User blog comment:Jimeee/Bethesda Games Studios: "Moving to our next adventure"/@comment-7748697-20130509023629/@comment-68.36.174.189-20130526135756

It fell off like it did because honestly, none of the side plots or outcomes of important events can be truely canon (except for the main quest, ie. the "defeat" of Alduin). That's just good ol' Elder Scrolls style ever since Daggerfall.

Morrowind and Oblivion did the same thing. Elder Scrolls stories and lore are rarely ever that simple, if you are truely a TES fan you would understand this, and if you understand it than it would be easier to digest. Usually things would get fleshed out in book in the time between the different TES chapters; we will find out what happened with the dragons, the civil war, Alduin, the thalmor, and the empire when TES 6 rolls around. That's just how the TES games work,