*Nods* Even if you've got goldfish brains like me, you had to know at least some pieces of Lore to get around the MQ of Morrowind - which gave an impression of depth, a whole culture whose surface you're barely scratching. Sadly, for Oblivion and SI, that was not the same. The plots actually became interesting and started to make some sense to me when I read outside the game. Let us struggle in a mythical mess we're struggling to understand, Bethesda !
I remember the first time I bother to read the "36 Sermons of Vivec" series. Heads were blown, no less. Spit-shined fanciful graphics could only do so much, but it's these things that keep people coming back.