User blog comment:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? Season 2 Finale./@comment-13446185-20131001005622

I wouldn't doubt that the name "The Elder Scrolls" was just a quick fantasy name made for the games. You have to realize that when TES: Arena came out the game was just another wannabe LotR fantasy thing, they didn't really plan for it to become some big-hit series.

Though in later games the significance of the name became a bit more clearer.

A widely excepted belief is that The Elder Scrolls are just writings made to tell the stories prophecies of significant events that have will and are already happening.

Though I have a cooler theory:

If the Elder Scrolls are supposed to be a story then why can the story be different each time you play? My theory is that in TES you aren't playing as the Dovahkiin, Nevarine, or Hero of Kvatch. You are the Elder Scrolls. Think about it, you are the one who creates and tells the story, you decide what happens and what doesn't happen, yet the Elder Scrolls are the ultimate destiny in the game, the things that tell what happens. What if your ability of free-will in the game is only because you are the one who controls the free-will of the character, and in turn the one who controls the destiny.

I think there is alot more behind the Elder Scrolls than Bethesda has told us so far, we'll just have to wait till later games to see.