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I Like Bow Ties Bow Ties Are Cool wrote: If what I have read is true it is set in the Second Era. In other words they set it in the least documented Era of the Elder Scrolls saga.

Correct. The game takes place at the end of the Second Era, at the time right before General Talos (a.k.a. Tiber Septim by his adopted Imperial name) unites the provinces and forms the Third Empire. Thus began the Third Era.