Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-50.10.177.94-20130209065558/@comment-5558140-20130307234543

its the elder scrolls. you can never read the same story twice and have it happen exactley the same way. that is, in a way, how your story could have skyrim seceding while mine might have the empire taking control. its sometimes hard to determine what in the series is canon and what is not. we have what is set in stone, the pantheons of gods and deadra, the races, the provinces and continents, famous figures, the empire. we also have in-game events. the emperors champion freed king lysandus, and kills his murderer but how the mantella is used could have been different. we have the triumphs of the neravarine, who defeats dagoth-ur. we have the champion of cyrodiil's work against the mythic dawn helped the last septim defeat mehrunes dagon, and the dragonborn, who defeated the world eater and chased his soul into sovnguard itself. but the details of many side-quests are exactley that. details.unimportant in the grand scheme of the scrolls. you may read one and have the story unfold one way, but read it again and you will find that the details are different, but the outcome somehow the same. only the writers know things for sure, but who the fuck knows who wrote the scrolls to begin with.