I passed a Hand of Almalexia who piped up and delivered to me this brilliant line:
"By the Saints, watch duty is as boring as paperwork."
This line might be acceptable for a lowly city guard, but Her Hands are said to be among the most powerful mortal warriors in Tamriel. They're supposed to be somber religious warriors who have devoted their entire adult lives to Almalexia's protection.
And therefore, they are not allowed to talk.
Epic. Simply epic. Now let's talk about how the Aldmeri Dominion wasn't formed until 300 years after this game takes place
How do you know that? Are you going by
this piece of scholarly wisdom, which also literally calls the Altmer inbred baby-killers and makes them out to be monsters? A reliable source, to be sure.
or about how Cyrodiil is once again a boring English countryside rather than a jungle, even though the game takes place before Tiber Septim CHIMMed it up. Although, ZO doesn't even acknowledge that piece of lore. They simply chalked up hundreds of years of written history recorded by dozens of scholars describing Cyrodiil as a jungle to a "transcription error".
The discrepancy is there, but I think Bethesda deserves the blame for this one, not ZeniMax. They should have bitten the bullet and admitted they were retconning Cyrodiil a long time ago, rather than dragging it out with the CHIM thing. They knew this game was coming, and they knew that Cyrodiil wasn't going to have any wacky jungle design in it.