How I Parse Through Elder Scrolls Lore
Since I plan to talk about The Elder Scrolls franchise quite a bit on this blog, it would be useful for me to start with the way I interpret the lore in the first place. To begin with, what is "canon?" Only the actual events depicted in official materials should ever be considered canon. The game's lore books are subject to the unreliable narrator. Works like C0DA are not official, and the fact that elements of these works have been incorporated into the games does not change that fact. Only events witnessed by the player (or the reader, in the case of the novels) can be considered factually true, with all other sources being fair game for debate or dismissal. The games do not and cannot depict Tamriel's true size. TES II: Daggerfall has a relatively small part of High Rock and Hammerfell scaled to be just a bit larger than England. TES V: Skyrim depicts the titular province at a size roughly comparable to Gotham City in "Batman: Arkham Knight." You on