We Just Figured Out This Skyrim Mystery 

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The power of the Eye of Magnus is nothing compared to the sheer power of the ear-splitting shriek of Meridia's Beacon

Ah my favorite skyrim history book line "Ysgramor and his boys came back to skyrim and boy did they open a can of whoopass on the elfs" What fine literature

It’s just a magical disco ball. The Order took it for a party they’re throwing with Sheogorath and Sanguine.

I really like that elder scrolls games have actual historians and scholars in them trying to understand the lore of the game they are in. Definitely adds to the immersion, since most games have a sort of "everything important is already known, but kept secret" style of lore

Im more curious about how they got the eye through the small doors

The second I heard “ordained receptacle” along with the fact that it’s implied to be a bungled translation, my brain just went “ahhh they’re looking for the holy grail” lol

The psyjic order is going to be so pissed off when they open it to find out it's just sheogoraths toilet.

If I remember the lore correctly, the "stars" in the night sky of Mundus aren't giant distant balls of hydrogen but instead portals into Aetherius. The magicka in all living beings is said to flow from Aetherius. What if the Eye is a captured one of those portals? What if some ancient order of magic-users literally pulled a star from the sky and trapped in in a container so they could harness a *much* more powerful flow of magicka than existed in any living being?

The Eye is actually a giant hamster ball used to power the ESO servers.

I just wish they would have finished the College of Winterhold's questline and used the Eye of Magnus to restore Winterhold to its former glory, before the great collapse.

i love how there are conflicting historical sources in this game, really shows the detail and effort put into this game

The Eye of Magnus is a "receptacle", and you interact with it using the Staff of Magnus, a big stick. Obviously the Eye is a big magic pinata.

"boy, what a can of whoop-ass" - nate, about genocide

I always thought the Eye of Magnus was kind of like the Heart of Lorkhan. Given that the Heart was an Aedric artifact so powerful it caused the entire Dwemer race to vanish, turned the Tribunal into gods, and so on, and it definitely seemed like the Psijic Order feared something of that magnitude.

Something most people don't notice is the symbols on the Ey of Magnus. They're the same symbols that you see whizzing around your screen when you read an Elder Scroll. Very interesting.

Though Skyrim has aged, it will never get old.

I REALLY like these "theory" or lore videos you've been making to give us a break from the 10 tiny details series. They are really good, and go very in depth. Thanks Nate :)

The theory I always had was this: The eye is actually a gateway into aetherius, the plane of existence that houses the birth of magic, when Ancano shocking the eye he's actually tapping into its infinite properties of magic and so he's becoming a god by having unlimited magic that he can then use to create the most powerful spells. When we use the staff we're not "weakening" it, we're simply turning off the gateway, shattering the bridge to Aetherius so Ancano will become a mortal again, my next theory is that when we're shatter that bridge WHILST Ancano is actively stealing the magic properties it's actually turning off his link to the eye, which causes that magic he stole to go away or evaporate, if he had simply stole the power then cut the link, he would be fine. I also have a theory that the staff can actually be used to fully open the door and allow you to enter aetherius.

The dovahkin opens the eye in the college quest line during the boss fight when they use the staff on it. We see that inside of the eye is just pure magicka. This leads me to conclude that it was a receptacle for Magnus’ power. This is further supported because the reasoning behind needing the staff was because the Staff of Magnus was said to be the only thing capable of nullifying Magnus’ power.

I think there was a "Star" inside the eye. As Stars from TES are holes in reality leading into Aetherius, from which magicka comes from. Tolfdir himself says it "radiates magicka".

"Something other than human and elf... a race no has ever seen" Beast races disliked that.

I just love how every player gets this quest the same way: "Hey, uh what are we doing about the giant floating orb of immense power that the teleporting future mages transported to the oldest ruin in Tamriel?" "Oof--Sarthal... Nobody is trying to go there!" "Send that new guy. He knows shit about magic and, according to our vetting, recently escaped beheading by the Imperial authorities for participating in an open insurgency..." "He seems well rounded." "Yea, send the new guy."

I always just assumed that they where mistaken in naming it after Magnus. I have long believed that all or most of Lorkhan's organs fell to Nirn along with his heart. I mean, if you cut someone in half all the stuff inside is going to spill out, right? Therefore it is my theory that the eye of Magnus is, in fact, Lorkhan's left testicle. The Cat's Eye prism being the right testicle, of course.

