Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-50.13.147.154-20140713075901/@comment-16047389-20140714200414

Dovahsebrom wrote: Dark Jeto wrote: Actually, what does everyone think of this? It's from the Imperial Library, and I guess it was written responses from Bethesda to some fan questions.

Anyway, the fan asks "Why does Duadeen refer to Tiber Septim as the Cyrodiil? He’s a Nord, if I remember correctly?"

The response is a large block of text to describe the previous questions, but ends it with this line "And, while we’re still on the subject, no, Tiber Septim isn’t a Nord, he’s an Atmoran."

Since the author is supposed to be Bethesda Softworks, does this mean that Bethesda is confirming that Tiber Septim was in fact an Atmoran? The whole "jokers in Alcaire" line could be implying that the answer to that question was being done from a Imperial Scholar roleplay perspective. It is often shown through the TES lore that the Imperial "scholars" like to scoff at the theories that go against their Septim-dogma (most notably those revolving around Arctus). The fact that he is said to be an Atmoran only strengthens the idea that it is Imperial propaganda.

I feel like this quote may actually be confirming that Hjalti was a Breton seeing as the whole Alcaire birthplace business was already confirmed by the Ghost of Old Hroldan. This quote is basiclly saying that the people of Alcaire (where Hjalti was born) say he was a Breton. I don't think so. Take a look at how most of the ("sorta like somebody in our world calling themselves 'Jonny America'", "Those guys are hard at work on the Morrowind mini-series that we’ve been promising for two years now", ''"you didn’t miss a thing about the Eye of Argonia in those issues"). I know that the comment says they're supposed'' to be more like a roleplay, the answers that are given are very much geared toward real world answers. Certainly not a scholar, the way they are advertising comics. The answers really don't feel like they were intended to be done in a roleplay context. And I don't see what benefit the Empire would get out of it to convince the world that Tiber Septim was an Atmoran. If it's a lie, then to what end would it possibly trying to achieve?