Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9062114-20140217190926/@comment-73.35.221.142-20140805083206

Canon is what is confirmed in games, or in "officially" released materials. Released by the Developers, not by an independent contractor.

Since a significant amount of TES Lore is written by MK, his writing does have great weight... but a lot of people seem to deify him, and take anything he puts out there set in the TES universe as instant caonon. This is Inaccurate.

The Nu-Mantia intercepts, for example; In-game facts bear out and are in sync with them, so they can be treated as canonic. However,  C0DA takes things beyond the point where Bethesda Developers would ever sensibly go with the series. It is a fun story, and...certainly may in the future influence canon lore. But it is not canon.

MK's work is not "mere fanfiction" since a large portion of in-game lore is written by him, but anything he produces independently should rather be regarded as pre-development work, conceptual. It may or may not be correct as actual in-game lore.

If inormation from such material is used in the Wiki, it should be marked as potentially non-canonical.