The Godhead

[A Disappointed Horse]

Ever since finding out about the Godhead, CHIM, Zero-Summing, Amaranth and all that jazz I find I can't look at this series the same way anymore.

I know that it is highly debated how much of it is canon, because of MK and everything, so I have a question.

For those of you who know about it, do you personally treat it as canon when playing? (whether or not bethesda says it is or isn't)

[psychotron666]

The Godhead being canon or not is pretty much irrelevant really when it comes to playing the games.

But Chim is canon, talos achieves Chim and used its power to retroactively change the landscape of cyrodil in the 4 years between morrowind and oblivion. But that was mostly just a scapegoat for lazy writing because Bethesda wanted to procedurally generate the cyrodil map off algorithms instead of hand crafting it like all their other maps in games from morrowind and beyond.

This is also confirmed in Skyrim by that preacher in whiterun.

But talos achieving Chim is canon, zero summing is canon, the love letter from the 5th era is canon (meaning that landfall and numidium destroying nirn is technically canon, but may not come to pass as the love letter being sent back in time to morrowind may technically change the future and might stop landfall from ever happening).

The only things there that haven't been fully proven canon is the Godhead and amaranth.