Ysmgramor was like: "you attack my whole base, I attack your whole race!"

"Ah Yes, it is J'Zargo who will be victorious "

I'd like to point out that when speaking of electrical systems, a receptacle is "An electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert" which would at a base level fit the Eye of Magnus perfectly if replacing electrical with magical. This would imply that the Eye itself actually contains no power, it is simply linked to an unfathomable source of power and acts as a type of remote access

I'm fairly sure the Akaviri were looking for the Heart of Lorkhan. May have been drawn to Skyrim at first because of the strong magical aura emanating from the Eye of Magnus, and realized it wasn't what they were looking for.

At 6:44 I burst out laughing when I saw what you chose to represent Yscramor. I needed the laugh, thank you :)

1:06 "they nickname it the eye of magnus" weirdly I just did this quest again yesterday on my.. 5th playthrough. It was actually the Auger of Dunlain who resides beneath the college who informs the dragonborn of its name and tells you to find the staff of magnus.

“Holy Receptacle” could also, and most likely, is a reference to the Dragonborn. Remember, the Akaviri did invade at the start of the Reman Dynasty. And when they found Reman Cyrodiil, a Dragonborn, they ceased their invasion and swore fealty (which also kickstarted the Blades as the bodyguards of the Dragonborn Emperors). The rough translation indicated “something or possibly someone”. Receptacle could refer to the Eye of Magnus, but given their history with the dragons, they were searching for a Dragonborn, the “Holy Receptacle” of their dragons deities.

The Eye of Magnus is a container that holds all of the lost hopes and dreams that guard had before he took an arrow to the knee.

Nords: oh wow there’s a giant orb we’re not gonna temper with it cos we didn’t build it. Falmers: haha sword go swing swing

Counter Theory: The Akaviri invasion packed up and left Skyrim while starting another war because it was controlled by Hearts of Iron AI.

Something I thought while playing through that questline, when the pieces of the Eye started to "open" during the final fight, was that there was something inside that Ancano was trying to get, so the idea that it could be a container isn't too surprising to me. I think the reason the Psijik Order took it after the fight was because it hadn't come as close to being opened before as it had in that moment. Maybe they were planning on leaving it and just monitoring the situation to see what happens, allowing the younger College to study it to further their own understanding of magic, but then realized during the fight with Ancano that it would be too dangerous to do so. It seems like it has to have something to do directly with Magnus, if the Staff of Magnus, which was supposedly created by Magnus, has an effect on it when nothing else does. I think they might be something like a "box" and "key" set. I'm not exactly an expert on Elder Scrolls lore, but here's an idea. Lorkhan, who was killed by Magnus, had his body split apart becoming the moons and his heart, his "divine spark," fell to Nirn. I assumed that the power in the heart was just a sort of divine essence that made a god, a god, which is why other people who came into contact with it gained immortality and god-like powers. So we know where his body is, and we know where his divine power is, but what about his soul? Physically travelling to planes that people inhabit in the afterlife isn't an impossible feat by any means, so surely if a god was killed and separated from what made him immortal, his soul should have ended up somewhere. Every other piece of him ended up in Nirn (or at least floating above it,) so wouldn't it make sense for the soul of the god responsible for creating Nirn to be present in the world in some way? Containing souls in Elder Scrolls isn't exactly a new concept, and the more powerful the soul is/the bigger the creature it came from was, the bigger the soul gem has to be. To contain a god's soul, maybe something more complex had to be created, and who better to do so than Magus, the original arcane architect? Now going back to the potential alternate name for the Eye of Magnus, the "Ordained Receptacle," we have an alternate interpretation of this; it could be "a container that is holy," or it could be, "a container FOR something holy," as in a container with a god trapped inside of it. It would also explain the near-infinite energy that the College sensed from it; they would be familiar with soul gems, but the power contained in a god's soul would be almost infinitely more powerful than any of the souls they regularly work with. There is conflicting information about Lorkhan's morality, but the interpretation favored particularly by the Dark Brotherhood is that he was actually created by Sithis to destroy the universe. Since one of the stories of how he created Mundus was that he tricked the other gods into helping to create it, and unknowingly give up large portions of their own power in the process, maybe the creation of Mundus was just a means to an end with the actual objective being to weaken and kill the other gods. If the Eye of Magnus is a container for his soul, opening it and releasing that soul could potentially bring about the destruction of the entire universe.

