i find it amusing that the Elder scrolls is literally just a bunch of conflicting nonsense written by authors with biases on purpose and everyone goes "yay! deep lore!" and Dragon age does the exact same thing and people scream that the lore is being "raped" or whatever. ya'll dont know what you want
But that's simply not the case: at least not anymore. Yes, DA lore was constructed in a way not too different from the way TES lore is structured. Your (players) knowledge of the world must be a form of interpretation of conflicting narratives – because they’re all there is, save for a very selected range of events with which you directly interact with. Even is the latter cases though TES games used to be very careful to maintain this dubiousness surrounding what’s going on, Morrowind is the classic and best example: we do not
really know what exactly happened in this game. Was the prophecy genuine or was it simply a manipulation (by Azura, Vivec, the emperor, what gives)? What really happened at the Red Mountain (a background drama which is in fact the true plot of Morrowind, you have to dig quite deep to get that though)? What’s the Heart, what’s the nature of Ur’s existence and his true goals? We will
never know definite answers to these questions even though we sort of interact with these events and these people. TES games are – or, precisely,
used to be – written in this way on purpose. You almost never get ‘the truth’ – you are served ‘someone’s truth’ and that’s a world of difference.
