User blog comment:G0LD3NF1RE/What TESO offers Skyrim and MMO fans/@comment-66.119.59.70-20120513044726/@comment-66.119.59.70-20120513155140

"Prior to Oblivion, and specifically in the Pocket Guide to The Empire,[1] Cyrodiil was described as a vast jungle. Arena's maps of the region with a boreal green, fading into brown in the west and a richer pine green in the southeast, towards Black Marsh.[2] Oblivion, however, found Cyrodiil to be completely lacking in any form of tropical climate. Former game developer Michael Kirkbride wrote a minor text rationalizing the change within the game, wherein Emperor Tiber Septim uses CHIM to bring a temperate climate to the region. The Imperial Library refers to the text as a "retcon".[3] " --Cyrodil, Geography section.