15:00 Something interesting I found about this boss fight is that if you hold a strong enough ward between you and Tolfdir, you can prevent Ancanno from paralyzing him, making it s that Tolfdir will be able to aid you in defeating Ancanno

The idea that the Eye of Magnus is a container of some sort is quite literally confirmed by the Ancano fight its self. During the battle when you use the Staff of Magnus the plates that make up the Eye separate revealing what appears to be a large glowing stone of some form.

The thing about bethesda is: They don't know either.

Plot twist: The akaviri were actually looking for Meridia's Beacon.

I've played and beaten Skyrim and Fallout many times. Your lore videos have made me want to replay them once again. Phenomenal work, my friend.

I always liked to imagine that the eye of magnus is... the eye of magnus. Like literally they eye of the god of magic, manifested as a physical object within the mortal realm, and therefore holding immense magical power.

Counter Theory: the Psijic order are time travelers. The staff and the eye can also be used to manipulate time, and the staff was used to help create the wooden mask.

"Enter Michael Kirkbride..." Jeez, here we go again...

The Eye of Magnus contains power, just an extremely powerful font of Magicka. That would explain the naming convention, why/how Arcano becomes invincible upon activating it, why the Snow Elves would launch a raid to secure it (it’s basically the Elder Scrolls equivalent of an atomic bomb). As to its origins, perhaps it’s literally one of Magnus’s eyes, the other being the one associated with Elyswer.

When in the room with the big telescope-thingy, you see the map of Skyrim - and the guy says: "Hey, what's this?" - pointing to the college of Winterhold, "You have an object with a lot of magical power, disrupting the readings" - or something like that. A presence, previously undetected - because there was a field protecting the Eye of Magnus, that same field, could that have been the reason why the Akaviri did not find the orb? - As it was a dampening field? It would explain why the Psijic Order did not directly intervene, they did not know of this field - or they didn't know why the field was there. Only after the dangers were cleared, did they dare to move it. And perhaps your attacks, with the Staff of Magnus, caused damage to the orb, and for safety sake, the Psijic Order removes it, as they knew it was damaged.

Nate: 8:04. Magnus returns Magnus: oh, that's where I left my spare light-bulb.

There's a theory on r/teslore about the Eye. The canon: In the beginning, Lorkhan tricked the gods into creating Nirn by not letting on the fact that the creation of the world would result in them being trapped inside it. Magnus, the architect of the project, found out at the last minute about Lorkhan's trick and left creation, punching a hole into Aetherius (the realm of magic) that we call the sun. The theory: The fact that Magnus creating the sun with his departure was not in the original plans for Nirn means that there must have been something planned to take its place. So therefore, the Eye of Magnus was going to be the seed for a sun equivalent, shining pure energy and magicka down on Nirn. (PS: Another theory for the reason Ancano wanted the Eye, apart from the sheer magical power it would bring him, ties into the Thalmor's stated goal of ascending to godhood by unmaking creation. He would have used it to destroy one of the few anchors still holding creation together, the Adamantine Tower.)

I always found Ancano's line about "the power to unmake this world" very telling

"And so Ysgramor and his boys opened up a can of whoop-ass on the Elves" -TheEpicNate315 - 4E 201

Last time I was this early, Psijic Order wasn't missing yet ... And the Guards didn't hitting Skooma yet

Searching for an “Ordained Receptacle” then swiftly and suddenly moving towards Morrowind seems to refer to the Heart of Lorkhan. It’s basically a giant soul stone made out of the body of a dead god.

27:04 "reasons I won't get into" An excerpt from KINMUNE: But then the Hist-Jilian wars spilled out of a Wheelian rip into the SubSys slice of 'brane-space, and things changed for Kinmune. With the outer colonies separated from Nu-Mundelbright chronoculic sync-net anchors, maintenance of space-time beyond the F-Shores faltered. As the barely-there Hist blink-root-ship armada fired an artillery barrage of 16th-dimensional mathematics at their Jilian enemies, impossipoint detonations stippled across the Ix-Egg and its clutch-satellites like some garish TalOSian hologram, only without the irony. Kinmune's synthetic body, caught in one of the blasts, suddenly found itself in the Ysgramorim, her mind an aggregate of the residual personalities of her last several users. ... I can see why you opted not to get into it Would love to see a series about Kirkbride's radicool insanity though

