@HistoryInRust: The Tower theory is its own giant metaphysical clusterfuck of symbolism and possible meanings.
To get the story from its canonical or semi-canonical source, read the Nu-Mantia Intercept, but be prepared for excerpts like this:
"Scholarship on the subject of the metaphysical Tower is at an all-time high. Not since the Selective have we seen so much dangerous interest in the shezzarite power-symbols. Do any here think this an accident? That such work is not influenced by doppeldream and unlawful messaging? Do any here think this is not the work of the Tharnatos and his sleepers?
The fall of Red Tower should not be seen as the suave conquest of Cyrodiil's agencies, for we have been tricked again by the Dagonites. Though through long eras the chimerical landgods have subverted Divine rule, their protection of the First Stone should have remained as it was: the ironic protection of our enemies to our Enemy.
The Towers of the terrestrial plane have had their histories cloaked in lies and misinterpretations. That the lands they hold dominion over reverberate with troubles now in east and west should give common consent that they are reacting to an Empire-wide attention, sublunar and on dread purpose."
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"Auriel-that-is-Akatosh returned to Mundex Arena from his dominion planet, signaling all Aedra to convene at a static meeting that would last outside of aurbic time. His sleek and silver vessel became a spike into the changing earth and the glimmerwinds of its impact warned any spirit that entered aura with it would become recorded-- that by consent of presence their actions here would last of a period unassailable, and would be so whatever might come later to these spirits, even if they rejoined the aether or succumbed willingly or by treachery to a sithite erasure. Thus could the Aedra and their cohorts truly covene in realness.
Our forebears saw the erection of Ada-mantia, Ur-Tower, and the Zero Stone. Let the Elders acknowledge this truth: every Tower bears its Stone. The impossipoint of the Convention was the first, though another bears the true title of First Stone."
I may sound like the smartest person ever, but trust me, I've forgotten more than I know - KINMUNE,Magne-Ge Pantheon,Loveletter from the Fifth Era - grappling with the mysteries of Michael Kirkbride's mind is like attempting the same with Joyce.
The simplest of all his so-called Obscure Texts is Vehk's Teaching, which restates the peerless Lessons of Vivec a bit more concisely and clearly. The Psijic Endeavor (separate from the Psijic Order, but both are derived from PSJJJ), the Tower, the Dragon Break, he goes into all of it there.
EDIT: I sort of didn't answer your question at all.
The way I understand the theory, destroying the Towers would unmoor the foundations of the Mundus, effectively undoing Lorkhan's great accomplishment and supposedly reuniting the Mer with their divine ancestry, in an act of Anuic triumph.
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