Who is the Dovahkiin?This part is the part I'm the least bit sure about... But I got many guesses...
I believe he could have something to do with Tiber Septim directly, a reincarnate perhaps, especially if the other Nine Divines kicked him (Talos) out of the Mythic like the steps quote indicates).
Why would they FEAR him?They would fear him not as a mere lone threat but as a coming leader of the mortal men and mer united under a new empire. Starting a new bloodline, the dragon born moniker is said to belong to the bloodline of kings to the Cyrodiil Empire.
The Dovahkiin, whoever he is, is the 4th dragonborn.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3593710/Skyrim-Wallpaper2.png) I think those are the other three previous Dragonborns and the previous rulers of the other Cyrodiil Empires.... First being Alessia, the second being Reman Cyrodiil, and the last being Tiber Septim.
Hinting at how this Dovahkiin or Dragonborn will dawn a new empire and start the 4th era.The Dragons/Aedra gods would fear this person because they want to “regain the mantle of the imperishable spirit" and not be trapped on the mortal plane of Nirn any longer
My Idea for who the Dovahkiin isWell my idea, and this is just a guess, the Dovahkiin has something to do with Lorkhan/Shor.
Shor (God of the Underworld): Nordic version of Lorkhan, who takes sides with Men after the creation of the world. Foreign gods (i.e., Elven ones )
Spoiler They primarily worship those Aedra which removed themselves from the creation process in time to save their divinity.
As with nearly all Tamrielic religions, they revere Akatosh, whom they call Auri-El, as their chief deity.
conspire against him and bring about his defeat, dooming him to the underworld. Atmoran myths depict him as a bloodthirsty warrior king who leads the Nords to victory over their Aldmeri oppressors time and again. Before his doom, Shor was the chief of the gods.
So the history of him vs. the other Aedra would give him more then enough motive to help out the humans with a hero when the time comes that the other Aedra want to destroy him and Nirn (possibly the same thing) and go back to where they came from as free spirits.
I think he is sending another Shezzarine or avatar down.He has a history of helping out the three other emperors with shezzarines and/or demi-gods.
Each one of the three previous dragonborn Emperors was helped by a Lorkhan or Kynareth before.
- Alessia had the infamous Pelinal Whitestrake, who was sent to Alessia to become the leader of her army. Pelinal was a demi-god possibly the son of Lorkhan.
- Reman Cyrodiil was actually a son of the gods himself! The http://www.imperial-library.info/content/oblivion-remanada-1 describes him as the product of a union between King Hrol (and the Spirit of St. Alessia. And http://www.imperial-library.info/content/oblivion-remanada-2 links him to Tiber Septim even. Reman instituted the modern coronation rites, such as the Dragonfires. Known as the Culture god-hero of the Second Empire, Reman united Cyrodiil and led its armies to victory over the Akaviri (tsaesci Invasion) the same invasion that his father King Hrol had visions of. Reman defeated the Akavir and then accepted the fealty of the invaders and accepted their military and strategic input for the good of the newly formed Second Empire. (Worth noting the dragon symbol and the blades and all that came from this) The http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Reman_Dynasty was ended by the Dunmeri Morag Tong at the end of the first era.
Spoiler When I found out about King Hrol it got real interesting because when doing a google search for his lore page it suggested King Harold. King Hrol to a known Shezzarine, Harrald Hairy Breeks. - http://www.imperial-library.info/content/oblivion-timeline-series
Ragnar Lodbrok (Ragnar "Hairy-Breeks", Old Norse: Ragnarr Loebrók) Ragnar was a Norse legendary hero from the Viking Age who was thoroughly reshaped in Old Norse poetry and legendary sagas.
and
Harald Sigurdsson, later given the epithet Hardrada (Old Norse: Haraldr hareráei, roughly translated as "hard ruler") Harald's death is often recorded as the end of the Viking Age.
Could Harrald Hairy Breeks be a combination of the two? or at the least be inspired/named from them as we know Norse Mythology has played a role in the backstory of the Nords in many different ways.
Just thought I'de share.
- Tiber Septim had Ysmir who was a avatar of Shor/Lorkhan to help him out. (Backstory on this Shezzarine http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1150358-skyrim-trailer-breakdown/page__view__findpost__p__16838257.)
And more importantly they each conquered or united all of Tamriel under one Empire and started a new era. Another Hint as that's what the Dovahkiin is to do.
Another God that might play a role in this is Kynareth.Kynareth, whom the Nords called Kyne, was a widow of Shor maybe that's where the lyric "sole-single son" comes from? Making the Dovahkiin the son of the two? or just a shezzarine (avatar) sent by either one of them?
Kynareth sent Alessia a son, the Nordic demi-god hero Morihaus, to advise and aid Alessia. He helped her to rally the other slaves to her cause. From that moment Alessia was known as the Slave-queen. Alessia had Kynareth also sent Alessia visions that would aid her fight against her masters. The third of these visions was of another legendary figure of the First Era, the infamous Pelinal Whitestrake, who was sent to Alessia to become the leader of her army.
Who or What are the Dragons exactly?Remember the one group of Aedra that that
continued to weaken, even after they had determined what was happening to them. These beings realized that, in order to maintain their existence, it would be necessary to procreate and bring forth future generations. If the Dragons are not these Aedra themselves they are an offspring of them.The next line being the important indication of this.
With each generation took more and more of the divinity of their ancestors, until finally they had weakened to the point of being mortal beings.
