Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150216141300/@comment-12599067-20150222005352

Harold Burned-Mane wrote: (I saw the book, but I don't see how it is possible that have cannons without gunpowder. And why do cannons never appear in any of the games? There is even a naval mission in Skyrim and we go aboard the Emperor's ship in another. Why would the Emperor's ship, the equivalent of Airforce 1, not have any cannons for defense if cannons existed? That book also never appears in any of the other games, so clearly Bethesda changed their minds and retconned cannons out of the universe.) (Actually, when you go to Japhert's Folly (or wherever it is the Blood Horkers are headquartered), you have to get inside the fortress and get back out so that the East Empire Company can bombard it. Since you can't really bombard a fortress with ballistae and fitting a catapult on a boat isn't that easy (there's not one on the boat anyways), it seems safe to assume the ship had cannons.

The Emperor's Ship probably only has around twenty or so Penitus Oculatus agents aboard it, so it's not exactly Airforce 1. It's more like the private jet of a world leader-- except it's a boat and it's got more security on it, since it's larger.

The Sermons of Vivec and the book "Ashlander Hymns" only appear in Morrowind. Does that mean they are retconned as well?)