One of the more insidious things to occur in the wake of the White Gold Concordact and the peace it brought to Tamriel is the attack on the historical record. Individuals seeking to obfuscate the truth find welcome allies in those who would benefit from their words. You need look no further regarding this sort of revisionism than the so-called Last Dragonborn, a folkhero created for propaganda purposes by the Nords in Skyrim.

Having done extensive research on the subject despite the barely disguised hostility of the locals, I have emerged with numerous facts and details regarding the subject. My conclusions are inescapable: the Last Dragonborn is a myth and exists as a whole-cloth construction by the Bard's College in Solitude.

Many of my more foolish colleagues point out this is unlikely given the numerous eye-witness accounts of the Last Dragonborn's so-called heroics but I would like to remind the universities of Tamriel the Nord race's honor has never prevented them from fabrications so long as it enhances their personal glory. Every hold in Skyrim contains individuals who claim to have personally met the Dragonborn and, as often as not, commissioned him to do some form of epic deed.

This eye-rolling series of claims can be scene most tellingly in Whiterun, the place where the Last Dragonborn supposedly discovered his powers. There, in a shop run by an odious little man named Belethor, hundreds of items exist at marked up prices that were supposedly sold to him by hero. This collection of junk he tries to pass off as treasures ranges from glass armor taken from murdered Thalmor guards to crudely-made iron daggers. Belethor is not alone in his claims amongst merchants either, every shopkeeper seemingly quick to point to some trinket or item sold to them by the ludicrously titled Slayer-of-Alduin.

The ever-expanding legend of the Last Dragonborn is assisted by the attribution of virtually every important happening during the Dragon's Return and Stormcloak Rebellion to their person. Both the Mage's College in Winterhold and Companions mercenary group claim the Last Dragonborn joined their ranks only to rise to stellar ranks in a profoundly short time.

Critics of the Last Dragonborn, as much as one can criticize a fiction, have stooped to the level of these liars by attempting to link this figure to the Emperor's assassination and resurgance of the once-weakened Skyrim Thieves' Guild. These later two claims are especially disgusting as it attempts to foster blame for the local guard's inability to do their jobs on a demigod.

It does, however, lend credence to the idea the Last Dragonborn being a myth as defenders just as easily claim the figure was an avowed opponent of both. Maven Blackbriar, a prominent mead distillery owner turned politician, had this to say, "The Last Dragonborn was a personal friend to both myself and my family. Any ill words spoken about them are products of jealousy and misbegotten ill-will. How else would I have parlayed my long-association with them into a Senatorship?"

Now what is more likely? That the Last Dragonborn was an actual figure or is merely the shared delusion of a beaten people hoping to regain some sense of honor in the wake of a brutal civil war?