I really hope they aren't going to make the player that guy/gal...
IE an actual person rather than an Ageless Faceless Gender-Neutral Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person doomed to fade into obscurity within ten years. That's kinda been the point of the main character of EVERY GAME, nothing you do really matters, because if you didn't do it, fate would find another crony.
That will never happen in a TES game, do not read too much into the teaser trailer the icon shown in the trailer is just a wall carving of what someone decided was a way to depict their version of a vision told by the wise men, not an exact viewpoint at all, so you can replace that character with a kajiit or argonian or orc if you want and still be true to the vision as told.