Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5271983-20140409233108/@comment-24434525-20150917182701

KINMUNE is very obviously Kirkbride making comments on the gaming industry and the fan base as a whole. It has nothing to do with Elder Scrolls other than to use names and locations. It's just Kirkbride trying to use TES as a soap box to yell and scream against copyright laws and how corporations automatically gain control over anything you write or work on while under thier employ. Nothing to do with TES, everything to do with real life and things like the TPP.

As for what is and is not canon, thats simple canon is whatever the owners of the story say it is. If George Lucas decided that in the next Star Wars, Jar Jar's people took over the entire galaxy and are all super jedi, the fans would have to eat it. They might hate it, and sales might plummet, but no one is going to say, well that's not how I want it to go so its not that way to me. Only in video games do fans do that. You might write in to Marvel for killing off your favorite hero or villian but your not going to start drawing him in yourself in the next issue. Canon is part of ownership, which is what Kirkbride is so mad about. (Well that and the fact that he isn't allowed to profit off anything TES without consent from Zenimax. So his writings are all now considered to be the same as fan fiction. But hey it was some stupid twilight fan fiction that made 50 shades, so who knows.)

So unless its in one of the games, any of them, or it is at least mentioned in one of the games, then it isn't canon, its fan fiction that may or may not be true.