Just because all you tend to hear about in history are the Richard the Lionhearts, the Julius Ceasars, The Stalins, and Pol Pots, and the Hitlers doesn't make every figure in history a crazed Daesha commander. If anything, those types just leave a bigger mark on history over the people who are very comparable to our time or were important in creating the over all progressive environment of our time. Chrysalorious, Ibn Al-Haytham and other such medieval-classical names are ignored, despite being considerable influential for the development of the future. The scope could be broadened to progressively minded individuals in the science or the social shema.

But just because Elder Scrolls fits the bill of Medieval doesn't make it a representation on what the period was like by the sheer number of bandits dicking around in the countryside. True they existed, we also still have them now. The only thing that's changed over time is the methods by which the arts have changed.