A long time ago, I stumbled across the Elder Scrolls Fanon. It was around the point where I was active in fan-fiction and fanon, (Star Wars Fanon the most noticeable) being a big Elder Scrolls fan I joined up. Looking back on a few of my creations I'm 50% "It's not that bad." and 50% "I can't believe I wrote that lol!"

It lived and prospered for a while, then something happened with the Imperial Library. I dunno what, some bad mouthing from both sides (I think one of the wiki mods had at one point been a member of the IL forums and some bad blood re-emerged), I didn't care for the wiki politics I just worked on my own pieces and edited a few others, didn't care much for the wiki politics. It died in the end, but does anyone remember it? I doubt it because I believe it was very obsurce. Even for the Elder Scrolls. But you never know.

I remember it, though I don't recall any real controversy between it and TIL.

Nah, no controversy. All I noticed was some bad mouthing, I do believe that one of the wiki mods was a member at the IL, but left because he got negative reaction to a theory of his. I think the Fanon made a bigger deal out of it.

I'm quite familiar with the Imperial Library website. but what's the Fanon? :flamed:

Fanon: Elements which are not in the official canon of a fictional world but are widely believed to be or treated as if they were canonical, including in writing fan fiction.

We should create an Elder Scrolls roleplay wiki for our characters and stories we write here.

Edit: Oh, I see you asked what's the Fanon, not what is fanon.

http://tesfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Wow, they totally put the ancient Sith race as the Aldmeri ancestors. Woah. :ermm:

Heh, sith. Funny sort they were. Not very much like Aldmer though. Their much more like the human ancestors of the bretons. Enslaved and then things got busy.

Lycanthropic_Nerevarine?

I remember that guy. Where'd he go off to?

Thanks for the info--and no, I didn't even know what fanon was, but now I got it.



Thanks for the link. Cool.

The same does sound familiar. So quiet possibly. What happened?

Nah, some guy named Dagoth Uberleet, apparently. Unless he was L_N.


The old fanon wiki links are broken, so I can't really say. As far as I can tell, a member at TIL's forums posted the link to the wiki, we discussed about how it has almost nothing to do with TES, and someone at the wiki took offense and said some stuff.

So, we need to bring it back. Something like this: http://www.evil-wizards.org/swtor-wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

A different franchise, but it would be awesome if there was an Elder Scrolls one. With many interesting characters and plots.

I was trying to avoid the issue, but...

Why?

Lets look at the current 'fanon' wiki. First off, its not actually fanon in the correct definition of the term, that is "a set of theories based on that material which, while they generally seem to be the "obvious" or "only" interpretation of canonical fact, are not actually part of the canon. Occasionally, the explanation seems good enough to just be "common sense." Even if we expand it to "fan made stuff thats accepted by the community," the articles in the current wiki don't fit the bill. But lets ignore semantics for the purposes of this discussion.

The current wiki has very little to do with Elder Scrolls, outside of the occasional reference to a TES place or term. 99% of it might as well be set in an alternate universe. While you could say that the wiki should only accept material that is relevant and directly based on TES lore (i.e. "lore friendly") such a thing is nearly impossible to grade and police. While its obvious that a "Skull Kingdom" has nothing to do with anything, the idea that Yokuda was sunk by a time/space distortion is a bit harder to disprove. This is the single biggest problem with the current wiki.

Which brings us to point four: the articles don't have much in common, other than being based (however loosely) on TES. The Starwars wiki you linked is united by a single game, which makes it a tad more cohesive. A wiki covering all of TES "fanon" would include half a hundred RP settings and twice as many characters and locations, few of which could cohabit a continuity. Unless strict organization is enforced (again, hard) it will be very hard to tell which articles belong to which setting. If everything is organized by RP or story, wouldn't it be just as simple to just look at the appropriate forum thread?

To summarize, I don't see the point.

So is the point of 'fannon' to provide a framework of things fans can include in their writing? So events that could be consistently referenced to throughout many different RPs? If I'm understanding it right, that means it's fan-created material that fits with existing cannon, er. Right? It's just that 'Blighters' thing on the front page made me cringe a little.

Also, Ms Nerevar posted as I was. I guess I'm inclined to agree, to an extent.

Considering how the last one ended up. History teaches us to learn from our mistakes.

Thanks to Bethesda for creating contradicting canon. Bah!