Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27657348-20160122192120

This has been bugging me for a while. I have a theory that Cicero is the Hero of kvatch/Sheogorath.

I think that for some reason Sheogorath has decided to come to Tamriel, dress up as a clown and kill people for no reason. But he doesnt need a reason because hes the PRINCE OF FRICKIN MADNESS! Also he may have come to help the DragonBorn because he knew that they would be a great hero.

EVIDENCE!

1. One of Ciceros quotes is "...and if I chance to see a cat i'll feed its corpse to my pet rat!...." I think that this is a reference to Schemer. Schemer was a pet rat who lived in the sanctuary when The Hero was there. Schemer probobaly died a decade or two after the oblivion crisis. Most people think that Cicero was born a few decades before the dragon crisis. There is approx. 100 years between the 2 events. If the quote is about Schemer then how could Cicero remember him unless he had been in the sanctuary at that time. I have another idea that the quote is about the "A Rat Problem" quest in the Fighters Guild Questline from Oblivion. The quest involved the Hero having to kill some mountain lions (cats) that had been eating Arvena thela's rats. in the end it was an Argonians fault (the first assasin cicero wounded was an argonian).

2. Cicero spends most of the DB quests around the Night Mother (a corpse in a box). The first enemy in the shivering isles is the Gatekeeper (a big golem made from the corpse of a whole bunch of people).

3.Cicero obviousley has some combat/sneak skill as manages to wound two assasins, escape a vicious troll and stroll past a bunch of undead assasins in the first quest with the dawnstar sanctuary.(he didnt kill them because he was challenging the dragon born) It says in his journal that he killed the Grand Champion who was obviousley a great warrior. (i have a theory about this too). This is relevant because the hero was the best warrior in cyrodiil at that time.

4. Cicero sometimes acts crazy in a happy kind of way and at other times he acts like he would have no problem in killing everyone. This is very similar to sheogorath in oblivion. Also both of them also have strange dialogue where they say both funny and dark things.

5.Cicero wears unique clothing. Just like sheogorath does. The character with the most unique items in oblivion is the hero.

6.Cicero is most definitely the craziest guy in skyrim just like sheogorath is in oblivion.

7.Sheogorath and Cicero (in Skyrim) both look like Imperials also the Hero of Kvatch was an Imperial.

8.Cicero and Sheo were both  convieniently visiting Skyrim at the time the Dragon born was there.

9.My final point (as of yet) is that Gogron (an assasin in oblivion) mentioned to the hero that he killed a girl at her birthday party. The joke was that the girl thought Gogron was a jester. And besisdes, a clown that kills people? Only the Prince of Madness could think up something so insane. 