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Canon PCs

Arena:

- Name: Talin (Arena game manual)

- Gender: Male (hero's father and General Warhaft are also named Talin)

- Race: Human (General Warhaft appears more like a Nord, Imperial, or Breton than any other race, and has a last name which sounds more human-esque than Elvish. Seeing as names are USUALLY race restricted, then it's likely Talin is the same race as General Warhaft)

Morrowind:

- Name: Unknown

- Gender: Male (Neloth's dialogue in Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC, the default character's gender is Male)

- Race: Dunmer (reincarnated Chimer, the default character's race is Dunmer)

Oblivion:

- Name: Bendu Olo (name programmed in Construction Kit)

- Gender: Male (another Bendu Olo in TES lore is Male, the default character's gender is Male)

- Race: Imperial (race of another Bendu Olo in TES lore, the default character's race is Imperial) or Breton (Sheogorath's race in Skyrim)

Skyrim:

- Name: Bendu Olo (Skyrim game manual screenshot, several demos)

- Gender: Male (another Bendu Olo in TES lore is Male, several demos, the default character's gender is Male)

- Race: Nord (Skyrim game manual screenshot, the default character's race is Nord) or Dunmer (several demos)

The Elder Scrolls Online is semi-canon

"A Dragon Break is a phenomenon where linear time is broken, and becomes non-linear."

"It is a re-alignment of time and space in response to an event which makes the normal continuity of reality impossible."

• Considering the fact there are several thousand Vestiges all doing the exact same quests for the exact same people at the (almost) exact same time (2E 582), and all being different races, genders, and making different decisions, then after becoming a hero of one Alliance then moving on to another as a "what if" scenario, then this situation can be compared VERY easily to that of the Daggerfall ending. Different choices and events that can't have happened at the same time yet did.

"Fal Droon's claim that the Dragon Break was a Third Era fabrication is apparently discredited by older sources, which are known to have described the Dragon Break as early as 2E 582."

- UESP's Dragon Break Page

Jagar Tharn is a Bosmer

"Generally the offspring bear the racial traits of the mother, though some traces of the father's race may also be present." - Racial Phylogeny

"I just don't trust that mongrel Elf. Part Dark Elf, part High Elf, and part the gods only know what. All the worst qualities of all his combined bloods, I'll warrant." He snorted. "No one knows much about him. Claims he was born in southern Valenwood, of a Wood Elven mother. Seems to have been everywhere since -- " - The Real Barenziah

Mankar Camoran is a Dragonborn

"...only those of the dragon blood were able to wear the Amulet of Kings..."(src)

"Offering myself to that daybreak allowed the girdle of grace to contain me. When my voice returned, it spoke with another tongue. After three nights I could speak fire."(src)

Why Michael Kirbride's OOG works are definitely not canon

Michael Kirkbride is a former writer and lore-master of Bethesda Softworks/Bethesda Game Studios. He wrote several works in Redguard, Morrowind, and the Knights of the Nine expansion for Oblivion. For whatever reason, after Morrowind he left Bethesda and later went to work for Telltale Games, but he was rehired temporarily by Bethesda to work on the KotN expansion.

After he left Bethesda, Kirkbride continued to write pieces of Elder Scrolls lore. Because he was a major contributor to the Elder Scrolls lore when he was at Bethesda, some fans believe that anything he writes, in or out-of-game, is canon. Kirkbride has stated that (I'm paraphrasing here) "The Elder Scrolls is an open-source universe". A piece of fictional media, such as a film, video-game, or book (Sherlock Holmes for example) that is open-source has no legal or intellectual owner and anyone can freely create and distribute any works based on that media's universe, essentially meaning that any work based on that media is canon. However, Bethesda still owns the Elder Scrolls franchise, meaning that the universe is not open-source, and that they can legally and intellectually say what is or isn't canon.

In an interview before Oblivion's release, either Todd Howard or Pete Hines said "Remember that only things that have been published in Elder Scrolls games should be considered official lore" when asked if two of Kirkbride's OOG works, Nu-Mantia Intercept and Love Letter from the Fifth Era, were canon. This means that Bethesda have acknowledged Kirkbride's OOG works, and that they do not recognize them, or any other OOG work, as a part of Elder Scrolls canon. The only exclusion to the quote are the two Greg Keyes novels, which were released by Bethesda after this interview.