Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-4092092-20130801070333/@comment-26893431-20170531165014

CarloV3r wrote: Blademaster Jauffre wrote: Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: Other Lands And the Loremaster's Archive

Discerning the Transmundane needed something to make a replica of Dwemer blood, we don't know the full details towards the experiments, Falmer, Orsimer, Dunmer, etc. Most of them are not even related to the Dwemer in a direct bloodline, aside from the Altmer -- who are closest to the Aldmer. Perhaps you only needed the blood of one type of Mer, and Septimus just wanted to be sure. We have no way of checking it, since the lore on the cube is lacking. The PGE 1st Edition is just as much propaganda as it is information. It's commissioned by the Emperor, and throughout it are annotations of a commentator pointing out its inaccuracies. It's supposed to reflect Imperial view: "Xan: This pocket guide was written in the early years of Tiber Septim's reign, and contains the Empire propaganda and biased information"

—1 The speaker of the "brutish Betmer" quote basically slanders anyone that doesn't worship Boethiah; hardly an accurate source of information. The "commentator" happens to be an Altmer from the Summerset Isles, from the Dominion. Which nation is at war with them again? Oh wait, the Empire! What a surprise that an Altmer from Summerset states that there are lies in a book commisioned by said Empire!

If you actually look at what his "corrections" are, none of them are explanations, rather irrelevant comments. None of which are even related to the Orcs of Orsinium. If the Empire was spreading lies about them being beast, how come our friend states nothing of it?

Aside from that who on earth is Xan?