TLDR: the staff reverses the flow of magicka through time while the eye manipulates space like a wormhole and houses a star. We know little about the eye except that it contains a source of near infinite magicka. Magic in the elder scrolls universe comes from the magicka of aetherius radiating to earth through the sun and the stars which are actually holes in the material plane into Aetherius when Magnus and his followers attempted to leave nirn. This magicka affects the "earthbones" (the laws of nature and reality for life on nirn) and allows them to be temporarily altered to perform acts of magic. I believe that the eye of Magnus is actually a "holy vessel" because it contains a star, or rather a hole to aetherius created by the passage of a divine being. Modern physics suggests space and time are intrinsically linked as space-time and they directly effect one another. All events in the elder scrolls universe are happening simultaneously from the perspective of the elder scrolls themselves which can contain any and all information about the past present and future including what could be and what could have been. In fact, lots of fan theories speculate that the game itself is a metaphor for an elder scroll and our playthrough of each game is one of the many potential and existing realities catalogued by the elder scrolls themselves. Labyrinthian has some weird time effects which is the location of the Staff of Magnus and we know time travel is possible through dragon breaks. We also know that spatial manipulation is possible due to the creation of demi-planes and teleportation magics back in Morrowind. We see the members of the psijic order do both by stopping time and teleporting. I believe the eye of Magnus is translocating a point in space to nirn like a wormhole providing ready access to the energy of aetherius by housing one of these tears in reality. It effects space. The staff on the other hand I believe manipulates time and primarily does so by reversing the flow of magicka through time. Because magicka is also "the energy of all living things" this would explain why the staff drains health once it can no longer drain magicka from the target. It was likely made specifically to counter the eye of Magnus which is why they are not stored in the same place as should the eye fall into the wrong hands the staff wouldn't be captured at the same time and could be used to stop them, which is exactly what we see happen in this quest. My guess is that once Arcano activated the eye it distorted space-time so much in the surrounding area that the psijic order (who's magic seems tied to space and time) could no longer directly intervene until you used the staff on the eye and defeated Arcano rendering the eye inert. After which they assessed it was too dangerous and decided to remove it from nirn. They don't take the staff however, which is strange. The staff on its own is not very dangerous (try to use it in combat and you find that out real quick) so I believe that the psijic orders mysticism and space-time magics can directly affect the eye and allow them to contain it without the use of the staff which is why they don't need it. They however couldn't teleport to it once it was active due to it distorting space-time. Why they didn't take it sooner is likely a writing choice, if the psijic order preemptively swooped in and solved problems when it wasn't deemed "absolutely necessary" to do so the player would simply not have a quest and this whole thing would be very undramatic and lacking from a story perspective. Who built these items and for what purpose is still unclear. Limitless magical energy sounds pretty damn cool and any number of beings would want that, yet none are around to stake their claim on it. We also cannot translate the sphere's markings or symbols suggesting that it is not originally native to Tamriel or at the very least had to have stemmed from the dawn era. It was likely buried deep underground to hide it, but from what we are uncertain. Even if we conclude what the sphere and staff are and how they might be used we are still left with a great deal of questions surrounding it's origin and purpose. We may never know but that mystery makes the whole thing so much more enjoyable.

Man just when you think you've discovered everything about the game you walk into some guys cabin and instantly start a quest. Skyrim is humongous and you do a great job of solving it's puzzles and all the contents of it. Keep going you superb lad :)

If "Ordained Receptacle" does refer to the Eye, it could be soul stone meant for trapping a god. Perhaps Magnus himself, or a daedra rival. Otherwise the Akaviri were probably just looking for the Holy Grail.

Azhidal The Dragon Priest also had his beginnings at Saarthal. He was instrumental in helping Yggsgramor and his 500 finally defeat the falmer. He was studying magic under both falmer and psijic masters it is believed, when the farmer betrayed the Nords for whatever reason and put Saarthal to the sword. Azhidal lost his entire family and though he escaped he did not flee to Atmore. I believe he even continued his studies under the snow elf mages nursing his hatred and hiding his true intent to facilitate the continuation of his lessons. Only when Yggsgramor returned at the the head of his 500 did Azhidal meet him at the coast and swear to serve him until all the snow elves were dead. After the fall of the snow elves he decended into madness and became a dragon priest on solstheim where it seems the politics were quite different than in skyrim. The Dragon Priests still ruled with absolute power but the dragons may have been less involved here and The Priests more able to act freely. Azhidals decent is a book telling the whole story. I may have gotten bits wrong but that he went mad after the war is undeniable. All the Dragon Priests on solstheim seem to have been a bit off in many ways.

