Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-24696651-20140503220315

AnnroTheArgonian wrote: Pacman the great wrote:

According to Phrastus of Elihinir, Cyrodiil was in fact never a jungle; in The Heartland of Cyrodiil, he asserts the use of the phrase "endless jungle" to describe Cyrodiil is a transcription error, and upon closer inspection of the orginal and damaged manuscript, a more accurate translation would be "extensive upland". The unnamed scribe responsible for this error also mentioned "equatorial rain", which was infact not mentioned by the orginal text at all. Although there is no specific mention of his or any of his contempories' date, I would place his works anywhere from 2E 230 to 2E 580; his works feature in Elder Scrolls Online, so they must have been written before 2E 583, and in one of his lectures, he makes reference to Liminal Bridges, a work which itself makes reference to works of Galerion the Mystic, whose works originate from no earlier than 2E 230. In the works of Phrastus and one of his contempories, Lady Cinnabar of Taneth (who constantly criticsed each others' works), there is mention to the First Era, a concept which did not exist until the Second Era, when the Potentate usurped the throne of the Second Empire, which supports the idea of it dating from no earlier than 2E 230. Given the fact that in the middle of the Second Era Tiber Septim could not have reshaped Tamriel (barring a Dragon Break), and Phrastus of Elihnir lived in Elihnir (a town on the Cyrodiil-Hammerfell border) where could easily see whether or not Cyrodiil was a jungle, I think it's safe to say that Cyrodiil was never a jungle. It isn't in ESO. Interesting. I read this (The Heartland of Cyrodiil) in-game, but thought it was Zenimax's way of saying "uhh, THIS is why it isn't a jungle!" I tend to trust my Pocket Guide, but I have noticed some inconsistencies...

It probably was just an excuse not to have a jungle, but I treat it like canon because TESO is canon. I suppose it might have been a dragon break, but I thought that occured in a certain time period (like the Middle Dawn), and I if there had been a Dragon Break from that far in the past up to Tiber Septim's time across Cyrodiil there would be evidence about it, books about it, all sorts of stuff about it.