The realms are the Princes, the plane(t)s are the Divines, Lorkhan is split between Nirn and the moons.

Where then is Talos? WHAT IS TALOS?

In my own mind, the divine Talos serves as the ideostructural support of the Empire. In reenacting the cosmic psychodrama that birthed the Mundus from the bones and sinews of the gods, so too did the constituent hero-actors who birthed the third era become immured in their own creation.

An exo-exsistential being who resides in a world so different and obscure Tamrielans that their world seems like a mere fabricated game to is inhabitants. This being manifests itself from time to time as the hero of the empire, who all at once masters the role of King, Rebel, and Observer, an ability inherent in their very nature.

That creation has become symbolically immured in the Dragon. I suspect that Martin was the final nail in Talos' (non-)identity. Perhaps the Thalmor are right: Talos was a man. Talos has always been a man. A sort of Orwellian mythopoeic retroactivity. That's why his blessing exists, but does nothing.

Talos is an amalgam of Lorkhan, the Dragon, and Magnus. He is a higher order than than the Ehlnofey in all their forms and is not present in a form observable to them.

Actually, I was under the impression that that was, alas, a bug. In addition, his blessing still cures all diseases and such, same as the other Divines.

Talos' blessing actually does lower the shout times, the glitch only exists in the text.

Talos' blessing channeled through one of His amulets isn't bugged either.

Once upon a time I would've thought that Talos' sphere overlaps or supersedes the Missing Lorkhan's, by the very nature of his Ascension and the hole he filled.

Are the other Aedra bound to their planets, in a similar fashion to Lorkhan? Perhaps only able to manifest in the ways we're familiar with outside their own spheres/boundaries.

That last bit was a little joke. I suppose this was one of those times when I ought to have stooped to emoticons, for clarity.

"After the world is materialized, Lorkhan is separated from his divine center, sometimes involuntarily, and wanders the creation of the et'Ada."

Can't think of a more accurate answer there.

Talos: I AM THE THIRD ERA

And now his shattered empire hang around like the dead moons above? Woah

The moons dissapeared for a time at the beginning of the 4th era.

TalOS is an operating system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalOS said this to me.

Hmm. If only we could get a copy of that, and use the Staff of Magnus to reimage KINMUNE...

Would never work. The DR[ea]M is uncrackable. The Dev[a]s are very proprietary.

We know of at least one Avatar of Talos, Wulf. As such, there has to be a divine quotient to him, and he cannot, as the Altmer argue, be just a man.

I dissagree that he represents Lorkhan, however, though he may have taken the latters place in the Pantheon. The racism, or more properly the schism between Man and Mer that is associated with Lorkhan isn't present in general Talos worship. In fact, rather than facilitate the conflict between the two, Talos brought them closer together then they have ever been. As such, his actions and legacy run countrary to the general theme of Lorkhan and his Shezzarine's, indicating to me that Talos was something else.

Exactly what, i fear i am not qualified to posit.

An interesting read would be http://www.imperial-library.info/content/oblivion-shezarr-and-divines. It explains Lorkhans/Shors/Shezarrs position in the Imperial pantheon.

And largely supports the idea that Talos takes Lorkhan's place as the 'God of Men' amongst the standard Aldmeri pantheon. It does not, however, offer any insight into Talos's divine links as far as temperment. He most certianly does not represent the rampant anti-Mer warlord that Lorkhan is often represented as.

oh geez, you're a genius.