Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-177.34.179.170-20150912064814/@comment-9212235-20170404235214

96.4.133.232 wrote: Idc if I'm late to the party lol. Has anyone considered that Talso might be an aspect (as in, an embodiment/avatar) of Akatosh? He was the first Dragonborn, he created the Empire, and is proven to be a divine (his artifacts hold divine qualities no mere magic could bestow, he can give blessings, other entities define him as being divine, etc). Perhaps he never actually ascended to the divines at all, rather he as Akatosh as I theorize, was already a divine that simply took on human form in order to unite the humans under the Empire. It makes a lot of sense yet nobody ever talks about it...

Also, side-note that is unrelated: I've heard theories/rumors that the Dragonborn you play as in Skyrim is a reincarnation of Talos, and although there is no proof for against said theory, I just thought I should mention it since its sorta neat. So, a lot here to fix.

First off, Talos is not, nor was not, the first Dragonborn. That was Miraak (or Alessia).

Second, Talos is the combined oversoul of three Shezarrines, Zurin, Hjalti, Wulfharth, at least one of which, Wulfharth, was a Dragonborn for sure. Hjalti might have been, but there is equal evidence that he was not. In this case, yes, he is/was a god-made-man who then was man-made-god, as he underwent the Enantiomorph and walked the Steps of the Dead and matled Lorkhan.

The LDB is as much Talos as he is any other Dragonborn Shezarrine. That is to say, shards of a greater whole, but individually separate. He is not a reincarnation of Talos, but instead a reincarnation of Lorkhan, which Talos was also. For more information on this please see the page on Shezarrine.