Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-108.253.68.177-20131021030335/@comment-121.91.117.103-20140601153553

Let's take a step back here and establis ha few things.

1. Where did most of the inspiration for TES lore come from?

Answer: Wheel of Time and many varrients of a number of the religions that Wheel of Time was inspired off of as well (delving deeping or in different directions with the same source)

2. What are some fundimental facts about TES?

Answer: Time is relative and not linear. It repeates itself in according to a pattern to which can be read on the Elder Scrolls and these scroll gain their information by personally being involved in said events. IE: The future is written not because Time is all 'jumpy/skippy' but because the future has happened before (it is the past in that it happened in the prior Cycle to this Cycle but it is the future in that it is going to happen in this Cycle as well)

3. What happened when the Dragonborn killed Alduin?

Answer: The Cycle was 'ended' as Alduin was permitted by said Dragonborn to 'end the world' and bring forward the 'new world' (End one cycle begin a new Cycle). As obvious as this is, the fact that dragons were coming back supports this fairly well, as the beginning of each Cycle begins with Dragons ruling the world under Alduin's rule and that is exactly what things would have been like if the Dragonborn didn't do said main quest and then they would have been overruled once more like they were in the past and Alduin would be sent into the future again and it would all happen again.

There problems here:

1. Because the Cycle was ended, the Scrolls would obviously no longer be capable of telling the future as the past would no longer be relevant (we're in uncharted territory).

2. All lore pertaining to the past is now fickle as it slowly becomes false or 'withers away'.

3. One can no longer be reborn unless done so by godly means (The Nevearine was reborn via the means of necessity IE: The Scrolls required someone to prevent Dagoth Ur to maintain the balance (again, much of TES follows from Wheel of Time and its sources like Hindu)

This is actually how TES:O came about and why the lore was rewritten and why doing such a thing to accomidate said game is not wrong as the lore is now very fickle. Secondly, there are multiple 'possible' pasts and futures and so TES:O is one of said possible ones. The one we know of as to be 'canon' is only the one that we experienced during our games of this Cycle. SO, TES:O became possible because the existence of our own considered 'tes canon lore' is now becoming 'non-existent' and has been replaced with the many possible out pasts that never became true.

Let me rehash on this and relate it to the OP topic.

Morrowind was a game and as a game it had saves, deaths, reloads, new games etc. Generally, almost every time one dies, someone around the world is starting a new game, or you are loading a new save. To top it off, we all have our own experiences in Morrowind and no one gameworld (unless attempted to be) is 100% identical to another. As such, these can easily be explained as being the 'possible' lines of how things play out, and ones saves/loads/new games would affect this, obviously (in some games the Nevear did die, that world isn't just going to stop just because you reloaded (hypothetically speaking. of course it stops game wise)).

As such, no ones own experience in Morrowind is incorrect or non-canon, even if one does something that the Bethesda team lore wise says didn't happen, like the Nevear being male. This is just Bethesda's own timeline, not yours or the many, many existing parallel timelines that did or didn't or could have but didn't exist. Just how if someone makes a movie of Morrowind and is different from your experience, neither is INCORRECT, it is just someone elses own interpretation and their own vision of it. You can still play the game and it isn't going to change just because said movie happened.

So, now that, that is out of the way, let me get on with this:

The Nerevarne is rumoured to have moved off to Akavir. Whether this is true or not, you can't say, it is just a rumour; even if it is the ONLY canon rumour.

Secondly, as far as Time goes within the TES universe, where he/she went/is, is/was going to be/is irrelevant as Time is eroding. What I mean is; what Bethesda says does not matter simply because they would only be describing their own experience/telling of what happened in their own timeline. Now that the Dragonborn did what he did, for a time at least (until all of Time is unraveled due to the past no longer existing and thus there being no future resulting in well, idk, destruction of Nirn?) All of your experiences during that game are 100% canon and as it was YOUR experience and any monologuing happened in YOUR head then whatever happened AFTER is up to YOU as that story was created by YOU and YOUR experiences and CONTROL.