Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-208.102.128.79-20140103211941/@comment-13446185-20140724134556

Well Barenziah claims in Daggerfall that Plintius Mero was executed for writing the book. However in Tribunal, Plintius reveals that Barenziah was protecting him the whole time, so I'm pretty sure the Real Barenziah is a reliable source (not to mention that Barenziah says in Tribunal that Plintius was a realiable scribe), at least as reliable as Barenziah wanted it to be. The real reason it is so controversial is because it makes Tiber look bad (which was a blow to the Septim ego) as both Plintius and Barenziah say, this was the whole reason for the shorter 'reboot' written by an Imperial Scribe that tries a bit too hard to prove TRB wrong.