Once again I want to take time to try and protect new players (and new characters). Don't worry I am talking for myself also. Every other updates I start fresh.
If in Elsweyr we see the "return" of Abnur Tharn (among others) then it stand to reason that we have to have gone through the original main storyline.
SO PLEASE HAVE IT AS A CHOICE TO START THE GAME WHERE WE WERE STARTING IT ON 4 RAINS' HAND 2e582 … or April 4, 2014.... that way we can meet Abnur Tharn correctly in his full "unglory" !
PLEASE
During the afternoon of Loredas, 6 Sun’s Dawn 2e578 a big piece of Aetherius fell to Nirn. It was the first major piece of Aetherius to fall on Nirn in more than five hundred years. It scattered around the world as millions of shards. It was rapidly documented by Lady Cinnabar of Taneth in her pamphlet Aetherial Fragments that "... when three shards meet, they re-form into a silvery prism by unknown process and confer the power unlocked by the merger to a nearby being." The Order of the Black Worm, commonly known as the Worm Cult, reappeared in Tamriel shortly thereafter and some of its members are avidly searching said shards.
In the last week of First Seed 2e579, an arcane explosion occurred in the Imperial City — a night of storms, and trembling terrain. They named it the "Soulburst". That day Emperor Varen Aquilarios disappeared without a trace. His wife, Clivia Tharn, ascended to the Ruby Throne as Empress Regent under the guidance of the Necromancer Mannimarco. Ushering a time of increased instability within the Empire of Cyrodiil which finally grew into “The Three Banners War”.