User blog comment:Zippertrain85/The reasons why Serana is not from the First Era./@comment-3217145-20130508163427/@comment-3217145-20130508234428

But you claim you do. I don't know. You don't know. The point is that it's *possible*. It's a far worse assumption that you're making, because you're using it to say that other information, presented as canon from the developers, is wrong.

"Evidence based off of common sense" doesn't mean anything. That isn't evidence. As I've repeatedly demonstrated, your common-sense arguments can be refuted with my own common sense, which is why common sense doesn't count for beans when arguing facts. I can have "common sense evidence" that the Sun orbits the Earth, or heavy things fall faster, or light is projected by your eyes. None of this means anything until I get external evidence for it that doesn't depend on my opinions and rhetoric. I bring in evidence of other things (Saarthal being more than old enough to prove ruins existed when you claimed they didn't, Garan NOT stating as fact what you CLAIM as fact, a Temple of the Ancestor Moths near Skyrim that has nothing to do with the Empire, etc) to show that my statements have factual basis. Your evidence consists of factual statements followed by non sequitur conclusions that are nowhere near proven by the information you gave.

I have repeatedly said "we don't know, it could be a or b or c." Saying that I'm making "baseless assumptions" is silly because I'm not asserting anything as fact, I'm showing that the claims you're asserting aren't knowable. The default position is that whatever Bethesda says is true, because they made the game. I'll believe that until they contradict themselves, which is what you have to show that they did. I see no evidence that anything they've said so far is contradictory, because there are explanations for all the supposed holes elsewhere in the game, or invented in the same place your common-sense arguments come from.