The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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How to research for lore subjects!
By Zorkonov
Since I have started my Elder Scrolls lore channel the people in the comment love to correct me on things I get wrong in my video's.

Sometimes this is positive and makes me learn new things about the Elder Scrolls but mostly it is just people giving their opinion and then calling me an European dumbass.

This guide is for those people.
   
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Introduction
If you think someone is wrong about the lore and you want to correct him/her then there are two ways of doing that.
- Just yell that it is a mistake without being correctly informed, like this






- Giving an informed correction

We ofcourse want the informed correction, so how do you get the information you need?
The lazy way
First there is the lazy way, this is for the people who want to correct people in an informed way but do not want to put that much time into the matter.
So step one is:
- Check both Elder Scrolls wiki's on your subject.
- uesp.net/
- http://elderscrolls.wikia.com
Step two:
- Do not read the article, the article can be edited by anyone and maybe some things in the article are being exaggerated or left out on purpose because the writer did not deem them important

Step three:
- Scroll down to the references.
- The references are the places where the author got his information.
Step four:
- Check those references by yourself and then with the facts form your own informed opinion on the matter.
- You can check the references mostly on either
- Gameplay video's (If the reference is something you experience in game)
- The Imperial Library (If the reference is something from an in game book)
- www.imperial-library.info
The scholar's way
The second method to get the information you need is the scholar's way.
This method I use for most of my video's and is the most accurate method.

So what is the scholar's method?

Well the scholar's method means you search for every bit of information you can find, First hand
So you search for anything you can find on the subject ingame, and only after that you check the wiki's for references Just in case you have missed something

For scholars it is important you get every peice of information first hand, you want to have seen it yourself in canon material before you take it as truth. Never take the wiki's as your first place to search as I have found that wiki's make people lazy.

Conclusion
I hope this small guide will prove helpful to all the people just yelling falsehoods in comments.

If you want to check out my lore channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMW69rckdtyHUqaOyBO_4zg

An European dumbass,
Signing off

note:I do not think wiki's are bad, I truly appreciate the work done by wiki mods and author's. I just prefer getting my own information by either checking the references and seeing it for myself or by searching for it myself.
13 Comments
ᏝᎧᏒᏋ 9 Feb, 2017 @ 4:23am 
you get subs fast deeeng
Zorkonov  [author] 8 Feb, 2017 @ 9:58pm 
@Tasty Sweetroll There is a link in the conclusion
ᏝᎧᏒᏋ 8 Feb, 2017 @ 2:20pm 
Whats your channel? i wanna flame those idiots
Coronel Jimenez 8 Feb, 2017 @ 9:43am 
TrueSTL is a good source of information for lore.
Maraky 6 Feb, 2017 @ 10:12am 
Batata
Maraky 6 Feb, 2017 @ 10:11am 
Batata
Josef Stalin | Trade.tf 5 Feb, 2017 @ 3:30pm 
Overall, getting informations from Wikis is pretty okay, unless you're using them for high-level lore stuff, as those articles readily cite OOG content.
The scholarly method you mention works only if one is intelligent enough to be able to identify contradictions between sources, and decide on the credibility of said sources. One must not just have the information, but understand the implications thereof.


The Imperial Battlemage, Lore Fanatic and Elder Scrolls Entrepeneur Extraordinaire, out.
Josef Stalin | Trade.tf 5 Feb, 2017 @ 3:29pm 
Adding to your post:

Both the Elder Scrolls Wiki and UESP Wiki rely on OOG (Out of Game) content in their articles, which is uncanon (If you wish me to elaborate further on that, I will). They have incomplete and sometimes misleading articles.
However, they are accurate a lot of the time.
While it is true that anyone can edit them, both Wikis have dedicated patrollers that make sure edits are accurate. Other members of the community also police edits.
Furthermore, all information added to a lore article requires sourcing, which usually keeps false information out. Common knowledge and some of the incomplete articles are exceptions to this rule.
Zorkonov  [author] 5 Feb, 2017 @ 2:19pm 
@Roncast Ron
Yes, but the lazy way is also okay for video's. I just want to be sure I am telling the truth so I search for it myself. That is why I do not upload very much, making a video takes time and I mostly don't have that time haha
Daviana 5 Feb, 2017 @ 1:51pm 
Dang, you look for the lore subjects by yourself? This is why I don't make lore videos - I'm too damn lazy lol. Massive kudos to you mate.