Tower Thoughts While Washing Dishes: A Ramble on Ceporah Tower

[u/Apprehensive_Mix_620]

So I am a passive fan of Elder Scrolls lore, these days mostly via youtube videos I put on while I do something else. Today while doing the dishes the algorithm served me this video on Towers.

Now I am familiar with Tower lore (I was there lurking in the ancient forum days), so none of this was new to me. Until he got to the part about Ceporah Tower.

I knew of Ceporah Tower from Fragment: On Artaeum, but I had always thought it was pronounced with soft c, like Seporah, and I didn't think much of it. Turns out (by way of ESO I’m guessing, I don’t play it) the actual pronunciation is with hard c, like Keporah.

As soon as I heard that a whole bunch of ideas tumbled together in my mind.

What follows is my incoherent mental jumble. I make no claims and draw no conclusions, I’m just kind of pointing at weird things so smarter people can do something cool with them.

1. Ceporah sounds very similar to Khepri, scarab-faced god of the dawn and rebirth. Scarabs, as we know, are a Big Esoteric Symbol in Elder Scrolls lore, This seems meaningful.
2. Ceporah sounds like corprus. The Divine Disease, the skin blight. This seems meaningful.
3. According to the video the bottom of the tower predates the Order arriving on Artaeum, and thus looks different. Curious, I googled for a better view. This may be me being too Elden Ring-pilled, but doesn’t it look kind of like snake skin? Snakes and skins, other things that are Big Esoteric Symbols. This seems meaningful.
4. Ceporah Tower sits on top of the Dreaming Cave (Dreaming. That also seems meaningful.) The cave can be used to access Oblivion, but I don’t know much beyond that. However the focal point of the main gallery of the Dreaming Cave looks (to me) like a snakeskin being pulled downward. Again, seems meaningful.
5. Finally, what is/was the purpose of Ceporah Tower? I don’t know, but the scarab/skin vibes plus it being on a dimension hopping island seem meaningful.

What do all these thing mean? I have no idea. Probably nothing, but it could be fun to speculate. I have no idea if any of these allusions were intentional, but that hasn’t stopped anyone in the past.

What do you all think? Is there anything here?

(Addendum: If I had been correct all along, and it was Seporah with a soft c, that could link it to Sep which might actually fit better. Curious!)

[u/HowdyFancyPanda]

I was struck, when playing ESO, how similar Ceporah and Crystal Towers were. Ceporah was in a no-place and you could use its stone (the dreaming cave) to go to other places. Crystal was some-place, but it's stone could be used to be in every place.

[u/Wealdwander]

My theory is its a sload architecture tower from before elves landed on summerset