Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-26893431-20180203204530/@comment-1600847-20180206141802

Blademaster Jauffre wrote:

ovels being part of the franchise, but not in the game proves this. And with Pete Hines saying "Yes, we consider the Elder Scrolls novels canon to TES lore.", is there really any reason to care that they are not ingame? In another event Hines specifically states the Novels are part of the franchise, but unfortunately, I couldn't find that quote.

​​​​​Source is Pete's twitter, back from 2011 https://twitter.com/dcdeacon/status/21951830233710592

The conflict seems to be that they conflicted with a lot of TES fans' "headcanon", so a lot of people preferred to assume they weren't canon. I remember back when they came out there was a lot of arguing on TES forums (like on UESP) over their canon status.