Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10197675-20130806142227/@comment-160529-20131220143341

218.186.253.234 wrote: I think is works more like this

Anything MK said or wrote during his tenure at Beth - 90% canon, 10% trolling (people cannot resist it...)

After quitting beth - ???% canon, ???% trolling, ???% how he would have wanted it, ???% random stuff.

If MK isn't part of Beth, only the stuff Beth uses is canon. Anything that Beth does not use can be considered as A. potential canon or B. drivel and bull. Simple as that. So long as Beth itself does not claim it is canon, it is only at best potential canon, because simply there is no truth to it or proof that is applies. In fact, I am pretty sure the top guys in Beth know all the answers, what parts of MK's writings is canon and all this stuff. MK himself is too liberal with technobabble and obfuscation, so I would't fully buy his theories (for me, his writings are only correct in a rough sense, but the specifics are all wrong) They are probably just keeping it all secret for some final big reveal at the last TES game or something.

That is what I have been trying to say!

By the way why did Kirkbride leave Bethesda? Did he leave for his own reasons? Are we 100% sure he wasnt laid off because they found is writing unsatisfactory?

Because honestly most of what he has written post-employment seems like the bitter retcons of a scorned fan.