Each reader sees different reflections through different lenses, and may come away with a very different reading. But at the same time, all of it is true. Even the falsehoods. Especially the falsehoods. – Urag gro-Shub of the College of Winterhold on the Elder Scrolls

In Cyrodiil's Imperial City, though ravaged by war the White Gold Tower still stands, and its Moth Priests still study the Elder Scrolls painstakingly seeking knowledge despite the fact that it will one day permanently blind them.

Lately, these scholars have noticed an odd trend in their studies. For whatever reason the insights granted by the Elder Scrolls are increasingly focused on the province of Skyrim.

The civil war in Skyrim has ended, and according to whispered rumors the Last Dragonborn of prophecy has emerged and vanquished Alduin, the ancient Nords' god of destruction.

It is because of these rumors – largely supported by evidence – that the Moth Priests have been able to determine that these insights reflect possible pasts or futures that have not happened and now never will.

Records of these insights, though valuable in their own way, are always stored together, apart from those considered to have been confirmed and those that remain uncertain.

These are the Falsehoods of the Elder Scrolls…

Author's note: I have the strangest feeling that all of my first chapters are going to be really short set ups. I'll work on that. In the meantime please enjoy these short vignettes about a world in which the Dovahkiin either never existed or died before the events of the Skyrim game… or maybe shortly afterward, by tripping and falling off a cliff while chasing butterflies.