion of time and space had some similarities to other Dragon Breaks, though it has not been explicitly described as one.
===The Middle Dawn===
A sect of the [[Lore:Alessian Order|Alessian Order]], the Maruhkati Selective, is also said to have caused the longest known Dragon Break, known as the "Middle Dawn", which is thought to have spanned one thousand and eight years from the 13th to the 23rd centuries in the [[Lore:First Era|First Era]],{{ref|group=OOG|{{TIL|Where were you when the Dragon Broke? (original, unabridged)|dragonbroke}}, The Imperial Library}} by attempting to exorcise elements of Elven [[Lore:Auriel|Auriel]] from Imperial [[Lore:Akatosh|Akatosh]]. This is the only Dragon Break that is a universally-known event, though some civilizations claim to have been protected from it.{{ref|name=WWYDB|{{Cite book|Where Were You ... Dragon Broke}}}} {{Lore Link|Mnemoli the Blue Star}}, a {{Lore Link|Magna Ge}} associated with un-time events, grew bright enough during this Dragon Break to be seen in the daytime sky.{{ref|name=EOMN|{{Cite book|Exegesis of Merid-Nunda}}}}
Yet in later eras, the occurrence of this event became disputed, most notably by the scholar Fal Droon. He posited that no cosmic disruption took place at all, and that the "Dragon Break" story was concocted in the early {{Lore Link|Third Era}} to explain inconsistencies in the Encyclopedia Tamrielica. He cites "scholarly inertia", obsession with "eschatology" and fanatical "Numidiumism" in order to explain the perpetuation of the error.{{ref|name=TDBR|{{Cite book|The Dragon Break Re-Examined}}}}
Fal Droon's claim that the Dragon Break was a Third Era fabrication is apparently discredited by older sources, which are known to have described the Dragon Break as early as {{Year|2E 582}}.{{ref|name=Online|Events of [[Online:Online|Elder Scrolls Online]]}} In particular, ''{{Lore Link|Vindication for the Dragon Break}}'' seems to describe the Maruhkati Selective's justification for the Middle Dawn before the event itself. The Dunmer of the era were hostile towards the Empire,{{ref|name=ROCW|{{Cite book|Reflections on Cult Worship}}}} yet they still acknowledge a Dragon Break occurred.{{ref|name=WWYDB}} Furthermore, a member of the [[Lore:Elder Council|Elder Council]] claimed that the oversoul of emperors within the {{Lore Link|Amulet of Kings}} confirmed that a Dragon Break took place. The Council purportedly gathered information from every province, information which never coincided except by mentioning that all the folk of the continent tracked the fall of eight stars, which they used to count their days.{{ref|name=WWYDB}}
===The Brass God===
The first activation of {{Lore Link|Numidium}} by {{Lore Link|Tiber Septim}} at the town of {{Lore Link|Rimmen}} in {{Lore Link|Elsweyr}} is said to have preceded a Dragon Break that heralded the {{Lore Link|Third Empire}}.{{ref|name=WWYDB}}{{ref|name=TDBR}} The second activation of Numidium in the {{Lore Link|Iliac Bay}} region during {{Year|3E 417}} brought about another Dragon Break. {{Lore Link|Sentinel (kingdom)|Sentinel}}, {{Lore Link|Wayrest (kingdom)|Wayrest}}, {{Lore Link|Daggerfall (kingdom)|Daggerfall}}, {{Lore Link|Orsinium}}, and the Empire all gained control of the Totem of Tiber Septim, somehow at the exact same time, which allowed them to control the power of the golem. When this "{{Lore Link|Warp in the West}}" ended (the effect objectively seemed to last roughly two days), the many other kingdoms of the Iliac Bay region were conquered. Each remaining kingdom consolidated its newfound territory and swore fealty to the Empire, bringing historically unusual harmony to northwestern {{Lore Link|Tamriel}}.{{ref|name=TWITW|{{Cite book|The Warp in the West}}}}
Because the use of Numidium has not once, but twice been associated with a Dragon Break, it is speculated that some of the events surrounding the {{Lore Link|Battle of Red Mountain}} and the disappearance of the Dwemer around {{Year|1E 700}} may also be explained by a Dragon Break.{{ref|name=WWYDB}} This purported Dragon Break, sometimes called the Red Moment,{{Ref|name=mkirc|group=OOG|{{TIL|Michael Kirkbride - IRC Q&A Sessions|mkirc}}}} involved the battle which ultimately resulted in the disappearance of the [[Lore:Dwemer|Dwemer]].{{ref|name=TBORM|{{Cite book|The Battle of Red Mountain}}}}{{Ref|name=NARM|{{Cite book|Nerevar at Red Mountain}}}} The accounts of this battle often conflict with each other on various points, such as the loyalties of the parties in the battle and the events which transpired at the climax of the battle, including how the Dwemer met their fate.{{Ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=TBORM}}{{Ref|name=36L36|{{Cite book|36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 26}}}}{{Ref|name=FSOKW|{{Cite book|Five Songs of King Wulfharth}}}}
==Notes==
* Vivec's "Scripture of the Numbers" begins with "The Dragon Break, or the Tower. 1".{{ref|name=36L29|{{Cite book|36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 29}}}} The Dragon Break could also be associated with number 17, "The Hurling Disk".{{ref|group=OOG|{{TIL|Vehk's Teaching|vehksteaching}}, The Imperial Library}}
* A "kalpa" is thought to be the conventions governing the flow of time, and that the end of the Dawn Era and its chaos was the end of a previous kalpa.{{ref|name=TSOP7|{{Cite book|The Song of Pelinal, v 7}}}}{{ref|group=OOG|{{TIL|World-Eating 101|worldeating101}}, The Imperial Library}} Dragons Breaks could possibly be understood as interruptions in the new kalpa.
