Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-28664595-20160605220956/@comment-25356303-20160606013211

Blademaster Jauffre wrote: To be honest, just because some work of his is used doesn't mean all of it is canon. Landfall I believe is something he wrote, which is complete speculation. Kirkbride also said Aldmeris isn't a real thing and if I recall correctly he also wrote the love letter from the fifth era. All nice and fine, but it's not canon, nor used in the game.

Long story short, MK texts that are used ingame should be fine, but the ones that aren't shouldn't be here tbh. Remember closesly that Kirkbride litterally said Aldmeris isn't a real thing. The information we have about Landfall mostly comes from C0DA, which is in the gray area of canon. It's a good example of the, "This is noteworthy but not really standard 'canon'" idea that is unfairly applied to a lot of his other texts. Lots of stuff in C0DA is rather unfounded, but a lot of Skyrim's lore is set-up for Landfall, giving it enough credence to warrant some small mentions on articles.

Regarding Aldmeris, I think you've misinterpreted what he said. Aldmeris isn't a real thing in that it isn't a real continent, at least not in the same way that Tamriel or Akavir or Atmora are continents. Here's a quote from the Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter 5, which I've already shown is legitimate: "This sundering of purpose is the myth of the 'destruction of Aldmeris.' Outside of the Dawn, and even then only in the dreamtime of its landscape, there was never a terrestrial homeland of the Elves. 'Old Ehlnofey' is a magical ideal of mixed memories of the Dawn."

When Kirkbride says that Aldmeris "isn't a real thing," he's explaining that it's more complicated than just being the homeland of the Elves. I suppose you could say that it's not a physical location, rather it's the idea of one, if that makes any sense.