UESP vs Elder Scrolls Wiki vs Imperial Library

Post » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:20 am

Personally my go-to has always been the uesp, I prefer the layout, and its easy to get lost in its Lore section. I do however know that an increasing number of people are turning to the Elder Scrolls Wiki, because it uesp seems to be lacking in Skyrim content. I just think the Elder Scrolls Wiki is untrustworthy. I don't know why. And the Imperial Library is very comprenshive, and very good for lore, but I just never seem to use it.

Thoughts? What do you use? Do you use different ones depending on the TES game?
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Post » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:24 pm

The Imperial Library is the best place for researching lore. Most of it is just the in-game texts in your browser, but there are some handy guides in there :smile: The Obscure texts are great, the archived forum posts are great. I never got into the forum there though.

For discussions on lore, I come here :P

UESP for game related info.

Never Elder Scrolls Wiki.
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Post » Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:51 am

The Imperial Library is the best place for researching lore.

I agree, but for some reason, I think its purely down to loyalty, I use uesp for lore research.
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Post » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:09 am

I agree, but for some reason, I think its purely down to loyalty, I use uesp for lore research.

Oh, I do too. I should have said that I meant for primary sources. UESP is usually okay for a quick summary, but for some of the more outlandish and metaphysical parts of lore, TIL is the way to go.

The one thing that UESP has that I wish the IL had is more links within articles. If you're reading an in-game text at UESP, you'll usually spot some links in the text itself that lead you to other articles and I really like that. I wish TIL did that, the search function at TIL isn't so great, . .
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