Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1255618-20190329091240

So I just recently read ''Provinces of Tamriel' for the first time in memory, and I was shocked that it mentions "endless jungle" still existing in Cyrodiil even though it was written shortly after the consolidation of the Septim Empire, which is to say the Third Era. I haven't gotten around to playing 'Morrowind' yet, so maybe my ignorance is showing, but do any of the NPCs there mention Cyrodiil being jungled in the present time?

It was my impression that, in the timeline of 'Morrowind' and 'Oblivion', by the time Tiber Septim began his campaign of conquest that Cyrodiil's jungle was definitely gone. Then again, the book was definitely written before the Warp in the West since it describes High Rock as it was rather than as it became post-Warp.

Nevertheless, if we are to assume that Talos used CHIM to eliminate a prior time-line and that in the "revised" time-line, Cyrodiil's jungle disappeared gradually but long before the Warp, what could have caused the "error" in the book in the revised timeline, since the book continues to exist in 'Oblivion' a.k.a. E.S.V? If the book could only exist in the old timeline then it would never have been written in the new one, right? And yet it was.

Did the author never travel to and set foot in Cyrodiil, making assumptions about it based upon old books? What are some plausible in-universe explanations for the book still being written as-is in the new time-line?

To clarify, I'm talking about how the book comes to exist in the new timeline, not the old timeline in which its descriptions of the provinces are mostly accurate. 