Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-28664595-20160605220956/@comment-25356303-20160606162633

Bethesda still uses his works as a basis for the lore in the games. They're all legitimate to some extent.

Regardless, there is no one definition of "canon." It's more nuanced than that. The most stringent you could get within reason is in-game information only. But then what about manuals and strategy guides? Those aren't in the games themselves, but they're still part of the lore. Ok, so only stuff that is in the games or is directly related to them. Wait, but what about the novels? Those fit into the lore, Bethesda confirmed that, but they definitely aren't part of the games.

Alright, fine. So if we go with that, we'll also have to accept at least some of the other out-of-game texts, which developers like Kurt Kuhlmann have noted as seriously influential in the lore of the games. This, if anything, should prove that his works are sewn deep enough into the series to be taken seriously.