Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140425203121/@comment-17114085-20140824153334

Datadragon Odahviing wrote: I like that argument, Chimp with ciggies. Only quantifiable and qualifiable fact must be taken into account, not blind words.

Yeah, guess we all missed out on the fact that Falmer helms and falmer heavy helms do have some form of visibility. Something you picked up.

But that opens up another can of worms. The helms look opaque, so what allows us to see? What allows us to see is the fact that it is a game. There are clearly helmets, like the Shellbug helmet and the Falmer helmets, that don't have any eye wholes. There are others that are completely black, like the Steel Plate and the Ebony helmets. These are all things the developers chose as game design. They made the Steel Plate and the Ebony like that because it looks cool. They made the player able to see thought he Falmer and Shellbug helmets because it would be ridiculous if the screen turned all black when the player put them on. These are all things to do with game mechanics and design, not lore. And they shouldn't be taken into account as lore.

Gameplay =/= lore.