Putnam can pop in at any time to correct me, if he feels like it.
Ability to save, use the console and mod the game says otherwise. Basically every hero of any TES game achieved it, Tiber and Vivec are just two NPCs who apparently had similar abilities. Dagoth-Ur and the rest of Tribunal might have did it, but they were proably just regular gods.
The second part is more fair game, but eh, Septims were Dragonborn because of their "Dragon Blood", but since in-world explanations are that it was an one-time deal with Akatosh, this might be as well true... or not.
CHIM is not using the console. The TES universe is literally a dream. It's being dreamed by an Amaranth, a Godhead, (Anu). Every now and then, people realize they are part of a dream. For most of them, it goes somewhat like this: "This is a dream. I am part of the dream. Dreams are not real. Thus, I am not real.". Then they zero sum ( -1 + 1 = 0), which can be messy at times. Rarely, very rarely, they instead go: "This is a dream. I am part of the dream. The dream is part of the dreamer's mind. Thus, I am part of the dreamer.". Since they are part of the dreamer, they can manipulate the dream to some extent. That is CHIM. Dagoth Ur is unique because his logic was a bit... different. It went something like: "This is a dream. I am dreaming. This is my dream. I am the dreamer.". Which is why his followers are called dreamers and sleepers, and they keep saying THE SLEEPER AWAKES.
Walk-Brass got literally dissapeared during Daggerfall and thanks to that it can't be destroyed... There are bunch of others but as far as I am aware a lot of them are in unknown state.
There
were a bunch of others. The Thalmor deactivated most of them. Let's make a little list so people are not confused.
Zero/Ada-mantia: The Adamantine Tower - Stone: The “Impossipoint” of the Convention - Status: Unknown
Red: Red Mountain - Stone: The Heart of Lorkhan - Status: Deactivated by Nerevarine
White-Gold: White-Gold Tower - Stone: Amulet of Kings - Status: Deactivated by Martin
Snow-Throat: The Throat of the World - Stone: Some Cavern - Status: Active, but damaged
Crystal-Like-Law: Crystal Tower - Stone: Unknown - Status: Destroyed by daedra during the Oblivion Crisis
Orichalc: Somewhere in Yokuda - Stone: Unknown - Status: Very much destroyed by sword-saints cutting atoms.
Tree-Sap: Falinesti? - Stone: Unknown - Status: Deep in Thalmor territory, so deactivated.
Khajiit: The Mane Moon - Stone: The Mane? - Status: Deactivated (likely by Thalmor) during the Void Nights when the Mane was assassinated and the moons vanished for some time.
Walk-Brass: (A)Numidium - Stone: Mantella? - Status: Besieging reality in the 5th Era.
Tower Zero aside, there are only two Towers around.
Also...
To kill Man is to reach Heaven, from where we came before the Doom Drum's iniquity. When we accomplish this, we can escape the mockery and long shame of the Material Prison. To achieve this goal, we must:
Erase the Upstart Talos from the mythic. His presence fortifies the Wheel of the Convention, and binds our souls to this plane.
Remove Man not just from the world, but from the Pattern of Possibility, so that the very idea of them can be forgotten and thereby never again repeated.
With Talos and the Sons of Talos removed, the Dragon will become ours to unbind. The world of mortals will be over. The Dragon will uncoil his hold on the stagnancy of linear time and move as Free Serpent again, moving through the Aether without measure or burden, spilling time along the innumerable roads we once traveled. And with that we will regain the mantle of the imperishable spirit.
Yep, genocide, not being lesser spirits.
Sort of. The genocide is to remove TalOS (I just have too much fan typing it out like this). Reguards, for one, are not particularly being targeted by the Thalmor (other than to try and get them on their side) because they are not fans of ol' Doom Drum. Cyro-Nords, on the other hand, are all about Lorkhan (Shor, Shezarr, Talos).
Except the same text says that we "must know love" (FUCKING DUNMERI CHIM SHIT VIVEC GODDAMNIT) to avoid the "Landfall" (mentioned destruction of Nirn), so it's open question if the destruction is something that must happen in near future... also it mentions Dunmer on fucking moon, possibly also Khajit.
I mean, it's pretty damn obvious. A lot of MK texts look like they are full of hidden meaning and metaphors when actually... it's exactly what you are reading. Vivec's a huge pervert. The love thing is probably a reference to how Vivec gives birth to the next Amaranth (Tosh-Raka (who goes back in time and becomes the Dragon-King of Ka Po Tun, I guess?)). Anyway, the Numidium takes part in destroying Nirn, with Hammerfell's destruction being outright stated to be its/their work.
Remember that there is another, alternate timeline that spans at least until 9nth Era and includes "Kinetically-Interlinked Nirnian Multi-User Exoform" sent back in time and hidden under Sarthaal and other sci-fi shit. Fucking Dragon Breaks and alternate timeline shit. TES Lore is way too confusing outside games.
I'm pretty sure KINMUNE, chronomancers and such are all 5th Era stuff. Remember that while the whole "Era" cycle is more or less the same in number across Kalpas, how long they take is (apparently) not.
Hey, let's discuss something a little less mind-bending:
So, what happened to the Dwemer?
((Trolololololol.))
They decided the universe was stupid so they left?
They became the Numidium. They didn't like being several degrees below the divine, so they made themselves divine. By becoming a giant, time-wrecking mecha.
What about the Adamantine Tower?
Not sure, but if it's still standing when Skyrim takes place, it's really endangered considering that Thalmor is now controlling large parts of Hammerfell and the isle it's on is nearby.
Adamantine Tower is Auri-El's spaceship. Also the Thalmor got their ass handed to them by the Redguards.