Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9062114-20140217190926/@comment-1600847-20140217203343

I'd just like to point out that Bethesda isn't against using outside writers to establish in-game canon. Take for example the two Elder Scrolls novels, Infernal City and Lord of Souls. Both were written by Greg Keyes, an author un-affiliated with Bethesda. Yet they used his novels as canon for Skyrim. His novels had the following in them: the Thalmor, the Red Year, the Argonian Invasion of Morrowind, the Mede Dynasty, years before they were first introduced in-game in Skyrim. Though to be fair, Keyes does state in hte foreward that he worked closely with Bethesda to ensure the novels were accurate.

So if anyone thinks Kirkbride's writtings aren't canon just because he's not with Bethesda anymore, that's false.