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Man of steak wrote: So an interrugrum must have been happening. Maybe she was sealed away when this ass came to power? Possibly. although we have to consider what she means by "empire".

There was likely many people in Cyrodiil ruling from The Imperial City claiming to "rule the empire" but no one actually recognized an Empire's existence.

It's really a whole bunch of grey area word meanings.

But the CK, and Serana's other comments, make her transofrmation seemingly around the events of Molag Bal's invasion of Nirn in TESO.