All of the different authors themselves of the books must be important to average citizens because of the power they have to publish books in the first place through companies' permission and the experience they had to make it. If not all, then which are powerful through their reputation as individuals and as for the credit for the books they made?

The author of "Real Barenziah" created them as a kind of "harlequin romance" pulp fiction novel, but was nearly executed, (and WAS executed, at least on paper.). he now serves the queen under a new name, IIRC.


The anticipated disparity between well to do and commoner in terms of literacy does not seem to exist in mainland cyrrodiil, and so a thriving publishing system apparently is in sway.

IIRC?

Judging from Ted Peterson's writing in a past roleplay, there are at least a couple of best-selling authors such as Waughin Jarth and Carlovac Townway. Although literacy seems fairly widespread in Tamriel -- much more widespread than in our own Middle Ages -- I suspect most of the authors mentioned in TES aren't well known beyond a few circles such as the Mage Guild.

Oblivion's portrayal of authors in particular seem gratingly Victorian, or even more modern. The travel guide, the wilder Jane Austen, the muckraker who goes slumming...

Well said, Prints. I haven't kept up with the TES books the way I should have.

She certainly didn't waste any paper insulting just about everyone in Cyrodiil.

Means "if I remember correctly."

I despise that womn. or at least the dev who wrote her books. perfect oppurtunity to expand our knowledge of the cities.

they kind of needed to anyways, having dumped all the oldd cities[Mir Corrup anybody?] for a rther 'tudor-era' selection...

They haven't put much thought in the last two games about the state of society. This allows them to shove books everywhere rather willy nilly.

Fearful of the http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralGuardians frothing at the mouth if they dare put anything risque in these games, I imagine.

Um. Have you read some of the books that are in the series? Or, did you read that thread earlier about those books?

Also, the games seem to avoid representing a lot of the pulp authors that would provide a lot of the literary entertainment to the lower-classes. I'm thinking specifically of Quil-Weave here. Whatever fiction there is seem to be pointed at Middle Class, the Mages Guilders, and the Upper Class. Then the scholarly stuff is obviously directed at Guilders and Upper Class. ... So, yes, the representation is kinda Victorian in that way, but what would you honestly expect from a cosmopolitan Empire with high literacy rates.