Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11276487-20130713025241/@comment-16047389-20140122150445

Elder Scrolls was still just an experiment back in Daggerfall. The first game, Arena, had just started getting a strong following and the creators wanted to see if they could pull off an actual series. Arena was made more for the gameplay than the story, since it mainly just used your standard RPG monsters and races. Daggerfall was when they started laying down the structure for a story, and Morrowind was when they began tightening it down.

If it was a building project, Arena was the initial blueprint drafts being played around with until they found a good investor, Daggerfall was building the metal frame, and Morrowind was when they put up the walls, doors, windows, and began refurbishing the place. And every few years they just add another wing/floor onto it.