Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26893431-20161203235814/@comment-25035274-20161207025508

It's not entirely as simple as that. Some of Kirkbride's work, written after his departure from Bethesda, has been accepted by Bethesda as being canonical. Evidence? The books appear in-game as of Skyrim and ESO.

What it comes down to is that all that can be said for certain is that Kirkbride's work, that has not been presented in-game, is that it is of dubious canonicity. Right now, there's no hard answer regarding it. Bethesda don't say it is, but they also don't say it isn't. They largely leave it to us to fill in things, which I believe is what Kirkbride tries to do for us.

However, much of Kirkbride's lore is so... well... strange, that I personally choose to not run with it. The things that appear in-game, however? It's fairly obvious that they're either canonized, or at least officially acknowledged as being possibly canon.

Everything else is headcanon material, which even Kirkbride acknowledges in c0da. "Your interpretation," and all that.