Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9062114-20150428153757

This is not a thread of which people debate if Lore is or is not Canon, this is simply a discussion about people's personal opinions about lore.

We all probably have lore in the TES canon that we just can't stand, either it be something MK wrote up or maybe something established by Bethesda in one of the games, I know I certainly have my fair share of them, so I was wondering if any of the community does as well.

First off, the whole Volkihar lore with Serana & Harkon. By far one of the lamest things Bethesda has written in lore has been this mess of a Dawnguard backstory, regardless of how much of it is true or not I still don't care for how it was written. My issues start with their age, no matter how old Serana is I've never cared for the idea that she was 4000+ years old! It is just far too much time for the Volkihar to have been wondering around in my opinion, it just makes every one else in comparison seem insignificant. Like, no matter how "old" they would want to portray something in Elder Scrolls canon if it's not older than Harkon's family it just doesn't look like much. Now I get some things can be really "ancient" to add to their "coolness", but why did it have to be the Dawnguard Vampires, no offense to people who like them but they really are some of the least serious and goofy bad guys in TES lore. In my opinion of course

Second, the theory of the Thalmor and the Towers. I'm not denying this is canon, I'm just saying the theory it's self annoys me. I mean I always thought the Thalmor were just these group of dictators who were separate from the whole Mundus creation lore. Clearly this is not the case according to MK's ideas, but I still didn't care for it, because I feel like so many organizations in Tamriel are "trying to destroy existence" that it gets old after like the fifth one at the same time, and the Thalmor used to in my opinion represent an original concept in TES Universe. A purely political organization built of controlling the continent as opposed to destroying Mundus or Nirn. 