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Anonymous
May 20, 2015

Nirn

I have seen theories regarding Nirn's rotation and/or the rotation of the "stars" and Magnus around it...

I would suggest that Nirn is stationary and rotates in place. Oblivion is space and time, and Aetherius is backed up to the outer layer of Oblivion. So Mundus/Nirn and Oblivion are both speheres. A ball within a ball surrounded by light on the outside.

Nirn being the tangible and Oblivion being the intangible. As well as Masser and Secunda and the Eight Divine and the 16 Daedric planes. That's how I envision it and that would make sense to me based on everything I've read.

And on a distant note, Masser and Secunda and the Eight Divines are dead planets, while the 16 Daedric planes are inhabited planets.

All within the universe of Oblivion. Which by comparison to our own, would be almost nothing.

My question is if anyone could agree to that perspective? It matches the lore and would make sense that in a universe that small with the presence of the deities, the actual meaning behind that universe would be known.

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paarthurnax
Administrator
May 20, 2015

Here's a popular image of the cosmology.

I think it's important to distinguish between "plane" and "planet". A "plane" is an infinite realm of space.  Think of them as dimensions. A "planet" is a finite body. Nirn is a planet, while Mundus is a plane.

There are unnumbered planes of Oblivion and various planes of Aetherius. I'm not sure that planes can be said to have any spatial relations to one another. They are all equally distant, whatever "distance" may mean for infinite planes.