* In ''{{Lore Link|Five Songs of King Wulfharth}}'', before the Battle of Red Mountain, [[Lore:Wulfharth|Ysmir Wulfharth]] said to the reticent Nordic troops, "Don't you see where you really are? Don't you know who Shor really is? Don't you know what this war is?" This was purportedly referring to their presence within the Dragon Break of the Red Moment.{{Ref|name=mkirc|group=OOG}}
* ''{{Lore Link|Where_Were_You_..._Dragon_Broke|Where Were You When The Dragon Broke?}}'' contains an account that is generally accepted as referring to the use of the Numidium by Tiber Septim, as well as the Warp in the West. This text also refers to Mannimarco as the "God of Worms", a title used only after the Warp allegedly allowed his apotheosis. Yet copies of the book were discovered in the Second Era, before the Warp occurred, and have the same text as those found in the Third and Fourth Eras.{{Ref|name=Online}}
* In ''{{Lore Link|The Dragon Break Re-Examined}}'', the scholar Fal Droon attempted to debunk the Middle Dawn, and thus the "doctrine of the Dragon Break" in general. The book first appeared in ''[[Morrowind:Morrowind|TESIII: Morrowind]]'', which took place in {{Year|3E 427}}. Droon writes of the fall of the {{Lore Link|Septim Dynasty}} in the past tense, even though it would not occur for another six years, suggesting that Droon did not actually write the text until after the end of the Septim Dynasty and the Third Era. Thus, his book ironically seems to corroborate that Tamriel is susceptible to distortions in time such as the Dragon Break.
==See Also==
*{{Book Link|The Dragon Break Re-Examined}}
*{{Book Link|The Egg of Time}}
*{{Book Link|The Warp in the West}}
*{{Book Link|Where Were You ... Dragon Broke}}
==References==
<references/>
{{OOG}}
<references group="OOG"/></noinclude>
:''Do you mean, where were the {{Lore Link|Khajiit}} when the Dragon Broke? R'leyt tells you where: recording it ... While you were fighting wars with phantoms and giving birth to your own fathers, it was the {{Lore Link|Mane}} that watched the ja-Kha'jay, because the moons were the only constant, and you didn't have the sugar to see it. We'll give you credit: you broke [[Lore:Alkosh|Alkosh]] something fierce, and that's not easy ... You did it again with [[Lore:Numidium|Big Walker]], not once, but twice! Once at [[Lore:Rimmen|Rimmen]], which we'll never learn to live with. The {{Lore Link|Warp in the West|second time}} it was in [[Lore:Daggerfall|Daggerfall]], or was it [[Lore:Sentinel|Sentinel]], or was it [[Lore:Wayrest|Wayrest]], or was it in all three places at once? Get me, Cyrodiil? When will you wake up and realize what really happened to the [[Lore:Dwemer|Dwarves]]? — [[Lore:Where Were You ... Dragon Broke|Where Were You When the Dragon Broke?]]''
A [[Lore:Dragon Break|Dragon Break]] is a phenomenon where linear time is broken, and becomes non-linear. The "Dragon" refers to [[Lore:Akatosh|Akatosh]], the Dragon God of Time. A Dragon Break not only precedes significant changes in [[Lore:Tamriel|Tamriel]], but challenges mortal comprehension. It is a re-alignment of time and space in response to an event which makes the normal continuity of reality impossible. The chaos which ensues is a refrain of the chaos of the {{Lore Link|Dawn Era}}. The area that is noticeably affected, and length of the interval measured in the areas not apparently affected, varies with each Dragon Break. Historically, the cause is often attributed to mortals manipulating divine matters.
