Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-1470368-20141018143354

HeliosHair UK wrote: Zenimax has already broken alot of lore. And many people are saying that the Altmer architecture is off, it could be the same with the land. Either way, if it's similar to Cyrodiil it would just be boring and lazy on bethesda's part. Before eso, I thought of Summerset isles as a incredibly mysterious and alien land entwined with magic that was much unlike the other provinces. Looking at The Elder Scrolls online's version of Summerset, I am very dissapointed. To be honest, I'm getting sick of seeing people post that Zenimax Online "broke the Lore" with TESO as if that's a bad thing. (Not necessarily saying that the quoted person above said that)

If you haven't noticed that Bethesda's broken their own established Lore with every single game in the series so far, you either haven't paid too much attention, or you're new to the series.

Besides that, TESO does not actually allow us to visit the entirety of the Summerset Isles. Just Auridon (Meaning that there's a chance that Bethesda will still show us the amazing Altmer architecture on the main island of Summerset, where the city of Alinor & the Crystal Tower are located).

TESO's primary purpose was to fill in all of the evidently-missing Lore for the 2nd Era. Before anyone else brings this up...Do any of you REALLY think that the sleazy Crassius Curio of the 3rd Era was the writer of the "Lusty Argonian Maid" play? (TESO basically told us that the "3rd Era" play was actually written much earlier)

Lore in TES is not meant to be taken for granted. It's not 100% accurate.

^ Too bad that over 90% of the TES fan-base chooses to believe that the Lore is word-for-word accurate on everything.

To address other folks:  The Ayleids are called "Heartland High Elves" by human races. Doesn't mean they are High Elves (though all Elves/Mer are related).

The Bosmer can also be argued to not originally be Mer, assuming their own Creation Myth is true. During the chaotic Dawn Era, they might as well have been shapeless beings that were given form by Y'ffre...for a price.

^Just the same as the fact that Bosmer blood is required (along with other Elven blood samples; which includes Orc blood) to create a facsimile that fools the Dwemer Security System in Skyrim's Discerning the Transmundane Quest.