Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24627553-20140316230248/@comment-185.60.198.50-20161017225126

A little turnaround Jauffre: you can write whatever you want, and as long as there is no ingame source that says that it is false, there's no way you can prove that it is not something that might happened somewhere out there. When I talk about a ten thousand foot tall Numidium destroying an unknown continent nobody ever heard of and then turning into water thereby vanishing, it is not canon. At the same time, it could still have happened. Let's take that further, for stuff that's happening in the future. No game or official text had reached that point yet. That means you can not prove that it is canon, and at the same time you can not prove that it is not canon. Not to mention that dragon breaks are something mentioned in ingame books, and with infinite timelines merging off a specific point, everything can happen in whatever timeline. Legally. The game just tells one of myriad possibilities. And there's no way you can prove that a certain event is not happening in at least one of these infinite time lines. That's called imagination (I get back to that later on).

MK's texts were never meant to be canon. And at the same time, they never meant to oppose them. And that's why I don't get why you take this so personal (and yes, despite what you said, everything you wrote seems like you take this very personal). He's not writing this stuff to rub it into the face of players who stick to what the games say. In fact he even said that ones personal c0da should not interfer or diminish the fun of someone else by saying "hurr durr but in my c0da the canon lore is abolished hurr durr" or something like that (on a civilized level of discussion).

His texts were to written to fuel imagination! Inspiration! To look what could be somewhere, sometime beyond the limited knowledge the games can provide. The games give so much base material and canon mechanics that give infinite possible situations for any given point in time! Not making own assumptions or taking ideas what might have happened in some other time line would be such a waste of potential. Tell me, did you ever made any kind of assumption that turned out to be false or mere speculation? Like what could have happened to the dwemer? If so, then you already left the area of canonicity anyway, creating your own fan fiction (or c0da in MK'S terms). And did it feel bad? Most likely not.

Some fan fictions are just weirder than others. So what? As long as we don't run around smashing people's heads in screaming "BUT IT IS THIS WAY!" everything is fine. You imagine a time line where the dunmer conquered Blackmarsh, driving the argonians to Elsweyr? That's cool. Doesn't mean it's that way in the games or has to be in the future. Doesn't mean it's the only "right" way either. Long story short: There's no need to take offense in non canonical texts as long as they go along with the canon lore. Especially in TES. Everything else can be debated. And maybe to your surprise, even to a lot of "MK fanboys" his texts are not canon, but c0da. That's the whole point. But since when were dreams and imaginations meant to be real.