» Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:09 am
From an in-game standpoint, having never fought Jagar Tharn, I can't say, but if he's any good at avoiding falling into lava, then I'd say he has an edge at least.
Seriously though, you take away extra factors (Dagoth Ur being fueled by the Heart, Tharn's control over the Empire), and I imagine either one stands a roughly equal chance. But that's not how it would go down, we all know this, so my bet is definitely on Dagoth. He's powerful enough to take on the other living gods, building his own Numidium (which probably would've been a lot stronger the original), and has his own army, which, despite being much smaller than what Tharn had at his disposal, I do imagine could do some serious damage. Especially with Dagoth using the Blight to turn people, it could potentially be only a matter of time before more of the Empire was serving Ur than Tharn.
Suffice it to say, absent of the Heart's destruction, Dagoth would've become the new Emperor. (Something I'd really like to see, actually.)