Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-24653522-20140503150909

Pacman the great wrote:

According to Phrastus of Elihinir, Cyrodiil was in fact never a jungle; in The Heartland of Cyrodiil, he asserts the use of the phrase "endless jungle" to describe Cyrodiil is a transcription error, and upon closer inspection of the orginal and damaged manuscript, a more accurate translation would be "extensive upland". The unnamed scribe responsible for this error also mentioned "equatorial rain", which was infact not mentioned by the orginal text at all. Although there is no specific mention of his or any of his contempories' date, I would place his works anywhere from 2E 230 to 2E 580; his works feature in Elder Scrolls Online, so they must have been written before 2E 583, and in one of his lectures, he makes reference to Liminal Bridges, a work which itself makes reference to works of Galerion the Mystic, whose works originate from no earlier than 2E 230. In the works of Phrastus and one of his contempories, Lady Cinnabar of Taneth (who constantly criticsed each others' works), there is mention to the First Era, a concept which did not exist until the Second Era, when the Potentate usurped the throne of the Second Empire, which supports the idea of it dating from no earlier than 2E 230. Given the fact that in the middle of the Second Era Tiber Septim could not have reshaped Tamriel (barring a Dragon Break), and Phrastus of Elihnir lived in Elihnir (a town on the Cyrodiil-Hammerfell border) where could easily see whether or not Cyrodiil was a jungle, I think it's safe to say that Cyrodiil was never a jungle. It isn't in ESO. Interesting. I read this (The Heartland of Cyrodiil) in-game, but thought it was Zenimax's way of saying "uhh, THIS is why it isn't a jungle!" I tend to trust my Pocket Guide, but I have noticed some inconsistencies...