Board Thread:Oblivion/@comment-98.231.109.104-20140510071351

I just recently got/ started playing ES IV, great game so far, but while going along on the main quest I've started wondering about something, and I'm hoping someone on this great wiki an answer it. So normally the Emperor dies, the dragonfires go out and his successor re-lights them. In the game, with the Emperor and his heirs murdered, the fires go out and can't be relit. Makes sense and it basically the whole plot, relighting the dragon fires. BUT this is the odd thing to me: according to canon lore, the imperial throne has been vacent MULTIPLE times.

There was the murder of Reman III and his heirs, the murder of the last Akaviri Potentate and his heirs, and of course the great interregnum between the last Potenate and the ascension of Tiber Septim. Hell during that period the Amulet of Kings itself was lost for centuries! So basically I want to know why this is the first time there's been an invasion from oblivion if there should have been multiple times that the dragonfires were out for long stretches of time. So is this an example of writers not looking at their own lore/canon, a rewrite after oblivion came out or just another unanswered question? 