Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-28664595-20160605220956/@comment-26893431-20160606143824

Atvelonis wrote:

You can physically visit a continent, but from this perspective you can't do so to Aldmeris because it isn't a physical place.

The Nu-Mantia Intercepts conflict with existing lore about Aldmeris, yeah. That was intentional. An amazing thing in the series is that there are so many different viewpoints and ideas out there, and it's really up to you to decide which ones to believe. I prefer Kirkbride's explanation about Aldmeris; I think it's a hell of a lot more interesting than simply, "Aldmeris is where the Elves came from." Obviously you don't have to agree with this, but again that's what I like. It makes for great discussion. Agree to disagree?

I'm not sure where you're going with this. Saying that you don't "have any plans" for a character doesn't disqualify you as a writer. If, say, George R.R. Martin mentions in an interview, "I don't have any more plans for Jon Snow," that just means he isn't going to write any more about him because he believes that Jon Snow has run his course in the series. It doesn't affect the legitimacy of Jon Snow in the series, it just means that there won't be anything more written about him. Atvel, with all due respect, but thinking something is more iteresting is fine, but branding it as canon lore instead of fanfic/fanon is wrong. You can say that you like it more, but unless if it's used it's not canon and because it's not used it also has no place here.

Kirkbride is different, George R.R. Martin is the writer of GOT, Kirkbirde is not a writer for Bethesda anymore.

Let me try to explain this with a political example:

1. There's a political party, one of their members makes most of the ideas for this party.

2. This member leaves the party.

3. This ex-member says that potatoes should be banned.

4. Does this mean that the political party agrees with what the ex-member says?

I don't think so, he can think so and he may have contributed a bunch in the past, but when he leaves his words are to be taken with a grain of salt unless if they get used by Bethesda ,or in this scenario, by the political party.