Just like the earliest Chimer who orphaned themselves from the Velothi Exodites, but remain Chimer today, large numbers of Ayleids showed more interest in the immediate earthly needs of agriculture rather than the magical needs of concept-farming. 'Ayleid' is as much a metaphysical designation as it is a cultural one. Gypsy Moth dustmemore insert - it should be noted here that it is always foolish to think of whole races sharing like minds.

Where the Altmer sought to focus on dracochrysalis, or keeping elder magic bound before it could change into something lesser (and act which ironically required aetherial surplus), the Ayleids harvested castaway creatia from Oblivion by entering a pact with the masters of the Void, the Princes of Misrule. White-Gold Tower was made by the Ayleids, the Heartland High Elves that would have none to do with their isle-kind. In other words, it was a focus point for (re-)reaching the divine. Like all of the polydox constructs of the earliest Aldmer- whatever their abnegaurbic creed- White-Gold Tower is a conduit of creatia, aad sembia sembio, built to bring about a reversal of the congealing spiritual bleed caused by the Convention.

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