Plot hole? Options

[Syradd]

I'm not sure where to put this, but it's been really bugging me! Haha. Okay, so i might confuse you with this, but bear with me.

The mages guild recommendation questline; how come the university doesn't expect a recommendation from Kvatch?

Obviously Kvatch is unable to give one, but If you never go to Kvatch, nobody on the outside is aware of what's happening there, so therefore the university should expect a recommendation from there. So if you collect recommendations from all the available cities but AVOID Kvatch, they don't expect one. Maybe there should have been a mention of this in-game. I don't know. Lol

Okay... I'm confusing myself, but I hope you understand my point! Thoughts? Any other plot holes you guys can think of? I LOVE this game... but I think this is an interesting point. Lol

[Acadian]

SubRosa, that is a good point about quest timing. I shouldn't imagine it would be too hard for Sigrid to have a brief 'Recommendation' topic that would change based on whether Kvatch was still under siege, Kvatch was free but the OB Crisis was ongoing, or post OB Crisis.

Grits, I fondly remember when you introduced us to terraforming magic up at the Bretonic coffee plantation! I would imagine that is a branch of the Alteration school?

[mALX]

SubRosa, that is a good point about quest timing. I shouldn't imagine it would be too hard for Sigrid to have a brief 'Recommendation' topic that would change based on whether Kvatch was still under siege, Kvatch was free but the OB Crisis was ongoing, or post OB Crisis.

Grits, I fondly remember when you introduced us to terraforming magic up at the Bretonic coffee plantation! I would imagine that is a branch of the Alteration school?

Player: "Do you have a recommendation quest for me?"

Sigrid: "Just go to the top of that hill there, close that Oblivion gate and kill all the loose Daedra in the courtyard and behind the chapel. Retrieve the Count's ring, and I will forward a recommendation to Raminus Polus for you..."

[Elisabeth Hollow]

Player: "Do you have a recommendation quest for me?"

Sigrid: "Just go to the top of that hill there, close that Oblivion gate and kill all the loose Daedra in the courtyard and behind the chapel. Retrieve the Count's ring, and I will forward a recommendation to Raminus Polus for you..."

Player: "Ahhh...what?!"