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Dakimakura posted...

I would argue the opposite. Every race that is foreign to the games land is the canon character. Because how does it make any sense at all that this place is your native home yet you have no knowledge of any of it, known by no one from there, and do not own a residents or employment of any kind. It is as if you never existed in this place to begin with. Thus, you are a foreigner.

Well in the case of morrowind I think it's stated that your character even if you are dunmer, is from outside morrowind. Like you are descended from dunmer who left morrowind to live elsewhere. And then you go back to your ancient homeland. But in the story of morrowind's main quest

You're literally the Dunmer equivalent of Jesus Christ. You were a religious messianic figure in history and then got betrayed and killed. Then generations later were reincarnated