What happened in Cyrodiil? Options

[Lady Saga]

What do you think happened to Cyrodiil 200 years into the 4th era? Is there an official explanation as to what happens? Does the Arcane university still exist? Is Cyrodiil in as much a decline as portions of Skyrim are?

I'm just wondering about all this, as I just tried to do some research and can't find anything official. I only looked at UESP, though.

[Lady Saga]

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Those are mistakes for sure. They are big mistakes, but I'm not "blaming" Bethesda for them. It is possible a real-life historian on Earth could have made a glaring mistake of the same magnitude, and for eons nobody knows the difference. It took awhile for people to realize some of Hitler's ancestry was Jewish, for instance. We were never taught this when I was in school. Not that some historian screwed up by not getting this into the original history books after WWII; my point is mistakes and inconsistencies can and do happen.

I wish my memory were better sometimes. There are things I've heard about throughout my life. About the Civil War here in America, about Africa. About Constantiople. About this about that, where history was a certain way, and then someone or some peoples do some better research only to discover the original historians got it all wrong...

So I'm not blaming Bethesda en masse. I'm blaming the "historian" who screwed up when he was writing about Mankar Cameron before I'd blame Bethesda as a whole. And look...its not like I'm blindly defending Beth, here, okay? There's stuff I actually do get mad about, like the dumbed-down hotkey system in Skyrim. But screwed up lore? I can live with it. It's possible and plausible, the way I see it, especially in a roleplay sense, that some "scribe" somewhere just didn't get the story right..

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Apr 5 2012, 09:44 PM