Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24267938-20130323172448/@comment-7153552-20130403213800

Battlemageftw wrote: PsijicThief wrote: Perhaps someone from the Elder Council...like maybe they guy that ordered it (if you didn't kill him, too). But ultimately you have to remember that what happens in faction quests aren't always considered hard cannon, it's primarily the main quests that make it into lore. There are exceptions, and there are rumors of things, but some of those contradict one another. The most likely choice to be emperor next would be either somebody from the Elder Council or which ever General can muster enough forces to take and hold the city - unless the Aldmeri Dominion do something drastic. If every side quest was canon, Neloth would be dead, though he does make a mention to the quest in morrowind were you kill him by mentioning all the other councilors of house telvanni were assasinated while he escaped. they could easily pull something like that were even if you have killed amound motierre he could appear in a later game and refute that action... Missing one person in a massacre is easy to believe, but one man - a noble at that - surviving a direct attack from the assassin that not only killed the fake emperor and evaded capture, but then snuck onto the boat housing the true emperor and killed him whereafter further capture was evaded. I sincerely doubt they'll refute his life or death further down the road. It'll just end up being someone else from the Council, some general with a lot of strength, the Aldmeri taking advantage of the situation, or all out chaos throughout the empire.