Board Thread:Other TES Titles/@comment-24267938-20130620154222/@comment-7153552-20130620164714

Something to keep in mind is that Bethesda wasn't really making things connect in a huge arching fashion until Morrowind and forward. They kind of took the base story from the first two games and incorporated it into the prophecy, not in a shoehorn kind of way, but to make it so the whole series was together. It's an oversight, but one that was somewhat unavoidable. It may also be explained away as a Dragon Break.