User blog comment:Pelinal Whitestrake/The true meaning of C0DA/@comment-97.94.145.179-20141117193930

The point of the Elder Scrolls is that the lore thats been set down by the creators is fact. The only part thats up to players is what YOUR CHARACTER does. But everything around your character has been set. History has to proceed in some logical way.

You may want your Dragonborn character to beat the Thalmor so bad. But if tes 6 is set 200 years in future and some other hero beat them and now hes a legend too, thats how it is.

You can control how your character affects the world and how he imagines things. But in the end, hostory must move on and new heroes must appear. Case in point: db assassinating titus. Doesnt matter if YOU did it or not. History says that in 4e201 titus mede II was assassinated by a db assassin. Keeps it vague enough to move lore onward and if you were the one who did it, then you can have the secret joy that you did it. Sometimes you have to have pride in your actions without boasting about every little thing you do in life. Same with tes.

If there was no central canon, history, lore to tes. It would just fall apart. Simple as that. If mk can make a story for how things happened and people see his stuff as fact, why cant i do the same thing?