[[File:SR-quest-Alduin's Bane 13.jpg|thumb|right|The banishment of Alduin (Skyrim)]]
===The Time-Wound===
Possibly the first Dragon Break in known history was in {{Lore Link|Skyrim}} during the {{Lore Link|Merethic Era}}, and it served to bring about the end of the [[Lore:The Dragon War|Dragon War]].{{ref|name=Skyrim|Events of [[Skyrim:Skyrim|Skyrim]]}} The ancient {{Lore Link|Nord}}s confronted {{Lore Link|Alduin}} himself, the First-Born of Akatosh and leader of the dragons.{{ref|name=SRPaarthurnax|[[Lore:Paarthurnax|Paarthurnax]]'s dialogue in [[Skyrim:Skyrim|Skyrim]].}}{{ref|name=AOD|{{Cite book|Atlas of Dragons}}}} With no conventional means to defeat the wyrm, their ancient champions instead used an {{Lore Link|Elder Scrolls|Elder Scroll}} and the power of the [[Lore:Thu'um|thu'um]] to create a "Tid-Ahraan", or Time-Wound, and thereby eject Alduin from their time, propelling him into the future.{{ref|name=Skyrim}} His temporary defeat cleared the way for Nordic civilization to emerge as it is known today. This distortion of time and space had some similarities to other Dragon Breaks, though it has not been explicitly described as one.
===The Middle Dawn===
A sect of the [[Lore:Alessian Order|Alessian Order]], the Maruhkati Selective, is also said to have caused the longest known Dragon Break, known as the "Middle Dawn", which is thought to have spanned one thousand and eight years from the 13th to the 23rd centuries in the [[Lore:First Era|First Era]],{{ref|group=OOG|{{TIL|Where were you when the Dragon Broke? (original, unabridged)|dragonbroke}}, The Imperial Library}} by attempting to exorcise elements of Elven [[Lore:Auriel|Auriel]] from Imperial [[Lore:Akatosh|Akatosh]]. This is the only Dragon Break that is a universally-known event, though some civilizations claim to have been protected from it.{{ref|name=WWYDB|{{Cite book|Where Were You ... Dragon Broke}}}} {{Lore Link|Mnemoli the Blue Star}}, a {{Lore Link|Magna Ge}} associated with un-time events, grew bright enough during this Dragon Break to be seen in the daytime sky.{{ref|name=EOMN|{{Cite book|Exegesis of Merid-Nunda}}}}
Yet in later eras, the occurrence of this event became disputed, most notably by the scholar Fal Droon. He posited that no cosmic disruption took place at all, and that the "Dragon Break" story was concocted in the early {{Lore Link|Third Era}} to explain inconsistencies in the Encyclopedia Tamrielica. He cites "scholarly inertia", obsession with "eschatology" and fanatical "Numidiumism" in order to explain the perpetuation of the error.{{ref|name=TDBR|{{Cite book|The Dragon Break Re-Examined}}}}
Fal Droon's claim that the Dragon Break was a Third Era fabrication is apparently discredited by older sources, which are known to have described the Dragon Break as early as {{Year|2E 582}}.{{ref|name=Online|Events of [[Online:Online|Elder Scrolls Online]]}} In particular, ''{{Lore Link|Vindication for the Dragon Break}}'' seems to describe the Maruhkati Selective's justification for the Middle Dawn before the event itself. The Dunmer of the era were hostile towards the Empire,{{ref|name=ROCW|{{Cite book|Reflections on Cult Worship}}}} yet they still acknowledge a Dragon Break occurred.{{ref|name=WWYDB}} Furthermore, a member of the [[Lore:Elder Council|Elder Council]] claimed that the oversoul of emperors within the {{Lore Link|Amulet of Kings}} confirmed that a Dragon Break took place. The Council purportedly gathered information from every province, information which never coincided except by mentioning that all the folk of the continent tracked the fall of eight stars, which they used to count their days.{{ref|name=WWYDB}}
===The Brass God===