Plot twist, the robot is actually liberty prime.

“Has never been mapped” *shows a map*.

I can't imagine how crazy your main character is after going through all of this lore for so many years

You forget one important detail and that is Ancano says "i have the power to unmake the world at my fingertips" considering the high elves goal to unmake the world its possible that Ancano was simply in the collage to consolidate power but after discovering the eyes power he concluded that destroying each of the towers wouldn't be the only way to unmake the world and adjusted his plans to these changes.

Nate is gonna love it when tes 6 comes out and I'll still be here 10 years later watching 10 facts and mystery videos

So that's where Tzeentch tossed the Primarch's sacrifice.

The “Ordained Receptacle” could be same thing the Tsaesci were looking for during their invasion. A Dragonborn. A person blessed by Akatosh to house the soul (or many souls) of a dragon.

Surprised you never mentioned Blackreach and the yellow orb stored there. To me it seems like another one of those magic containers. Since it was on the posession of the dwemer, one of the falmer's greatest enemies, it's possible the falmer wanted the eye of magnus to counter the blackreach orb just in case.

the eye of Magnus contains all the missing sweet rolls.

Now I just picture all ancient Nords as muscular doge and cheems. "You killmed my peomple, time to die now"

title: we figured out mystery" 25:10 we actually dont know. Great content, as always

I've been here 3 years when can I unpause

"This is technically fanfiction" Me: "Well it's from a former Elder Scrolls writer I'm sure it's not the weirdest fanfiction ever" "The Eye of Magnus contains a time travelling future robot"

Magnus is one of the missing gods, the one that designed the world, then left it after it was made, tearing a hole in reality that became the sun. It is theorized that magicka is what remains of Magnus in the world of Nirn... but I think that's not quite all. I think the Eye of Magnus might contain, for lack of a better term, raw divine essence. Not the entirety of divinity, and not necessarily any of Magnus's divinity, but enough to keep a world going... or make a mortal into a being approaching divinity. In essence, I'm betting it's effectively a "lesser" version of the Heart of Lorkharn, possibly even the original plan for the world's heart prior to the decision to kill Lorkharn (who had at that point effectively become the world, with his heart becoming its heart). This makes sense if you view it symbolically. Eyes are said to be "the gateway to the soul", while the heart more directly represents a being's personhood. An Eye could be closed, allowing no more to pass through than necessary, but a Heart is the unrestrained entirety of a being. Channeling the Eye of Magnus would allow one some measure of (presumably, but not necessarily) Magnus's power, but channeling the Heart of Lorkharn would give one the power to effectively become Lorkharn.

Ysgramor: I will admit, I overreacted. But we were just chilling in Saarthal and all Hell broke loose.

A little late to the comments but flowing off of the bit about it being a holy lock box we have to assume that since even by the 5th era during the course of Skyrim it is said that conjuration magic is highly unstable and not fully understood. Meaning there was a time before the elves, humans, and beast races had it. Therefore it only stands to reason that there was a time before soul gems. But we obviously have magical items from said time period. Ysgramors axe for example. Meaning they needed a way to enchant and with there being the possibility that there are several more of these containers around tamriel it could be possible that these are just early soul gem like devices capable of more than what modern day soul gems are but a lot more unstable hence the size and amount of power contained within

Considering that Arcano was taking magic from the eye, in the boss battle it opens up a bit, and when the professor even said he could feel the pure magicka radiating from it. It is more than likely full of pure magic energy

this reminds me of when everyone was trying to figure out what the runes in the bug jars said

It's possible that the Eye of Magnus being a "container" is meant in more of a metaphorical way. Like instead of literally containing an object, it might contain something more abstract like the essence of a deity or maybe even just raw power. The Elder Scrolls lore is pretty weird already so that makes sense, right?

"Shortly after the player has become a student at the college of winterhold-" Hang on, let me correct you there... "They become it's grandmaster too, without the able to cast anything more than the entry level spells, and barely being able to read"

“ordained receptacle” sounds a lot like the holy grail

The professors at the College don't name it the "Eye of Magnus", the Augur does.

