User blog comment:Draevan13/Imperial City DLC ideas./@comment-4975504-20130217004730/@comment-4975504-20130221154928

I didn’t specify what I meant because I didn’t think anyone would be stupid enough to think I implied the TES universe should stay exactly the same in a stagnant world were nothing new ever happen or changed.



Cyrodiil was retconned to a level in which Michael Kirkbride had to write all this shit up about how Tiber Septim used CHIM to change the environment. Bethesda still uses some of Kirkbride’s lore to this day but has never recognized CHIM or Tiber Septim’s usage of it, so the only other answer is Beth got lazy or wanted to change The Giant Roman forest into generic English countryside to attract the casuals (hate that word). It's actually said many times that Oblivion's main goal was to attract these kind of people into buying the product.

I'm not complaining about Skyrim.