The first activation of {{Lore Link|Numidium}} by {{Lore Link|Tiber Septim}} at the town of {{Lore Link|Rimmen}} in {{Lore Link|Elsweyr}} is said to have preceded a Dragon Break that heralded the {{Lore Link|Third Empire}}.{{ref|name=WWYDB}}{{ref|name=TDBR}} The second activation of Numidium in the {{Lore Link|Iliac Bay}} region during {{Year|3E 417}} brought about another Dragon Break. {{Lore Link|Sentinel (kingdom)|Sentinel}}, {{Lore Link|Wayrest (kingdom)|Wayrest}}, {{Lore Link|Daggerfall (kingdom)|Daggerfall}}, {{Lore Link|Orsinium}}, and the Empire all gained control of the Totem of Tiber Septim, somehow at the exact same time, which allowed them to control the power of the golem. When this "{{Lore Link|Warp in the West}}" ended (the effect objectively seemed to last roughly two days), the many other kingdoms of the Iliac Bay region were conquered. Each remaining kingdom consolidated its newfound territory and swore fealty to the Empire, bringing historically unusual harmony to northwestern {{Lore Link|Tamriel}}.{{ref|name=TWITW|{{Cite book|The Warp in the West}}}}
Because the use of Numidium has not once, but twice been associated with a Dragon Break, it is speculated that some of the events surrounding the {{Lore Link|Battle of Red Mountain}} and the disappearance of the Dwemer around {{Year|1E 700}} may also be explained by a Dragon Break.{{ref|name=WWYDB}} This purported Dragon Break, sometimes called the Red Moment,{{Ref|name=mkirc|group=OOG|{{TIL|Michael Kirkbride - IRC Q&A Sessions|mkirc}}}} involved the battle which ultimately resulted in the disappearance of the [[Lore:Dwemer|Dwemer]].{{ref|name=TBORM|{{Cite book|The Battle of Red Mountain}}}}{{Ref|name=NARM|{{Cite book|Nerevar at Red Mountain}}}} The accounts of this battle often conflict with each other on various points, such as the loyalties of the parties in the battle and the events which transpired at the climax of the battle, including how the Dwemer met their fate.{{Ref|name=NARM}}{{ref|name=TBORM}}{{Ref|name=36L36|{{Cite book|36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 26}}}}{{Ref|name=FSOKW|{{Cite book|Five Songs of King Wulfharth}}}}
==Notes==
* Vivec's "Scripture of the Numbers" begins with "The Dragon Break, or the Tower. 1".{{ref|name=36L29|{{Cite book|36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 29}}}} The Dragon Break could also be associated with number 17, "The Hurling Disk".{{ref|group=OOG|{{TIL|Vehk's Teaching|vehksteaching}}, The Imperial Library}}
* A "kalpa" is thought to be the conventions governing the flow of time, and that the end of the Dawn Era and its chaos was the end of a previous kalpa.{{ref|name=TSOP7|{{Cite book|The Song of Pelinal, v 7}}}}{{ref|group=OOG|{{TIL|World-Eating 101|worldeating101}}, The Imperial Library}} Dragons Breaks could possibly be understood as interruptions in the new kalpa.
* In ''{{Lore Link|Five Songs of King Wulfharth}}'', before the Battle of Red Mountain, [[Lore:Wulfharth|Ysmir Wulfharth]] said to the reticent Nordic troops, "Don't you see where you really are? Don't you know who Shor really is? Don't you know what this war is?" This was purportedly referring to their presence within the Dragon Break of the Red Moment.{{Ref|name=mkirc|group=OOG}}
* ''{{Lore Link|Where_Were_You_..._Dragon_Broke|Where Were You When The Dragon Broke?}}'' contains an account that is generally accepted as referring to the use of the Numidium by Tiber Septim, as well as the Warp in the West. This text also refers to Mannimarco as the "God of Worms", a title used only after the Warp allegedly allowed his apotheosis. Yet copies of the book were discovered in the Second Era, before the Warp occurred, and have the same text as those found in the Third and Fourth Eras.{{Ref|name=Online}}
* In ''{{Lore Link|The Dragon Break Re-Examined}}'', the scholar Fal Droon attempted to debunk the Middle Dawn, and thus the "doctrine of the Dragon Break" in general. The book first appeared in ''[[Morrowind:Morrowind|TESIII: Morrowind]]'', which took place in {{Year|3E 427}}. Droon writes of the fall of the {{Lore Link|Septim Dynasty}} in the past tense, even though it would not occur for another six years, suggesting that Droon did not actually write the text until after the end of the Septim Dynasty and the Third Era. Thus, his book ironically seems to corroborate that Tamriel is susceptible to distortions in time such as the Dragon Break.
==See Also==
*{{Book Link|The Dragon Break Re-Examined}}
*{{Book Link|The Egg of Time}}
*{{Book Link|The Warp in the West}}
*{{Book Link|Where Were You ... Dragon Broke}}
==References==
<references/>
{{OOG}}
<references group="OOG"/></noinclude>