Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-30652140-20161201185058/@comment-1255618-20190415034923

Lots of people think Magnus and the Magna Ge are responsible for the Elder Scrolls, so Magnus isn't just sitting in Aetherius doing nothing. He's drawing up new plans and observing Mundus even now.

The elves revere Magnus very much. He's more important to them than any number of the "Divines" the races of man worship. It's just that because most of The Elder Scrolls games are set in man-controlled areas and focus upon the Imperial pantheon (with the very noteable exception of Morrowind).

Unfortunately because Elder Scrolls VI looks to be set in Hammerfell I doubt we're going to get much more information about Magnus. The Redguards traditionally don't even regard him as an entity in their pantheon much less worship him. :p

The mer races other than the Dark Elves are severely underrated, though not as much as the beastfolk. The non-man races are treated even more poorly in most fantasy series (Tokien's works being a noteable exception) because people tend to be frustratingly homocentric and love to have non-humans be bad guys rather than try to see the world through their eyes. So at least elves are treated better in the Elder Scrolls, but since the introduction of the Thalmor good luck trying to convince anyone the High Elves are an interesting civilization worth exploring these days or that they may have the right idea. A lot of people in the fandom even seem oddly racist towards elves, even though they don't even exist in our real world. It does creep me out a lot.