Board Thread:Oblivion/@comment-84.30.188.239-20160629101043/@comment-25356303-20180210171014

Sorry for the bump, but this is actually something that can only be truly explained from an out-of-universe perspective. As you can see on this thread (TIL), Mankar Camoran's speech was written by Michael Kirkbride in an email to Todd Howard, but it was really just a rough draft and had not been thoroughly fact-checked.

''Apropos of nothing, I wasn't paid for Mankor's diatribe. It was in an email I sent to the friendly folks at Bethsoft when I got the "Commentaries" gig. That whole speech came from a section of said email where I attempted to get inside MC's head so I could understand how he might think, and how that thought would translate to his writing.''

''Turns out, MC writes like me. Ah, well.''

''Then Todd up and had Terrance Stamp record it at the voiceover sessions. I was pretty surprised-- I wish I'd known or I would've *really* went nuts with it-- but who could ever be mad at something like that? Terrance Freakin Stamp.''

''Canon or not, my two cents is that MC is completely right, and Tamriel is just another, albeit very special, realm of Oblivion. But don't quote me...I didn't write this in-character.''

For additional corroboration, take a look at this explanation from Lady Nerevar (they are married now, if I'm not mistaken: her word on the subject is probably more reliable than most).

''Michael sent Bethesda a first draft that wasn’t proofread - they thought it was a final draft and put it in the game without checking things themselves. I think we can assume that in Tamriel-actual Mankar gets the assignments right.''

So yes, The Aspect Of Akatosh is correct in stating that it was an error in the game's script. There are a lot of instances of this sort of thing happening in TES: while they can be retconned in the future, it certainly helps to understand why they really happened!