...but our jailer is Akatosh. Not Lorkhan trapping everyone inside of this mortal plane. Instead, Lorkhan granted us all this opportunity to achieve godhood for ourselves like Talos eventually does. And when Akatosh sealed Mundus from Oblivion, he also prevented anyone from being able to truly become a divine on their own. This is why Talos does not have a realm of his own. He ascended into a sort of limbo, possibly sharing in a space with Lorkhan in Mundus.

Akatosh does not care if the Altmer ever "go back" to being divines as they think they were, Akatosh does not want anyone leaving the Mundus, he wants all of us mortals to stay here and worship him to regain power he feels was stolen from him by Lorkhan's "trick".

Throughout all of history, Lorkhan or Shor has always aided Nords in times of dire need, when Ysmir was about to be tricked by Herma Mora into becoming an elf, Shor banished Herma Mora away and saved Ysmir. He resurrected Wulfharth in their fight against those who were siphoning the power of his own Heart. Even in the events of Elder Scrolls Three: Morrowind, when the connection is severed and the false gods known as the Tribunal die, Akatosh tries to imprison the Heart to never be used again by anyone. He fears the power of the Heart of Lorkhan.

What is different about the Nords, is they do not siphon power from the Heart but instead are blessed by it without ever seeing it. Lorkhan favors men, and is the real reason why humans will come to dominate all of Mundus. To become so strong, they will one day become one with Lorkhan, giving him enough strength to kill the userping Akatosh.

Throughout history, false names have been given to some of the divines. The true entity behind the name of Akatosh is not who we believe him to be. I don't know what he is exactly but he is not friendly towards men nor mer. He only cares for his own power.

I will come back at a later date, many lorebooks throughout the Elder Scrolls hint at the true nature of the divines. Quests inside Elder Scrolls Online also bring some curious questions to the surface. Why is it that the Ebonheart Pact accepts the Dungmer....sorry... Dunmer as an ally? Simply because of an Akaviri invasion? But after that, what justifies us in siding with these Dark Elves? When one of the first things you do when entering Morrowind is ask an ancient ancestor about the Heart, key to godhood, if it is ok and safe, if the divinity of the Tribunal will wane someday, by Vivec's own words.



It's very on the nose, that beginning quest. Perhaps there is something brewing in Skyrim, that tolerance of the blasphemous Tribunal has gone on for too long, that those who enable this userper Akatosh as well might be defeated. Choice has been given to all mortals, the opportunity to choose our own path, to live or to die, to love or to hate. Shor, I believe, has truly loved men from the beginning. Kyne breathed life into us in the beginning to create beings that would truly live to the fullest and fight against those who wish to unmake Mundus.

That's all I wanted to say for now. I don't believe things are as simple as they seem. I think we are being played for fools, being made to turn on one of the very few Gods that actually cares for us mortals. I'll gather more screenshots to share on this topic, for now, I wanted to get my thoughts here and see if others might agree or if everyone will think it's a schizophrenic lore rambling.