You know the rest but let's just say that Skyrim isn't that great from a lore standpoint. While Morrowind contains many quests and storylines, the central plot revolves around The Tribunal, a triumvirate of god-like beings ruling over Morrowind, and their struggle against a former ally, the deity Dagoth Ur and his Sixth House a cult of followers stretching out from Red Mountain, the volcanic center of Vvardenfell, the island on which the game is set.

Then came Oblivion and it's lore was very medicore, (with some good bits like Mankar) if it wasn't saved by KoTN and SI. We shouldn't overlook Shadowkey and it's awesome concept of shadow magic too. Then came Morrowind with it's esoteric lore, cosmology, dragonbreaks, unreliable narrator and whatnot - the peak of lore. But the first real modern Elder Scrolls was Redguard, Kirkbride and Todd combo, it's the one that has established the world as we know it - Dwemer, Cyrodiil, Thalmor, the sload, elf > mer - and introduced some more lore brainstorming inside The Pocket guide to the Empire 1. Battlespire further expanded the daedric lore and oblivion realms. Daggerfall created the real basics, the Divines, the Daedra, even the alpha version of Anu/Padomay. Arena introduced the setting, which has very little to do with modern Tamriel apart from names now. Put simply, the writing was much better during the Morrowind period.

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