Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-17714862-20131007235156/@comment-2165692-20140321184746

If you guys go look at the current poll on the front page it has some answers:

Former Bethesda developer, Michael Kirkbride, recently declared that "canon" is no longer practical in the Elder Scrolls universe and has abolished it. TES lore is now "open source" and all views are valid.

He declared it so I guess that it's in effect. Lore is dead.