This indicates to me that the “FIRST” of these offspring of these Aedra were not Ehlnofey but something else, Dragons perhaps. Because that above three steps quote says, “The world of mortals will be over.”
but after more and more generations of offspring of that group of Aedra the children became less and less divine and eventually the mortals were formed.
These beings were called the Ehlnofey, the "bones of the earth", and were the first inhabitants of Nirn.”
Eventually, the Ehlnofey would diverge into the various races of man and mer. The Aldmer, or First Ones were direct descendants of the Ehlnofey. These Aldmer are the ancestors to the race(s) of mer on Nirn.
The Altmer actually consider themselves direct-line descendants of the Aldmer and thus more divine then the other Mer. According to Altmer legend, the Aldmer were one of the two direct descendants of the Ehlnofey, the other being the proto-race of man.
(They are mistaken here though as there were two groups of Ehlnofey not two different descendants, but the Aldmer are descendants from the first group of Ehlnofey and the races of Man are descendants from the other, more on this below in the Anuad)Mankind's beliefs differ from the Mer interpretations of the creation myth. Men believed that they were created from nothing by the et'Ada responsible for Nirn, and thus considered their existence a gift and Lorkhan a hero.
What is a Ehlnofey? Read more about them and how they came to be in the Anuad below.
The Anuad (The More Info I talked about, same color) Spoiler The first ones were brothers: Anu and Padomay. They came into the Void, and Time began.
As Anu and Padomay wandered the Void, the interplay of Light and Darkness created Nir. Both Anu and Padomay were amazed and delighted with her appearance, but she loved Anu, and Padomay retreated from them in bitterness.
Nir became pregnant, but before she gave birth, Padomay returned, professing his love for Nir. She told him that she loved only Anu, and Padomay beat her in rage. Anu returned, fought Padomay, and cast him outside Time. Nir gave birth to Creation, but died from her injuries soon after. Anu, grieving, hid himself in the sun and slept.
Meanwhile, life sprang up on the twelve worlds of creation and flourished. After many ages, Padomay was able to return to Time. He saw Creation and hated it. He swung his sword, shattering the twelve worlds in their alignment.
Anu awoke, and fought Padomay again. The long and furious battle ended with Anu the victor. He cast aside the body of his brother, who he believed was dead, and attempted to save Creation by forming the remnants of the 12 worlds into one -- Nirn, the world of Tamriel. As he was doing so, Padomay struck him through the chest with one last blow. Anu grappled with his brother and pulled them both outside of Time forever.
The blood of Padomay became the Daedra. The blood of Anu became the stars. The mingled blood of both became the Aedra (hence their capacity for good and evil, and their greater affinity for earthly affairs than the Daedra, who have no connection to Creation).
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I believe Anu is Lorkhan and Padomay is Akatosh being the names we know them to be. )
On the world of Nirn, all was chaos. The only survivors of the twelve worlds of Creation were the Ehlnofey and the Hist. The Ehlnofey are the ancestors of Mer and Men. The Hist are the trees of Argonia. Nirn originally was all land, with interspersed seas, but no oceans.
A large fragment of the Ehlnofey world landed on Nirn relatively intact, and the Ehlnofey living there were the ancestors of the Mer. These Ehlnofey fortified their borders from the chaos outside, hid their pocket of calm, and attempted to live on as before.
Other Ehlnofey arrived on Nirn scattered amid the confused jumble of the shattered worlds, wandering and finding each other over the years.
Eventually, the wandering Ehlnofey found the hidden land of Old Ehlnofey, and were amazed and joyful to find their kin living amid the splendor of ages past. The wandering Ehlnofey expected to be welcomed into the peaceful realm, but the Old Ehlnofey looked on them as degenerates, fallen from their former glory. For whatever reason, war broke out, and raged across the whole of Nirn. The Old Ehlnofey retained their ancient power and knowledge, but the Wanderers were more numerous, and toughened by their long struggle to survive on Nirn. This war reshaped the face of Nirn, sinking much of the land beneath new oceans, and leaving the lands as we know them (Tamriel, Akavir, Atmora, and Yokuda).
The Old Ehlnofey realm, although ruined, became Tamriel. The remnants of the Wanderers were left divided on the other 3 continents.
(Hence why the Mer were first on Tamriel and the Nedic people came from Atmora)
Over many years, the Ehlnofey of Tamriel became:
- the Mer (Elves),
- the Dwemer (the Deep Ones, sometimes called Dwarves),
- the Chimer (the Changed Ones, who later became the Dunmer),
- the Dunmer (the Dark or Cursed Ones, the Dark Elves),
- the Bosmer (the Green or Forest Ones, the Wood Elves), and
- the Altmer (The Elder or High Ones, the High Elves).
On the other continents, the Wandering Ehlnofey became the Men -- the Nords of Atmora, the Redguards of Yokuda, and the Tsaesci of Akavir.
The Hist were bystanders in the Ehlnofey war, but most of their realm was destroyed as the war passed over it. A small corner of it survived to become Black Marsh in Tamriel, but most of their realm was sunk beneath the sea.
Eventually, Men returned to Tamriel. The Nords were the first, colonizing the northern coast of Tamriel before recorded history, led by the legendary Ysgramor. The thirteenth of his line, King Harald, was the first to appear in written history. And so the Mythic Era ended.
-http://www.imperial-library.info/content/morrowind-annotated-anuadLink to Article
Again thanks to Perilisk and Iconoklast for starting me out on this with your posts: :goodjob:
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