Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5425132-20141223121751/@comment-207.228.78.94-20171128235656

If it isn't placed into the game, it isn't canon.

Think of the Elder Scrolls canon as a piece of paper. The paper has little dots and scribbles here and there, but there is plenty of blank, white spaces in between each marking. The dots and scribbles are what Bethesda has confirmed to have happened; the blank spaces in between are the stuff that is in-game (in books or by character dialogue) that hasn't been confirmed as happening in one way or another, or, maybe, hasn't happened at all. Micheal Kirkbride's non-payroll writings and all the other fanfic nonsense would be the area surrounding the paper; it is not a part of the paper in any way, shape, or form.