Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726023954/@comment-98.212.170.21-20130808020521

All this childishness sickens me, truly.

I've been with Elder Scrolls since the beginning and I'm a Nord lover, but I'm also an "everything lover." The lore is designed to have conflicting accounts, and someone who claims to know the truth of the matter and tells you to "go read the lore" is a complete fool who is missing the entire design strategy for the lore and TES. There will always be two or more sides to every account, and every source, even primary sources, should be considered biased. This is history, not fact. History is the interpretation of sources, not the relating of facts into written form.

Just because a Wiki says "The high elves are the most intelligent" doesn't mean anything. Not a thing. That's like saying "I know how to construct sentences, here is my sentence." The wiki is written by contributors who have taken the lore and interpreted it. I can go write whatever I want on that wiki, myself. I can write that Talos was undoubtedly from Atmora and that the Underking was just a blaspheming, evil, corrupted lich. It'll be taken down as inappropriate, but it doesn't mean that everything on there is automatically appropriate.

Besides, if we measure intelligence by magickal or cultural proficiency, I'd wager that the Dwemer were the most "intelligent," despite being an offshoot from Altmer's golden ideal of Aldmeri.