I was reading up on the history of Tamriel and it's emperors. I got to the part about the Wolf Queen. There is some serious conflicting dates that don't make any sense. In Morrowind, the book "The Biography of the Wolf Queen" and the book "The Wolf Queen, Book V" dates don't match up.

In "The Wolf Queen, Book V" It starts off with the date 3E 119 and says Emperor Antiochus ruled for 21 years(3E 98-119). Then it goes one year ahead to 3E 120 and starts to talk about Kintyra II becoming Empress and the Wolf Queen trying to get her son Uriel as the new emperor.

In "The Biography of the Wolf Queen" they say in 3E 114 Kintyra II was killed. Then 7 years later Uriel, The Wolf Queen's son takes the throne. Basically, the Elder Council ruled during this time. It doesn't directly say that but you can assume that.

In the Brief history of the Empire it doesn't exactly say the exact dates when all this went down.

One thing is for sure Uriel takes the throne at 3E 121 and Kinyra only ruled for 1-2 years. They both agree on that. But wtf why do they conflict? Anybody else ever notice that? Or am in the twilight zone and not seeing something?

No book in Mundas is completly true. Many show error due to that it is the same in real life. Nobody knows everything, (unless they have seen the sideways Wheel and still say I)

Really? I mean really? I mean something as factual as dates shouldn't be disputable. Unless it happened during the first Era or something thousands of years ago and the history is lost, but the the story of the Wolf Queen is only a couple hundread years old.

Hundreds of years old and told through Nordic oral hand-me-downs before an Imperial happened to be sitting around the Nord campfire one night when it was told, and put quill to paper...the dating system for tons of things in the Elder Scrolls universe is iffy at best and an outright lie at worst...

Jarth has a way of making things "his own" anyhow...

I FOUND A THING

http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=840109&st=0&p=12219494&#entry12219494

We on Earth don't even really know what year it is. Our calendar (called the Gregorian calendar) wasn't even adopted until the mid 16th century. We on Earth don't know the exact date of every event that occured two or three centuries ago. Why should Tamriel be any different?

OR, the devs [censored] up.

In fact, '0' A.D. isn't even an accurate startingpoint for what it was supposed to mark, considering that Jesus was born in either 2 or 4 B.C.

The point is, dates are easily confused.

Pretty sure that goes without saying :rolleyes: ...anyways, I believe OP wants an in-universe reason for the mistakes(?)...

That link I posted above contains comments from Tedders.... yes, they messed it up a bit in the fiction, but he tries to retcon it. The timeline he posted is apparently Beth-canon at the moment.