"Can this be a normal field trip? "With the Frizz?! No way!" *CRUZIN ON DOWN IN MORTHAL-*

When wandering all over Skyrim, I had wanted to collect, and later read EVERY book in the game! But, like most, I just got more drawn into adventuring and having a blast. Nate, you have done a fantastic thing to put pieces of obscure lore to stitch the stories into something I had never thought to solve. I commend your skills! Even though the game is well played out, I still start it out again and again, since I fell in love with it years ago, and I can understand many other fans enjoyment as well. Thank you, TheEpicNate315 !!

When I found out that it was called the eye of magnus I thought that it might have been the eye of a giant

Bit of a late point to weigh in, but I'm doing it anyway. It's important to examine the interaction the eye has had that we can glean the most information from, which is its appearance in Skyrim. Its past aside, Ancano made it a priority to seize it without any backup, all alone against the entire college. This means he was confident that the college would be powerless against him if he secured it. From this we can glean that not only does it contain more power than the rest of the college combined (no big shock), but it also contains enough power to elevate him beyond the SKILL of the college, including people like Savos Aren and Tolfdir, who are supremely skilled in their fields. In the encounter at the end, Ancano says "The power to unmake the world at my fingertips, and you think you can do anything about it?" This is often seen as a boast by most casual players, but let's take it at face value. First of all, he says Unmake, not destroy, conquer, or any synonym of those. Why would he pick that word? Either because the Eye has that as its primary ability, or that it was something that was on his mind. When you dig deeper on the overall goals of the Thalmor, it becomes increasingly clear that their actions and dogma line up with a goal of returning the world to its state before creation, in a hope of becoming divine again. While not directly confirmed, the pieces fit. So what if that was it? That the Eye is either powerful enough to undo mundus, or has some connection to its base forces that would allow for the same? The Magnus connection would make even more sense then, seeing as he designed the whole thing. Whatever the answer is, it's worth considering that the Eye might be a power that could scale to the divines or daedra, or only Magnus himself, and that Ancano's intent might have been to undo what the thalmor dogma views as the curse of existence.

“Kinmune could send distress signals across all of Tamriel” Remember that part in the questline when we end up with a projection of Tamriel on a wall? And there are 2 big ol’ dots on the map which indicate the eye of magnus and the one thing that is known to be able to control it? *hmmm*

Hey - I know you posted this like 2 years ago, but as someone who is just getting back into Skyrim through the VR version, I found this super interesting. Love the videos, please make more!

Snow Elves: Attacks Sarthaal and tries to take Eye of Magnus Yysgramor: You Dun Goofed

You know what the tale of how the Nords found the eye reminds me of? It reminds me of the insanely powerful heart that the dwarves found just an insanely powerful relic just buried underground.

I find odd that no one, especially the College being so close, ever explored Saarthal until 4E 201.

It’s obviously just Magnus’s missing eye that Chaos just decided to send to a random planet.

I thought Ysmgramor was gonna be another arrow, I didn't expect the "dog back then and the dog now" meme

Nate: "The Nords claim that they are native to Tamriel, but this is untrue." Ulfric: "SKYRIM BELONGS TO THE NORDS!!!"

"The Nords are not actually natives of Tamriel." I can finally pick a side in the war.

The snow demons were just the Monty Python crew looking for the Holy Grail

So what you're saying is, If we collect the Eye of Magnus, The Cat's Eye Prism and one of each of these spheres from the other provinces, we can summon The Dragon and make a perfect wish?

Hey Nate, remember how one of the Gauldur brothers was found with the Eye of Magnus in Saarthal, seemingly protecting it? Why was he locked away there, of all places? Do you think the brothers have some relation to the Eye of Magnus? This probably opposes the theories that you presented, but it felt like you completely ignored the fact that a Gauldur brother was buried with the Eye, so I just had to ask.

Maybe the Eye contains the known universe within it, including itself. Like the universe box in Futurama that also contained itself. Or maybe the real Eye of Magnus were the friends we made along the way.

i love that every time snow elves are depicted in any of your vids its just Knight-Paladin Gelebor, or a group of him

I think there's something you're leaving out. In the chamber with the eye we find Jyrik Gauldurson, who was sealed in Saarthal (already considered ancient ruins) by Archmage Geirmund in the early 1E. Which means that in the early 1E, a rogue mage and a powerful archmage discovered the Eye of Magnus under Saarthal.

I just started playing Skyrim for the first time ever in 2021 😳😅 I’m late to the party but so glad to be here! lol

The Eye is probably a yoga ball for giants.

The eye contains Ssethtzeentach's morrowind character after he gained infinite knowledge through potions