Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9062114-20140323022721/@comment-24590102-20140328082934

71.61.177.24 wrote: Harold Burned-Mane wrote: Here are quotes from the book The Annotated Anuad:"On the world of Nirn, all was chaos. The only survivors of the twelve worlds of Creation were the Ehlnofey and the Hist. The Ehlnofey are the ancestors of Mer and Men. The Hist are the trees of Argonia."
 * "Over many years, the Ehlnofey of Tamriel became the Mer (Elves):


 * The Dwemer (the Deep Ones, sometimes called Dwarves)
 * The Chimer (the Changed Ones, who later became the Dunmer)
 * The Dunmer (the Dark or Cursed Ones, the Dark Elves)
 * The Bosmer (the Green or Forest Ones, the Wood Elves)
 * The Altmer (The Elder or High Ones, the High Elves)."


 * "On the other continents, the Wandering Ehlnofey became the Men: the Nords of Atmora, the Redguards of Yokuda, and the Tsaesci of Akavir."

First of all, the Tsasci and the Akaviri Men are not the same species.

Second of all, this is the ANUAD. It's a condensation of the facts, a bastardization. That Akaviri mistake is just ONE reason why it's innacurate up the wazoo.

- WorshipsMeridia

That is fair enough and, so, this is where a little science comes to the rescue. We've already established that Men and Mer are the same species, based on: Being the same species, it makes beaucoup-sense that man and mer share a very near and dear ancestral race which, in the case of mer, is identified as Ehlnofey. Although a direct line of descent from Ehlnofey to man may not be established, until evidence to the contrary is found, this remains the simplest or most plausible inference drawn from both: Now the real intellectual danger here, which is not without considerable irony, is that this sort of conclusion-by-parsimony is, on one hand, the weakest of scientific arguments and yet, on the other hand, it leads to some of the most deeply entrenched ideas because all too few people are aware that the refutation of a conclusion-by-parsimony must refute the parsimony of the conclusion rather than the conclusion itself.
 * 1) the fact that their crossbreeds are fertile and
 * 2) the fact that this alone satisfies the definition of being the same species.
 * 1) the identity of Elnofey as the parent race to mer and
 * 2) the commonality of species spanning man and mer.