Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.44.141.89-20131113224543/@comment-218.186.253.148-20140102020937

What i meant is that for the sake of inclusiveness and so that everyone can post and discuss, can we stop debating on highly contentious and self opinionated points that lead to huge flame wars? Sure, you all can take MK as totally canon (i personally only take the MK stuff that is irrefutable, that is well substantiated by facts that are in game and well referenced), but not everyone who plays TES does. I think Mead drinker's comparison of MK as a historian interpreting TES lore is a good analogy of why he can be wrong, because people are not infallible and he can only work on his interpretations.

Trying to tell people who don't like MK's works to stay out of a discussion is like trying to force everybody who posts in the lore discussion board to take his words as gospel truth, which is not only impossible, but offensive and very childish. Its also like telling people that any archeologist, historian and anthropologist is 100% right just because they studied more than everyone about a certain civilization/time period/dynasty. I had my arguments crumble before because the source was dubious and nobody likes their source to discredited, as this breaks the entire argument they have, but we have to keep this like so called secular society, based on only objective fact and not assumptions or sources that are frequently called into question.

Are all of you so adverse to the opinions that contradict yours? Are all of you (Ralok included) so close minded that no discussion can progress civilly? Because, really, everyone, your rather incessant bickering over MK's credibility brings no one anywhere and serves only to rift everyone's opinion. MK is not infallible, he is human, his interpretive works after leaving beth will inevitably contain biases, falsehoods and contradictions, just like any good historian's. MK is TES's historian, but he is looking at it from the 10th era, so he can do nothing but interpret, some which will be undeniably correct and some which will be blatantly wrong.