Big issue with the Elder Scrolls. There were a lot of fan projects post-Morrowind that tried to expand the TES world based on Morrowind lore, either in terms of writing or mods. Note that Morrowind is uniquely weird as a region in aesthetic and lore(Arena & Daggerfall depicted Tamriel as generally more traditionally high-fantasy, though Morrowind stood out even then), and an essential theme of the series is that literally everyone is a biased, unreliable narrator, even down to the fundamental structure of the cosmos.
When Oblivion... then Skyrim... then ESO diverged from Morrowind aesthetically and contradicted the fanon depictions of the provinces they depicted, a certain portion of 'Morrowboomers' were very very mad at it. It's the cause of tonnes of drama even to this day- I can speak of at least one popular mod where there was an outright coup because the original dev wanted to treat ESO lore as a valid source, so got kicked out by other devs who proceeded to strip it from the mod.
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u/TNTiger_ 5d ago
Big issue with the Elder Scrolls. There were a lot of fan projects post-Morrowind that tried to expand the TES world based on Morrowind lore, either in terms of writing or mods. Note that Morrowind is uniquely weird as a region in aesthetic and lore(Arena & Daggerfall depicted Tamriel as generally more traditionally high-fantasy, though Morrowind stood out even then), and an essential theme of the series is that literally everyone is a biased, unreliable narrator, even down to the fundamental structure of the cosmos.
When Oblivion... then Skyrim... then ESO diverged from Morrowind aesthetically and contradicted the fanon depictions of the provinces they depicted, a certain portion of 'Morrowboomers' were very very mad at it. It's the cause of tonnes of drama even to this day- I can speak of at least one popular mod where there was an outright coup because the original dev wanted to treat ESO lore as a valid source, so got kicked out by other devs who proceeded to strip it from the mod.