Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24256580-20131206011928/@comment-9062114-20140113043724

Draevan13 wrote: Actually, the author worked closely with Bethesda and The Imperial Library/Michael Kirkbride to write it as explained in the "Foreward". Bethesda even told him certain plot points and events to add in to tie Oblivion to Skyrim. I.e, the Thalmor are in the book, even though it came out 3-4 years before Skyrim. As is the writ of Monument, the Red Year, the Argonian invasion of Morrowind... all the things you guys found out in Skyrim, I knew before the game came out because I read the book. It's canon, trust me. Plus, it makes sense. The games overflow with potions, scrolls and spells of resist/cure disease... though some diseases like full-blown vampirism are too powerful to cure like that, true. That was all they did, to make sure he didn't completely go crazy and break lore left, right, and center. All of these details are his ideas alone. And it contradicts what we were told about Black Marsh, that's it some uninhabitable Marsh that only Argonians can really live in.