Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24627553-20140316230248/@comment-29845234-20161024164336

Blademaster Jauffre wrote: Because a theory isn't related to the series. It isn't lore.

But there isn't some grand Platonic notion of "lore" any more. Yes there is stuff that is produced by Bethesda and stuff that isn't, but the majority of what people take in as "lore" is just information that people pick up about the series on the Internet. Which

Blademaster Jauffre wrote:

It kinda is. The amount of fan-work is easier to find than the real lore.

Not sure how you browse, but most of the stuff in TIL is on the left-hand side of the main page, and pretty much all the collections arrange both in-game and out-of-game stuff by theme and make them searchable (apart from the novels). The vast majority of anything I've ever found there has been in-game stuff, and I find Google far more useful for digging up submitted work (beyond the developer interviews and such) than the actual functions in the Library itself. But the vast majority of the content is in-game texts and dialogue; I really don't see how you can say it's "mostly" fan-work.