Well, a dragon break, as you may know, is when Akatosh breaks, because of [censored] ups in time. The Tribunal (or Vivec at least) made it combined their time streams so that they were gods since the start, or something like that.

Then there's the Mukrariarairiahf Sect guys who danced on White Gold, and so on.

Maruhkati Selective.

What I meant was that you could break Akatosh with divine power, such as the Heart of Lorkhan, Numidium, or I guess with the kind of ritual/dance the Maruhkati performed. Not that every time a mortal tries to use divine power Akatosh is broken, but that's when it seems most likely to work.

Speaking of divine power and dragon breaks, http://www.imperial-library.info/fsg/nazzarticle4.shtml Not official, but interesting. It also has a much longer answer to my question.

Actually that is exactly what happens. I should say, all the mundex spirits had every power at every time amendment at every ordering, which is to say none of them could ever fully express; our world was young and so were its architect gods. As it applied in the Dawn, it applies after.

It's not Breaking the Dragon that is required to become a god, but rather the result of the full Divine presence of a god. The Dragon Break by the Marakhuti was not the first. With this is mind it is much easier to understand why the Warp of the West exists, and how the Tribunal could protect their people against the Dragon Break.

There is also a nice bit in the Sermons about walking with different feet as not to ruin the good earth. I'll leave that to more dedicated scholars.

Becoming and being gods all along. It applies to us all if you were to take the words any sensible Mer.

Yeah, I wasn't saying that Breaking the Dragon was required to become a god, I was saying that the two - dragon breaks and apotheosis, or at least dragon breaks and mortal use of divine power - seem pretty strongly linked.