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DarthOrc, I'm going to assume that you meant nothing player-side will become lore. They're pulling from established cannon with the Loremaster at Bethesda to make this game (they being Zenimax Online), so the game IS lore.

As for recording it, you have to consider how hard it would be to record in real-time what was happening durring this span on Nirn, especially directly in Cyrodil. Plus the destroying of any archives between emperors, then the loss of information over time that just happens naturally with oral and paper recorded history. All of this has to be taken into account.

But above all else, and I cannot stress this point enough, there wouldn't be recording of the line of "emperors" because they aren't technically emperors in full right. The land is not united under them, they are claiming a title in the attempt to grab at power, but are overthrown before anything can be made official. Thus they are not a true emperor, and would not be recorded as such. The list of names and races and factions and groups and so on would be too long to list, this why we simply know it as a time of turmoil with vague references to a lot of people all trying to gain the one spot in history.