User blog comment:The Rim of the Sky/Bethesda to Publish Physical Lore based books on the Elder Scrolls series/@comment-1992639-20141103163546

Exciting!

But I also feel an urge to say I told you so. Despite the naysaying, ESO indeed is lore and the prime canon is still very much defined by Bethesda themselves. This also makes it plausible that the re-writing Lawrence Schick has done in ESO of Kirkbride's original story, to a more comprehensible and down-to-earth lore is atleast by Bethesda considered as their own canon. And while we should not discuss the meaning of canon, this does probably mean that for all its future games Bethesda intends to only follow their own lore and not that of the fans or MK.

I think the might have been inspired by the lore bible The world of Fire and Ice by GRR Martin released a week ago, but perhaps in part this is also their response to the confusion that swept across Elder Scrolls forums worldwide since MK's coda and I think this is Bethesda's way of saying "This is our lore, Bethesda's lore, this alone is the lore upon which we intent to expand our future games." and anything not written by Bethesda will also not appear in any of their future games. Depending on how deep these books go on various topics, it is well possible many events or reports on events previously written will now be retconned for what these books will tell us really happened.

I can't wait to see what these books will tell us. It will certainly stop some of the speculations, arguments and tie the lose ends that this franchise has suffered for so long.