Lumpy
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I guess they did check where it was mentioned, but their brain couldn't comprehend checking in places where it wasn't mentioned, and should be, if it had its current powers.
For those that don't know, the lore was raped in several places in Oblivion, the Amulet of Kings being the main fuckup.Todd Howard: We have to be careful about that, as there's so much of it in previous games. We have people here who research Elder Scrolls lore, 'Lore Masters', just to make sure we're not saying anything that isn't true. One of the things we're very careful about is that we always write the lore from the standpoint of the world - the lore comes from someone within the world. So if we ever need to say 'well, that person was wrong', then we can do it.
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In Oblivion, a lot of the story revolves around the amulet of kings, so we put a lot of research into how the amulet has been mentioned in previous games - some of them attribute certain powers to the amulet, for example. We have three or four people who check all this full-time, plus we have ways of searching the text we've put in our games too - but it does take some time...
I guess they did check where it was mentioned, but their brain couldn't comprehend checking in places where it wasn't mentioned, and should be, if it had its current powers.