Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-108.253.68.177-20131021030335/@comment-25559089-20141106140644

I'm not sure where you guys get these 'Mantling' ideas from, certainly not from the game(s).

There are three possible outcomes from the Shivering Isles quest line:

1) The protagonist either ignores the quest or quits at some point before the end, leaving the Sheogorath/Jyggalag cycle to continue as before. Jyggalag wins, enjoys a short period of control before going mad and reverting to being Sheogorath.

2) The protagonist takes on the quest but loses to Jyggalag, with the same final outcome as 1, except the protagonist is dead.

3) The protagonist takes on the quest and wins, Jyggalag is freed from his curse and follows his own separate destiny; Sheogorath is dead and the protagonist rules Shivering Isles until dieing of old age, accident or other mortal death.

As Sheogorath appears in Skyrim Bethesda makes it clear that in their universe 3 didn't happen, meaning the protagonist is assumed to have ignored/abandoned the quest and suffered some other fate, or failed and is dead.